The song fits early 2000's Sonic so well i wasnt sure if it was actually apart of one of the game soundtracks and the movie featured it as an easter egg
YOOOO! I SHOUTED WITH JOY, THAT THIS SONG PLAYED IN SONIC MOVIE 3! First of all, I was obsessed with GoldFinger’s cover of 99 Red Balloons when I was a teen in high school. And now the fact, that it’s in the third Sonic film. It perfectly captures the early 2000s rock vibes of Sonic The Hedgehog.
This song was also present on Gran Turismo 3 Back in the day I used to play that game a lot And when this song started playing in the "sonic team race" scene I was smiling all the time.
Eurotrip brought me here years ago. When I heard it in the Sonic movie with my son, who's familiar with the original, he was like someone covered this? A tear came to my eye and I said yes Goldfinger. We got out of the theater and in the car I brought it up on Amazon music. My son thought I was the coolest because I knew about this amazing new song. I did eventually tell him this cover is like 25 years old.
You can tell it was a love letter to Nena when he sang the last verse in German. A real fan got to cover probably his favourite song and sang probably his favourite part in the OG langue. Most respectful cover ever
Normally I don't like the music picks in the Sonic movies, but I think the fans all kind of agree this is a new Sonic anthem. This goes so well with Sonic!
I love how it switches to German when all hell breaks loose. For English speakers that don’t understand German it makes the war part feel even more chaotic.
As a member of a generation removed from war with Germany by almost 80 years, we still get a little nervous when someone starts yelling at us in German :D Personally, I think this version of the song kicks ass, German verse included.
@@robot_spider My Great Great Grandfather faught for the Kaiser in WW1, and my Great Grandfather was a paratrooper for the United States Army in WW2.... My Grandfather killed his own family members in that war.
This song is great at every level. Social commentary, storytelling, high energy pace, contrast of happy major scale with apocalyptic subject matter . . . Truly great.
It's crazy, because when we went to Germany a couple of years back, it definitely sounded like all the bands at the beer tents were covering Goldfinger's version. Love the original song, but this song is a certified banger. Rock on boys!
Gran Turismo 3 and Sonic 3 Movie Brought me here! It was a great surprise hearing this song in the sonic 3 movie, this era of 2000s punk rock (alongside the sonic franchise) really gives me flashbacks of an era that was alot simpler and happy for me.
Man, the hours I sank into GT3 is insane, but the hours I sunk into this song is way beyond that. Hahaha. I turned the radio in GT3 to strictly play this song for a long period of time too while I was playing it. Hope 2025 treats you well!
SAMEEE, this song is so perfect for sonic and everything he stands for, glad sonic 3 gave me this beautiful song, and I hope the future movies have bangers like this song, sonic is at its peak with lyrical music like this
+Captain Porter I like this more than the original version because the lyrics match with the instruments. In the original version, the lyrics go on about war destroying the world with a bouncy, pop sound in the background, which do not match at all. In this version, you have those lyrics with a heavier (compared to the original) punk sound, which I feel really compliment the lyrics.
Every time I would listen to this cover within earshot of my mom, she would always tell me that the ending of this version doesn't give her goosebumps like the original. She passed last month but I'm glad to know that this will be some silly little something I think about every time I hear this song.
ruclips.net/video/Fpu5a0Bl8eY/видео.html This version has very good subtitles, I felt different reading them this morning. See what you think, and I’m sorry for your loss.
Already adored the orignal version of this song, and used to sit in the back of my familys car lsitening to it as we drove and imagining Sonic running and fighting Robotnik to it. So happy it popped up in the 3rd Sonic movie!
Like the great Carl Sagan once said, it's like we're all living in a room, up to our knees in gasoline, and one of us had 12,000 matches and the other has 10,000 matches.
