Scooter: C/D

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!

Hardly a new single though - this charted in 2009!

welp, the inevitable Scooter dubstep album has arrived.

and it's good! (and really there isn't even that much dubstep on it. but still, these guys are ridiculous)

One of the singles is based around The Charlatans "The Only One I Know", AMAZING

their choice of songs to cover or rip off is always very bizarre.

Does the frontman say "Yeah" on this record a lot?

THIS ONE IS FOR THE MASSES

just once i'd like to hear him say THIS ONE IS FOR A SMALL CLIQUE OF PEOPLE I KNOW PERSONALLY

Does the frontman say "Yeah" on this record a lot?

why has no one replied to this question by sayins "Yeah"

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

Best line on the new album: "When I step on the mic there's a kind of expression/other MC's get clinical depression"

:D

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

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".

The new album includes what everyone has been waiting for - all (?) 46 singles into one megamix!

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.

the latest single interpolates Lithium by Nirvana too btw.

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

OTM

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.

RESPECT TO THE EUROPEAN POSSE

<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.

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

TOGETHER! WHERE! ARE! YOOuuuoUUUuuUUuuuuuuuUUuu!?

Scooter is beyond parody.

YEEEEEEAAAAHHHH

IT'S NICE TO BE IMPORTANT IT'S MORE IMPORTANT TO BE NICE!!!!!

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

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

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 career
3. "Overdose" which is like Scooter on shrooms, way beyond even that time they did a jumpstyle version of the Tetris theme
4. The line "Let's do it like a club sandwich"...no idea why I laughed at this
5. 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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/MutedPosthorn.png

http://www.logotypes101.com/files/855/de6f8dd4671846a36a10e9e9d6fdf74a/lrg_Scooter.gif

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"

I like that HP Baxxter is now 53 years old, and still doing this.

Disc 2: Selected rave classics reworked by Scooter

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.

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.

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

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.

like that HP Baxxter is now 53 years old, and still doing this.

Disc 2: Selected rave classics reworked by Scooter

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?

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.

I think the word you were looking for is "improving"

Of course I mean butchering in the very best way.

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.

scootah

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 ?

only after putting on my raving shoes

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.

the "Marian (Version)" cover alone makes things .. interesting.

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 lists
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/MalcolmXWing/the-ultimate-guide-to-every-scooter-album/