Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!whuxle!pyuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!mhuxm!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!rossen From: rossen@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: 99 Red Balloons - (nf) Message-ID: <5180@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 22:26:52 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5180 Posted: Fri Jan 27 22:26:52 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 31-Jan-84 02:40:54 EST Lines: 19 #R:ihuxl:-86400:uiucdcs:10800021:000:648 uiucdcs!rossen Jan 27 11:31:00 1984 Aniticipating the response from the many who will pounce on this one, I will stick to the basics: 1) "Ninety-Nine Red Balloons" and "Neunundneunzig Luftballoons" are the English and German versions of the same song, by Nena (note spelling). 2) The song is apparently about how paranoia touched off by the sighting of 99 Red Balloons "floatin' in the summer sky" touches off nuclear armageddon. 3) Discussion of this tune, including the English lyrics and a translation of the German ones, appears in "net.records". -------- ". . . Yes? Yes who?" Ken in Champaign-Urbana {ihnp4 pur-ee}!uiucdcs!rossen