― Wooden, Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave k, Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden, Monday, 26 July 2004 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Basically, I would descibe Scooter as Euro-Trance music that has been defaced with:
a) beautifully inept ESL rapping (the line "Alright, everybody! Tie your shoes!" from "Maria (I Like It Loud)" makes me grin like the Kool-Aid man every time I hear it.)
&
b) Chipmunk-voiced choruses that are usually cribbed from some other song (see "The Logical Song" mentioned by Wooden).
Scooter are HUGE, like stadium tour huge, in Europe - they even have a spoof / tribute band, called, naturally, Moped.
Steal ANY one of their songs online - they will make you chuckle if nothing else.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 26 July 2004 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 26 July 2004 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Yet, I can't get enough of it. For that reason alone, CLASSIC.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 26 July 2004 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― lukey (Lukey G), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Monday, 26 July 2004 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of no fun (blueski), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
FOr example, the following lyrics from "Well Done, Peter"
ABFAHRT!!!Yeaaaah!LOUDER!!!... Yess!Abfahrt!!!Abfahrt!
Genius.!
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― scg, Monday, 26 July 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― abegrand, Monday, 26 July 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Always lived my life alone, Been searching for the place called home. I know that I've been cold as ice, Ignored the dreams, too many lies. Somewhere deep inside, Somewhere deep inside me, I found ... the child I used to beAnd I know that it's not too late Never too late...
3 AM!The painted cow ! Hiaaaaa!! You ain't stoppin` us now ! Wonderful human beings Yeah ! I am the Junglist souldier.
Come On! The rocket launcher stops ya. It's not a bird, it's not a plane It must be Dave who`s on the trainWanna wanna get'cha, gonna gonna get'chaTell them that I told yaYEAH!
Always lived my life alone, Been searching for the place called home. I know that I've been cold as ice,Ignored the dreams, too many lies.Somewhere deep inside, Somewhere deep inside me, I found ... the child I used to beAnd I know that it's not too late Never too late...
Allright Are you ready ? It's not a game. I chant so much, I turn you insane. Wanna wanna get'cha, gonna gonna get'cha Messing up the areaYEAH!
Come On !I am the freshman Messing up the jam ! Turning up the stereo Join the caravan
Skippy, the rain won`t come ! Somewhere deep inside, Somewhere deep inside me, I found ... the child I used to be And I know that it's not too late Never too late...
― Bumfluff, Monday, 26 July 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
"It's not a bird, it's not a plane It must be Dave who`s on the train"
are just ludicrously thrilling when you hear them
― Bumfluff, Monday, 26 July 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bumfluff, Monday, 26 July 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link
What is ESSENTIAL is invisible to the EYE!
It's only with the HEART that you can see RIGHTLY!
YEAH!!!!!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAWW!!
RESPECT TO THE MAN IN THE ICECREAM VAN!
ihttp://www.scooter-planet.net/sp/images/exclusive_gallery/22.jpg
― scooter_fan_#1, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh man, these could be the greatest lyrics ever. Priceless.
― abegrand, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 06:05 (nineteen years ago) link
HIYA KYLIE!!
― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Can someone suggest a particular album? I've heard a few tracks and they are awe-inspiringly awful/GREBT!
LOLs X 100 at the pitch-shifted choruses...
― Grell (Grell), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Grell (Grell), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 2 November 2006 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Fixed.
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link
And they're still doing it, check out "Apache Rocks The Bottom" from last year (or possibly this one).
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7394927.stm
German techno group Scooter have knocked Madonna off the number one spot in the UK album chart.Jumping All Over the World, the group's first UK album since 2002, went straight in as a new entry.It is a surprising chart topper as the group have released only two singles in the UK over the past five years and both failed to break the Top 40.
Jumping All Over the World, the group's first UK album since 2002, went straight in as a new entry.
It is a surprising chart topper as the group have released only two singles in the UK over the past five years and both failed to break the Top 40.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 11 May 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha!
― chap, Sunday, 11 May 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
A victory for common sense.
not as wtf as their, er, version of Marian (Version) on said album
― zappi, Sunday, 11 May 2008 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I hope this doesn't mean happy hardcore is coming back. It was bad enough here in the early 90s!
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 11 May 2008 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Scooter's never really been happy hardcore, have they? (Despite having an album called Our Happy Hardcore.) More like arena rave or pop trance.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 11 May 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
While not a million miles from Happy Hardcore, their stuff is a good 20 BPM too slow.
― chap, Sunday, 11 May 2008 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Is that why they were never very big here in the 90s whilst massive in mainland europe?
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 11 May 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I think German trance and rave in general weren't as big in the UK as in mainland Europe in the 90s.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 11 May 2008 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Or did people like Marusha, Westbam, Cosmic Baby, DJ Tom & Norman, RMB, DJ Dick, Hardsequencer, Gary D, Mo-Do, etc have many hits over there?
