Scooter – The (il)logical Song

I wouldn’t say I’m exactly a fan of dance music, particular when these days it appears most DJ’s just seem content to take some song from the 80’s cut it up, put a higher tempo out on it and sell it to a generation too young to remember the original. However, if you remember the original, it hurts like a burst blister. Rubbed with alcohol. That’s on fire.

However, putting my normal feelings towards the genre aside, I do happen to like more original offerings. Then there are songs which remind of a certain time in my life, whether something that I associate with playing videogames while playing in the background, or something I would often overhear at local bowling alley-cum-arcade. (Don’t laugh, thats the correct spelling, you just have a mind like a gutter).

One such song was that of german techno band, Scooter, The Logical Song (or Ramp!) which itself samples The Logical Song by Supertramp. Yeah, the tune and lyrical hook of Scooter’s production is actually all taken from a song which preceded it by 22 years (remember what I said at the start of this article?). So what exactly did Scooter contribute? Well, see for yourself…

Incase you missed it, or have been strucken deaf, I’ve noted what and when H.P. Baxxter (born Hans-Peter Geerdes…cause you know X’s are hardcore) makes sure you know its Scooter you’re listening to.

0.35 – Good Morning!

Umm…good morning to you too? Seriously, how many songs have you ever heard on the radio where the artist actually wishes you a good day?

0.41 – Eeyeah

0.45 – 1,2…1,2,3,4

Musicians really have trouble counting.

0.56 – Pump it up!

1.01 – Aagghhhh

“That is no Orc horn”

1.02 – RMB no remmy, no skippy, no fate yeah

Wind me jam for the microphone and busy with the DJ

Jungles in the place

Jungles on the case

Scooter, are you ready?

I have no blooming idea. Perhaps 0.56 was a reference to his I.V. morphine drip and he’s having an opiate hit.

1.32 – Yeah!

1.48 – Come on!

2.07 – Love, Peace and Unity,

Siberia, the place to be!

Apparently dance and techno was all the rage in the Gulag.

2.14 – The K, the L, The F and ideology, hallelujah!

This could be a reference to these guys or these guys. You really hope not these guys…

2.29 – 1,2…1,2,3 YEAH

2.40 – ROUGH!

Possibly the most random thing I’ve ever heard in a dance record…

2.46 – Aaggghhh!

…okay, till that.

2.58 – Here we go!

3.17 – Stand up!

He tells you to get to your feet to dance 30 seconds before the song finishes.

3.26 – Once again!

3.30 – We’re getting jiggy!

I sincerely hope not. You’re 42. And Male. And German *.

3.33 – Siberiaaaa

He must really like it. Perhaps he holidays there. There’s got to be lots of vacant homes (see 2.07)

3.40 – Yeah!

3.45 – Goodbye!

Scooter – the most polite german techno group ever?

Stay Classy,

Ian

* P.S I’m sure Germans are lovely people.