Stumbled in a Karaoke bar last year in Antigua Guatemala, when they asked my nationality and I replied "Dutch". They handed me a mic and put this song on. Some Germans were around and started laughing when the song started. Many people confuse Dutch with Deutsch, but the Germans of course knew the difference... So suddenly I have to sing something in a language which is not my own. Luckily I do happen to speak a bit of German and I managed to sing along. Got a standing ovation from the Germans afterwards and they told me I did a pretty decent job of it. It was a very fun experience. Up to this day though, probably most people in that bar never realised this was a hard thing to do when your not actually German.....
LEGION Translation: Have you some time for me,then I'll sing a song for you about 99 balloons on their way to the horizon. If you're perhaps thinking about me right now then I'll sing a song for you about 99 balloons and that such a thing comes from such a thing. 99 balloons on their way to the horizon People think they're UFO's from space so a general sent up a fighter squadron after them Sound the alarm if it's so but there on the horizon were only 99 balloons. 99 fighter jets Each one's a great warrior Thought they were Captain Kirk then came a lot of fireworks the neighbors didn't understand anything and felt like they were being provoked so they shot at the horizon at 99 balloons. 99 war ministers matches and gasoline canisters They thought they were clever people already smelled a nice bounty Called for war and wanted power. Man, who would've thought that things would someday go so far because of 99 balloons. 99 years of war left no room for victors. There are no more war ministers nor any jet fighters. Today I'm making my rounds see the world lying in ruins. I found a balloon, think of you and let it fly (away). you're welcome
LEGION Partially correct. Initial inspiration struck the band's guitarist when he saw balloons being released at a Rolling Stones concert. This eventually turned into the plot described in the song's lyrics.
tehcornflakes Live Actually, it was a song about balloons flying over the Berlin wall. This song was about how one of the bandmembers thought the balloons would be shot down by the Germans during the Berlin Airlift. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luftballons
tehcornflakes Live The nuclear war protest was "99 Red Balloons" which was about two people who release 99 red balloons, which are mistaken for a nuclear missile launch, causing the Third World War.
Just last week I had to use nuclear weapons against the mold in my bathtub. It had evolved sentience and had engaged in chemical weapons research. When the bathtub mold ejected the inspection team from the UN, I knew it was time to act decisively!
For all those wondering: there are 2 versions. English, and the original - German. In the english version the song is about two people buying 99 red balloons, and letting them go one by one at dusk. At a local military base something’s wrong with the radar’s AI software: so noticing the red balloons it overreacts, putting out a red alert - mistaking the balloons for 99 rockets. On “99 Decision Street”, 99 Ministers have a meeting, and get the President on the line. They mobilize the army, and send 99 ace jet pilots in experimental, high-tech airplanes to investigate the threat. The song ends as the pilots fly over the “rockets” and realize that they were nothing but.... 99 red balloons. Now, the original is much more... violent. This is about a soldier telling a story: 99 Balloons were let go flying to the air by someone. People start thinking that they are UFOs, and start panicking. To investigate, a general sends 99 ace pilots to see if they are actually UFOs, and to hit red alarm if it is so. The pilots fly toward the location, and realize that those are only balloons. But the pilots were really pumped up about their first job in years: so they start shooting at the sky for fun, “thinking that they are Cpt. Kirk”. The neighboring country is confused, and thinks that the planes have engaged the “alien threat”. So what to do? They load their AA guns, and shoot at the balloons, damaging and destroying one of the jets of the other country, killing the pilot. 99 defense ministers come together, and they are all power hungry. Seeing the profit they can make from war, they hit red alert, and take the accident as an act of aggression, declaring war. 99 years of war follow, leaving the world in ruins, as the singer says “there are no more defense ministers or jets left”. There is really no room for a victory, as both countries are torn to shreds. The same soldier finishes the song, by saying that while doing his patrol rounds, looking at the world in ruins and ashes, he finds a red balloon. He starts thinking about the person that let the 99 balloons go, he tosses the red balloon he found in the air, and it flies up.
Once upon a time, the USA warning system announced a massive Rocket Attack from soviet union. In the end, the RADAR had detected the Rising Moon, they did not expect the waves having such a range.
@@honkyscum 'Por dios por la pata de un buey, lucharon vuestros mayores; por dios por la pata de un buey, lucharéis vosotros también...' (Himno carlista)
I have a dialysis patient who survived WWII under the Reich and is teaching me German a little bit at the time, but thanks to this video, smiles every time I sing this to her in German.
Danke dafür und ein wunderbarer Song . Nena ist eine gute Sängerin , die auf dem Boden geblieben ist ............................. Respekt und Hut ab.......................................................................................................................................................
I never even knew this song was in German!!! I always thought it was one of those songs you just didnt understand until you read the lyrics! Like Nirvana ffs. lol
hahaaaaa... LOL, i laugh my butt off.... i'm German.. i being once mistaken ask...do i speak Russian.. .. almost lost my mind... i always being ask what language i speak.. but lot of people knew it is germane.. i can tell if someone understand what i say to my children. i need to keep speaking German to my son.. " 10 years " i no want him to lose it..