― Tuomas, Sunday, 11 May 2008 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Although, most of this stuff too is 20BPM slower than happy hardcore, so maybe the general rule applies to them too?
― Tuomas, Sunday, 11 May 2008 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Dunno, it depends. Y'all about five years behind us. Maybe some little kids liked it.
― Bodrick III, Sunday, 11 May 2008 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
"version of Marian (Version) on said album"
SRSLY? hang on how many of the tracks ARE covers?
4. Enola Gay 5. Neverending Story 7. Cambodia 8. I`m Lonely 10. Marian (Version)
??
― Alan, Sunday, 11 May 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
the others are heavily sampled, not covers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_All_Over_the_World
"Jumping All Over The World" samples the song "A Glass Of Champagne" by the pop group Sailor"
WHY DID I NOT GET THIS FOR MYSELF WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE THE OTHER DAY. gah. right. amazon then...
― Alan, Sunday, 11 May 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Tuomas, happy hardcore and gabba was massively popular in Scotland. Easily the biggest music for kids under 21 in the 90s. I believe not so in the rest of the uk. The scottish scene was apparently the equivalent of Holland(Rotterdam anyway). Funny thing was, when ultrasonic or TTF got in the charts , all the ravers i knew decried them for selling out!
I knew loads of people who were into it, hence my hatred of it with it BEING RAMMED DOWN MY THROAT. They all went to The Rezurrection at Ingliston(edinburgh) which was a massive influence on what the happy hardcore kids(esp male, girls usually preferred house supposedly) listened to. If someone dj'd there or had a record played the kids bought it. Impulse in Hamilton sold shitloads of dj mix tapes and the like, infact the 12"s prob kept their business going. When The Rez went bankrupt I think the scene went underground and wasnt as popular as it was and oasis came along and most of my mates who liked that stuff jumped on the oasis bandwagon.
Now maybe the kids of the original happy hardcore fans are now going to listen to the music that their parents like and it makes a comeback! *Shudder*
It never went away that much now i think about it, wasnt it just relabelled something?
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 11 May 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
There was a fairly large HH scene in London in the mid-late nineties when I was coming to the end of my teens. I went to a couple of raves.
My mate Justin recently had a no 1 hit on the Happy hardcore chart with Truffle Shuffle
― chap, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I assume Scooters success has nothing to do with Nu-Rave? I would've thought that would have an entirely different audience.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
So, why has this happened?
― Mark G, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
The prospect of the return to Tory rule like in the early 90s?
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
The country is going to the dogs!
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 12 May 2008 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
judging from the video for The Question Is What Is The Question they seemed to have gone jumpstyle (slightly slower version of gabber/hardcore that came with its own slightly linedance-y dancemoves; massively popular with dutch provincial teens two? three? years ago). The title of the album is kind of a giveaway too.
― Joris Stereo, Monday, 12 May 2008 08:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I know this, but my point was that Scooter and the sort of 90s German rave music they were the most populist example of differed from happy hardcore (for example, in having a lower BPM and being closer to trance), and as far as I know these acts were never that popular in the UK.
― Tuomas, Monday, 12 May 2008 09:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I dunno what sort of music Scooter does nowadays though, so maybe they're closer to happy harcore now, as Joris suggests.
― Tuomas, Monday, 12 May 2008 09:19 (fifteen years ago) link
scooter were huge in ireland for a couple of years there.
but then, our eurovision entry is a turkey puppet this year.
― darraghmac, Monday, 12 May 2008 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I've forgotten what the UK one is.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 May 2008 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Andy Abraham, whose dancing isn't that many degrees removed from the turkey's.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link
90s German rave music they were the most populist example of differed from happy hardcore (for example, in having a lower BPM and being closer to trance), and as far as I know these acts were never that popular in the UK.
Basically true but there were other equivalent acts like N Trance who were huge even if Marusha didn't cross over...
― J@cob, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:12 (fifteen years ago) link
It's amazing how Scooter's new album with FREE BONUS CD OF 20 GREATEST HITS went straight to number one.
It's even more amazing that I revived another thread about Scooter on Friday to ask whether anyone had heard the new album and whether it was any good and nobody responded to it.
But I went out and bought it anyway and it is marvellous and fantastic and anyone who doesn't like it is a boring bastard who should be nailed to Alan Titchmarsh for the remainder of time.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Hold on, I thought N Trance were British, did you mean Dance 2 Trance?
