History Music / Scooter

* RecursiveImport: The group originally released "Push The Beat For This Jam" as a 2 disc collection of singles and rare material spanning '98-'02, but after the success of "The Logical Song" as a single in the UK, they released an identically titled compilation of the majority of songs on that compilation, plus several earlier ones and the new track "Nessaja" - which made it career-spanning. In their native Germany, the group released a modified version of this compilation - "24 Carat Gold" - which included several tracks omitted from the UK version, albeit editing several of the tracks to fit them in.

* ClusterFBomb: The song "Fuck the Millennium" (NOT a cover of the [=2K=] (better known as TheKLF) song [[NamesTheSame of the same name]]).

* CoverVersion: Unique in that they don't usually do "straight-up" covers, but rather take a song and turn it into a "happy hardcore" song, with random shouting inserted. Some of their covers include "Rebel Yell" by Billy Idol and "The Logical Song" by {{Supertramp}}, though the latter only covers the chorus.

* DubNameChange: Sort of. In the UK, their cover of {{Supertramp}}'s "The Logical Song" is called The Logical Song, since the name "The Logical Song" is still copyrighted to {{Supertramp}} in the UK. In the US and everywhere else, it's called Ramp! (The Logical Song".

*** The lyrics of "Aiii Shot the DJ" are based on the speaking style of AliG, who was popular at the time.

* B-Side: The band has included a previously unreleased track as a B-Side on the majority of their German singles. The majority of them are instrumentals. Scooter's B-Sides are a special case because for many fans, they show the creativity of Rick J Jordan that is often overlooked with their singles. Some of them, in particular "Back In Time", "Bramfeld" and "Giant's Causeway" are more popular than some album tracks amongst fans.

* DubInducedPlothole: A variation that applied to people in the UK. The line "Scooter! Are you Ratty?" in The Logical Song is a reference to the band's pseudonym Ratty, under which they put out two singles "Sunrise (Here I Am)" and "Living On Video" in 2000, prior to Sheffield coming out. "Sunrise" was a big club hit - made more so by the fact DJs who wouldn't normally play Scooter were playing it. Whilst the band didn't officially indicate their involvement in the Ratty songs at the time, they were subject to a lot of speculation about it. Their connection was confirmed when they issued an alternate mix of Sunrise entitled Sunrise (Ratty's Inferno) on the B-Side of the Scooter single She's The Sun. Now this is relevant because none of the Ratty singles, nor many other Scooter releases were released in the UK, and as a result, everyone in the UK thought the line was "Scooter! Are you ready?".

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* DubInducedPlothole: A variation that applied to people in the UK. The line "Scooter! Are you Ratty?" in The Logical Song is a reference to the band's pseudonym Ratty, under which they put out two singles "Sunrise (Here I Am)" and "Living On Video" in 2000, prior to Sheffield coming out. "Sunrise" was a big club hit - made more so by the fact DJs who wouldn't normally play Scooter were playing it. Whilst the band didn't officially indicate their involvement in the Ratty songs at the time, they were subject to a lot of speculation about it. Their connection was confirmed when they issued an alternate mix of Sunrise entitled Sunrise (Ratty's Inferno) on the B-Side of the Scooter single She's The Sun. Now this is relevant because everyone in the UK thought the line was "Scooter! Are you ready?".

*** They also did a surprisingly good cover of Tuxedomoon's "No Tears", which they called "My Eyes Are Dry". It worked because they added a lot of new instrumental parts to it that fit with the mood of the song, and thankfully, HP used serious vocals and they didn't use any high pitched female vocals in it.

***** Jump That Rock! had the title (Whatever You Want) and the 'vs Status Quo' credit added when Status Quo showed their interest in it.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their first single Vallée De Larmes was recorded as a project. It is a soundalike instrumental cover of a song by Rene & Gaston from 1993. The style of music is basically French house and not techno at all Its B Side Cosmos was later used but with a spoken voiceover from HP. It was shortly after this single was released that the band were improvising a tune onstage, and HP began rapping spontaneously. This led to their song Hyper Hyper and the sound they would be known for. Apart from a couple of remixes included on compilations, they have entirely omitted "Vallée" from their discography.
** A stereotype of Scooter is that their singles have high pitched female vocals on the choruses. They did this on two songs in 1995 "Friends" and "Endless Summer", but stopped for several years. They tried it again on 2001's "Posse (I Need You On The Floor)" onwards and it became an unexpected hit, and very nearly every single afterwards has used them. So anybody checking out the band's albums from 1996-2000 will be surprised to hear the lack of high pitched vocals on them, instead HP using far more singing. It is no secret that this is regarded as the band's golden period amongst fans.
* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: Bagpipes are featured in the main melodies of "The Sound Above My Hair" (single version) and "I'm Your Pusher".

