Scooter are a German Techno/Hardcore band and originate from Hamburg, they formed in 1993 and consisted of Hans-Peter Geerdes (H.P. Baxxter), Soren Buhler (Ferris Bueller) and Hendrik Stedler (Rick J. Jordan). There have been several changes since then and other members are Michael Simon, Axel Broszeit (Axel Coon) and Jurgen Frosch (Jay Frog).
Scooter originally started as a project and their debut single Vallee De Larmes which is French for Valley Of Tears reached #8 in the German Dance Chart. In 1994 they played at the Palladium in Hamburg and H.P. Baxxter started freestyle rapping to an instrumental track which went on to become the single Hyper Hyper and it was at that point that the project got serious and became a band.
The single Hyper Hyper was only expected to make small news but actually turned platinum and sold over 700,000 copies. The album ...And The Beat Goes On! which was released in 1995 had more singles which have had similar success like Endless Summer, Move your Ass! and Friends.
They released Our Happy Hardcore in 1996 and contains the hit singles Rebel Yell (a cover of the Billy Idol song), Back In The UK and Let Me Be Your Valentine. Wicked was released in 1996 with two massive hits I'm Raving (which features samples of Walking In Memphis and Scotland The Brave) and Break It Up.
In the decade between 1997-2007 Scooter have had massive success in the club scene and released the following albums: Age Of Love (1997), No Time to Chill (1998), Back To The Heavyweight Jam (1999), Sheffield (2000), We Bring the Noise! (2001), The Stadium Techno Experience (2003), Mind The Gap (2004), Who's Got the Last Laugh Now? (2005), The Ultimate Aural Orgasm (2007) and also Jumping All Over the World (2007).
Scooter are currently touring the UK. Go and see them!
My Top 10 Scooter Songs are:
01. We Are The Greatest
02. Friends
03. Ramp! (The Logical Song)
04. Back In U.K.
05. Fuck The Millennium
06. Move Your Ass
07. I Was Made For Lovin' You
08. Rhapsody In E
09. How Much Is The Fish
10. Jigga Jigga
When I was a kid I had heard the Pet Shop Boys on the radio whenever new singles had been released but it wasn't until I was about 14 or 15 when I started to take more of an interest in their music. This was because I had never taken the time to listen to more than one song at a time. I used to chill with a group of dudes at my friend chicken's house and he had the Pet Shop Boys Discography album and used to play it and the more times I heard it the better it became. I have most Pet Shop Boys albums now and listen to them on a regular basis.
Pet Shop boys consist of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe and are a synthpop/electronic music duo. They have sold over 100 million records worldwide since their founding in 1981 when they met in a music shop in Chelsea, London. Originally they were called West End because of the area in London that they came from but eventually settled on Pet Shop Boys because a couple of their friends worked in a pet shop.
In 1985 the Pet Shop Boys signed to Parlophone, recorded and released the album Please in 1986 which contains some of their most famous hits like West End Girls, Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money), Suburbia and Love Comes Quickly. West End Girls was their first UK #1 and it went on to be #1 in Canada, USA, Finland, Ireland, Hong Kong, Israel, Lebanon, Norway and New Zealand. Disco which is a remix album of Please was also released in 1986.
1987 was a busy year for the Pet Shop Boys. The Single West End Girls earned them a BRIT award and also an Ivor Novello Award. The album Actually was released and they had some recording sessions with Dusty Springfield for the single What Have I Done To Deserve This. Another couple of massive hits off the album were It's A Sin and Rent. The Pet Shop Boys also played on a special TV concert for the 10th anniversary of Elvis's death where they played Always On My Mind.
Introspective was the album released in 1988 which also contained some of their most popular songs: Left To My Own Devices, I'm Not Scared, Domino Dancing and the single Always On My Mind. The Pet Shop Boys went on a huge tour of Hong Kong, Japan and the UK and it wasnt until 1990 when they released their fourth album Behaviour which had a different style to their more usual upbeat albums.
Since the release of Discography in 1991 which contained most of their hits the Pet Shop Boys have released several more studio albums and remix albums and have written and collaborated with many other musicians. The Pet Shop Boys have also changed their style several times, from the old style of Adidas Tracksuits to the new futuristic looks like in the single Go West.
Some of the artists who have worked with the Pet Shop Boys on music and video's are: Liza Minelli, Dusty Springfield, Patsy Kensit, Mark Farrow, Barbra Windsor, Ian McKellen, Bernard Sumner, Johnny Marr, Boy George, Blur and David Bowie to name a few.
Some of their most notable albums are Please, Actually, Introspective, Behaviour, Very, Bilingual, Nightlife, Release, Fundamental, Disco 1-4 and Pop-Art and some of their most famous songs over the years have been: West End Girls, What Have I Done to Deserve This, Left To My Own Devices, It's A Sin, Go West, Absolutely Fabulous, Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend, Se a Vida E (That's The Way Life Is), I'm With Stupid and Numb.
My Top 10 Pet Shop Boys Songs are:
01. Suburbia 02. What Have I Done to Deserve This 03. Left to my own devices 04. Jealousy 05. One Thing Leads to Another 06. One In a Million 07. Radiophonic 08. It Couldn't Happen Here 09. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) 10. A Red Letter Day
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