(x-post)
― Tuomas, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:17 (fifteen years ago) link
23 Scooter Move Your Ass Oct 1995 18 Scooter Back In The UK Feb 1996 Notes 33 Scooter Rebel Yell May 1996 33 Scooter I'm Raving Oct 1996 2 Scooter The Logical Song Jun 2002 Notes 4 Scooter Nessaja Sep 2002 15 Scooter Posse (I Need You On The Floor) Dec 2002 12 Scooter Weekend Apr 2003 16 Scooter The Night Jul 2003 16 Scooter vs Acardipane & Rules Maria (I Like It Loud) Oct 2003
Hmm, and these are the Greatest Hits? Damn CD set must be damn cheap then.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:22 (fifteen years ago) link
disc 2 1. Apache Rocks The Bottom 2. One (Always Hardcore) 3. Shake That 4. Jigga Jigga 5. Maria (I Like It Loud) 6. Night 7. Weekend 8. Nessaja 9. Logical Song 10. Posse (I Need You On The Floor) 11. Faster Harder Scooter 12. How Much Is The Fish 13. Fire 14. I'm Raving 15. Rebel Yell 16. Back In The UK 17. Endless Summer 18. Friends 19. Move Your Ass 20. Hyper Hyper
So these are the actual greatest hits on the extr... WHOA! Someone run track 12 by me?
― Mark G, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
It's even better than you think.
Obligatory criminally omitted track: "Fuck The Millennium" which isn't the K2 one but does go into "Wheels Cha Cha" halfway through and ends with Whistling Dave declaiming "Gothic...does not...EXIST...thankyou."
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I just checked the price, and it does seem to be compaitively inexpensive.
It's like Frampton Comes Alive all over again...
― Mark G, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:36 (fifteen years ago) link
x post they were british, I just meant that the style had its adherents in the UK...
― J@cob, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link
It's like NEW POP WILL ALWAYS COME THROUGH :-)))))
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway Scooter are canonical enough now to have other people cover them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMOGZ-BS9Bs
― J@cob, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Although easier to hear the track on this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AON2R-HCQ3E&feature=related
― J@cob, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Weren't N Trance closer to Eurodance than the sort of rave music made by Westbam, Marusha, et al? I know the the two styles sometimes converged, but they were still different genres.
― Tuomas, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link
The closest British example of this sort of German sound I can think of were the aforementioned Ultra-Sonic, who were also an obvious influence on Scooter.
― Tuomas, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Man I'm excited about hearing this.
― Matt DC, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:53 (fifteen years ago) link
'The Question Is...' is great
― blueski, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:53 (fifteen years ago) link
"Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get - RIGHT?”
Now officially the greatest lyric ever.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Tuomas-
Mmmm but what about stuff like QFX: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAiwMAWXhdk
or Qtex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O-f01zW9Nk
Or even this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N26_GENjBGg
― J@cob, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
the biggest hit and closest thing to happy hardcore in the UK charts probably still Technohead 'I Wanna Be A Hippy'
― blueski, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
This thread reminded me of a poll I was supposed to do ages ago:
MOVE YOUR ASS POLL!!
― Tuomas, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost: Not Baby D?
― J@cob, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Happy Hardcore has always been big in West Central Scotland (see also "Scotland The Brave" bagpipes on "I'm Raving").
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Not Baby D?
if 'So Pure' had been pounding 4/4 and 20bpm faster then maybe
― blueski, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
The power of scotland
I'm very proud to own this on vinyl. It's probably the most scottish thing about me.
― J@cob, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Im Raving is to the tune of Sailing isn't it? if so I remember that one.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
No - "I'm Raving" is along the same lines as "Raving I'm Raving" by Shut Up And Dance and uses the same "Walking In Memphis" tune and nearly the same lyrical changes but then goes into bagpipe territory. I guess by this time Marc Cohn's lawyers just threw their hands in the air and let it pass.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Ahh ok i remember it now and i was just typing out asking who used the marc cohn sample. So who did the one that was the tune of Sailing? I remember hearing that in Woolworths in Hamilton.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Slipstream
― blueski, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
or Slipstreem as they preferred to spell it
― blueski, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I <3 Scooter
― hyggeligt, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I dont remember that name x-post
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 12 May 2008 12:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7396111.stm
