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[andrewducker]

Thanks to trashcanglam I just discovered that 99 Red Balloons is a protest song.

Golly

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[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

Wow, the English and German versions aren't even vaguely similar. I mean, the point of the song is probably the same, but it is far from being a translation. I'd never realized! :)

[diffrentcolours]

Next time you're on your favoured source of music downloading, try to get hold of Me First & the Gimmie Gimmie's rather excellent cover of 99 Red Balloons...

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

did you only ever listen to the German version, then? Because it is pretty damned obvious from the English version of the lyrics....

[andrewducker]

Never heard more than 10 seconds of any version.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

(laughs) then why did you seem surprised that you had never known what it was about!

[andrewducker]

Becuae (a) it didn't sound like one, and (b) the moments I have heard of it sounded extremely poppy.