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Post by prenatt1166 on Mar 24, 2004 9:13:50 GMT -5
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[red]For Week Ending April 21, 1984[/red] (Rank This Week, Last Week, Artist, Title) [blue]01 03 Nena - 99 Luftballons[/blue] 02 02 Rick Springfield - Love Somebody 03 05 Phil Collins - Against All Odds 04 01 Paul Young - Come Back And Stay 05 04 Pointer Sisters - Automatic 06 08 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 07 07 Culture Club - Miss Me Blind 08 06 Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now 09 11 Rick Delbello - This Wouldn't Happen To James Bond 10 10 Yes - Leave It 99L spent a single week at #1. It took 20 consecutive weeks to reach the top, a record that still stands today. It finished the year at #2, but with only 2/3 of the points total of the years's biggest hit. www.keystonehighways.com/uubru1984.htmlI checked through my charts to see if I had charted the English version, but I hadn't. Nena had a couple more hits on my chart, including "Just A Dream". JAD peaked at #9 while "99 Luftballons" was still in the Top 10. :)
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Post by johnnywest on Mar 24, 2004 10:19:48 GMT -5
This is the song that got me listening to AT40 way back when I was in the 6th grade. I hear it occasionally on "Backtrax USA." And I remember hearing it on AT20 (Hot AC) a couple years ago.
One of my fondest memories is when AT40 mixed the German and English versions together. It was when the song was falling to #7 during one week, and then again on the year-end recap.
On another week, I remember Casey translating some of the lyrics. Obviously the English version isn't exactly the same because they have to make it rhyme.
I remember the video to "Just A Dream." They were all on their tour bus.
"99 Luftballons" A-
"99 Red Balloons" A-
"99 Luftballons/99 Red Balloons" Mix A+
"Has du etwas Zeit fur mich..." ("If you have some time for me...")
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Post by ExActLy99 on Mar 24, 2004 16:09:21 GMT -5
This is one of the funnest songs ever!
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Post by reception on Mar 25, 2004 8:43:44 GMT -5
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Post by Jeff on Mar 27, 2004 0:07:13 GMT -5
So do I. I think I've heard (and recorded) the German-language version of the song, as well as the English-language version. |
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Post by jond7699 on Mar 27, 2004 2:25:47 GMT -5
Very painful to listen to
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Post by Slinky on Mar 29, 2004 10:06:10 GMT -5
Neunundneunzig Luftballoons!
It's a fun song. I prefer the German version, though it's been so long since I've taken German that I probably wouldn't even understand the lyrics anymore.
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Post by SyrupBoy on Mar 30, 2004 0:17:25 GMT -5
This song will forever remind me of John Cusack and Jeremy Piven stuffing the body of a dead hitman into the Grosse Pointe High School's boiler. Brilliant!
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Post by Diablo Cody™ on Mar 30, 2004 6:30:39 GMT -5
I've never heard the German version. Everytime I play "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" and this song comes on a radio station I stop until it's over. LOL. This is one of my favorite songs of all time.
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Post by maniac on Mar 31, 2004 1:45:18 GMT -5
I like the song (German Version) and I dont speak one word of German but yet I prefer that version over the English Version of the song.
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Post by tico on Mar 31, 2004 8:29:46 GMT -5
I'm not that crazy about the song, but I prefer the German version.
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Post by Diablo Cody™ on Mar 31, 2004 17:26:05 GMT -5
Thanks so much for the link. Now I can't stop listening to the song. |
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Post by jimmy74747 on Mar 31, 2004 21:40:01 GMT -5
This is one of the funnest songs ever! It's about the end of the world. How can that be funny? Anyways, i like it. |
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Post by Diablo Cody™ on Apr 1, 2004 12:46:17 GMT -5
It's about the end of the world. How can that be funny? Anyways, i like it. LMMFAO |
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Post by Diablo Cody™ on Apr 4, 2004 14:35:34 GMT -5
Ok. I translated the German lyrics to English. I don't get it.
