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