day 309: 99 Red Balloons

99 Red Balloons, by Nena.

This song is one of the very first non-Muppet songs I remember wanting to hear on the radio, on the jukebox, wherever I could, as a pretty small kid.

It’s the kind of song I forget about for a decade at a time ever since, and probably hadn’t thought about it until I stumbled across it online recently and added it to the list.