You have something time for me
Then I sing a song for you
Of 99 ballons
On their way to the horizon
Perhaps you think degrees ' of me
Then I sing a song for you
Of 99 ballons
And that sowas of sowas comes
99 ballons
On their way to the horizon
One held for uFOs from the universe
Therefore a general sent
A flier relay afterwards
To give alarm, if it like that were
There was on the horizon
Only 99 ballons
99 jet military planes
Everyone was a large krieger
Held themselves for Captain Kirk
That gave large fireworks
The neighbours gerafft nothing
And felt equivalent put on
One shot on the horizon
On 99 ballons
99 war
Ministers Match and gasoline can
Held themselves for smart people
Witterten already greases booty
Scoring: War and wanted power Man, who would have that thought That it comes once so far
Because of 99 ballons
99 years war
Left no place for winners
War Minister does not give it any longer
And also no nozzle fliers
Today pull I mean rounds
Seh the world in rubble lie ' nen ballon found
Think ' of you and let ' it fly
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2004 14:36:31 GMT -5
I'm not that crazy about the song, but I prefer the German version. |
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Post by johnnywest on Apr 5, 2004 11:48:20 GMT -5
Ok. I translated the German lyrics to English. I don't get it. You have something time for me Then I sing a song for you Of 99 ballons On their way to the horizon Perhaps you think degrees ' of me Then I sing a song for you Of 99 ballons And that sowas of sowas comes 99 ballons On their way to the horizon One held for uFOs from the universe Therefore a general sent A flier relay afterwards To give alarm, if it like that were There was on the horizon Only 99 ballons 99 jet military planes Everyone was a large krieger Held themselves for Captain Kirk That gave large fireworks The neighbours gerafft nothing And felt equivalent put on One shot on the horizon On 99 ballons 99 war Ministers Match and gasoline can Held themselves for smart people Witterten already greases booty Scoring: War and wanted power Man, who would have that thought That it comes once so far Because of 99 ballons 99 years war Left no place for winners War Minister does not give it any longer And also no nozzle fliers Today pull I mean rounds Seh the world in rubble lie ' nen ballon found Think ' of you and let ' it fly Very nice job, but what is "the neighbours gerafft nothing" mean? |
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Post by mst3k on Apr 5, 2004 11:49:40 GMT -5
"And also no nozzle fliers"... LOL
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Post by johnnywest on Apr 5, 2004 12:11:39 GMT -5
This song will forever remind me of John Cusack and Jeremy Piven stuffing the body of a dead hitman into the Grosse Pointe High School's boiler. Brilliant! Don't forget "Boogie Nights"! It was in that too. |
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Post by Diablo Cody™ on Apr 5, 2004 17:10:26 GMT -5
I know, that's what I was saying. Half of those lyrics don't make sense unless I got the wrong German lyrics.
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Post by Michael1973 on Apr 6, 2004 7:56:29 GMT -5
There was an English version of the song that got played on the radio as well. The exact lyrics should be available somewhere on the web.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2004 7:58:38 GMT -5
The English version was titled "99 Red Balloons". Here's the lyrics:
You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got.
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone.
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, Something's out there.
Floating in the summer sky.
99 red balloons go by.
99 red balloons.
floating in the summer sky.
Panic bells, it's red alert.
There's something here from somewhere else.
The war machine springs to life.
Opens up one eager eye.
Focusing it on the sky.
Where 99 red balloons go by.
99 Decision Street.
99 ministers meet.
To worry, worry, super-scurry.
Call the troops out in a hurry.
This is what we've waited for.
This is it boys, this is war.
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by.
99 Knights of the air
Ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a superhero.
Everyone's a Captain Kirk.
With orders to identify.
To clarify and classify.
Scramble in the summer sky.
As 99 red balloons go by.
99 dreams I have had.
In every one a red balloon.
It's all over and I'm standing pretty.
In this dust that was a city.
If I could find a souvenier.
Just to prove the world was here.
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go.
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Post by johnnywest on Feb 7, 2006 0:00:00 GMT -5
There certainly aren't enough German-language songs on American radio these days. :(
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Post by Hervard on Feb 7, 2006 12:55:11 GMT -5
There was an English version of the song that got played on the radio as well. The exact lyrics should be available somewhere on the web. The radio stations that I listened to back in 1984 started playing nothing but the English version about a month after it came out. The only time I ever remember hearing the German version was on the countdown shows (Countdown America with John Leader) and I think even that show started playing the English version after awhile as well, but seeing as that was 22 years ago, I can't be quite sure, which might come as a shock to some of you, given my photographic memory  |
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Post by JCMF3 on Feb 7, 2006 16:41:37 GMT -5
Boring.
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Post by BillboardBoy on Feb 9, 2006 16:17:56 GMT -5
When this song came out in 1984, it was credited in R&R as "99 Luftballons/99 Red Balloons."
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Post by jimmy74747 on Mar 24, 2006 13:04:16 GMT -5
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Mar 14, 2007 9:20:57 GMT -5
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Post by BillboardBoy on Mar 14, 2007 9:52:10 GMT -5
Casey played it recently on AT20.
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Post by joker on Mar 14, 2007 12:48:10 GMT -5
I like it. Luftballons > Red Balloons
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