Scooter: C/D

The above story is the most read on the bbc site just now

Incidentally, the Greatest Hits CD that comes bundled has the Acardipane & Rules remix of "Maria (I Like It Loud)", not the original, but it should be pointed out that this makes it even better if anything, since it takes the formula of banging + shouty bloke and adds additional banging and an additional shouty bloke. It's what equations were made for.

SCOOTER! Back in the house! YEAH!
Get off your shirts and wait for further instructions
Starting the "microphone business" I've got one message for the next decade.
Move Your Ass!

All right posse!
Keep it up!
Hardcore!!!

Come on!
Keep it up!
MOVE YOUR ASS!
MOVE YOUR ASS!
MOVE YOUR ASS!
MOVE YOUR ASS!
Ravers unite!!!
Maximum respect to the whole European posse! Make some noise!!!
Ravers of the Universe...you, keep the spirit alive!
Come on! Come on!...Hardcore!!!
Sing it...Yeah-ay! Yeah-ay! Yeah-ay! Yeah-ay!!
Alright, come on po-sse, you've gotta keep it up!
Come on, party, you've gotta move!
Alright, come on po-sse, you've gotta keep it up!
Come on, party...Move Your Ass!
MOVE YOUR ASS!
MOVE YOUR ASS!
MOVE YOUR ASS!
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Posse!! You keep the spirit alive!
Come on!!!
Thank you!

You still feel alright?!!
You want some more?!!!
Come on!!!
Kickin' it, Kickin' it, Kickin' it YEAH!
Move You ASS!!
Yeaaaaaah!!
Rave nation! Stay tuned...!

the formula of banging + shouty bloke and adds additional banging and an additional shouty bloke.

Which makes it all the more regrettable that the Fatman Scoop/Scooter collaboration "Behind The Cow" is not on it.

This is amaaazing. Restored my faith in the UK charts, &c&c&c. Some more FUN FACTS from the Wikipedia article:

° "The Definition" takes its 'lyrics' directly from the wikipedia article on jumping, set to the music of Boccherini's Menuet and Trio, from his String Quartet in E. This same piece of music is used on the final track "The Greatest Difficulty".

° "Whistling Dave" samples the Russian folk song "Korobeiniki", known as the theme music from the video game Tetris, specifically the Nintendo Game Boy version.

° Through the track 'And No Matches', H.P. Baxxter imposes a question: "Three men in a boat, with four cigarettes, and no matches. How do they manage to smoke?". The question was first imposed by The Riddler (a character in Batman) in episode 1-01.

The answer: They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

!!!!

holy sweet jesus, Maryann actually is a Sisters of Mercy cover????

yes it is! SIBERIA!

Ohmigod I didn't for a second think it would be THAT Neverending Story.

Oh yes. And there's some Status Quo thrown in at the end ("Jump Your Rock" is based on "Whatever You Want") as a bonus!

Is this the greatest pop album ever?

Ohmigod I didn't for a second think it would be THAT Neverending Story.

This may be the best song on the album.

Listening to it on my way to work, I was thinking what great marching music it makes.

Stupid download not working right ;_;

Anyone hear the new single "Sound Above My Hair" yet? You have to hear the single version, not the one that ended up on the album. It seems like most (all?) of their albums get somewhat rushed so when they release the singles/videos they wind up mixing it up and doing stuff and the results usually turn out much better. Anyway this single mix is totally massive, IMO it ranks up there with "I'm Raving" and "How Much is the Fish?"

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned yet that Scooter are basically just a long-running version of what the KLF were trying to do with their White Room album. Scooter themselves drop like a zillion KLF references per album and they are really playing the role to perfection. I read a few interviews with H.P. and they are great...he basically thinks that everyone who rags on Scooter is secretly a fan, and said that they make like $10,000 per week (or more)...awesome life

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

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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