Here ist an English translation for anyone who care. One of these languages is a second language to me but this is correct 99% - "Have you some time for me? I'll sing a song for you about 99 balloons on the way to the horizon. If you're thinking about me now, I'll sing a song for you about 99 balloons and what comes from such a thing. 99 balloons on the way to the horizon. People think they are UFOs from outer-space, therefore a general sent up a fighter squadron after them. Sound the alarm if it's so, but on the horizon it was just 99 balloons. 99 fighter jets. Each one's a great warrior. They thought they were Captain Kirk, then came great big fireworks. The neighboring countries didn't understand anything, and thought they were being provoked so they fired at the horizon, at 99 balloons. 99 war ministers, matches and gas cans. They thought they were smart and smelled a nice prize, wanted war and wanted power. Man, who would have thought that things would someday go so far because of 99 balloons? Because of 99 balloons. 99 balloons. 99 years of war leaves no room for winners. There's no more war ministers, and no jet fighters. Today I'm making my rounds to see the world lying in ruins. I found a balloon, I think of you and let it fly."
A well done job , ich bin ein geborener Niederlander whont seit 20 jhare im Swcheden aber im meine junge jhare habe ich 15 jhare hoch gefaren am Der Rhein , Main, moesel , und die kanalen lol. I know I can't spell for shit but that problem I do have in every language , believe it or not my dutch is worse lol
Wenn man sich auf CZcams aufspielt und andere Leute beleidigt ist man doch selbst nicht besser. (Wahrscheinlich wieder so ein 12 jähriges möchtegern cooles Kind das vorm Handy sitzt und andere Leute beleidigt,ist die deutsche Kindheit wirklich so weit gesunken?)
Alma hat doch recht, das Lied ist wunderschön, aber der Text ist in dem Video so grausam zu lesen. Möglicherweise stört das diejenigen mehr, die nicht aus dieser "Hallo i bims" Generation kommen, denn diejenigen können tatsächlich noch die deutsche Rechtschreibung...
This song speaks of the hopes and dreams of the German people, that were lost following WWII and during the division between East and West Germany. The 99 balloons that this song speaks of are thought to represent the dreams of the Germans on either side of the division and discusses how the conflict destroyed those dreams and lives of the people. It mentions how the war reacted to those dreams and ruined their world, but really they were just innocent hopes for a better future.
No not really. It's talking about a theoretical war that could be started by thinking something as innocuous as a bunch of balloons were actually a weapon coming towards them, so they overreact and thus a nuclear war is started. And who would have thought it would come to this simply regarding 99 balloons? (Mann, wer hätte das gedacht? Dass es einmal so weit kommt Wegen 99 Luftballons.)
@@chrissyjoy08 Good. But Germany actually had the nuclear Weapon during WW II, simply, they realized any use in their war theater would make radioactivity fall on themselves. Today, boars in German woods are not edible for humans, it have too much radioactivity from early open air nuke tests: US, France, Soviets, UK, then came India, Pakistan, China, North Korea,...
@@josega6338 Don’t know where you get your information from, but the Third Reich didn’t get to make a nuclear weapon during WWII. Good thing too, because if they had got one, that mad corporal from Austria would’ve ordered some fanatical follower to drop it on Germany for not fighting hard enough and betraying him at the end.
😂😅 Yeah, I remember when it was really just a bunch of us posting random meaningless videos with no adds, filters, no big concepts, no sponsors, and just shenanigans. I never got into the video side of it, but here I remain! Have a great day!
Not only spelling mistakes, some of these lyrics aren't really what she's singing. It's pretty good to learn from lyrics though, even two years into learning German I still learned some words from this song. Words like Streichholz, Benzinkanister, Fliegerstaffel, raffen, angemacht, wittern, Düsenflieger, are very uncommon in the material I'm used to reading, but I'm always wanting to learn new words.
n 2006 , VH 1 Classic ran a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina relief in which viewers could donate 25$ to see the music video of their choice. One viewr donated $35,000. Their choice? 99 luftballos to be played continuously for an hour. (source - Kickassfacts)
@@Ganamabunta08 I think it would only be nearly 4 days at $25 a song $35,000 would get you 1400 songs. At 4 minutes a song that's 5,600 minutes and theirs 1440 minutes in a day so that's adds up to 3 days 21 hours and 20 minutes.
+A S R Original means first. The English one came second because of it's popularity.They're both versions of the same song but only this is the original.
I'm so glad I took German :D. SAD SONG BUT STILL GOOD. All my friends always look at me weird because I speak German even though I'm Hispanic xD. Languages are so fun.
Una canción tonera para los chicos de fines de los 80s en Perú y no sé si en otras partes de Sudámerica... saludos para los que disfrutamos tanto como yo..
Try duolingo. Also learning a language to the point where you can understand basic conversation and to where you can understand songs about nuclear war are two different things.
Elevendy Seven I did some duolingo, and I spend like 1/2 hours after school trying to learn the language. But the fucking cases... It's 100000x harder than trying to pee with a boner.