German techno pop group Scooter have caused a shock by knocking Madonna off the top of the UK album chart after just one week, despite little mainstream exposure.It is the biggest coup yet for Blackburn-based independent record label All Around the World, who say they are catering for a thriving suburban club scene.Peering down from the summit of the album chart last week, Madonna probably did not think she had any reason to fear a trio peddling steroid-enhanced dance beats, pumped-up cover versions and high-octane trance melodies.Scooter, led by 42-year-old blond frontman HP Baxxter, may claim to be the most successful singles act in German chart history, and may have had a number of UK hits.But the last of those was five years ago, and their latest single The Question Is What Is The Question only reached number 49 last month.Their new material has had next to no radio airplay, and the album was not reviewed in the national press.Yet it has sold 33,500 copies in its first week - 4,000 more than Madonna's Hard Candy."Basically, there's a lot of people like them," according to All Around the World director Matt Cadman. "Scooter have been a massive band in Europe for a long time."The unashamedly upbeat album Jumping All Over the World includes rave reworkings of several familiar tunes, including OMD's Enola Gay and Limahl's Never Ending Story.Many fans will have been attracted by a bonus disc featuring the band's greatest hits, such as the 2002 number two single The Logical Song - a cover of the Supertramp track - and six further top 20 tracks.Scooter have also just come off a UK arena tour, co-headlining with labelmates Cascada."They went down absolutely fantastically and 50,000 people saw them on tour," Mr Cadman says.Their music has found airplay on TV stations like The Box and Flaunt - as well as All Around the World's own Clubland TV channel. As soon as you get inside the M25, it's like commercial dance music doesn't exist - and 95% of the national media is controlled from within the M25 Matt Cadman All Around the World"That's more of our medium than radio or press," Mr Cadman says. "There's no magazine that caters to the audience that we play to."A TV advertising offensive, with spots during breaks in "teen based" shows like Hollyoaks and The Simpsons, pushed them ahead of the queen of pop, Mr Cadman believes.Industry bible Music Week put Scooter's chart coup down to the TV ads, the greatest hits disc and a quiet week for other releases. It was the second lowest weekly sales so far this decade, the magazine reported.But that will not dampen the celebrations for All Around the World, who are also responsible for the hugely successful Clubland, Dancemania and Floorfillers compilation series.Cascada's album Everytime We Touch reached number two in the UK in 2007, while the label has also enjoyed hit singles with Ultrabeat, T2, N-Trance, Flip & Fill and DJ Casper.Cascada Cascada have also enjoyed success on the All Around the World label"Commercial dance is a very overlooked genre," Mr Cadman says. "It's quite sad really. The Clubland TV channel is doing fantastically well, it's one of the biggest music channels on Sky."It's all upbeat commercial dance, and I think a lot of people want that, and not necessarily when they're in a club."Their customers are the tens of thousands of people who can be found at nightclubs in towns and suburbs every weekend, he says."The clubs that hit the headlines tend to be the named clubs - everyone knows of Cream and Gatecrasher, but what people don't tend to talk about is the club on every street corner."It might be a Ritzy or Ikon or Oceana. There are so many of these clubs and they're in every suburban centre. If you take Manchester, it might be the outlying areas - Oldham, Bolton, Stockport. We've heard it called chav music, council house music Matt Cadman"All the town centres tend to be quite cool and built for young executives, who are probably a little bit older, and then in the outside areas you get more kids from 17 to 24 going to clubs, and they tend to be the ones where we do particularly well."Where we tend not to do particularly well is within the M25. As soon as you get inside the M25, it's like commercial dance music doesn't exist."And 95% of the national media is controlled from within the M25 so I think that's why they don't see it. They just literally don't get it."When they hear something like a Scooter or Cascada, they'll think it's rubbish. We've heard it called chav music, council house music, kiddie music - every disparaging term."And that's just not how we see it. We love it, we think it's fantastic. And so it's proved - it's not like we're listening on our own. Somebody's wrong somewhere down the line."
It is the biggest coup yet for Blackburn-based independent record label All Around the World, who say they are catering for a thriving suburban club scene.
Peering down from the summit of the album chart last week, Madonna probably did not think she had any reason to fear a trio peddling steroid-enhanced dance beats, pumped-up cover versions and high-octane trance melodies.
Scooter, led by 42-year-old blond frontman HP Baxxter, may claim to be the most successful singles act in German chart history, and may have had a number of UK hits.
But the last of those was five years ago, and their latest single The Question Is What Is The Question only reached number 49 last month.
Their new material has had next to no radio airplay, and the album was not reviewed in the national press.
Yet it has sold 33,500 copies in its first week - 4,000 more than Madonna's Hard Candy.
"Basically, there's a lot of people like them," according to All Around the World director Matt Cadman. "Scooter have been a massive band in Europe for a long time."
The unashamedly upbeat album Jumping All Over the World includes rave reworkings of several familiar tunes, including OMD's Enola Gay and Limahl's Never Ending Story.
Many fans will have been attracted by a bonus disc featuring the band's greatest hits, such as the 2002 number two single The Logical Song - a cover of the Supertramp track - and six further top 20 tracks.
Scooter have also just come off a UK arena tour, co-headlining with labelmates Cascada.
"They went down absolutely fantastically and 50,000 people saw them on tour," Mr Cadman says.
Their music has found airplay on TV stations like The Box and Flaunt - as well as All Around the World's own Clubland TV channel.
As soon as you get inside the M25, it's like commercial dance music doesn't exist - and 95% of the national media is controlled from within the M25 Matt Cadman All Around the World
"That's more of our medium than radio or press," Mr Cadman says. "There's no magazine that caters to the audience that we play to."
A TV advertising offensive, with spots during breaks in "teen based" shows like Hollyoaks and The Simpsons, pushed them ahead of the queen of pop, Mr Cadman believes.
