http://graphjam.memebase.com/2008/04/20/funny-graphs-occurrence-pre-war-vs-post-war/ Explaining music, songs and pop culture in charts and graphs. AKA music/song chart memes and funny graphs. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://graphjam.memebase.com/2008/04/20/funny-graphs-occurrence-pre-war-vs-post-war/comment-page-1/#comment-106775 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:26:35 +0000 http://graphjam.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-106775 knights of the air are the jet fighter planes, rhymes better in the English sense I suppose.

]]> http://graphjam.memebase.com/2008/04/20/funny-graphs-occurrence-pre-war-vs-post-war/comment-page-1/#comment-7723 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:21:52 +0000 http://graphjam.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-7723 As Dagonet pointed out, she changed the wording up for the English version. Red balloons is close enough in spirit, but what’s this “knights of the air” bit? The line “…Und auch keine Duesenflieger” means no more jet planes, not fighter pilots.

]]> http://graphjam.memebase.com/2008/04/20/funny-graphs-occurrence-pre-war-vs-post-war/comment-page-1/#comment-870 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:28:52 +0000 http://graphjam.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-870 At http://www.inthe80s.com/redger3.shtml you can see a side-by-side comparison of the German original, a literal translation and the English version as written by Kevin McAlea.

]]> http://graphjam.memebase.com/2008/04/20/funny-graphs-occurrence-pre-war-vs-post-war/comment-page-1/#comment-857 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:22:50 +0000 http://graphjam.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-857 Maybe it’s the Goldfinger version?

]]> http://graphjam.memebase.com/2008/04/20/funny-graphs-occurrence-pre-war-vs-post-war/comment-page-1/#comment-855 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:30:19 +0000 http://graphjam.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-855 It’s good except that it’s “Neunundneunzig Luftballons.”
Translating to 99 air balloons. It would have to be “Neunundneunzig rot liebe ballons” Other wise and that does go in the beat.

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