А я напишу по-русски... таких комментариев вроде не было.. Прекрасное исполнение, и мне нравится больше, чем на английском... Спасибо авторуАВТОРУ сего видео и Нене.. и вообще обожаю немецкий.. хотя пока петь не получается))) Хотя уже лет 28 лет пытаюсь эту песню петь.. такая ностальгия...
I grew up with the English version and then found the "German version" which I soon found out is actually the original version and found that I love singing along to the English one but this version is so much better 😊 xxx
The lyrics "auf Englisch" are better described as a transliteration. The German language (which I find beautiful) has syntax and declension which make translation difficult in the context of a song. Peter Schilling's classic "Völlig Losgelöst/Major Tom" is (to me) even more amazing since the same story is told in each language.
panos daskalopoulos Well, I hope you do her proud. Vielen Gluck. Nena also sings an older song (I'm not sure if it could be considered a folksong or not) that has been around for some time. " Die Gedanken Sind Frei." It means, "My thoughts are free.". Basically, the song is about how (in this case "I" or "ME") you might not understand me, or my way of thinking, but I will think what I want, no matter what you do to me. No matter how you may try to hurt me or break me, imprison me, put me in chains, you will never break my will, for my thoughts will keep me free. There is no real effective word for word translation for it, but that is the gist of the message. Then there's a neat little lullaby entitled, "Heidschi Bumbeidschi", you might want to learn, if you haven't already.
Either one is acceptable but I think the "D" needs to be upper case. The German language is funny that way. A word can take on a whole different meaning depending if the characters are in upper or lower case.
Animaster The reason why the lyrics are in German as it was originally a German song but it grew so popular that someone made a US version of it. So that’s why it’s written in German.
I understand the lyrics. The reason many people don't understand true meaning is that it's in s foreign language to most other songs, and that it has such an upbeat melody. Of course the song is actually about the fears that people had during the Cold War, and how tiny something could have been to trigger a nuclear war
I am a german native speaker but as i first heard this song i was a kid so i just thought it was about pretty balloons. I only got the substantial meaning later...
RickyTheGunner 4545 The idea came from when one of the ban meme bers was at a rollin stones concert and they released balloons and he got frightened that they would go over the east Berlin Wall (which was covered by the Soviet Union) and that they'd mistake it for aircraft
German is really not that hard to learn =). I love this song its so nice, we are just discussing this in German class due to its reference to the cold war =)
This song is so great. Ich erinnere mich an fast jedem einzelnen Wort der Song in deutscher Sprache. Es ist großartig, und ich liebe es! Good day, all.
Im Italian and we always say oh God German language sounds so forceful and abrasive but Im getting more attached to it. Im starting to think it sounds just as beautiful and lyrical as any romance language.
There are definitely errors here. Being German as you say you are, you would have noticed it right from the point where you read Dusenjager instead of DusenFlieger. they don't even sound the same. I've been listening to this song since it was first released back in the 1980's. I was happy to find the words to the song when the Internet came out. I also sing this song at karaoke. I've never gotten a word wrong even when the spelling is not correct.
It is spelled wrong. "Hilet" instead of "hielt", "si" instead of "so" and the writer always wrote "u" instead of "ü". So she is wright. The spelling is really bad. Things like "ne" or "war'n" are on purpose but the other words are just spelled wrong.
RobloxGal98 And MinecraftBoi69 YOU DAMN IMBECILE YOU HAVE MISSPELLED THE WORD FUCKING, HOW BRAIN DEAD COULD YOU BE TO MISSPELL SUCH AN EASY WORD?!?!?!?!?!?
"Streichholz und Benzinkanister" (matches and cans of gasoline) reminds me of Carl Sagan's quote about two mortal enemies in a room awash with gasoline, one with 8,000 matches and the other with 9,000. But that's from October 1983 and the album is February 1983. It's vaguely possible Sagan got the idea from this song, actually.
I remember when this first came out finally we [ENGLISH speakers] Had something to mimic in GERMAN instead of bad HOGAN'S HEROES ! impressions! i didn't get the SCREAM QUEENS reference but i guess it's sampled on the show i will look it up I HEV VAYS IHAEv VAYS!! NIGHT LUV!!
i had to go and watch the english version after growing up with this version..... gahhh it was horrendous! so much lost in the translation to keep a similar rhythm but the rhythm was still off and it was in the wrong key and gahhh it sounded so ugly compared to this! i love the Deutsch version forever
Stumbled in a Karaoke bar last year in Antigua Guatemala, when they asked my nationality and I replied "Dutch". They handed me a mic and put this song on. Some Germans were around and started laughing when the song started. Many people confuse Dutch with Deutsch, but the Germans of course knew the difference... So suddenly I have to sing something in a language which is not my own. Luckily I do happen to speak a bit of German and I managed to sing along. Got a standing ovation from the Germans afterwards and they told me I did a pretty decent job of it. It was a very fun experience. Up to this day though, probably most people in that bar never realised this was a hard thing to do when your not actually German.....
Awesome ❤🎉
Fun Fact: This song is actually about balloons being mistaken for missiles which results in all out war
LEGION how do you know that hmmmm?
