99 Red/LuftBalloons is not a good song

From Squarepants SpongeBob's's website:

While it may not have been obvious to the average English speaking listener, "99 Luftballons" was a pretty rare commodity in the early '80s: a song with a conscience. While lighthearted and playful in tone, the song is ultimately one of cold war tension; a war begins when trigger happy generals send planes to intercept a mass of unidentifed objects (balloons) just above the horizon. The conflict escalates as everyone wants a piece of the action, and by the end of the song there is nothing left... no fighters, no balloons, just a world in ruins.The formations of fighters mentioned to in "99 Luftballons" must have been a much more familiar site to West Germans than to your average American of the 1980s. While we Americans sat in front of their expensive, foreign-made TVs (bought on credit) and lapped up Reaganomics, countries like Germany sat on the front lines of Reagan's renewed cold war. Germans were living with buildings that still showed forty year old scars, armed border guards, walls and fences, and a constant US military presence that could not be ignored. It should come as no surprise that a subtle yet poignant protest songs such as this would come out Germany.Both the original German version and the English version, "99 Red Balloons," were popular on U.S. radio stations in the early '80s. The English version, however, was less a direct translation of the original than an attempt to appeal to the vast English speaking audience. The group (and Nena is a group, not just singer Nena Kerner) cleary sounds more at home in their native language, and the German original is far superior to its cheesy English cousin.

Originally posted by dottewell
Thank you... but I did really like the expression "nozzle fliers" in Ivanhoe's version, and intend to use it as often as possible.

Originally posted by darvlay
Ich Bin Nackt by Stereo Total

ich bin nackt
ganz nackisch
na und
ich bin nackt
so hat mich meine mutter gemacht

ich bin nackt
na und
es muss sein
meine kleider sind zu klein

ich bin nackt
der nachbar steht am fenster
mir egal
so will es die natur

reg dich nicht auf
kauf mir ein neues kleid
ich hab nichts anzuziehen
tut es dir nicht l ...[text shortened]... z nackisch
ich bin nackt
so hat mich meine mutter gemacht

nackt
nackisch
nackt
nackisch