I’m an old Sugar Cubes fan and I’ve never heard of it. Husband has heard OF it, but just on limewire or something so we think it is one of those ubiqitous napstery mistakes. You would be amazed at the number of things that are TOTALLY misattributed on the basis of who-knows what.
I only pop in here because no one else is answering, though. If someone corrects me I will eat crow.
Does it sound like Bjork? Is it in German or English?
don’t know anything about the song, but tag it with no.4. it’s performed by the sugarcubes, entitled 99 red balloons (so you say - i thought it was 99 luftballoons or something) and it’s the pleasure delux etc mix.
The original was 99 Luftballoons. The English version is 99 Red Balloons. They needed to add the word “red” to keep the meter correct in the translation.
Am I sensing some hostility here? I am not responsible for tagging all the songs on the various services. I am trying to straighten out the tags on the songs on my hard drive.
Err, Ahem, I mean my ‘Friend’s’ tags on ‘his’ hard drive!
No, I don’t think there’s hostility. It’s just funny how tags get mangled. Everything these days is attributed to Weird Al. Anything that sounds like an acoustic pop sort of thing is BarenakedLadies and anything in German is Rammstein.
It’s like people don’t even bother to do an inch of research.
Oh no SandWriter, I wasn’t being hostile towards you. Just in general it bugs me how people are conatantly mislabeling songs on certain services. I’m fairly certain TMBG didn’t do “Donald Duck Blow Job”, no matter how funny one might find it.
It was a general dig at people who mislabel songs, not you. I mentioned it in sympathy as someone else who has had to dig through many songs trying to find out who really sang them.
So is that Ska version of “Ob-la-di” No Doubt or Save Ferris?
If you are looking to blame someone, then I think the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of CDDB or now, Grace Note. They are the source for all the confusion. J. R. MP3-Ripper inserts a CD into the drive and the music software goes out to CDDB/Grace Note and pulls down a list of song titles/artists for each track. That information ends up in the tag information when the track is converted to an mp3.
The problems arise when someone inserts an “unknown to the Data Base CD” and then enters in the title/artist information by hand then that data is uploaded to CDDB/Grace Note.
No one at CDDB/Grace Note checks the validity of the uploads.
I know this cause I inserted a “Greatest Hits of the Eighties” CD and half the song/artist information was wrong when compared to the song/artist information on the liner notes.
If CDDB/Grace Note worked with the record companies to ensure that all the record company’s listings were correct, then I think that would alliviate a great deal of the incorrect tag information.
Babel Fish Translation, In English:
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Fark recently had a website with a list of parody songs that people generally attribute incorrectly to Weird Al.
FWIW, I think Goldfinger does the best version of 99 Red Balloons. Although there seem to be 2 different versions. On Stomping Ground, it includes a German verse. In Gran Turismo 3, the German verse is replaced by the “Captain Kirk” verse.