LEGION
Translation:
Have you some time for me,then I'll sing a song for you about 99 balloons on their way to the horizon. If you're perhaps thinking about me right now then I'll sing a song for you about 99 balloons and that such a thing comes from such a thing.
99 balloons on their way to the horizon People think they're UFO's from space so a general sent up a fighter squadron after them Sound the alarm if it's so but there on the horizon were only 99 balloons.
99 fighter jets Each one's a great warrior Thought they were Captain Kirk then came a lot of fireworks the neighbors didn't understand anything and felt like they were being provoked so they shot at the horizon at 99 balloons.
99 war ministers matches and gasoline canisters They thought they were clever people already smelled a nice bounty Called for war and wanted power. Man, who would've thought that things would someday go so far because of 99 balloons.
99 years of war left no room for victors. There are no more war ministers nor any jet fighters. Today I'm making my rounds see the world lying in ruins. I found a balloon, think of you and let it fly (away).
you're welcome
LEGION Partially correct. Initial inspiration struck the band's guitarist when he saw balloons being released at a Rolling Stones concert. This eventually turned into the plot described in the song's lyrics.
you... are a goddamn fool
Watch Mojo?
Never understood it back in 2003. Now i understand it, and: FUNNY FACT! It's a nuclear war protest song.
tehcornflakes Live Actually, it was a song about balloons flying over the Berlin wall. This song was about how one of the bandmembers thought the balloons would be shot down by the Germans during the Berlin Airlift. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luftballons
tehcornflakes Live The nuclear war protest was "99 Red Balloons" which was about two people who release 99 red balloons, which are mistaken for a nuclear missile launch, causing the Third World War.
John London ALEMANIA (1989)
Just last week I had to use nuclear weapons against the mold in my bathtub. It had evolved sentience and had engaged in chemical weapons research. When the bathtub mold ejected the inspection team from the UN, I knew it was time to act decisively!
HMM PUBLIC HOUSING
For all those wondering: there are 2 versions. English, and the original - German.
In the english version the song is about two people buying 99 red balloons, and letting them go one by one at dusk.
At a local military base something’s wrong with the radar’s AI software: so noticing the red balloons it overreacts, putting out a red alert - mistaking the balloons for 99 rockets.
On “99 Decision Street”, 99 Ministers have a meeting, and get the President on the line. They mobilize the army, and send 99 ace jet pilots in experimental, high-tech airplanes to investigate the threat. The song ends as the pilots fly over the “rockets” and realize that they were nothing but.... 99 red balloons.
Now, the original is much more... violent. This is about a soldier telling a story: 99 Balloons were let go flying to the air by someone. People start thinking that they are UFOs, and start panicking. To investigate, a general sends 99 ace pilots to see if they are actually UFOs, and to hit red alarm if it is so.
The pilots fly toward the location, and realize that those are only balloons. But the pilots were really pumped up about their first job in years: so they start shooting at the sky for fun, “thinking that they are Cpt. Kirk”.
The neighboring country is confused, and thinks that the planes have engaged the “alien threat”. So what to do? They load their AA guns, and shoot at the balloons, damaging and destroying one of the jets of the other country, killing the pilot.
99 defense ministers come together, and they are all power hungry. Seeing the profit they can make from war, they hit red alert, and take the accident as an act of aggression, declaring war. 99 years of war follow, leaving the world in ruins, as the singer says “there are no more defense ministers or jets left”. There is really no room for a victory, as both countries are torn to shreds.
The same soldier finishes the song, by saying that while doing his patrol rounds, looking at the world in ruins and ashes, he finds a red balloon. He starts thinking about the person that let the 99 balloons go, he tosses the red balloon he found in the air, and it flies up.
and the original is on Just Dance 2014 😂
tbh i think it’s catchier and sounds better than it’s english companion
Once upon a time, the USA warning system announced a massive Rocket Attack from soviet union.
In the end, the RADAR had detected the Rising Moon, they did not expect the waves having such a range.
Fo sheezy. Danke!
@@honkyscum 'Por dios por la pata de un buey, lucharon vuestros mayores; por dios por la pata de un buey, lucharéis vosotros también...' (Himno carlista)
@@josega6338
The computer: OH MY GOD WE'RE GOING TO DIE IT'S A GIANT MISSILE
The computers handlers: bruh That's the moon...
das ist so traurig. alexa, spiel 99 luftballoons
Cerisier lol this is what brought me to know this song. Thank you, memelords
Ich glaube dass diese ist der besser Kommentare dass habe ich aus CZcams gelesen
Danka Alexa
Thank you, I hate this
Wery vig tragedy.
I have a dialysis patient who survived WWII under the Reich and is teaching me German a little bit at the time, but thanks to this video, smiles every time I sing this to her in German.
Danke dafür und ein wunderbarer Song . Nena ist eine gute Sängerin , die auf dem Boden geblieben ist .............................
Respekt und Hut ab.......................................................................................................................................................
I remember performing this in my German class lol 😬
Und naturlich von gta vice city :p
OMG, i learned it in music class
Always go with the German version....English version sucks!
Diane G But not the newer German version, it's all guitary & hipstery.
