Who's Got the Last Laugh Now?

Who's Got the Last Laugh Now?
Scooter studio album
Publication (s)	November 4, 2005
Label (s)	Sheffield Tunes
Genre (s)	Techno , dance
running time	50 min 12 s
production	HP Baxxter , Rick J. Jordan , Jay Frog , Jens Thele
Studio (s)	Loop DC Studios 1 and 2, Hamburg
chronology Mind the Gap (2004) Who's Got the Last Laugh Now? Excess All Areas (2006)

Who's Got the Last Laugh Now? is the eleventh studio album by the German techno band Scooter . It was released on November 4, 2005 . Like almost every Scooter album, the album contains 12 tracks. The album was 14th in the German album charts, 33rd in Austria and 44th in Switzerland . In Norway it reached number 30 on the charts.

The album was produced and mixed by Rick J. Jordan and Jürgen Frosch (Jay Frog) and released on Scooter's own label Sheffield Tunes . The lyrics were written by HP Baxxter, unless they came from already known songs.

The cover was designed by Marc Schilkowski, who is also responsible for other scooter productions. It shows a black and white photo with admixtures of red, on which the heads of the laughing Scooter members can be seen. The photography is from Gabo .

Track list

1. Lights Out (1:45)
2. Hello! (Good to Be Back) (3:33)
3. Privileged to Witness (4:32)
4. Rock Bottom (3:28)
5. The Leading Horse (3:25)
6. Take Me Baby (4:15)
7. Apache (2:58)
8. See Me, Feel Me (4:09)
9. Unity Without Words Part III (6:02)
10. Everlasting Love (4:22)
11. Seven Bridges (4:55)
12. Mesmerized (6:42)

music

The song Lights Out is a slow intro with sparsely interspersed beats and a female voice. Hello! (Good To Be Back) begins with the sample This Is Radio Freedom , followed by machine gun fire, taken from the song 3 AM Eternal by British electronic group The KLF . The chorus is from the song Hello! Hello! I'm Back Again by Gary Glitter from 1973. The backing vocals are from Neil Witchard .

Privileged to Witness uses highly pitched excerpts from the song Walking on the Moon by the US-English rock band The Police from 1979.

The song Rock Bottom uses the main melody from Jordan & Bakers Explode .

With The Leading Horse in the chorus, Scooter cover the song The Four Horsemen by the Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child from 1971. The text sung by HP Baxxter does not correspond to the original text, which refers to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse of Revelation.

Take Me Baby is a heavier version of the song of the same name by Finnish singer Jimi Tenor from the early 1990s. Apache contains the guitar part from the song of the same name, which was written by Jerry Lordan in 1960 for the British group The Shadows and was also made famous by a version of the Sugarhill Gang in the early 1980s. Scooter are not the first techno band to use this instrumental, so it was covered by Moby in 1999 .

See Me, Feel Me uses the chorus from Dee D. Jackson's Automatic Lover from 1978. It was sung by Scooter backing singer Nikk , then played back pitched in the song. The tenth song, Everlasting Love , contains the chorus of Robert Knight 's 1967 song of the same name. It was written by Buzz Cason and has been covered by countless artists, including Sandra , Gloria Estefan and U2 .

The second to last song, Seven Bridges, is a techno adaptation of the Karat hit Über Seven Bridges You Must Go from 1978. The chorus is intoned as “La-La-La” by a crowd. The final mesmerized is a purely instrumental trance piece.

Singles

Hello! (Good to Be Back)

The single was released on October 14, 2005 and reached number 3 on the Finnish charts. The single made it to 14th place in Germany, 23rd in Austria, 36th in Switzerland and 43rd in the Netherlands .

The video for the single was shot in the USA. It takes place in Chicago and shows the Scooter members in front of the city backdrop, in limousines with lightly clad young women and on stage during a concert.

Track list

1. Hello! (Good to Be Back) - Radio Edit (3:35)
2. Hello! (Good to Be Back) - Club Mix (7:43)
3. Hello! (Good to Be Back) - Extended (5:52)
4. Path (3:36)

Apache Rocks the Bottom!

The single was released on December 30, 2005. It is not included in this form on the album, but is a mix between the two album tracks Rock Bottom and Apache . The single managed u. a. 2nd place in Finland , 5th place in Denmark and 24th place in Germany. In Austria the song was ranked 23rd, in Switzerland only 54th.

Track list

1. Apache Rocks the Bottom! - Radio Edit (3:45)
2. Apache Rocks the Bottom! - Extended (5:47)
3. Apache Rocks the Bottom! - Dub Mix (5:57)
4. Apache Rocks the Bottom! - Club Mix (5:30)
5. Apache Rocks the Bottom! - Snippet (0:30)
6. Countdown (1:41)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ scootertechno.com ( Memento of the original dated February 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ hitparade.ch
3. ↑ hitparade.ch
4. ↑ discogs.com
5. ↑ hitparade.ch
6. ↑ engelen.demon.nl Text on The Four Horsemen ( memento of the original from April 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ discogs.com
8. ↑ Michaelangelo Matos, Abstract: All Roads Lead to 'Apache'
9. ↑ discogs.com
10. ↑ scootertechno.info ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ swisscharts.com
12. ↑ Video clip for Hello! (Good to Be Back)
13. ↑ hitparade.ch