* InsistentTerminology: Each incarnation of the band is referred to as a 'chapter', not 'the period when [band member] was in the band'. So for instance, Ferris Bueller's tenure is 'The First Chapter', Axel Coon's is 'The Second Chapter', Jay Frog's 'The Third Chapter' and Michael Simon's 'The Fourth Chapter'.

* NoExportForYou: You mustn't take it for granted that the newest Scooter album is published very widely in your country (unless you're an Austrian, German or Swiss).
** Despite Scooter being well known in the UK, their albums don't get released there often. This could be to do with the different copyright laws surrounding the amount of songs they blatantly rip off, as they remain very popular (as evidenced by their album Jumping All Over the World getting to number 1 purely because they actually released it in the UK.)

* OfCorpseHesAlive: The music video for "Aiii Shot the DJ" features the band doing this to the killed DJ, parading him around parties and such, in a homage to ''Film/WeekendAtBernies''..
* OldShame: The band feel so strongly about their first single Vallée De Larmes that they don't count it as part of their discography, only including a couple of remixes on late 90s compilations.
** However this is changing - they're including the original and the remix on the 2012 reissue of And The Beat Goes On! Notably they're excluding Percapella version, and the original version of Cosmos, possibly to ensure fans can still make money off the original single.

** ''Soultrain'' in ''The Stadium Techno Experience''
** The legendary ''Trance-Atlantic'' in ''Mind the Gap''
** ''Mesmerized'' in ''Who's Got the Last Laugh Now''
** ''Love Is an Ocean'' in ''The Ultimate Aural Orgasm''
** ''Lighten Up the Sky'' in ''Jumping All Over the World''
** ''Metropolis'' in ''Under the Radar Over the Top''
** ''Mashuaia'' in ''The Big Mash Up''

** Rock influenced songs like Fire, Faster Harder Scooter or The Revolution
** Evocative ballads like Break It Up, Leave In Silence or Eyes Without A Face
*** New wave covers like Stripped and Second Skin, often played straight.

Frog was replaced with Michael Simon in 2007 (The Fourth Chapter). The band released the album The Ultimate Aural Orgasm with him. Their second album with him, Jumping All Over The World, was released in the UK thanks to their popularity on the Clubland tour, and surprised everyone by making Number 1 in the album charts, especially as it was the first time the band had released anything there since 2003. During this time, the band experience massive [[Flanderization]] , with a constant reliance on female sung choruses with high pitched vocals, often singing cover songs without crediting the original artists, and constantly using bouncy, repetitive rhythms called jumpstyle. This had proved to be successful for them occasionally in the past (Ramp! being the biggest example), but on Jumping All Over The World and beyond it was used on almost every song. There is a pretty obvious BrokenBase because of this. The band have released several more albums, incorporating dubstep and r&b influences and further alienating their old fans, HP even claiming he's in it for the money now.

Coon was replaced by Jay Frog at the time of Nessaja - both members worked on the song. The Third Chapter began. band released several more singles and the album The Stadium Techno Experience in the UK, with dwindling popularity.

Frog was replaced with Michael Simon in 2007 (The Fourth Chapter), and the band did not release an album or single there for several years, from 2002 until 2008's album Jumping All Over The World, which surprised everyone by making Number 1 in the album charts. During this time, the band experience massive Flanderization, with a constant reliance on female sung choruses with high pitched vocals, often singing cover songs without crediting the original artists, and constantly using bouncy, repetitive rhythms called jumpstyle. This had proved to be successful for them occasionally in the past (Ramp! being the biggest example), but on Jumping All Over The World and beyond it was used on almost every song. There is a pretty obvious BrokenBase because of this. The band have released several more albums, incorporating dubstep and r&b influences and further alienating their old fans, HP even claiming he's in it for the money now.

