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@Jim_the_Hermit 10 ай бұрын

She does have a magical voice- I became addicted to it and bought everything from her I can find. Her first album was in 1979, her last was in 2020 and she's still going strong!

@missgmoma 10 ай бұрын

Yep, most people are still not aware this was an anti war protest song💯

@jimglenn6972 9 ай бұрын

Ah lose long ago times when the Republicans weren’t insane and the Russians weren’t murderous!

@Treinbouwer 7 ай бұрын

The fighter airplanes (Jägerflieger), ministers of war (Kriegsminister) etc. Were not enough of a clue?😂

@Barbarianbrotha 6 ай бұрын

This song is as relevant today as it was back then. We are stuck in 1984 literally. The more things change the more they stay the same. Where's the Utopia we were promised?...SMH

@jenniferlloyd9574 5 ай бұрын

@@jimglenn6972 Republicans are still not insane. Stop getting your "news" from propagandists. Seriously. You make me sad.

@rigpa10 5 ай бұрын

i am 65 years old and i was aware the first time i heard this song- i grew up when songs were used to make social commentary

@IBenZik 10 ай бұрын

Great music never dies.

@larrybrennan9700 9 ай бұрын

Totally - get up and dance. We lived through it and are thankful for it. I love this song so much. I love the German version more, but I get it.

@davidgoldstein1526 10 ай бұрын

The idea for the song came about from an event that was taking place at the Berlin Wall. Balloons were released at which point the start German soldiers began shooting at them. The English version is a very good translation of the song. When the song first came out, I was raking german in college and it was fun listening to it. When I saw the video, I had an instant crush on Nena and wanted to go to Germany. Well, I ended up joking the army a few years later and got my wish-I was stationed in Mannheim, Germany, Coleman Army Airfield. I ended up living in Germany for 18 amazing years. Four of those years were in the military and fourteen were as an ex-pat. Nena developed a bad drug habit and left the music scene for many years. She did recover and make a comeback, though. While “99 Luftballons” was definitely her top hit she did have a couple of songs that charted okay. “I Just Had a Dream” came out at the same time and is a decent song. I arrived in Germany in April, 1986. At that time, Falco had a song that was banned from the airwaves for a while, “Jeanny.” Check that one out with subtitles. It is a great song. By the way, Nena was part of the “Neue Deutsche Welle,” -german new wave music.

@abinashmishra329 16 күн бұрын

I attended her October 25 concert in Berlin. I actually flew from from Boston to Berlin, just for the concert. It was awesome. She puts on a great show and is still active at 64.

@richardhargrave6082 10 ай бұрын

This song still stands up. Her voice is kind of vulnerable, which knowing the context of the song makes it more meaningful. I knew there was a German version, they played the English version a lot in the UK

@drums4b 7 ай бұрын

Y'all got that right!!

@ingobordewick6480 6 ай бұрын

The german version was first. They added the english version after they got a lot of international success with that album.

@Bekka_Noyb 10 ай бұрын

one of my fave 80s songs! ♥

@joachimwawra1654 10 ай бұрын

"Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann" Nena - maybe ?

@richardvincelette9741 10 ай бұрын

The German version was the first version to hit the states and is the best version

@jbs256 10 ай бұрын

Hi Stan, YES to all the questions. I’m old. It was from the early 80’s close to when Karen Carpenter died. I heard both versions and prefer the German one over the English one but she sings great in both. There’s just something of an urgency in the German language that is accentuated by. I think in the US it classifies as a One Hit Wonder but I have no idea if she had a career in Europe. Like Aha was a 1HW but had a massive career in Europe. I too loved her voice and well, look. ❤️ Great reaction and maybe play the English version also? The closed captions seemed out of sync. What little German I can comprehend. Joe

@jannetkoolman5645 10 ай бұрын

Great reaction to the song with original lyrics. I was very much in love with the blonde curly haired keyboard player 😂

@jannetkoolman5645 9 ай бұрын

@@keyboard5494 He actually IS 🤣🤣🤣

@keyboard5494 9 ай бұрын

@@jannetkoolman5645 Really? Source, please ;->

@jannetkoolman5645 9 ай бұрын

Saw a picture of him on Google a few years ago, but recent photos show him with hair so maybe the bald head was a choice

@keyboard5494 9 ай бұрын

@@jannetkoolman5645 I have no choice 😫

@douglasscottmccarronindiemovie 10 ай бұрын

cool the German version, much better than the English one.

@mitchellsouphasith3763 Ай бұрын

This takes me back when I was 5 years old 😂

@lichterlo 25 күн бұрын

Same

@falcon989 10 ай бұрын

I remember both songs. I like to try to recall the German I studied in school to try to understand her, haha.