1:46 "CALL OUT THE TROOPS NOW IN A HURRY!!" "THIS IS IT WHAT WE'VE WAITED FOR?!" "THIS IS IT BOYS, THIS IS WAR!!!" - My favorite line (Also i came here from "TF2" martin old video)
I feel it's the duty of us out there that saw Goldfinger live before the social media age to say... how awesome they were live. This band worked. The crowd was family and on-stage much of the show. They tore the place down. They played everywhere and killed it.
I just took my kids to the new sonic movie today, and your song was featured! Back 18 years or so ago after a failed date watching euro trip I discovered this song. I love the 3rd chorus so much, I downloaded it and upped the volume, and +.15 The speed to it. The German/Deutsche final verse is magnificent. I even witnessed people on Reddit, who were German say...holy fuck, that guy can sing better than I can speak my native language. That's why i explore you to release another high energy version of this song in a foreign language. it was a banger, and still is!
It’s Saturday morning in 2002, you’re up before anyone else, you run to the TV that has your PS2 hooked up, turn the TV on to ch 4 & your PS2, pop in Gran Turismo 3, and you’re racing through the Tokyo street circuit in the Castrol Toyota Supra GT car with this song playing in the background. Good ol days.
one day in june, i was searching for the original version. i randomly clicked this video out of curiosity. best decision ive made. thank you, Goldfinger :]
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Race competition Tails: "Come one Sonic catch up yeah" Sonic: "What in the what now" Kunuckles: "I am also defeating you hedgehog"
Alaina Johnson you know this song was originally done by Nena, a German band and was popularized and rewritten into English years before Goldfinger was even a thought let alone a band covering the song.
Alaina Johnson many of Goldfingers fans are German and I'm sure some English speaking fans speak German as well. Either way the German is meant to preserve the character the original song. Yes Nena did rewrite the song in English but in both Germany and English speaking countries the origional German is what caught the eye of the public. it's like asking why your cellphone has a picture of a land line when you make a call or why electric and luxury cars have engine noises played through speakers. It's a familiar medium for all and a call back to those who understand that.
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The song fits early 2000's Sonic so well i wasnt sure if it was actually apart of one of the game soundtracks and the movie featured it as an easter egg
1:09 It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a air hedgehog!!
😂😂
NINETY NIIIIINE RED BALLOONS 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
*lands through a hoop as a ball*
I am also defeating you hedgehog!
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s air hedgehog!!
YOOOO! I SHOUTED WITH JOY, THAT THIS SONG PLAYED IN SONIC MOVIE 3!
First of all, I was obsessed with GoldFinger’s cover of 99 Red Balloons when I was a teen in high school.
And now the fact, that it’s in the third Sonic film.
It perfectly captures the early 2000s rock vibes of Sonic The Hedgehog.
Sonic fans rise up
IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND IT FOR SO LONG THANK YOU
As soon as I heard this on the soundtrack I was like, this is going to be a great film
dude same this song reminded me so much of sonic already, and I knew this song before Sonic 3! I too screamed when they included this song
This song was also present on Gran Turismo 3
Back in the day I used to play that game a lot
And when this song started playing in the "sonic team race" scene I was smiling all the time.
0:40 - so it's not just me? We're all here landing from Air Hedgehog 🛬🦔🏀
Its Nuts How This Fits Sonic So Wel!?
Many 2000s punk rock songs fit incredibly well with sonic
Burnout 3 and Crazy Taxi also had the same style of music in their soundtrack.
The instrumentals for cmon by go betty go for sonic 4?
Yes- specifically Sonic Adventure 2/the 3rd movie. ESPECIALLY the German version when you look at the lyrics.
We going to be racing through the mountains and the hills with this one!
I remember hearing this song as a kid and I’m so glad sonic 3 brought me back to this!
Eurotrip brought me here years ago. When I heard it in the Sonic movie with my son, who's familiar with the original, he was like someone covered this? A tear came to my eye and I said yes Goldfinger. We got out of the theater and in the car I brought it up on Amazon music. My son thought I was the coolest because I knew about this amazing new song. I did eventually tell him this cover is like 25 years old.
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-Come on, Sonic, catch up!
-I'm also defeating you, hedgehog.
Sonic!!! Old memory!!!
Love how they have one verse left in the original german.
Thats about the best german pronunciation i've ever heard from an american!
So true though. It's very underground punk despite the pop vibe it leaks.
Dann sollst du mal meine Aussprache hören.
Aber ich muss auch zugeben, dass seine Aussprache ziemlich gut ist.
Turns out, if you just shout German words you say it better. Who knew.
SMHEZ würde sie gerne mal hören :D
Can't believe they actually used this in the Sonic movie! The Knuckles nostalgia 😭
This song now has to be in the next Sonic game!
Its in the sonic 3 movie
I literally freaked when this song played in Sonic 3. This song, and “Firestarter” by The Prodigy.
Film of The Year. Don’t try to change my mind lol
You can tell it was a love letter to Nena when he sang the last verse in German. A real fan got to cover probably his favourite song and sang probably his favourite part in the OG langue. Most respectful cover ever
What's ironic is that this song has its German stanza changed to English with much different text in Gran Turismo 3.
@@heavenlanes5598 that's just because she cashed out. Pretty sure it's her singing it.
Normally I don't like the music picks in the Sonic movies, but I think the fans all kind of agree this is a new Sonic anthem. This goes so well with Sonic!
The fact that my dad hung out with these lads before they got famous is insane.
I love how it switches to German when all hell breaks loose. For English speakers that don’t understand German it makes the war part feel even more chaotic.
As a member of a generation removed from war with Germany by almost 80 years, we still get a little nervous when someone starts yelling at us in German :D Personally, I think this version of the song kicks ass, German verse included.
@@robot_spider o. Ok
I don't get warlike German from his singing though. He brings out the beauty in that language. Like a punkrock Goethe
Everbody gangster until the sky starts screaming German...
@@robot_spider
My Great Great Grandfather faught for the Kaiser in WW1, and my Great Grandfather was a paratrooper for the United States Army in WW2....
My Grandfather killed his own family members in that war.
1:12 When you're messing around with the zoom feature on your phone camera
😂😂😂
😂🤣😂🤣😂
Lol
This post was ahead of its time
Lmao you got me
Gotta go fast
This song is great at every level. Social commentary, storytelling, high energy pace, contrast of happy major scale with apocalyptic subject matter . . . Truly great.
The german version is even better
Yea what you said !!!
@@LunarPenguin42 fuck outa here
@@johnscanlon7757 ?
@@LunarPenguin42 German version is not better
Something about the “This is it boys, this is war” just hits infinitely hard
I usually sing "This is it, lads, this is war" with the cheesiest British accent I can manage. Hits just as hard IMO,
When the Blue Hedgehog Races With His Fox Best Friend And His Echidna Partner: 1:10
This brings me straight back to ~2003 playing Gran Turismo 3 with my little brother on the ps2. Good times
I love this song it never gets old plus my dad speaks german and English so its always fun to sing along with him
It's crazy, because when we went to Germany a couple of years back, it definitely sounded like all the bands at the beer tents were covering Goldfinger's version. Love the original song, but this song is a certified banger. Rock on boys!
So good made me spin dash across the mountain!
This song is now very relevant, again.
Yep. Aged well.
LMAO THE CHINESE BALLOONS OVER THE US RIGHT NOW
Yeah I never stopped listening. The early naughts were a weird time .
99 Chinese spy balloons.
Hurr durr the song says balloons and I saw balloons in the news fed to me…. My smooth brain makes connection
It was the song of the race between Sonic, Tails and Knuckles in Sonic 3
Gran Turismo 3 and Sonic 3 Movie Brought me here!
It was a great surprise hearing this song in the sonic 3 movie, this era of 2000s punk rock (alongside the sonic franchise) really gives me flashbacks of an era that was alot simpler and happy for me.
Man, the hours I sank into GT3 is insane, but the hours I sunk into this song is way beyond that. Hahaha. I turned the radio in GT3 to strictly play this song for a long period of time too while I was playing it. Hope 2025 treats you well!
This is possibly the happiest song about the Cold War ever
Ye
I know, right?
it was made during the most tense part of the later cold war yeah but honestly it applies to all modern wars (fought between nations).
Да
*worst
They literally played this banger in the Sonic 3 movie clip I'm so on this movie.
2:58 You know thats a pretty nice guitar... oh now hes smashing to bits....
You're a Colorful Bunch 🗣️🗣️🗣️
loved this song as kid and as an adult. to see this amazing cover in sonic movie 3 i was fucking ecstatic it fit it sooooo well
2:28 My game when I accidentally change the language when I was just trying to change my sensitivity
lol
Ffs 😂😂😂
Once u change the languge, lmfao theres no going back.
Nena...the Ballon Chick!
Thank you “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” for bringing me here! ❤
Same I came from sonic too
SAMEEE, this song is so perfect for sonic and everything he stands for, glad sonic 3 gave me this beautiful song, and I hope the future movies have bangers like this song, sonic is at its peak with lyrical music like this
THIS IS WHAT WE WAITED FOR, THIS IS IT BOYS, THIS IS WAR
2b2t griefing sessions
@Professional Chav Biden just sent troops back into Syria. yay
THE PRESIDENT IS ON THE LINE, AS 99 RED BALLOONS GO BY
Yes the only that I can’t even think about skipping
@@bobsterr6144 in mar a lago
Gran Turismo 3... And now Sonic 3 :")
Also GTA Vice City.
German punk. Bad ass man. Really good remake in my personal opinion. Anyone else?
+Captain Porter German Punk by an American Band
So bad ass
+Captain Porter I like this more than the original version because the lyrics match with the instruments. In the original version, the lyrics go on about war destroying the world with a bouncy, pop sound in the background, which do not match at all. In this version, you have those lyrics with a heavier (compared to the original) punk sound, which I feel really compliment the lyrics.
+stride99 That was kinda the intention of the original
+BananaMasterRace But you have to admit, the german part is really good.
Now this, this is a damn good cover.
Salty Gee it really is honestly I get why people don’t like it but it’s a pretty awesome cover
Chubby Gaming irrelevant to this but yes
This is better than Nena’s English version
evergreen2y I honestly think the best English cover is the bobs burgers cover.
yonder35 yes
1:11 when you mess with the zoom feature on your phone's camera for the first time
I saw them live recently. Yes, they still have all the energy they've always had and more.
Sayreville Nj?
@@badproductions769 Baltimore, MD. Was lucky enough to be in the area that night.
I saw them in Sayreville the day they where very good
@@psibur Fuck I meant to go to that one but completely forgot about it
So glad to hear that! I saw them at warped tour in Seattle 2017, they were amazing!!!!
Every time I would listen to this cover within earshot of my mom, she would always tell me that the ending of this version doesn't give her goosebumps like the original. She passed last month but I'm glad to know that this will be some silly little something I think about every time I hear this song.
I’m so sorry for your loss buddy 🥺
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This version has very good subtitles, I felt different reading them this morning. See what you think, and I’m sorry for your loss.
Hey man, it's alright ;)
Sorry for your loss
That's a lovely thing to have mate. I'm so sorry for your loss. Keep the head up. She's up there rockin to this
I saw them live in the 90s. They motioned everyone to get on stage with them (it was a fairly small crowd)and shit got nuts. It was a great show!
Sounds awesome!
Already adored the orignal version of this song, and used to sit in the back of my familys car lsitening to it as we drove and imagining Sonic running and fighting Robotnik to it. So happy it popped up in the 3rd Sonic movie!
YOOOOOO I never thought I would hear this banger in the new Sonic movie!!! 🎸🎸🎸🗣🗣🗣
The lyrics are so strong: We basically live in a world, where a simple misunderstanding can destroy us.
