Our Happy Hardcore
Our Happy Hardcore is the second studio album by the German dance band Scooter. The album reached number 17 in Germany the sales charts and is thus more successful than the previous album ... and the Beat Goes On!. It is also the best placed to date Scooter album in Switzerland with number 9 in the album charts. The CD also a multimedia part of the computer is included on which a kart game demo, a music video of the song Back in the UK as well as some information is included. This is the first multimedia part of which was ever released on a CD with a German band. For album also a VHS cassette purchase appeared called " Happy Hardcore Clips".
The cover of the album shows the title of Our Happy Hardcore in front of orange background, so grouped the three scooters members. It was designed by Marc Schilkowski, who was responsible for the design of further Scooter Cover. Photos to come by Andreas Kess.
An expanded edition of the album was released the same year on the label Victor Entertainment Japan, but was in Germany for a long time is not available. It contains five additional pieces, including remixes of all three single releases of the original album, including Commander Tom.
Music
The song Last Minute is a happy hardcore version of the Hebrew folk song Hava Nagila while Rebel Yell is a cover of the same name hits by Billy Idol in 1984. The song Back in the UK is sampling a melody from the Miss Marple films, which was written by Ron Goodwin. In the original version of this song was earlier in the charts.
Stuttgart is an instrumental piece without the typical scooter Chanting HP Baxxter. Even the hard- trance piece This Is A Monstertune and other songs of this album also come from without voice.
Crank It Up is a stylistically the Gabber related party piece.
Track List
Single releases
From Our Happy Hardcore three singles were released.
Back in the U.K.
On 24 November 1995, the first single was released back in the UK. The song uses the familiar theme song from the Miss Marple films. In Ireland, the single back in Ireland was published simultaneously.
The accompanying video clip was filmed entirely in black and white. He plays in the narrow corridors of an old apartment building. While H. P. Baxxter midst of dancing young women reproduces the text of the song there, below the two other scooters members, dressed in English clothes, through the stairwell and discover corpses as well as many oblique shapes.
Let Me Be Your Valentine
Let Me Be Your Valentine came into the German record stores on 29 February 1996. It was the first single Scooters, which did not reach the Top Ten of the German sales charts.
Rebel Yell
The third single was a cover of the Billy Idol song Rebel Yell, she appeared on May 9, 1996. Scooters were with this song the first dance band that they covered a rock song. All versions differ from the album version.
The video for Rebel Yell is applied to classic vampire movies. The members of Scooter drive at night under a full moon by a bleak area until they get to a castle. There they intone Rebel Yell before people dancing in Rococo clothes that turn out to be vampires.