Meme. Day 02
Day 02. Your least favorite song - Scooter: Hyper Hyper
It's past midnight here, and the next one is easy as pie. The atrocious, plastic, unfeelingly calculated techno pop crap from the mid-nineties I mentioned? I don't think there is a better example than Hyper Hyper.
Granted, there were a lot of downright silly records at the time, even from the so-called underground. And yes, there was a general tendency towards fast, melodic, hardtrancey and slightly daft. Brainchild by Nostrum on the Time Unlimited label comes to mind, an easy contestant for my "guilty pleasures" section. But even compared to those, the musical ideas in Hyper Hyper are sub-standard.
Besides, it's not just the music.
It's the vocal performance.
It's the way he gives his brown-nosed shouts to all those big names in the global techno scene (a couple of which are actually respectable in my book).
You think those vocals are tongue-in-cheek? Think again. These guys are dead serious. I think they believe themselves to be the German KLF.
I guess the main reason I am so unforgiving about this particular single is how it shaped public views on electronic dance stuff at the time. It was crap like this that sold as "Techno" in high chart positions. It's like having Vanilla Ice representing all Hip Hop. It's like making Jon Bon Jovi an ambassador of Heavy Metal. It's just wrong all the way.
Scooter: Hyper Hyper. Hyper Hyper, (P) 1994 Club Tools.
Runner-Up:
The Timelords: Doctorin' The Tardis. Doctorin' The Tardis, (P) 1988 KLF Communications (KLF 003).
A note on my runner-up: Yes, I know The Timelords basically are The KLF. And yes, I absolutely realize how I previously implied that The KLF are so much superior to Scooter. And I do think they are. Well, at least Doctorin' The Tardis was a one-off, and they had the common decency not to soil their KLF moniker with it. Nevertheless... nauseating.
It's past midnight here, and the next one is easy as pie. The atrocious, plastic, unfeelingly calculated techno pop crap from the mid-nineties I mentioned? I don't think there is a better example than Hyper Hyper.
Granted, there were a lot of downright silly records at the time, even from the so-called underground. And yes, there was a general tendency towards fast, melodic, hardtrancey and slightly daft. Brainchild by Nostrum on the Time Unlimited label comes to mind, an easy contestant for my "guilty pleasures" section. But even compared to those, the musical ideas in Hyper Hyper are sub-standard.
Besides, it's not just the music.
It's the vocal performance.
It's the way he gives his brown-nosed shouts to all those big names in the global techno scene (a couple of which are actually respectable in my book).
You think those vocals are tongue-in-cheek? Think again. These guys are dead serious. I think they believe themselves to be the German KLF.
I guess the main reason I am so unforgiving about this particular single is how it shaped public views on electronic dance stuff at the time. It was crap like this that sold as "Techno" in high chart positions. It's like having Vanilla Ice representing all Hip Hop. It's like making Jon Bon Jovi an ambassador of Heavy Metal. It's just wrong all the way.
Click to viewScooter: Hyper Hyper. Hyper Hyper, (P) 1994 Club Tools.
Runner-Up:
The Timelords: Doctorin' The Tardis. Doctorin' The Tardis, (P) 1988 KLF Communications (KLF 003).
A note on my runner-up: Yes, I know The Timelords basically are The KLF. And yes, I absolutely realize how I previously implied that The KLF are so much superior to Scooter. And I do think they are. Well, at least Doctorin' The Tardis was a one-off, and they had the common decency not to soil their KLF moniker with it. Nevertheless... nauseating.