And Putin doesn't even need the excuse of a misunderstanding to destroy us all.
@@Anonymous-qw same with the us tbh
A society, you might say
Like the great Carl Sagan once said, it's like we're all living in a room, up to our knees in gasoline, and one of us had 12,000 matches and the other has 10,000 matches.
The lyrics of this is a child poem comparing it to music from the 50's,60's, and early 70's.
I don't usually place covers over originals.
But this was too good. Gave the song new life.
Yes
But it changed the soul of the original song
Definitely
Cake - I will survive
Check out the band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes you will change your mind!!!
Good to be back in Green Hill
Goldfinger is my favorite ska punk band. This song is amazing and timeless!!! This is a phenomenal cover.
It was very classy of Goldfinger to leave a German verse in there. Geil!
ahepperl it was kinda done wrong I think, they didn't say ballonnen but ballons
EvilisMe True. but I can't fault them too much, punk rockers from America did their best to try to speak German. I say the effort counts..
+ahepperl agreed
+ahepperl Their pronunciation isn't bad either! Props. Ich finde ganz toll!
+ahepperl I agree they respect the original =)
Thats about the best german pronunciation i've ever heard from an american!
Aber unser Englisch ist oft auch nicht so wirklich gut
Indeed, he really nailed it. Almost unnoticeable accent.
Personally the song would have been better completely in German by him
I always wondered that
Actually, a little clearer and less jumbled than the original. And I love the original.
damn.. that long ago
BERBMMMMMM??
Ikr
Berd, can you do more Tf2 stuff ❤
@@Engie17no 😂j JJ a
Heard this in Sonic 3 and got goosebumps. Fire song for a fire scene.
"It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Air Hedgehog!"
Hitting different today
"It's all over and i'm standin' pretty
In the dust that was a city"
Sonic 3 brought me here.
Sorry for being out of the loop, what does Sonic 3 have to do with this?
@@SnowyGingerAle simply this song apperas in the picnic scene from the trailer Sonic 3 movie
Same 😂😂😂
Its in the movie
When I hear this song I can see sonic running through the mountains
This is up there with one of the best covers ever. The fact it’s not known of more is criminal.
I think its good to listen to this right now
3:04 ‘So there is someone in the crowd who get’s that god damn guitar smashed
on his head
Worth you can sell that shit for a fortune.
Throw all your instruments my way.
1:46
"CALL OUT THE TROOPS NOW IN A HURRY!!"
"THIS IS IT WHAT WE'VE WAITED FOR?!"
"THIS IS IT BOYS, THIS IS WAR!!!"
- My favorite line
(Also i came here from "TF2" martin old video)
Same, just found it from that video
Alright, time to light the afterburners!
Time to turn on the afterburners🦔🌪
“Time to turn on the afterburners!”
I miss this kinda genre in songs
The second I heard this song in sonic 3 I knew I was in for absolute peak
I feel it's the duty of us out there that saw Goldfinger live before the social media age to say... how awesome they were live. This band worked. The crowd was family and on-stage much of the show. They tore the place down. They played everywhere and killed it.
I feel thing song talks about Ukraine 🇺🇦 and Germany 🇩🇪 sad 😔
0:03
Here cause of Sonic 3 but I stayed for the song, awesome
never imagined id see sonic run so freely to 99 red balloons
I just took my kids to the new sonic movie today, and your song was featured! Back 18 years or so ago after a failed date watching euro trip I discovered this song. I love the 3rd chorus so much, I downloaded it and upped the volume, and +.15 The speed to it. The German/Deutsche final verse is magnificent. I even witnessed people on Reddit, who were German say...holy fuck, that guy can sing better than I can speak my native language.
That's why i explore you to release another high energy version of this song in a foreign language. it was a banger, and still is!
