last week (i think it was) i had a fit of nostalgia and listened to some old eighties music on youtube. this is what came out of that eventually - guess the song?

Googling for "lyrics ninety nine" gets the auto-complete "lyrics ninety nine red balloons".

Yes lovely work AnMal. Funny the pic made me think of a much earlier song (I doubt it is correct so I wont say what I was thinking). Doesn't really fit with the picture anyhow.

99 Luftballons ?

I would also 99 balloons from Nena perhaps find new form or I did not notice that also are German or at least unterstand it.

It is interesting for that learned now that in english Version the red balloons instead of childrensballloons or airballoon. In German was no colour told.

Nice work AnMal, I too would go for 99 Red Balloons, Which I believe was a protest song against the nuclear weapon stock piling of the eighties.

nice composition as usual, AnMal

99 Lufballons, lol
that was a time when we germans suddenly could stand hearing our own language in pop songs
before that i was deemed uncool and only english was acceptable

there was a whole wave, called Neue Deutsche Welle, in that era
and a lot of it was utter crap, as everybody wanted a slice of the pie

for the american audience they did a rerelease in english of Nena's song
thats why there are two versions

I remember that song. Nice work.

Nice one AnMal! Love the song too.

k1tesseraena: thanks brother! maybe you're too young to remember or maybe you just didn't notice it .

ofnuts: clever googling on your part, hehe.

sallyanne: thank you! you're so right, it's of course 99 luftballons.

abraess: true, the english version of the lyrics specify the balloons as red. but i first heard the english version in the late nineties and i still pictured the balloons as red back in the e9ghties when i heard the original.

he4rty: thank you ! yeah, i liked the song even more after mum had explained the lyrics to me (i was only ten or eleven when it came out and only understood "luftballons"), but i think lots of people just liked the tune.

esper: thank you! in sweden we love making fun of the german language - it's similar enough to swedish to sound comical - but no one ever made fun of 99 luftballons and the english version never made it here, we prefer the original.

This song was a pretty big hit in the UK when it was first released, and after a quick rummage around in a cupboard I found that I've still got the seven inch vinyl copy of it I bought back in the day.
I also found a copy of Duel by Propaganda who, if memory serves, were another German band. And a great song it is too. Now all I need is a turntable to play some of this old stuff on

caz: oh, i have lots of old singles from the eighties that i can't play! no nena, but some other nice stuff. one of these days i'll go to the salvation army flea market and buy an old record player.

99 red balloons, sung by Nena (sp?)

gms9810: yes of course . or "99 luftballons", since i always preferred the german original.