Colton Blumhagen
That's too bad. I didn't know that. I was referring to the original version.
The English version does NOT suck. None of this sucks.
i agree
Diane G but what about looting?
I never even knew this song was in German!!!
I always thought it was one of those songs you just didnt understand until you read the lyrics!
Like Nirvana ffs. lol
+Wyatt Tilley oh boy.. i can't believe that u said that.she sung the song in English too..
oh. Well dang, ive been around.
Like nirvana! Hahaha 😂😂 so true though!!!!!!
hahaaaaa... LOL, i laugh my butt off.... i'm German.. i being once mistaken ask...do i speak Russian.. .. almost lost my mind... i always being ask what language i speak.. but lot of people knew it is germane.. i can tell if someone understand what i say to my children. i need to keep speaking German
to my son.. " 10 years " i no want him to lose it..
no more drugs dude
Here ist an English translation for anyone who care. One of these languages is a second language to me but this is correct 99% - "Have you some time for me? I'll sing a song for you about 99 balloons on the way to the horizon. If you're thinking about me now, I'll sing a song for you about 99 balloons and what comes from such a thing. 99 balloons on the way to the horizon. People think they are UFOs from outer-space, therefore a general sent up a fighter squadron after them. Sound the alarm if it's so, but on the horizon it was just 99 balloons. 99 fighter jets. Each one's a great warrior. They thought they were Captain Kirk, then came great big fireworks. The neighboring countries didn't understand anything, and thought they were being provoked so they fired at the horizon, at 99 balloons. 99 war ministers, matches and gas cans. They thought they were smart and smelled a nice prize, wanted war and wanted power. Man, who would have thought that things would someday go so far because of 99 balloons? Because of 99 balloons. 99 balloons. 99 years of war leaves no room for winners. There's no more war ministers, and no jet fighters. Today I'm making my rounds to see the world lying in ruins. I found a balloon, I think of you and let it fly."
Vielle dank
Your translation is quite accurate.
Danke schon freund!
Danke/Thank you!
A well done job , ich bin ein geborener Niederlander whont seit 20 jhare im Swcheden aber im meine junge jhare habe ich 15 jhare hoch gefaren am Der Rhein , Main, moesel , und die kanalen lol. I know I can't spell for shit but that problem I do have in every language , believe it or not my dutch is worse lol
i wanna learn german but after a year with german lessons ik just ich heiße aylin it's a sad story
I know how to talk alot but not THAT much...
Aylin you don't even know yes and no? The number 1-10? HOW?! HOW
FuckingKillMe i think she does ..probably an exageration as to she only knows the basics
You know you can get quite far with "ich spreche keinen Deutsch" most of them speak English quite well.
Du bist dumm..Deutsch ist eine einfache Sprache
I could listen to this all day and it NEVER gets old!
R u still alive?
@@zzintar I am! Are you? (;
from 1984 can you believe it 40 years ago!! @@zzintar
So many spelling mistakes..
So many... er... Klugscheißer.
Aww I think you must be one of them :*
Fabi why so böse :( *crying my ass off* ❤
Wenn man sich auf CZcams aufspielt und andere Leute beleidigt ist man doch selbst nicht besser.
(Wahrscheinlich wieder so ein 12 jähriges möchtegern cooles Kind das vorm Handy sitzt und andere Leute beleidigt,ist die deutsche Kindheit wirklich so weit gesunken?)
Alma hat doch recht, das Lied ist wunderschön, aber der Text ist in dem Video so grausam zu lesen. Möglicherweise stört das diejenigen mehr, die nicht aus dieser "Hallo i bims" Generation kommen, denn diejenigen können tatsächlich noch die deutsche Rechtschreibung...
I love the 'pauze' notions. It makes the singing even more fun!
Vielen dank!
Tried the English version after this it hurt
ik :/
Right?
Same way with dragostea din tei
This song speaks of the hopes and dreams of the German people, that were lost following WWII and during the division between East and West Germany. The 99 balloons that this song speaks of are thought to represent the dreams of the Germans on either side of the division and discusses how the conflict destroyed those dreams and lives of the people. It mentions how the war reacted to those dreams and ruined their world, but really they were just innocent hopes for a better future.
Thank you for sharing. 🫶
No not really.
It's talking about a theoretical war that could be started by thinking something as innocuous as a bunch of balloons were actually a weapon coming towards them, so they overreact and thus a nuclear war is started. And who would have thought it would come to this simply regarding 99 balloons? (Mann, wer hätte das gedacht?
Dass es einmal so weit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons.)
@@chrissyjoy08 Good. But Germany actually had the nuclear Weapon during WW II, simply, they realized any use in their war theater would make radioactivity fall on themselves.
Today, boars in German woods are not edible for humans, it have too much radioactivity from early open air nuke tests: US, France, Soviets, UK, then came India, Pakistan, China, North Korea,...
@@josega6338
Don’t know where you get your information from, but the Third Reich didn’t get to make a nuclear weapon during WWII. Good thing too, because if they had got one, that mad corporal from Austria would’ve ordered some fanatical follower to drop it on Germany for not fighting hard enough and betraying him at the end.
