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!
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― 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha!
― chap, Sunday, 11 May 2008 19:29 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
So, why has this happened?
― Mark G, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:26 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
The country is going to the dogs!
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 12 May 2008 00:09 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
I've forgotten what the UK one is.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 May 2008 09:46 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
Oh, Wikipedia and Discogs have conflicting information on his birth year.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 08:27 (four 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 (three years ago) link
haha.but of course.love it.
― mark e, Friday, 9 April 2021 19:51 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
Dude’s near 60, can’t keep up with the kids forever.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 22:28 (three years ago) link
it’s no more important to be nice apparently
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:10 (three 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 (two months ago) link
WHEN NOTHING GOES RIGHT!! GO LEFT!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:54 (two months ago) link
MOST STUFF! YOU HEAR IN A NIGHTCLUB! SOUNDS LIKE A COW! FALLING IN A BATHTUB!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:57 (two months ago) link