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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Spandau & Nena |
| Date | Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:51:32 -0500 |
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AT Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 Bill Jones wrote:
> > Nena's 99 Luftballoons
>
>Great song! And I far prefer the English version to the German, which
>sounds like she's coughing up phlegm...
Except the English version is sung phonetically and lacks the poetry of the
German syntax.
BTW - The English words were translated by Canada's Lisa Dalbello...a wicked
Kate Bush meets Peter Gabriel anti-mainstream artist (though Heart chose to
cover her "Black On Black" a few albums ago). And in the same vein,
bassist/vocalist David Lodge from 1970s pop act Major Hoople's Boarding
House wrote the English translation of Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" and
several other tracks on Schilling's English language debut "Error In The
System".
Jaimie Vernon,
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