Tonight a comedian died in manhatten...
Somebody knows why. Somebody knows...
I was a horror. Among horrors I must dwell.
!:D Thanks, "Sag Norm."
VOTE:)OR DIE?!:D
Tyler Durden thats the first thing I thought of
Tyler u wanna buy soap
Could somebody fill me in?
Die Rechtschreibung ist nicht so toll.
Es ist verrückt, nicht wahr?
+Nate Barry Ich habe morgen einen Klassenarbeit Deutsch, der Dativ ist nicht einfach...
Da für ein schönes Lied
Mohammad Anwar ja
ist das nicht ein schnitzelbank?
So do all german teachers know this song?
I think so
Just about.
Eduard Likes Unicorn Meat my Deutsch teacher does
my old german teacher loves this song but not so much my new teacher (though we like to tease him about it XD)
Germans in Germany hate it lol
My sister and I grew up dancing in the backyard to this song. Love it!!
You're a legend, Your CZcams account is 17 years old.
😂😅 Yeah, I remember when it was really just a bunch of us posting random meaningless videos with no adds, filters, no big concepts, no sponsors, and just shenanigans. I never got into the video side of it, but here I remain! Have a great day!
@alicianwonderland I love this, Your account is older than my brother, And he's going to college.
Danke! I'm learning German, so I wanted to read the lyrics and translate for practice.
bad lyrics, lots of spelling mistakes
Not only spelling mistakes, some of these lyrics aren't really what she's singing. It's pretty good to learn from lyrics though, even two years into learning German I still learned some words from this song. Words like Streichholz, Benzinkanister, Fliegerstaffel, raffen, angemacht, wittern, Düsenflieger, are very uncommon in the material I'm used to reading, but I'm always wanting to learn new words.
ONE OF THE BEST SONGS MADE BY GERMANS!
+Drake Le Fredonner
All german songs are awesome, bro.
A S R sorry bro that's the only german song i knew and i love so much i made a dance routine
Every German song is amazing. Because Deutschland ist wunderbar.
+Willum Kroenen I agree man
+Willum Kroenen yaaa 🇩🇪
Learning this song is not easy when your first language is English and you don't know German..
n 2006 , VH 1 Classic ran a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina relief in which viewers could donate 25$ to see the music video of their choice. One viewr donated $35,000. Their choice? 99 luftballos to be played continuously for an hour. (source - Kickassfacts)
Waaaait ... The song is 4 minutes long ... The guy could have had his song played for 58+ days straight but went for an hour. What a waste ...
@@Ganamabunta08 I think it would only be nearly 4 days at $25 a song $35,000 would get you 1400 songs. At 4 minutes a song that's 5,600 minutes and theirs 1440 minutes in a day so that's adds up to 3 days 21 hours and 20 minutes.
@@crazycodplayer11
Something must have gone terribly wrong for me to get such an absurd result.
Indeed, it is a mere 4 days.
should say original not german version
+Daniel Mann
Same thing really.
I meant because it's the best version :P
+A S R Original means first. The English one came second because of it's popularity.They're both versions of the same song but only this is the original.
Well actually, the lyrics are different altogether on the English one
Doesn't mean this isn't the German version. Can't it be both?
Vice City baby!
Wave 103 baby!
+vcfreek Watchmen, baby! Also, I only ever listened to Flash FM tbh
yeah!!! Flash fm so 2003 80's style
Danke! I'm learning German, so I wanted to read the lyrics and translate for practice.
+Emerald Kelsi Be careful with this lyrics they are not completely okay some mistakes there.
+Emerald Kelsi Careful, it's depressing.
Please don't learn with this video. There's a mistake in almost every line.
I would use the lyrics video by Alex Valentino. I think the lyrics are more accurate and the sound is better quality.
Hier 99Luftballons:👇
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Es sind wirklich 99!
Ich muss sie einfach zählen 😂😂
es sind 100
Haha 😂 es sind 56 nicht 99 😂😂😂😂
+Juli , nee es sind 100😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Amely Haha das ist nicht 99 Ich weiß nicht, welche Nummer aber alles was ich weiß, ist nicht 99 XD
I'm so glad I took German :D. SAD SONG BUT STILL GOOD. All my friends always look at me weird because I speak German even though I'm Hispanic xD. Languages are so fun.
I would like to take german too :O
I wish I could learn German like you, too.
am I the only one here from Germany lol? All these comments I see are in English,and it's German song😂
Shut the hell up ündermensh
Andrea Fernandez SAME! I'm MEXICAN, SPANISH, AND NATIVE AMERICAN AND MY FAMILY ALWAYS SAYS
"Why german?"
But luckily I know what she's singing about
Dieses Lied ist so toll! Ich erinnere mich, es als Kind zu hören!
I've loved this song since I was little! Kicks ass! Thank you Germany!
It's truly a song of an era ❤❤
Ich so manche Fehler in Lyrics Videos entdeckt, aber das hier uebertrifft einfach mal alles.
ja Rechtschreibfehler
*habe
Una canción tonera para los chicos de fines de los 80s en Perú y no sé si en otras partes de Sudámerica... saludos para los que disfrutamos tanto como yo..
