Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:slrnarttrb.18j.jupp@jupp.8m.com...
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 18:48:35 -0500,
>    James M <ozone@snip.net> wrote:
> > Wow! the english one(99 Red Ballons) was much more upbeat
> Maybe the song writer (I don't know if it was Nena herself) was in a
> different mood while writing the two versions. IMHO the German
> version would better fit When the Wind Blows or similar films than
> Shin Seiki Evangelion.
>
> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt


The way I allways heard it back when the song was new,(Damn comments like
that make me feel old!) was that Nena did'nt speak a word of english when
she toured the 1st time with the song and she perfomed the english version
phoneticly from memory. I'll have to do a search and learn whatever happend
to her.