They also released a GreatestHitsAlbum, ''Push the Beat for This Jam (The Singles 98-02)'', also known as ''Push the Beat for This Jam (The Second Chapter)'', in 2002.

Scooter are an electronic music outfit who are a GuiltyPleasure or are SoBadItsGood or are SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome or are completely appalling, depending on who you ask. Their lyrics are an amusing [[WordSaladLyrics word salad]] and it's best not to dwell on what is being shouted by H.P Baxxter during the songs. Trying to decipher what he is shouting about will give you a brain hemorrhage.

They've been around for a surprisingly long time, starting out as a fun loving Happy Hardcore outfit in the early nineties, but have been moving towards hardstyle in the past few years.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their first single Vallée De Larmes was recorded as a project. It is entirely instrumental and the style of music is closer to house than techno. Its B Side Cosmos was later used but with a spoken voiceover from HP. It was shortly after this single was released that the band were improvising a tune onstage, and HP began rapping spontaneously. This led to their song Hyper Hyper and the sound they would be known for. Apart from a couple of remixes included on compilations, they have entirely omitted "Vallée" from their discography.

* IHaveManyNames: H.P. Baxxter is also known as MC H.P., Dave (from Sheffield), Ice and Candyman, among others.
* InherentlyFunnyWords: "Chili bowl". Assuming that's what he's saying anyway.
** It's actually "Chillybow", [[LyricalShoehorn not that it really matters.]]
* InsistentTerminology: Each incarnation of the band is referred to as a 'chapter', not 'the period when [band member] was in the band'. So for instance, Ferris Bueller's tenure is 'The First Chapter', Axel Coon's is 'The Second Chapter', Jay Frog's 'The Third Chapter' and Michael Simon's 'The Fourth Chapter'.

* {{Sampling}}: Common given their style. "Wicked Introduction" is to the tune of "Scotland the Brave", and "I'm Raving" has the same song playing in the background. "The Age of Love" samples the theme from ''Terminator2JudgmentDay''.

** Lyrics about raving sung to the same tune as a well known song were a staple of happy hardcore DJs in the mid 90s, and Scooter turned it into something commercial.

* BrokenBase: The band's fanbase are divided into three camps whenever a new album is released:
** Those who love it (often because they are devoted to the band rather than liking the music itself)
** Those who hate it and think the band have 'lost it' on a certain album - varies as to which (often because the band have gone for more poppy sounds, and they were listening to Scooter as an alternative to that sort of music)
** Those who praise them for making songs in a currently trendy style (but don't necessarily say whether it was any good or not)

* FirstInstallmentWins: In this case, not the first album but the 'first chapter', also known as the 'happy hardcore' era. Most fans of the band will refer to this era in glowing, often nostalgic terms.

* OfCorpseHesAlive: The music video for "Aiii Shot the DJ" features the band doing this to the killed DJ, parading him around parties and such.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "Move! Your! Ass!" [[hottip:*:From [[ShapedLikeItself "Move Your Ass!".]]
** "Gothic. Doesn't. Exist. Thank you." [[hottip:*:From "Fuck the Millennium".]]

*** The lyrics of Aiii Shot The DJ are based on the speaking style of AliG, who was popular at the time.

*** Ramp! was dropped in the UK so the song would be more commercial.

*** At the end of "Posse (I Need You on the Floor)", he yells "You pigs!".

*** "Lass Uns Tanzen" doesn't have too many lines in its lyrics, which makes the German language profanity included appear more aggressive.

* CoverVersion: Unique in that they don't do "straight-up" covers, but rather take a song and turn it into a "happy hardcore" song, with random shouting inserted. Some of their covers include "Rebel Yell" by Billy Idol and "The Logical Song" by {{Supertramp}}, though the latter only covers the chorus.
* DubNameChange: Sort of. In the UK, their cover of {{Supertramp}}'s "The Logical Song" is called "Ramp! (The Logical Song)", since the name "The Logical Song" is still copyrighted to {{Supertramp}} in the UK. In the US and everywhere else, it's just called "The Logical Song".