Wunderbar!
hello i like this song very much and thank you for the nice video. very very very cool
when I try to learn german be like: how the hell am i supposed to know all these things????
Try duolingo. Also learning a language to the point where you can understand basic conversation and to where you can understand songs about nuclear war are two different things.
meee tooooooooooooooooooooooo, well I live in Germany so I have to learn this language 😟😟
Elevendy Seven I did some duolingo, and I spend like 1/2 hours after school trying to learn the language. But the fucking cases... It's 100000x harder than trying to pee with a boner.
티모 xd English was harder. Trust me, I'm Deutsch!
티모 xd yeah I think german is too complex to learn with duolingo, not that it's hard
А я напишу по-русски... таких комментариев вроде не было.. Прекрасное исполнение, и мне нравится больше, чем на английском... Спасибо авторуАВТОРУ сего видео и Нене.. и вообще обожаю немецкий.. хотя пока петь не получается))) Хотя уже лет 28 лет пытаюсь эту песню петь.. такая ностальгия...
I grew up with the English version and then found the "German version" which I soon found out is actually the original version and found that I love singing along to the English one but this version is so much better 😊 xxx
Fun Fact: The Christmas song Silent Night is German too.
@@russiancyborg4330 really? Holy crap that's awesome! xxx
Nobody noticed this song is actually about cold war and the stupid idea of bombing. Sounds even more realistic now. Peace everywhere in the world.
Romain ricart if you think the threat of bombing is more real now than it was during the cold War then you are not a smart man
SUPER!
Thanks!!! The only song I could practise my German with!!! How could we survive without internet?!!
cause I still play Vice city in 2015!!!
me too man lol
all the best, man!
Hell yea, the best gta.. they need need a remake for this gen consoles
+Dule 23 Saaaaaaaaame
Imagine 99 air balloons crossing the border from Mexico to the US...
I just found this song. It's wicked sick! It's freaking wonderful!
Danke!
Don’t mind your average American here in a song about a nuclear missile in Germany
Do you know whether they keep that stuff in the English version?
Great song I was born in Germany but moved at the age of 2 I gignt know how to talk but now I speak English
I love this! 😍😍
I need to learn the lyrics so I can see along..
Danke!!!
The lyrics "auf Englisch" are better described as a transliteration. The German language (which I find beautiful) has syntax and declension which make translation difficult in the context of a song. Peter Schilling's classic "Völlig Losgelöst/Major Tom" is (to me) even more amazing since the same story is told in each language.
The Impossible Quiz 2 😂
I totally agree with you!
Thanks. I learn German at my secondary school before.
i have to learn it buy heart for my German teacher and sing it at the end of the school year with my class
panos daskalopoulos Well, I hope you do her proud. Vielen Gluck. Nena also sings an older song (I'm not sure if it could be considered a folksong or not) that has been around for some time. " Die Gedanken Sind Frei." It means, "My thoughts are free.". Basically, the song is about how (in this case "I" or "ME") you might not understand me, or my way of thinking, but I will think what I want, no matter what you do to me. No matter how you may try to hurt me or break me, imprison me, put me in chains, you will never break my will, for my thoughts will keep me free. There is no real effective word for word translation for it, but that is the gist of the message. Then there's a neat little lullaby entitled, "Heidschi Bumbeidschi", you might want to learn, if you haven't already.
i will listen to them
danke schön
* if it a noun its dankeschön
Either one is acceptable but I think the "D" needs to be upper case. The German language is funny that way. A word can take on a whole different meaning depending if the characters are in upper or lower case.
so true !!!
Dammit Lance I promised your mother that I'll bring you home, let this be...our final ride...
Tommy..
Verry good;Nagyon jó!
...and a great new year too!
I don't know German much, but this sounds pretty good.. Germans will easily know this good lol
Indeed
tommy vercitti sends his regards
Tommy Vercetti, remember the name, this city is mine now.
This song: the only reason i ever listen to Wave103
Yes! I've been trying to learn for years now and the grammar still gets me!
love it
99 Luftballons is German Despacito
SPELLING PLEEEAAAAAAASSSSEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Animaster The reason why the lyrics are in German as it was originally a German song but it grew so popular that someone made a US version of it. So that’s why it’s written in German.
@@Itsnoahscott They mean the spelling in german is incorrect. In many places its just wrong.
thank you! it took some one almost a year to write that but its finally answered xD
I have to learn this to sing it in German next week. Danke.
For non-German speakers, 99 is spelled "Neunundneuzig" :)
Pretty sure its spelt Nine-or-nine
Jonathan Campbell no they just shortened it to make a good song. If English people say nine nine we kinda know what they mean.
yo am i the only one who knows how sad this song actually is?
Watchmojo just released a video that talks exactly about that haha
thanks
I understand the lyrics. The reason many people don't understand true meaning is that it's in s foreign language to most other songs, and that it has such an upbeat melody. Of course the song is actually about the fears that people had during the Cold War, and how tiny something could have been to trigger a nuclear war
I am a german native speaker but as i first heard this song i was a kid so i just thought it was about pretty balloons. I only got the substantial meaning later...
