Trivia / Scooter

• Creator Backlash: 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.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Scooter worked with Michael Simon as early as 1995, when they remixed his project Shahin And Simon's track "Do The Right Thing". Simon liked the mix enough to make it the single version and prominently noted it was a Scooter mix on the cover (the group's mixes at this time normally went under the name Loop!). Then, in 1997, Shahin And Simon supported Scooter on their "Age Of Love" tour. Several years later in 2006, he joined Scooter, and remains in the group as of 2019 - the longest lasting non-original member the group has ever had.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The FCK 2020 documentary unintentionally shows the tension between HP, Sebastian Schilde and Michael Simon which led to the latter two leaving the band not long after. It's particularly sad in Schilde's case, because he was a Promoted Fanboy who looked forward to working with the band, comes up with many ideas during the course of the movie, only to be paid the least for doing the most work. Indeed, he's visibly shown to be friends with Simon and strictly business with HP, so it's not surprising that the two left together.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The group's "20 Years Of Hardcore" Deluxe Edition series did a generally good job of including tracks but missed out "Dutch Christmas" (a bonus track on the Limited Edition of Back To The Heavyweight Jam), "Habanera" (a promo single included on the 2CD Edition of "Push The Beat For This Jam") and "Firth Of Clyde" (a download exclusive in "The Ultimate Aural Orgasm" era), as well as numerous remixes. Part of the reason is said to be Rick J. Jordan leaving during the project - he had been in charge of the tracklistings of the first four albums in this series, which are much more comprehensive than the later ones. A rare exception was "Roll Baby Roll" - it was replaced by a remix, "Swinging In The Jungle", on repressings of The Stadium Techno Experience due to an uncleared sample of ABBA's Arrival, and the group could not reissue the original for fear of getting sued.
• Missing Episode: The original plan for the fourth single off "Mind The Gap" was the cover of Depeche Mode's "Stripped", complete in a new orchestral mix. It was cancelled for unspecified reasons and a new vocal mix of "Suavemente" was released instead. Years later in 2007, the group marked Jay Frog's departure by releasing the unreleased orchestral mix of "Stripped" as a download single. It was sadly overlooked for the Deluxe Edition of "Mind The Gap".
• My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Pre-Scooter group "Celebrate The Nun"'s strange name resulted from this - it was actually supposed to be "Celebrate The None", or to use proper English, "Celebrate Nothing", to reflect the gothic qualities of their music. Ex-member and archivist Slin Thompson noted that the group only found out when it was too late to change it - although he did use "Celebrate The None" as the name of his solo project a few years later. Their lyrics are full of this too. H.P.'s English improved considerably when he was in Scooter, although there are still the occasional moments.
• No Dub for You: The band's autobiography "Always Hardcore" is, despite the English title, only available in German. An English translation was planned, but if not outright cancelled, languishes in Development Hell. As a result, many online stores that were going to sell the English version simply imported the German one instead. One saving grace is that it does contain a lot of photos, so even people without much knowledge of German can get something out of it.
  • The band did take note of this for the FCK 2020 documentary as it features English subtitles.
• No Export for You:
  • 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).
  • In Russia (and other parts of Eastern Europe), their music has been so widely pirated that they are huge there and frequently have sellout tours. The band have helped this by showing their love of Russian symbolism and the city of Moscow. In fact, the main reason Scooter continue to sing in English rather than German is because of their popularity in European countries that don't speak German, rather than wanting to appeal to any English-speaking country.
  • 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.)
• Recursive Import: 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 the tracks omitted from the UK version ("We Are the Greatest", "I Was Made for Lovin' You", "I'm Your Pusher", and "She's the Sun"), albeit editing several of the tracks to fit them in and putting the tracks in reverse chronological order.

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