Industry bible Music Week put Scooter's chart coup down to the TV ads, the greatest hits disc and a quiet week for other releases. It was the second lowest weekly sales so far this decade, the magazine reported.
But that will not dampen the celebrations for All Around the World, who are also responsible for the hugely successful Clubland, Dancemania and Floorfillers compilation series.
Cascada's album Everytime We Touch reached number two in the UK in 2007, while the label has also enjoyed hit singles with Ultrabeat, T2, N-Trance, Flip & Fill and DJ Casper.
Cascada Cascada have also enjoyed success on the All Around the World label
"Commercial dance is a very overlooked genre," Mr Cadman says. "It's quite sad really. The Clubland TV channel is doing fantastically well, it's one of the biggest music channels on Sky.
"It's all upbeat commercial dance, and I think a lot of people want that, and not necessarily when they're in a club."
Their customers are the tens of thousands of people who can be found at nightclubs in towns and suburbs every weekend, he says.
"The clubs that hit the headlines tend to be the named clubs - everyone knows of Cream and Gatecrasher, but what people don't tend to talk about is the club on every street corner.
"It might be a Ritzy or Ikon or Oceana. There are so many of these clubs and they're in every suburban centre. If you take Manchester, it might be the outlying areas - Oldham, Bolton, Stockport.
We've heard it called chav music, council house music Matt Cadman
"All the town centres tend to be quite cool and built for young executives, who are probably a little bit older, and then in the outside areas you get more kids from 17 to 24 going to clubs, and they tend to be the ones where we do particularly well.
"Where we tend not to do particularly well is within the M25. As soon as you get inside the M25, it's like commercial dance music doesn't exist.
"And 95% of the national media is controlled from within the M25 so I think that's why they don't see it. They just literally don't get it.
"When they hear something like a Scooter or Cascada, they'll think it's rubbish. We've heard it called chav music, council house music, kiddie music - every disparaging term.
"And that's just not how we see it. We love it, we think it's fantastic. And so it's proved - it's not like we're listening on our own. Somebody's wrong somewhere down the line."
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 12 May 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
The above story is the most read on the bbc site just now
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 12 May 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Incidentally, the Greatest Hits CD that comes bundled has the Acardipane & Rules remix of "Maria (I Like It Loud)", not the original, but it should be pointed out that this makes it even better if anything, since it takes the formula of banging + shouty bloke and adds additional banging and an additional shouty bloke. It's what equations were made for.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 12 May 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
SCOOTER! Back in the house! YEAH! Get off your shirts and wait for further instructions Starting the "microphone business" I've got one message for the next decade. Move Your Ass!
All right posse! Keep it up! Hardcore!!!
Come on! Keep it up! MOVE YOUR ASS! MOVE YOUR ASS! MOVE YOUR ASS! MOVE YOUR ASS! Ravers unite!!! Maximum respect to the whole European posse! Make some noise!!! Ravers of the Universe...you, keep the spirit alive! Come on! Come on!...Hardcore!!! Sing it...Yeah-ay! Yeah-ay! Yeah-ay! Yeah-ay!! Alright, come on po-sse, you've gotta keep it up! Come on, party, you've gotta move! Alright, come on po-sse, you've gotta keep it up! Come on, party...Move Your Ass! MOVE YOUR ASS! MOVE YOUR ASS! MOVE YOUR ASS! It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. Posse!! You keep the spirit alive! Come on!!! Thank you!
You still feel alright?!! You want some more?!!! Come on!!! Kickin' it, Kickin' it, Kickin' it YEAH! Move You ASS!! Yeaaaaaah!! Rave nation! Stay tuned...!
― Bodrick III, Monday, 12 May 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
the formula of banging + shouty bloke and adds additional banging and an additional shouty bloke.
Which makes it all the more regrettable that the Fatman Scoop/Scooter collaboration "Behind The Cow" is not on it.
― Siegbran, Monday, 12 May 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
This is amaaazing. Restored my faith in the UK charts, &c&c&c. Some more FUN FACTS from the Wikipedia article:
° "The Definition" takes its 'lyrics' directly from the wikipedia article on jumping, set to the music of Boccherini's Menuet and Trio, from his String Quartet in E. This same piece of music is used on the final track "The Greatest Difficulty".
° "Whistling Dave" samples the Russian folk song "Korobeiniki", known as the theme music from the video game Tetris, specifically the Nintendo Game Boy version.
° Through the track 'And No Matches', H.P. Baxxter imposes a question: "Three men in a boat, with four cigarettes, and no matches. How do they manage to smoke?". The question was first imposed by The Riddler (a character in Batman) in episode 1-01.
The answer: They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.
!!!!
― etc, Monday, 12 May 2008 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
holy sweet jesus, Maryann actually is a Sisters of Mercy cover????
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
yes it is! SIBERIA!
