God Save the Rave

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God Save the Rave
Scooter - God Save the Rave.png
Studio album by
Scooter
Released16 April 2021 (2021-04-16)
Recorded2019–2020
StudioSheffield Underground (Hamburg, Germany)
Length52:17
Label
Producer Scooter
Scooter chronology
100% Scooter – 25 Years Wild & Wicked
(2017)		God Save the Rave
(2021)		 Open Your Mind and Your Trousers
(2024)
Singles from God Save the Rave
  1. "Rave Teacher (Somebody Like Me)"
    Released: 5 April 2019
  2. "God Save the Rave"
    Released: 31 May 2019
  3. "Devil's Symphony"
    Released: 11 October 2019
  4. "Which Light Switch Is Which?"
    Released: 13 December 2019
  5. "Bassdrum"
    Released: 5 June 2020
  6. "FCK 2020"
    Released: 23 October 2020
  7. "Paul Is Dead"
    Released: 27 November 2020
  8. "We Love Hardcore"
    Released: 19 March 2021
  9. "Groundhog Day"
    Released: 16 April 2021
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Laut.de Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Mix1  [ de ]7/8 [2]
Plattentests.de  [ de ]1/10 [3]

God Save the Rave is the twentieth studio album by German band Scooter, released on 16 April 2021 [4] [5] [6] [7] through Sheffield Tunes and Kontor Records. It is the first Scooter album not to be released after the usual one year-two year gap, being released almost four years after 2017's Scooter Forever . It is also the first and only studio album featuring Sebastian Schilde, who replaced Phil Speiser in 2019 and then departed from the band in December 2022, and the final studio album featuring Michael Simon who also left in December 2022 after being with the band since 2006.

Contents

Background

In April 2019, Scooter officially announced their new member Sebastian Schilde would be replacing Phil Speiser, after Speiser had been with the group since 2014. [8] Their twentieth album was set to be released in the winter of 2020. It would be titled God Save the Rave and include 15 tracks. The album's tour, "The God Save the Rave tour" was originally expected to go ahead in the summer of 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [9] In December 2020, the album release date was postponed to 16 April 2021 due to the renewed lockdown. [10]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by H.P. Baxxter, except "Bassdrum" lyrics by H.P. Baxxter and Finch Asozial.

CD 1: God Save the Rave
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Futurum est Nostrum"
1:48
2."God Save the Rave" (with Harris & Ford)
  • Baxxter
  • Schilde
  • Simon
  • Thele
  • Patrick Poehl
  • Kevin Kridlo
  • Vanessa Schulz
3:12
3."Never Stop the Show"
  • Baxxter
  • Schilde
  • Simon
  • Thele
  • Diandra Faye
  • Mijke Breepoel
3:51
4."We Love Hardcore" (with Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike)
  • Baxxter
  • Thele
  • Simon
  • Schilde
  • Michael Karl Thivaios
  • Dimitri Thivaios
  • Fabian Bohn
  • Elie Abwi
  • Florian Senfter
  • Emanuel Guenther
3:15
5."Paul is Dead" (with Timmy Trumpet)
  • Baxxter
  • Schilde
  • Simon
  • Thele
  • Timothy Jude Smith
  • Jeremy Bunawan
  • Leonie Burger
2:55
6."Bassdrum" (with Finch Asozial)
  • Baxxter
  • Schilde
  • Simon
  • Thele
  • Nils Wehowsky
  • Matthias Mania
  • Daniel Großmann
  • Schulz
2:55
7."Which Light Switch is Which?"
  • Baxxter
  • Schilde
  • Simon
  • Thele
  • Poehl
  • Kridlo
  • Christin Pohl
  • Vincent Oostlander
  • Marco Marinus J.A.C.M. Verkuylen
3:22
8."FCK 2020"
  • Baxxter
  • Schilde
  • Simon
  • Thele
  • Schulz
3:29
9."Groundhog Day"
  • Baxxter
  • Schilde
  • Simon
  • Thele
  • Burger
  • Vitali Zestovskih
2:53
10."Hang the DJ"
  • Baxxter
  • Schilde
  • Simon
  • Thele
3:16
11."Rave Teacher (Somebody Like Me)" (with Xillions)
  • