History YMMV / Scooter

* 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.
* {{Main/Flanderization}}: From "Posse" onwards, and especially after the success of "Ramp! The Logical Song", Scooter's singles started to copy the "rapped verse/high pitched voice cover chorus" formula with diminishing returns in both the lyrical and musical departments. In recent years, H.P. doesn't even try to have any sort of logical flow in his lyrics.

* GrowingTheBeard: H.P.' vocals on the tracks on "And The Beat Goes On" largely amount to the occasional shout, akin to [=DJs=] getting an audience pumped up, and even then, most of the tracks were instrumental. On their second LP "Our Happy Hardcore", he started rapping whole verses, most notably on its' lead single "Back In The UK". He'd do this more and more as time went on. On "Wicked", H.P. even sang a couple of tracks, "Don't Let It Be Me" and "Break It Up". This somewhat set Scooter apart from the typical dance projects of the time.

* IAmNotShazam: "Scooter" refers to the band as a whole, not just H.P. Baxxter.
* SampledUp: "When I Was A Young Boy" is musically identical to Scooter's Loop! remix of Prince Ital Joe and Marky Mark's "Babylon", except that the the drums are heavier and all the lyrics were replaced by new ones from HP (though the mid-section does featured small, pitched up snippets of the original female vocals). "Babylon" is an obscurity with Marky Mark's musical career largely seen as a curio, whereas "Wicked!" is generally seen as one of Scooter's greatest albums.

* GrowingTheBeard: H.P.' vocals on the tracks on "And The Beat Goes On" largely amount to the occasional shout, akin to[=DJs=] getting an audience pumped up, and even then, most of the tracks were instrumental. On their second LP "Our Happy Hardcore", he started rapping whole verses, most notably on its' lead single "Back In The UK". He'd do this more and more as time went on. On "Wicked", H.P. even sang a couple of tracks, "Don't Let It Be Me" and "Break It Up". This somewhat set Scooter apart from the typical dance projects of the time.

* AlbumFiller: Scooter has a habit of a joke intro track on every album aside from the first two, and also two or three generic trance tracks towards the end of each album (the 4 Axel Coon albums and The Stadium Techno Experience follow this formula to a tee). On their first LP "And The Beat Goes On", they filled out the album with a Hyper Hyper reprise called "Faster Harder Scooter" (a totally different song from the later "fasterharderscooter")

* BlatantLies: Presumably PlayedForLaughs, but any time H.P. declares himself to be "Dave from Sheffield", he's instantly identifiable as a German. Also, the fact that he named an album Sheffield and the group's label Sheffield Tunes is of great amusement to people from the city.

* GrowingTheBeard: H.P.' vocals on the tracks on "And The Beat Goes On" largely amount to the occasional shout, ala DJs getting an audience pumped up, and even then, most of the tracks were instrumental. On their second LP "Our Happy Hardcore", he started rapping whole verses, most notably on its' lead single "Back In The UK". He'd do this more and more as time went on. On "Wicked", H.P. even sang a couple of tracks, "Don't Let It Be Me" and "Break It Up". This somewhat set Scooter apart from the typical dance projects of the time.
* HiddenDepths: Owing to his previous role as a singer in Celebrate The Nun, H.P. knows how to sing very well, as heard on "Break In Up", "Leave In Silence", "Eyes Without A Face", "Summer Wine" and "Second Skin" to name a few. The surprising fact is that despite primarily performing shouts or raps on most of Scooter's songs, his singing has actually improved compared to when he did it regularly.

