Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballoons?
Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballoons?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballoons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 9:36pmDecisions...decisions....
#1re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballoons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 9:37pmWhat are luftballoons? I think I prefer 99 red balloons.
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#2re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballoons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 9:38pmLuftballons, no contest.
#3re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballoons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 9:39pmLuftballoons.
Bob Martin Online
#4re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballoons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 10:08pm
99 Luftballoons (99 Red Balloons) was originally released in German (1983) and re-released in English (1984). The English version had mixed success on the charts across the world, perhaps due to the poor conversion/translation.
can only be Luftballoons
another one hit wonder...... by nena
neun und neunzig Luftballons......
Hast Du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst Du vielleicht grad' an mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Und dass sowas von sowas kommt
a huge hit in Europe in German, much less of a hit in English as Americans really didn't appreciate a song about the folly of war and the end of the world......
#5re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballoons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 10:11pm
Being someone who has been to Germany, and my brother having lived there 2 summers, I have to say I like luftballoons better, as originals mostly are better.
Great song though, I'm glad some people in my area have finally begun to listen to it.
Bob Martin Online
#6re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballoons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 10:11pm
Wow, I feel stupid. I was thinking like, literally, 99 balloons that were red. I had no idea what the hell luftballoons were. 
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#7re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballoons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 10:13pmluftballons are baloons, and happened to be red......but it's a parody on aerial warships (no reason to feel dumb at all)
#8re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballoons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 10:14pmLol. Thanks.
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theatrebabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
#9re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballoons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 10:15pmLuft ballons, naturally. I always wished he would keep singing.
-cheezedoodle
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#10re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 10:16pmLuftballons (which is actually how it's spelled, by the way), by far. The American translation is terrible.
#11re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 10:19pmyes it means air ballons, which can be construed as bombs, planes, many things........
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#12re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 10:53pm
CS - you post many silly items, this one I appreciate!!!
Luftballoons - no doubt!
Updated On: 2/7/06 at 10:53 PM
#13re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 11:34pm
i prefer lornaballoons
i mean lornadoons
oh, never mind
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#14re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 11:38pm
LORNA DOONE
The Lorna Doone shortbread cookie was introduced in 1912. No one, even at Nabisco, is quite sure of exactly how the name was chosen. All that can be said is that R.D. Blackmore, a British novelist, was the author of a popular book titled 'Lorna Doone,' the lead character, Lorna Doone of course, was of Scottish heritage, and shortbread was considered Scottish. Hence, a shortbread cookie named Lorna Doone.
#15re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 11:39pmnot to be confused with doonsberry cookies
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#16re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 11:41pmOr, dingle berry!
#17re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 11:58pm
ah, the infamous dingleberries........
let me tell you, we have a Bavarian friend, and we told him that if he likes strawberries and rasberries he'd LOVE dingleberries........and the poor guy on the rest of his vacation when he left here tried to find them everywhere, LOLOL.......finally someone told him in Miami what they really were, LOLOL
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#18re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/8/06 at 12:29am
Deutsch und fur Die Kommisar auch.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#19re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/8/06 at 12:31am
German show off!
What about Der Kamenser?
#20re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/8/06 at 12:34am
I just prefer one big beautiful ballon.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#21re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/8/06 at 12:38am
SONG BACKGROUND
This song still gets a lot of play on hits-of-the-'80s radio stations—usually the English version by After the Fire. A German line from that song did, however, became familiar to English-speakers around the world: “Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?” (Got that, Mr. Commissioner?).
#22re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/8/06 at 12:41am
That is up there with Falco's "Rock Amadeus" (now everyone echo "Amadeus Amadeus").
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#23re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/8/06 at 8:37am
I am quite fond of comedian Tim Cavanaugh's parody, "99 Dead Baboons".
"Rock Me Amadeus" also inspired deejay Rick Dees' parody, "Eat Me, I'm a Danish".
#24re: Which do you prefer: 99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons?
Posted: 2/8/06 at 8:46amAnother fan of the original.
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