99 Red Balloons vs. All My Best Friends Are Metalheads

[Jorge]

vs.

[Kevin Davis]

I love "99 Red Balloons" -- I heard it before I was even aware of the original, so the novelty cover element of it was lost on me, I just thought it was a great song. Easy vote.

[Jorge]

I love "99 Red Balloons" -- I heard it before I was even aware of the original, so the novelty cover element of it was lost on me, I just thought it was a great song. Easy vote.

Were you confused by the random German verse at the end?

[Jammer XCI]

Less Than Jake’s song was in Tony Hawk 4, but Goldfinger’s cover was in Gran Turismo 3.

Tony Hawk everytime.

[Kevin Davis]

I love "99 Red Balloons" -- I heard it before I was even aware of the original, so the novelty cover element of it was lost on me, I just thought it was a great song. Easy vote.

Were you confused by the random German verse at the end?

Nah, random goofy shit seemed pretty common in the punk/ska realm.

[LoathedVermin72]

The breakdown in 99 Red Balloons is agreeably Nu-esque. I’ll vote for that

[chewm]

I enjoy both of these songs to some degree. It's probably the only match this round where I can say that.

[BurtReynolds]

A crap cover vs a ska song.

I guess I'll vote for the cover because at least the original was good, though I'm deducting points because the english version pales in comparison to the German.

[Higgs]

I'll go for 99 Red Balloons because I prefer the song to the other one here, but seriously, what's with all the Pop Punk covers over in seppo land? I don't think that was such a big phenomenon this side of the Pacific. Seems pretty lazy to me.

[Jorge]

Fun-ish fact: John Feldman, the frontman for Goldfinger, is a pretty prolific record producer who has worked on albums by Blink 182, Papa Roach, 5 Seconds of Summer, 311, Good Charlotte, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T's, and Hilary Duff, among many others.

[mf]

First tough matchup so far. Voting for Less Than Jake because i completely forgot about this song and how much i used to love it. 99 Red Balloons is good as far as covers go, but it still feels like a novelty and Goldfinger had better tunes.

[tragabigzanda]

Less Than Jake just because it's not a shitty cover.

[mikejasond]

the Less than Jake song was in the Digimon movie

[Jorge]

the Less than Jake song was in the Digimon movie

This is a beautiful post

[bodysnatcher]

yeah, going Less Than Jake here. i like the original 99 Balloons way better than this

[4/5]

I love "99 Red Balloons" -- I heard it before I was even aware of the original, so the novelty cover element of it was lost on me, I just thought it was a great song. Easy vote.

Same.

Although I do like the Less Than Jake song, too. But 99 Red Balloons is fantastic.

[Jammer XCI]

the Less than Jake song was in the Digimon movie

This is a beautiful post

I think half of the nu-metal tournament was in the Dragon Ball Z movies that came out in the late 90's and early 2000's.

I blame those for inventing those damn anime music videos that riddled Youtube in the aughts.

[PHATJ]

the Less than Jake song was in the Digimon movie

I think half of the nu-metal tournament was in the Dragon Ball Z movies

Get off my damn lawn you damn kids.