* IAmTheBand: After the group's longtime music composer Rick J. Jordan left, H.P. (the only original member left) continues to trade on the group's name despite almost exclusively writing lyrics. Many casual fans of Scooter think that the group name is actually H.P.'s stage name, although it may as well be at this point. Early on, he actually did try to avert this - listing the group's members in "Back In the UK" and the single version of "We Are The Greatest" for example.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: 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.
* OddballInTheSeries: "Sheffield", which comes in between the stylistically similar "Back To The Heavyweight Jam" and "We Bring The Noise", has a noticeably poppier tone to either of them, and in fact, doesn't feel like any of the group's later albums either. It has a discernably OutOfCharacterMoment in the chillout track "She's The Sun" (though well received), as well as the covers of Soft Cell's "Sex Dwarf" and Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra's "Summer Wine" (which are moreorless played straight). The group has expressed dislike of the album and its lead single "I'm Your Pusher" (although the track is quite popular amongst fans especially those in Scotland, who receive a shoutout in it.). The primary reason for "Sheffield"'s oddness is that the group was enjoying exploring different styles under the pseudonym "Ratty" at the time, and were at doubts as to what Scooter's next direction should be. They ultimately found it when they wrote their next single "Posse [I Need You On The Floor]", which became the formula they followed for the rest of their career.
* SampledUp: "When I Was A Young Boy" is musically identical to Scooter's Loop! remix of Prince Ital Joe and [[MarkWahlberg Marky Mark]]'s "Babylon", except that the the drums are heavier and all the lyrics were replaced by new ones from HP (though the mid-section does featured small, pitched up snippets of the original female vocals). "Babylon" is an obscurity with Marky Mark's musical career largely seen as a curio, whereas "Wicked!" is generally seen as one of Scooter's greatest albums.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: As mentioned in the trivia page here, the band's quite popular in the United Kingdom and Russia, but chart positions suggest quite large Hungarian and Norwegian fanbases, too.

* Main/Flanderization: From "Posse" onwards, and especially after the success of "Ramp! The Logical Song", Scooter's singles started to copy the "rapped verse/high pitched voice cover chorus" formula with diminishing returns in both the lyrical and musical departments. In recent years, H.P. doesn't even try to have any sort of logical flow in his lyrics.

* [[Flanderization]]: From "Posse" onwards, and especially after the success of "Ramp! The Logical Song", Scooter's singles started to copy the "rapped verse/high pitched voice cover chorus" formula with diminishing returns in both the lyrical and musical departments. In recent years, H.P. doesn't even try to have any sort of logical flow in his lyrics.

* {Flanderization}: From "Posse" onwards, and especially after the success of "Ramp! The Logical Song", Scooter's singles started to copy the "rapped verse/high pitched voice cover chorus" formula with diminishing returns in both the lyrical and musical departments. In recent years, H.P. doesn't even try to have any sort of logical flow in his lyrics.

* OddballInTheSeries: "Sheffield", which comes in between the stylistically similar "Back To The Heavyweight Jam" and "We Bring The Noise", has a noticeably poppier tone to either of them, and in fact, doesn't feel like any of the group's later albums either. It has a discernably OutOfCharacterMoment in the chillout track "She's The Sun" (though well received), as well as the covers of Soft Cell's "Sex Dwarf" and Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra's "Summer Wine" (which are moreorless played straight). The group has expressed dislike of the album and its lead single "I'm Your Pusher" (although the track is quite popular amongst fans especially those in Scotland, who receive a shoutout in it.). The primary reason for "Sheffield"'s oddness is that the group was enjoying exploring different styles under the pseudonym "Ratty" at the time, and were at doubts as to what Scooter's next direction should be. They ultimately found it when they wrote their next single "Posse [I Need You On The Floor]", which became the formula they followed for the rest of their career.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: 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.

* IAmTheBand: After the group's longtime music composer Rick J. Jordan left, H.P. (the only original member left) continues to trade on the group's name despite almost exclusively writing lyrics. Many casual fans of Scooter think that the group name is actually H.P.'s stage name, although it may as well be at this point. Early on, he actually did try to avert this - listing the group's members in "Back In the UK" and the single version of "We Are The Greatest" for example.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: As mentioned in the trivia page here, the band's quite popular in the United Kingdom and Russia, but chart poisitions suggest quite large Hungarian and Norwegian fanbases, too.
* IAmNotShazam: "Scooter" refers to the band as a whole, not just H.P. Baxxter.

* IAmNotShazam: "Scooter" refers to the band as a whole, not just H.P. Baxxter.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "The painted cow!" line from the song "Nessaja".

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "The painted cow!" line from the song "Nessaja".