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Ohmigod I didn't for a second think it would be THAT Neverending Story.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yes. And there's some Status Quo thrown in at the end ("Jump Your Rock" is based on "Whatever You Want") as a bonus!
Is this the greatest pop album ever?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
This may be the best song on the album.
― rener, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Listening to it on my way to work, I was thinking what great marching music it makes.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Stupid download not working right ;_;
― hyggeligt, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone hear the new single "Sound Above My Hair" yet? You have to hear the single version, not the one that ended up on the album. It seems like most (all?) of their albums get somewhat rushed so when they release the singles/videos they wind up mixing it up and doing stuff and the results usually turn out much better. Anyway this single mix is totally massive, IMO it ranks up there with "I'm Raving" and "How Much is the Fish?"
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned yet that Scooter are basically just a long-running version of what the KLF were trying to do with their White Room album. Scooter themselves drop like a zillion KLF references per album and they are really playing the role to perfection. I read a few interviews with H.P. and they are great...he basically thinks that everyone who rags on Scooter is secretly a fan, and said that they make like $10,000 per week (or more)...awesome life
― frogbs, Friday, 4 February 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah "Sound Above My Hair" does have one of my all-time favorite Scooter moments now, in the bridge (or something) where H.P. shouts out "Together...where...are....YOU!!" but the word "you" is so horribly mangled by the auto-tune that it hits like 7 notes...fucking brilliant!
― frogbs, Friday, 4 February 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Hardly a new single though - this charted in 2009!
― Siegbran, Saturday, 5 February 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
welp, the inevitable Scooter dubstep album has arrived.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
and it's good! (and really there isn't even that much dubstep on it. but still, these guys are ridiculous)
― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
One of the singles is based around The Charlatans "The Only One I Know", AMAZING
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Friday, 21 October 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
their choice of songs to cover or rip off is always very bizarre.
Does the frontman say "Yeah" on this record a lot?
― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 21 October 2011 10:21 (twelve years ago) link
THIS ONE IS FOR THE MASSES
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 October 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
just once i'd like to hear him say THIS ONE IS FOR A SMALL CLIQUE OF PEOPLE I KNOW PERSONALLY
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 October 2011 12:01 (twelve years ago) link
why has no one replied to this question by sayins "Yeah"
― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 21 October 2011 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
oh no forgot question mark.
their choice of songs to cover or rip off is always very bizarre. Does the frontman say "Yeah" on this record a lot?
yeah I'm not anywhere near knowledgable enough but I'm guessing every track here samples quite heavily. I would think 2002 is the last time they put out a track that WASN'T a half-cover
btw "yeah" is probably his most used word
― frogbs, Friday, 21 October 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
Best line on the new album: "When I step on the mic there's a kind of expression/other MC's get clinical depression"
― frogbs, Friday, 21 October 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
:D
― Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 October 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
― Siegbran, Friday, 21 October 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, I hate looking that stuff up because I'm always disappointed afterwards. Like I don't really mind if they borrow stuff from popular tunes but they always seem to borrow from semi-obscure DJs and techno acts that have already borrowed from those tunes. I'd be interested to hear what exactly is original on any of their albums besides maybe "Soul Train".
― frogbs, Friday, 21 October 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
The new album includes what everyone has been waiting for - all (?) 46 singles into one megamix!
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
and it's amazing. i love how "Back in the U.K." has to be frantically sped up at the end to make the CD cut-off length.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
the latest single interpolates Lithium by Nirvana too btw.
― Darren Huckerby (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
jesus chris. this is maybe the best pop song of all time, and definitely one of the greatest videos. when the guest star comes in i almost cried with happiness. thank you Scooter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyOklpQq-nU
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 9 November 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
OTM
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 9 November 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
New album was out last week, along with a new single Army Of Hardcore. It is, wait for it, a cover of the old skool hardcore classic.
― Siegbran, Friday, 9 November 2012 08:41 (eleven years ago) link
RESPECT TO THE EUROPEAN POSSE
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 9 November 2012 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
<3 Scooter
Can't really argue with a band who have the good taste to interpolate the work of Earth & Fire, Grauzone and Matia Bazar into their songs.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 9 November 2012 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
does Fatman Scoop ever do anything other than "rock the jam, once again"?
anyway "Behind the Cow" is great because it's exactly the kind of thing a Scooter parody group would come up with. it's just so damn shameless. and I love it for that. but this song/video beats the hell out of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W47NAhGME4
― frogbs, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
TOGETHER! WHERE! ARE! YOOuuuoUUUuuUUuuuuuuuUUuu!?
― frogbs, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
Scooter is beyond parody.
― Siegbran, Friday, 9 November 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
YEEEEEEAAAAHHHH
IT'S NICE TO BE IMPORTANT IT'S MORE IMPORTANT TO BE NICE!!!!!
