Scooter: C/D

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/

She Wants Revenge wish they could do a cover of a SOM track as brilliantly as this.

xpost.

I AM THE CAPTAIN
MY NAME IS DAVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eINgmy4dUOA

this has got to be their 10th "I'll rave till I'm dead" song, gotta admire the dedication

The English Wikipedia entry for HP Baxxter is beautifully vandalized.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOk0kpTkRys

just in time for single of the year

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!!