nena

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl
• Insert

Nena (1983) is the first album by German Pop Rock band Nena and the second studio album of its singer, Gabriele "Nena" Kerner. The album was a great success in West Germany and the second single "99 Luftballons" – a fable of nuclear war brought about by a bunch of balloons in the sky being mistaken on radar for a pre-emptive missile attack- successfully reached #1 in the music charts in the U.S. and worldwide.

The first Nena album was released as part of the music genre called Neue Deutsche Welle, New German Wave movement in the German music. All five members of the band contributed to the songwriting. They were a unique group of musicians with a strong intuitive grasp of both classic Pop and Rock formulas. Nena insisted that she saw herself as a member of the band and not as their leader.

The album is still regarded as an unsurpassed classic of German Pop history, although most later Nena albums are not far behind in quality.

Track Listing:

Side A:

• KINO
• INDIANER
• VOLLMOND
• NUR GETRÄUMT
• TANZ AUF DEM VULKAN
• 99 LUFTBALLONS

Side B

• ZAUBERTRICK
• EINMAL IST KEINMAL
• LEUCHTTURM
• ICH BLEIB' IM BETT
• NOCH EINMAL
• SATELLITENSTADT