― hyggeligt, Friday, 9 November 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
The Sound Above my Hiar gets me weepy in the way the following Ultrabeat tracks do:
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HOLY FUCK THE VIDEO FOR DISCO LIGHTS IS SCARY
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Lul fucked dat up
minimix of the new album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJUR8NaNE9M
i'm a raver baby, so why don't you kill me
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 9 November 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
new album is...actually kind of decent? I laughed no less than FIVE times during this album (and I'm not even done with it yet!)
1. "I'm a raver baby, so why don't you kill me"2. The fact that they finally covered "What Time is Love?" despite the fact that they've essentially been "covering" it their whole damn career3. "Overdose" which is like Scooter on shrooms, way beyond even that time they did a jumpstyle version of the Tetris theme4. The line "Let's do it like a club sandwich"...no idea why I laughed at this5. The fucking dubstep "Black Betty", which turns from "no fucking way" to "what the fuck"
There's even a song ("I Wish I Was") where Scooter basically admits that they're not really relevant anymore! Don't get me wrong this album is still loud as balls (even at low volume) and kinda shitty but it's a hell of a lot better than The Big Mash Up, mostly because there's way less dubstep
― frogbs, Friday, 9 November 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/MutedPosthorn.png
http://www.logotypes101.com/files/855/de6f8dd4671846a36a10e9e9d6fdf74a/lrg_Scooter.gif
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 9 November 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
okay so I'm relistening to DubScooter and it's actually quite fun. I don't know what I was thinking when I said that "David Doesn't Eat" is hands-down the shittiest single that Scooter ever did. Why did I take this stuff so seriously
oh and there's a new album too, and it has the line "Michael Attacked by a Pigeon/Having Fun Is My Religion"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
I like that HP Baxxter is now 53 years old, and still doing this.
Disc 2: Selected rave classics reworked by Scooter
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
This particular tidbit from Wikipedia is making me smile:
The "C.I.F.L." abbreviation stands for "Copyright is for losers". You can hear the phrase by listening to the introduction in reverse.
I'm finding it amusing seeking out the reactions from the Scooter faithful to their jumpstyle and dubstep albums, basically calling them trash sellouts, as though they haven't been that since day one. Their later stuff is soooo much fun.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
I went to see Scooter live a few years ago and it was one of the greatest nights of my life. They came out to two ten-foot tall burning pillars and Baxter played a guitar (!) that shot fireworks (!!!). It was relentlessly shameless and brazenly tacky, right down to the Clubland babes who couldn't dance that were on stage the whole time. I mean, I saw Madonna a week later and even though I love Madonna with all my heart and soul, the sheer spectacle of Scooter in concert blew her out the water.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
the support act was a local radio DJ who played the Kevin & Perry film soundtrack but sped up by about 20%, the whole night made me wish I was really into taking speed
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
I believe that. Whenever I'm a few beers deep all I wanna do is listen to Scooter. I've got a killer playlist that's like 90 tracks long at this point. It's kind of a dream to see them live but I don't feel like they'll ever come to the USA again.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
like that HP Baxxter is now 53 years old, and still doing this.Disc 2: Selected rave classics reworked by ScooterFear and anticipation at the same time...
Fear and anticipation at the same time...
I'm listening to it now. Sounds a lot like the first Scooter album, but the tunes are better (probably because they're 100% covers instead of like, 75%). Is Scooter finally starting to take stock of their age?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
It's funny that Scooter have zero problems with completely butchering the works of Status Quo, Supertramp, Walking In Memphis etc but are super respectful when covering/remaking these old trance classics.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
I think the word you were looking for is "improving"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
Of course I mean butchering in the very best way.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
how on earth I have missed out on this for all these years.found a couple of cds in the cheap bins in the last year ( "jumping.." with extra cd of hits, and "under the radar ..") and damn.when you are trying to figure out what to listen to upon getting home from the pub after a few drinks, just put on Scooter and nothing else matters.
― mark e, Friday, 21 December 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
scootah
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 21 December 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
respect to the man in the ice cream van
feeling for the neighbours right now.wont be too much longer though.
does anyone actually listen to a Scooter album all the way through ?
― mark e, Friday, 21 December 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
only after putting on my raving shoes
― frogbs, Friday, 21 December 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
haha, indeed.my de facto groove is dark music, whereas Scooter are the total opposite.there is very little else in my archive that actually makes me smile and at times laugh out loud.makes for a nice, but totally bonkers, change.
― mark e, Friday, 21 December 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
the "Marian (Version)" cover alone makes things .. interesting.
― mark e, Friday, 21 December 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
as I mentioned upthread I do have a playlist of like 90+ Scooter tunes that I shuffle through a lot. their albums range from "mostly decent" to "really bad outside of a couple of tracks" but one week I forced myself to listen to every single one and they definitely have...I dunno...4 CDs worth of great material
they're also responsible for one of the all-time great RYM listshttps://rateyourmusic.com/list/MalcolmXWing/the-ultimate-guide-to-every-scooter-album/
― frogbs, Friday, 21 December 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
She Wants Revenge wish they could do a cover of a SOM track as brilliantly as this.
xpost.
