Scooter: C/D

Fixed.

And they're still doing it, check out "Apache Rocks The Bottom" from last year (or possibly this one).

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.

Ha!

A victory for common sense.

not as wtf as their, er, version of Marian (Version) on said album

I hope this doesn't mean happy hardcore is coming back. It was bad enough here in the early 90s!

Scooter's never really been happy hardcore, have they? (Despite having an album called Our Happy Hardcore.) More like arena rave or pop trance.

While not a million miles from Happy Hardcore, their stuff is a good 20 BPM too slow.

Is that why they were never very big here in the 90s whilst massive in mainland europe?

I think German trance and rave in general weren't as big in the UK as in mainland Europe in the 90s.

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?

Although, most of this stuff too is 20BPM slower than happy hardcore, so maybe the general rule applies to them too?

Dunno, it depends. Y'all about five years behind us. Maybe some little kids liked it.

"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)

??

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...

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?

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

I assume Scooters success has nothing to do with Nu-Rave? I would've thought that would have an entirely different audience.

So, why has this happened?

The prospect of the return to Tory rule like in the early 90s?

The country is going to the dogs!

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.

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 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.

I dunno what sort of music Scooter does nowadays though, so maybe they're closer to happy harcore now, as Joris suggests.

scooter were huge in ireland for a couple of years there.

but then, our eurovision entry is a turkey puppet this year.

I've forgotten what the UK one is.

Andy Abraham, whose dancing isn't that many degrees removed from the turkey's.

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...

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.

Hold on, I thought N Trance were British, did you mean Dance 2 Trance?

(x-post)

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.

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?

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."

I just checked the price, and it does seem to be compaitively inexpensive.

It's like Frampton Comes Alive all over again...

x post they were british, I just meant that the style had its adherents in the UK...

It's like NEW POP WILL ALWAYS COME THROUGH :-)))))

Anyway Scooter are canonical enough now to have other people cover them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMOGZ-BS9Bs

Although easier to hear the track on this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AON2R-HCQ3E&feature=related

x post they were british, I just meant that the style had its adherents in the UK...

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.

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.

Man I'm excited about hearing this.

'The Question Is...' is great

"Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get - RIGHT?”

Now officially the greatest lyric ever.

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

They're livestreaming a gig right now on Youtube, in case anyone's missed it.

turned it on in time for "How Much Is The Fish?", thanks for the tip

Never seen them live before, H.P. Baxxter is in pretty good shape for a 53 year old.

I was hoping they would finish with Move Your Ass, and they did! :)

lmao just realized they got a new guy in the band

sad lols at the pumped in crowd noise :/

he has no idea how to talk to a crowd of zero

lmao just realized they got a new guy in the band

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... :)

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

H.P. Baxxter is in pretty good shape for a 53 year old.

56 even!

Oh, Wikipedia and Discogs have conflicting information on his birth year.

holy shit, the cover art for their next album:

https://images.genius.com/f10910e33ce5d98414594828ea6bbb28.1000x1000x1.jpg

haha.
but of course.
love it.

I mean I have to buy that just to put it on the wall right

you can zoom in on it here, truly a work of art

https://e.snmc.io/i/fullres/w/af511e89e49cd14ef2c91baee6ea72f5/8946286

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

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.

And as one commentator put it, every Scooter song denigrates two languages at the same time.

Dude’s near 60, can’t keep up with the kids forever.

it’s no more important to be nice apparently

‘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

*life

new album is hilarious as usual

WHEN NOTHING GOES RIGHT!! GO LEFT!!

MOST STUFF! YOU HEAR IN A NIGHTCLUB! SOUNDS LIKE A COW! FALLING IN A BATHTUB!!