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That synth line was practically a warning shot for the rest of the eighties, everyone heard it and started buying keyboards. Nena sang most of it in German for the original version, which makes the English one feel like a whole separate universe, here's 99 Red Balloons, on Saturday Sessions, on Streamless FM.
A Chinese cargo ship just did something wild, it sailed the Arctic route straight to the UK and sliced weeks off the usual trip. They're calling it the Polar Silk Road, which sounds like a video game but it's actually melting ice making shipping faster, make of that what you will. Anyway, speaking of things that move fast, here's Nena with 99 Red Balloons, this is Afternoon Lift on Streamless FM.
A Cold War protest song you can dance to shouldn't work, but Nena pulled it off better than anyone singing about nuclear war has any right to. This is 99 Red Balloons, lazy Saturday, on Streamless FM.
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