― mark e, Friday, 21 December 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
I AM THE CAPTAINMY NAME IS DAVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eINgmy4dUOA
― Siegbran, Monday, 16 September 2019 11:11 (four years ago) link
this has got to be their 10th "I'll rave till I'm dead" song, gotta admire the dedication
― frogbs, Monday, 16 September 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
The English Wikipedia entry for HP Baxxter is beautifully vandalized.
― Siegbran, Monday, 16 September 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
its that time.weather is crap.news is full of crap.i need something to make me smile.and bloody hell, Scooter do that in excess.i put on a couple of tracks half an hour ago thinking that would be enough.more fool me, this stuff is audio crack.
― mark e, Saturday, 26 October 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOk0kpTkRys
just in time for single of the year
― frogbs, Monday, 9 December 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
They're livestreaming a gig right now on Youtube, in case anyone's missed it.
― Tuomas, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
turned it on in time for "How Much Is The Fish?", thanks for the tip
― frogbs, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
Never seen them live before, H.P. Baxxter is in pretty good shape for a 53 year old.
― Tuomas, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
I was hoping they would finish with Move Your Ass, and they did! :)
― Tuomas, Friday, 27 March 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
lmao just realized they got a new guy in the band
― frogbs, Friday, 27 March 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
sad lols at the pumped in crowd noise :/
― frogbs, Friday, 27 March 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
he has no idea how to talk to a crowd of zero
― frogbs, Friday, 27 March 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
It was only today that I found out that two of three original members have left the group and only H.P. is still left. Apparently one of the two left already in 1998, I guess I haven't been paying much attention to Scooter for a while... :)
― Tuomas, Friday, 27 March 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
that's what all the different chapters are - every time HP says something like "it's Chapter Number FOUR!!" that means someone left the band.
amazing that even with a crowd of 0 they still do the pyrotechnics and fake guitar playing...love these guys
― frogbs, Monday, 30 March 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
H.P. Baxxter is in pretty good shape for a 53 year old.
56 even!
― Siegbran, Monday, 30 March 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
Oh, Wikipedia and Discogs have conflicting information on his birth year.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 08:27 (three years ago) link
holy shit, the cover art for their next album:
https://images.genius.com/f10910e33ce5d98414594828ea6bbb28.1000x1000x1.jpg
― frogbs, Friday, 9 April 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
haha.but of course.love it.
― mark e, Friday, 9 April 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
I mean I have to buy that just to put it on the wall right
― frogbs, Saturday, 10 April 2021 03:19 (two years ago) link
you can zoom in on it here, truly a work of art
https://e.snmc.io/i/fullres/w/af511e89e49cd14ef2c91baee6ea72f5/8946286
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
well fuck, the album is actually pretty good. hate to say it but it's maybe a good thing that Rick quit the group, doing something other than chipmunking old 70's AOR hits and stealing New Wave melodies has actually made them quite interesting again
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
Having given Scooter the benefit of the doubt after their (at best) ambiguous Lockdown song, it's disappointing that HP Baxxter has just described attempts to make the German language more gender-equitable as a 'Verunglimpfung der Sprache' ('a denigration of the language') and 'Idiotensprache' ('idiot language')
https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/scooter-frontmann-positioniert-sich--h-p--baxxter---gendern-finde-ich-zum-kotzen---38374118
The language debate concerns issues such as the masculine plural noun being used in German for plurals referring to both genders. A call for all Bürger — (male) citizens — to follow coronavirus rules is also meant to apply to Germany’s Bürgerinnen (= female citizens). The best-known solution, the 'Gendersternchen', involves placing an asterisk before the feminine word ending to explicitly include women and non-binary Germans - Bürger*innen.
By sneering at this, Baxxter is aligning himself with some pretty dodgy conservative language groups, and also making people reconsider whether they let him off too lightly on the anti-lockdown song.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 07:54 (two years ago) link
And as one commentator put it, every Scooter song denigrates two languages at the same time.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 07:55 (two years ago) link
Dude’s near 60, can’t keep up with the kids forever.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
it’s no more important to be nice apparently
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:10 (two years ago) link
‘Live can be hard, but Scooter is harder.’
Rave Witches treads the fine line between terrible and magnificent as well as a lot of their old stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AsPwoOeFcU
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 11:05 (two years ago) link
*life
new album is hilarious as usual
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:50 (yesterday) link
WHEN NOTHING GOES RIGHT!! GO LEFT!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:54 (yesterday) link
MOST STUFF! YOU HEAR IN A NIGHTCLUB! SOUNDS LIKE A COW! FALLING IN A BATHTUB!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:57 (yesterday) link