HOLY SHIT 99 RED Balloons is a cover... (1 Viewer)

[Atticus.]

i feel so violated! 99 red balloons by goldfinger is actually a cover of a song called 99 red luft balloons by some nena chick!
im sure you all knew this but fuck i didnt...i want to cry and then vomit blood

 

[Hippy La-Laa]

You gnome.

Nena did the original back in the mid-eighties. First in German and then in English.

German version kicks English version's ass.

 

[SashatheMan]

is 99 balloons that happy hardcore song?

 

[Abu Ghurayb]

Hahaha you retard.

Incidently, it's about the begining of a nuclear hollocaust.

 

[gordo]

wats the hidden meaing in the title?

 

[Abu Ghurayb]

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[ogmzergrush]

Nicely done TurboTom

 

[Atticus.]

Nicely done TurboTom

was that stupid of me? i just didnt know...

 

[Trippendicular]

Have you not played Vice City?

 

[Atticus.]

Have you not played Vice City?

nope... not a gta fan.

 

[ogmzergrush]

was that stupid of me? i just didnt know...

Don't know, it just seems a bit funny because I remember hearing it all the time as a kid, because my parents would play it and stuff. If yours didn't though or whatever I guess it might be different though, so maybe it's not as silly not knowing it as it first sounds.

 

[Atticus.]

Don't know, it just seems a bit funny because I remember hearing it all the time as a kid, because my parents would play it and stuff. If yours didn't though or whatever I guess it might be different though, so maybe it's not as silly not knowing it as it first sounds.

my parents are not what you would call musically atuned.
and ive had the goldfinger version for ages and its been one of my favourite songs for ever...
its like being the first person to have a newly released toy and finding out that its been out in germany for years and years... except worse
i feel that the song has been kind of cheapened... so many bands have done covers. even A.F.I

 

[Atticus.]

This song has to be one of th emost covered songs ever. There are so many covers of this song

yeh but goldfingers on foot in mouth is the best... its the same with that song champs ellyse. nofx, goldfinger, pennywise, millencolin, newfound glory dead kennedys

 

[Atticus.]

id like to see a punk cover of we didnt start the fire by billy joel

 

[Hippy La-Laa]

id like to see a punk cover of we didnt start the fire by billy joel

I agree. Although the original is pretty damn good.

 

[um..]

isnt it about a chick releasing balloons and theyre mistaken for nuclear bombs and it starts a nuclear holocaust (only one l, sam)?

 

[ogmzergrush]

isnt it about a chick releasing balloons and theyre mistaken for nuclear bombs and it starts a nuclear holocaust (only one l, sam)?

No, it's definitely HOLLEROFLOCAUST!

 

[Hippy La-Laa]

I've never understood the song.

I though it was just about aliens and balloons or something....

 

[slip]

goldfingers version owns all

i dont think holocaust is the right word is it?

i would agree thou that is basically a person releasing balloons which are mistaken for nuclear bombs and it starts a nuclear war....

 

[ogmzergrush]

i dont think holocaust is the right word is it?

i would agree thou that is basically a person releasing balloons which are mistaken for nuclear bombs and it starts a nuclear war....

Among the varied definitions floating around we have:

* Literally, "fire that causes destruction," has been used to designate the destruction of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II.

* An act of great destruction and loss of life

* Holocaust are a heavy metal band from Scotland.

So I guess if we don't take it as a specific reference to the entire nazis killing jewish people thing, it probably is an acceptable term to use to describe a nuclear war.