{"id":3840,"date":"2007-03-09T11:07:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T19:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/03\/09\/3840.html"},"modified":"2007-03-09T11:07:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T19:07:47","slug":"80s-hits-in-itunes-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/03\/09\/80s-hits-in-itunes-store\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;80s hits in iTunes Store"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A while back, I mentioned that the famous video of \"<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewVideo?id=155787353&s=143441\">Take on Me<\/a>\" (possibly the first music video I ever saw, and certainly one of my favorites) had been briefly available at the iTunes Store, but had then been taken down.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see by following the link above, it's now back.  Catchy tune, cute guys, falling into the world of a comic book--what more could you want in an '80s pop video?<\/p>\n<p>I also just discovered that another long-awaited piece has finally shown up at the iTunes Store. For some time now, they've had Nena's 2003 album <cite>20 Jahre<\/cite>, featuring modern performances of a bunch of her songs.  The presence of this album duped a lot of people into buying the version of \"99 Luftballons\" (the catchiest song about global nuclear war that I know of) that it includes.  But now, finally, you can get the real thing: the original \"<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=217274461&s=143441&i=217276252\">99 Luftballons<\/a>\" (German) and \"<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=217274461&s=143441&i=217274471\">99 Red Balloons<\/a>\" (English), along with the rest of the <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=217274461&s=143441\">99 Luftballons<\/a><\/cite> album.  Pop nostalgia at its finest.  Very satisfying to finally have this.  I ended up buying the whole album, 'cause there are a bunch of other kinda catchy light '80s pop tunes on it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of German pop songs that made it big in America, the iTunes Store has had the German version of Peter Schilling's \"<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=92956855&s=143441\">Major Tom<\/a>\" for some time, but sadly still hasn't acquired the English version.  There's a '94 EP with various remixes, but that's not the same.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to find it remarkable how much '80s pop culture got into my head, given how hard I tried to avoid it at the time.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I mentioned that the famous video of &#8220;Take on Me&#8221; (possibly the first music video I ever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}