@earthpup 9 ай бұрын

German version so much better than the English version. Good choice.

@4Astaroth 10 ай бұрын

There are multiple good songs by Nena. I don't know if they have good english subtitles tho. "Nur geträumt", "Irgendwie Irgendwo Irgendwann" (better than the English remake version with Kim Wilde), "Haus der 3 Sonnen" (one of my favourites), "Wunder gescheh'n".

@DrAcula-os1nz 8 ай бұрын

and she just gets better and better every year that goes by

@ralfgraebel4257 9 ай бұрын

Worldwide Hit❤

@Christian-o6l 9 ай бұрын

Mega Mega Mega Nena ❤

@Zebred2001 10 ай бұрын

Yup I knew there were both versions. I still have the 45 record with either version on each side. I don't speak Deutsche but for some reason I prefer that one!

@janetbaker645 10 ай бұрын

Same here

@larryk731 3 ай бұрын

It's flows naturally- and is much darker lyrically

@t0dd000 10 ай бұрын

A huge hit. Cold War pop.

@ceisiwrserith2224 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for playing the German version; it's so much better, so much more powerful, than the English one if you know what the lyrics mean. My German isn't up to snuff, so the captions were a good idea.

@chrisaustin612 10 ай бұрын

Nice reaction. The Cold War was at it's height, The US/West on once side, the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact on the other with Germany in the middle. I was stationed in Germany at the time (got to be there for the Wall falling too! Big stuff!) in a tank battalion and honestly the resignation in her voice was real (everyone figured war between the super powers was inevitable) and fear was always right under the surface...probably why the Germans I would party with hit it so hard! Anyway, thanks again!

@lindseyholl8821 7 ай бұрын

One of the best songs to come out of the 80s Euro music scene! Her voice just made me appreciate the German language even more when I was a kid. My father was fluent in German, a very beautiful yet gutteral language and her dialect is fantastic

@lindasalaki9404 10 ай бұрын

🎈🎈🎈 Great reaction to a Great song 👍

@Barbarianbrotha 6 ай бұрын

The Gernan version hits so much harder. The words play of each other so much better.

@littlepipertodd8675 8 ай бұрын

I used to listen to her as a kid and I didn't know until I got older with the meaning behind the lyrics were

@michaelthomas8592 2 ай бұрын

This song was created in 1983. At the end of march it reached the charts in GERMANY (BRD) on Place 1 (for 23 Weeks); AUSTRIA, 1., (14 W.); SWITZERLAND, 1., (11 W.); UK, 1., (12 W.); the US (Billboard), 2., (23 W.) and on place 1 in Japan, Mexico, Canada and Australia. In February 1984 the english version reached the UK-Charts on place 1 for three weeks... :o)

@TheRatsCast 10 ай бұрын

So yeah; I knew. Back in the 80s, when this song came out, MTV and radio stations would play both versions.I loved them both but prefer the German version more. The album did one side in English, and the second side was German, but only this song was sung twice. I did find their all German album; which I bought, but that's not important. MTV did play a second song; 'Hangin' On You', which you can listen to. My favorites were' Let Me Be Your Pirate' and Kino (which I later found an Extended Single of, which featured the English version , 'At The Movies'). Kino was a song about going to the movie house on Saturday and watching old movies from the 30s and 40s

@samuelrossmesa1430 10 ай бұрын

Nur Getraumt is a nice bop from Nena too.. hope you check it soon brother. 😊

@mangstadt1 10 ай бұрын

American version? I'm American. Let's call it the English version, or the English language version. I too love her voice. Today she's possibly among the sexiest grandmas out there :)

@FollowerofChrist11 8 ай бұрын

I was stationed in Germany when this song came out.

@lordofnumbers9317 10 ай бұрын

Nena is a big star of the "Neue Deutsche Welle" - "New German Wave" in the early 80s. The song fits in time so well. At the beginning of the 80s there was a large peace movement in East and West. Many people protested for peace, against nuclear power and against the stationing of US nuclear missiles in West Germany. With Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (SPD - Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands - Social Democratic Party of Germany) the stationing of these nuclear missiles would never have happened. I think that was one reason why Helmut Schmidt had to resign as Chancellor and was replaced by Helmut Kohl (CDU - Christlich Demokratische Union - Christian Democratic Union) in the following elections. It is a tradition in the CDU to do whatever the USA wants, no matter how wrong it is. It's nice to see that you react to songs in other languages. That's not common on youtube. From Nena I recommend "Nur geträumt", "Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann" and "Leuchtturm". And here are some other Stars, Peter Schilling - "Völlig losgelöst", Joachim Witt - "Goldener Reiter", Trio - "Da, Da, Da", DÖF - "Codo", France Gall - "Ella Elle la", Vanessa Paradis - "Joe le taxi", Desireless - "Voyage, Voyage", Bingo Bongo - "Geil", Jennifer Rush - "The power of love", Falco - "Vienna Calling" and Richard Sanderson - "Reality". You doing a great job, man.❤👍

@avenueb 10 ай бұрын

Stan I have the perfect follow up to this: Band: Propaganda Song: Duel

@richardhargrave6082 10 ай бұрын

Yes!