RickyTheGunner 4545 The idea came from when one of the ban meme bers was at a rollin stones concert and they released balloons and he got frightened that they would go over the east Berlin Wall (which was covered by the Soviet Union) and that they'd mistake it for aircraft
Einfach klasse
Gut!
German is really not that hard to learn =). I love this song its so nice, we are just discussing this in German class due to its reference to the cold war =)
bad lyrics, lots of spelling mistakes
This song is so great.
Ich erinnere mich an fast jedem einzelnen Wort der Song in deutscher Sprache. Es ist großartig, und ich liebe es!
Good day, all.
Ist sehr gut!
Im Italian and we always say oh God German language sounds so forceful and abrasive but Im getting more attached to it. Im starting to think it sounds just as beautiful and lyrical as any romance language.
i thought the same before i moved here 😂
@@kix_501st haha I bet it's beautiful. I've never been outside the continental US
ICH LIEBE DAS SINGT !!!!!!!!!!!
Piotaix Mickaël gut deutsch
I speak English and yet prefer this version. Thanks!
I've never heard this version before thnks
#RechtschreibungFail
Ach ja, das passiert
My name is Tenya Iida. You killed my brother. Prepare to die, my dude.
Wrong video? Also, Stain didn't kill Ingenium. Unless it's another story arc?
Alle deine Lieder bringen mich zum weinen
got to told to listen to some german to prepare for my gcse german listening exam and here i am :)
All of these are spelled really wrong
Bobby Busk actually correct in german
Im a german btw
Bobby Busk maybe they could have used "ß" instead of "ss" but they are both the same letter so yeh
There are definitely errors here. Being German as you say you are, you would have noticed it right from the point where you read Dusenjager instead of DusenFlieger. they don't even sound the same. I've been listening to this song since it was first released back in the 1980's. I was happy to find the words to the song when the Internet came out. I also sing this song at karaoke. I've never gotten a word wrong even when the spelling is not correct.
The German spelling is really bad.
LittleImpaler ....thats just there langeaus
He means whoever wrote the lyrics misspelled the German words
It’s actually just written the way •Nena sings it
It is spelled wrong. "Hilet" instead of "hielt", "si" instead of "so" and the writer always wrote "u" instead of "ü". So she is wright. The spelling is really bad. Things like "ne" or "war'n" are on purpose but the other words are just spelled wrong.
RobloxGal98 And MinecraftBoi69 YOU DAMN IMBECILE YOU HAVE MISSPELLED THE WORD FUCKING, HOW BRAIN DEAD COULD YOU BE TO MISSPELL SUCH AN EASY WORD?!?!?!?!?!?
Dude I heard this from the German concert at my school!
I LOVE this song!!! :D
"Streichholz und Benzinkanister" (matches and cans of gasoline) reminds me of Carl Sagan's quote about two mortal enemies in a room awash with gasoline, one with 8,000 matches and the other with 9,000. But that's from October 1983 and the album is February 1983. It's vaguely possible Sagan got the idea from this song, actually.
SCREAM QUEENS
I remember when this first came out finally we [ENGLISH speakers] Had something to mimic in GERMAN instead of bad HOGAN'S HEROES ! impressions! i didn't get the SCREAM QUEENS reference but i guess it's sampled on the show i will look it up I HEV VAYS IHAEv VAYS!! NIGHT LUV!!
There are several wrong lyrics =\ ya might wanna go back and edit
pretty good stuff! likie likie.
german is such a beautiful language. powerful and graceful at the same time.
i had to go and watch the english version after growing up with this version..... gahhh it was horrendous! so much lost in the translation to keep a similar rhythm but the rhythm was still off and it was in the wrong key and gahhh it sounded so ugly compared to this! i love the Deutsch version forever
This is german, tho.
ja, und?
Queencrazy1997 Oh I apologize greatly. I thought you wrote Dutch but I looked back and you said Deutsch. My mistake.
dummkopf....
Queencrazy1997 Whoa, I didn't say anything bad to you. That swear was unnecessary. Are you ok?
Terrible audio quality.
***** Actually, this originally hit the airwaves in 1984, as I first-handedly remember.
+Chet Pomeroy how old are you
benjamin wayne Age 56.
TheCynicalDouche : terrible comment as well.
TheCynicalDouche or is it you
I like it better when I don't understand it
love this song
Why so viele rechtschreib Fehler
Maimuna Touray
neun und neunzehn rechtschreib Felher?
Maimuna Touray I guess the Fehler who translated it didn't sprech zayr goot Doytsh. ;-)
Maimuna Touray weil ich ein anfanger in deutsch bin !!¨ I cringe when i write in german... Hope the german people dont mind !!!
Keiner hat aufgepaßt
Verdammt Kinder, beginnen Atomkrieg mit ihren Ballons lol
nice now i can sing it aswell :D
ist gut! :)
Maybe I should go do my German Duolingo for today...
Hallo! il y'a des français par ici? :)
Oui!
+Marine Fernandez Yep :p
+Marine Fernandez La beuze ?
Oui je suis français haha
Présent !