For an English cover of the original this is still really good.
yeah, liked that they put a verse from the original German song in too. and they did stick to nena's lyrics from her English version too.
TheHolyPaladin yeah
Yeah. It's the only song that can respark my motivation with coding shit.
Nerdcore is good but gets old, fucking gold finger never gets old.
Nena did both a German version and an English version. though the lyrics are completely different and don't translate to each other haha
Ah yes, a great song to listen to when your a blue ailen with the power of speed racing against your friends who are a yellow fox and a red echidnia
I like the part around 2:16 when it slows down and then comes back full force. I like the rest of the song too.
2:30 always gives me chills! It’s so good!
99 red balloons is a classic that has been covered by countless bands, but Gold Finger's version is the best!
One of the best 90s punk bands ever!
It’s Saturday morning in 2002, you’re up before anyone else, you run to the TV that has your PS2 hooked up, turn the TV on to ch 4 & your PS2, pop in Gran Turismo 3, and you’re racing through the Tokyo street circuit in the Castrol Toyota Supra GT car with this song playing in the background. Good ol days.
Yo i am so excited to watch sonic 3 tomorrow and also i remember hearing this song in gran turismo 3 i miss my ps2
one day in june, i was searching for the original version. i randomly clicked this video out of curiosity. best decision ive made. thank you, Goldfinger :]
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Race competition
Tails: "Come one Sonic catch up yeah"
Sonic: "What in the what now"
Kunuckles: "I am also defeating you hedgehog"
“It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s air hedgehog!”
what did guy fieri eat to get him this hyped
german food i guess
Meth!
vilkommen auf flavortown
99 red balloons
lmaoooo
I only listened to the original Nena version, but Sonic 3 led me to his banger cover.
"This is it, boys. This is war," was delivered so well.
Sonic 3 uses this, hell yeah!
When playing Gran Turismo 3, this is the song I first start out in those endurance races!
I did honestly not expect him to suddenly sing some of the german verses. Respect!
It's a bird, It's a plane, It's air Hedgehog!!
Love how they have one verse left in the original german.
Alaina Johnson wot
Alaina Johnson you know this song was originally done by Nena, a German band and was popularized and rewritten into English years before Goldfinger was even a thought let alone a band covering the song.
To Be Fast I think he knew that seeing that he put "Original German" in his comment.
Ray Vincent it was aimed towards Alaina Johnson... not the OP.
Alaina Johnson many of Goldfingers fans are German and I'm sure some English speaking fans speak German as well. Either way the German is meant to preserve the character the original song. Yes Nena did rewrite the song in English but in both Germany and English speaking countries the origional German is what caught the eye of the public. it's like asking why your cellphone has a picture of a land line when you make a call or why electric and luxury cars have engine noises played through speakers. It's a familiar medium for all and a call back to those who understand that.
One of my favorite songs/covers right now
I've been listening to it for 20 years and always come back for more.
Vengo desde Sonic 3 y lo vi por Cinerama de Miraflores en Lima, Perú.
Amo la película
Anyone else get a little teary-eyed playing this?
I got no reason to cry lol but this song pulls it from me
90's punk, gotta love it
Gran Turismo 3... ahhh the memories
Im glad sonic movies is adding more fire musics god i love paramount!!!
My dad used to play this for my siblings and I , listening to this on Father’s Day for you pops 🤙
Her: Hes probably cheating on me
Me:With the boys at 3 am 2:09
Lol 😆
Anyone out there still listening to this gem in 2020?
Yo
Right here bro
I play this for my dad when we’re going through old songs on fishing trips just like right now!
Love it.
Yep, just heard it on the radio today. Love this!!!!
Esperando a escucharla en la gran pantalla. Qué bien queda con Sonic.
Sonic 3 during the race 💙❤️💛
Was just blasting this song at work and it had my two 55+ y/o co-workers who are buttoned up mechanical engineers JUMPING 😂❤️
This song also came from Nickelodeon cartoon Rocket Power