Look, I love my rave days as much as the next candy kid, but no. It had potential, but repeating the first verse of the song 5-6 times and inserting a happy hardcore track underneath destroys the song. I’m not sure I wouldn’t have been irritated even with extacy. Finish the song.

I don’t care if you have to go The Orb Blue Room style and make a 45 minute song, just finish the song.

She never impressed anyone with her intelligence.

Well, that’s disappointing.

What most people dont realize is that 99 Luftballons - as well as other early songs - where done by the whole band, as opposed to the singer’s later solo songs. So I feel like with 99 Luftballons we can simply go “four nice guys and one crazy lady”.

There was a singer/group that I loved and I had the terrible idea of looking for them. I wanted to see if they were still active and performing. Well, the main guy created a shady church, abused a few women and even kids and is in prison now. I can’t listen to them anymore.

In the 80s it was on repeat in the Dutch charts.

The story of the song (English and German) is about someone releasing balloons causing a radar operator to mistake them for nuclear weapons and starting World War III.

False alarm of this nature were disturbingly common.

Edit: In the German version the balloons are mistaken for UFOs. Here’s a direct comparison between the two versions.