@bobbilly1057 10 ай бұрын

Us Brits were the only ones to have it translated into English language because of the whole war thing

@kennyhogg5820 10 ай бұрын

We had one pop station at the time (US). They gave both the German and English version pretty equal play. When that opening chord starts it was "ok which version this time". Funny but at that time we also had a girl exchange student from Germany. I remember her saying that "yes the German title is 99 red ballons" in our Spanish class we were both in.

@alexanderdgray 10 ай бұрын

So I remember this song hitting the radio in the 80s in Boston. Supposedly the story goes is that a DJ in Los Angeles played the German version by mistake and a ton of people called in asking to hear it again

@frankie3041 10 ай бұрын

Was surprised that you didn’t say that she makes you want to get your Captain Kirk on, particularly since she mentions “Captain Kirk” in the song!

@avenueb 10 ай бұрын

Yes you should listen to the English version Live

@ozmaile7938 10 ай бұрын

I posted it when the Chinese spy balloons drifted over,.....

@donnabeagle3999 8 ай бұрын

The song is 99 red balloons sung in German 99 Lyuftballons

@stephenpublicover8818 10 ай бұрын

Hey Stan, I always liked the English version of the song! Remember watching this video on much more music (Canada)!😃👍✌

@eldonstrackeii7892 10 ай бұрын

I never liked the English version; the band was compelled by their label to make it, and changing the lyrics to English changed the meaning of the track. Besides, this is the version Casey Kasem played for us at the time😊

@gtosixtynine9913 8 ай бұрын

When i was in the army, i often heard the phrase " when the balloon goes up". Which meant nuclear war.

@65Bardy 10 ай бұрын

So i think you gotta try *anyplace, anywhwhere, anytime *together with Kim Wilde (a remake of Nenas own song *irgendwie, irgendwo irgendwann*) or maybe *Leuchtturm*

@thorstenkettler-thiel1198 4 ай бұрын

Try Nena - Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann or the English version „anywhere. Anyhow, anytime“

@mouserr 3 ай бұрын

those of us of genx grew up seriously wondering if nuclear war was coming tomorrow the fear was a daily people who came after the wall fell will never truly understand what that was like and why music like this and movie like The Day After or the original Red Dawn mean so much to us

@genxgirl73p.47 10 ай бұрын

She has tons of other songs! Check out my favorite Anyplace, anywhere, anytime ❤

@martensjd 6 ай бұрын

In the original version, this one in German, it's not red balloons. 99 luftballoons is 99 air balloons. They had to add another syllabus for the English version to work, and so they added the word red.

@frankie3041 10 ай бұрын

“Nur geträumt” is the only other Nena song I know and this live TV performance should make you want to get your Captain Kirk on! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gV66o62Jn8h-aassi=t4jdCk97o1XFcxY7

@uwerieger9793 10 ай бұрын

hi, please react to more songs of Nena, like "Wunder geschehn", "In meinem Leben - live" or "Irgendwie Irgendwo Irgendwann" :)

@ad9aggie 10 ай бұрын

I was in high school Germany when this song came out. We used to listen to it all the time on the long bus trips to track meets. I knew it was a war protest song. I heard the English version when we moved back to the States. I prefer the German version. The forced translation of the lyrics don't fit the music as well.

@marcelmuseler6697 6 ай бұрын

Check out "Leuchtturm" by Nena

@johndodds5431 10 ай бұрын

I like the German versy i heard the English version . but missed the American version

@sigxxxx 10 ай бұрын

Very Good Song.. Big worldwide hit.. English version was also popular on radio and tv. Nena and Kim Wilde - "Anyplace Anywhere Anytime" - kzbin.info/www/bejne/omnCaaKbfNyZpLM. Good Beat..

@Caambrinus 6 ай бұрын

The subtitles on the original video do not correspond with the German - quelle surprise!

@raineramelung7380 10 ай бұрын

Hi.. There another German song, about war.. With a strong female voice..check. ,,Null positiv - wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer,, ///and enjoy without understanding lyrics. ✌️... War, s so close today here in Europe. ☹️

@davewildermuth7519 10 ай бұрын

It means "99 Ministers of War, matches and cans of gasoline" in English, not that impressive. But it's a sick bar in German: "Neunundneunzig Kriegsminister, Streichholz und Benzinkanister".