THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

437-Scooter-‘Ramp! (The Logical Song.’)

2002-Number 2 single.

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If you were under the age of 18 in 2002 then your parents will have hated this song, which is what Pop Music should be all about. Every new generation needs it’s own identity.

Scooter (see also best songs 1033 and 144) were formed in Hamburg, Germany, in 1993, by Hans Peter Geerdes, better known by his stage name H.P. Baxxter, and Hendrik Stedler, who is better known as Rick J. Jordan, since their inception a further nine members have come and gone. When Jordan left the group in 2014, this left Baxxter as the bands one constant. Scooter are a ‘Happy Hardcore,’ ‘Rave,’ and ‘Techno’ music group, who have sold in excess of 30 million records worldwide, and have earned over 80 Gold and Platinum awards to date. Scooter are the most commercially successful German single-record act with 23 top 10 hits on the ‘GfK Entertainment charts,’ which is the official German provider of the weekly Top 100 singles and Album chart.

The discography of Scooter includes 21 studio Albums that have been released between 1995-2024, and 82 singles that have been released between 1993-2024, there are also five official compilation Albums, and five live Albums available. In Germany all of their studio Albums have reached the top 40, with ‘Under the Radar Over the Top,’ (2009) and ‘Open Your Mind and Your Trousers,’ (2024) both peaking the highest at Number 2. On the German singles Top 100, 44 of their singles have made the top 40, with ‘Nessaja’ peaking the highest at Number 1 in 2002. Scooter have also featured on a further four singles for charity projects under different names, with the most successful being the song ‘Love Message,’ by ‘Love Message,’ which reached Number 4 in Germany in 1996. Scooter have had 12 top 40 hit singles in the UK, with ‘Ramp! (The Logical Song’) charting the highest at Number 2 in 2002.

Scooter’s one constant is H. P. Baxxter, who was born Hans Peter Geerdes, on March 16th, 1964, in Leer, West Germany, he is the lead vocalist with Scooter, both as a singer and as a Rapper. In 1987, he formed the ‘Synth-Pop’ band ‘Celebrate the Nun,’ together with Rick J. Jordan, and his sister Britt Maxime, with ‘Celebrate the Nun,’ Baxxter released two studio Albums, in 1989, and 1991, and also released five singles between 1988-1991. In 1993, former ‘Celebrate the Nun’ members joined Baxxter’s cousin Orion Ferris Bueller to form a remix team known as ‘The Loop,’ which remained active until 1998. In 2009, H. P. Baxxter, was part of the German jury for that years ‘Eurovision Song Contest,’ and he has also appeared as one of the judges on the German version of the ‘X Factor,’ in season 3.

‘Ramp! (The Logical Song’) was the only single released from ‘Push the Beat for This Jam (The Second Chapter,’) from January 2002, the Album which was alternatively titled ‘Push the Beat for This Jam (The Singles ’94–’02’) in the UK and Australia, is the second singles compilation from Scooter, which included many of their recent singles, plus four new tracks, some live tracks, ‘B’ sides, and remixes. ‘Ramp! (The Logical Song’) was written by Roger Hodgson, and produced by Scooter. The reason why Hodgson is given as the songs sole writer is because he wrote the song that ‘Ramp! (The Logical Song’) heavily samples, which is ‘The Logical Song,’ by the English Rock band Supertramp, who in 1979 took their original version to Number 12 in West Germany, Number 7 in the UK, and Number 6 in America on the Billboard Hot 100. The The lyrical content in ‘Ramp! (The Logical Song’) includes a nod to the British Electronic band the ‘KLF,’ (see also best songs 329) who Scooter have always acknowledged as a big influence. The song features all of Scooter’s usual trademarks including high pitched voice, and vocal improvisation.

‘When I was young it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical, and all the birds in the trees, well they’d be singing so happily, so joyfully oh playfully, watching me.’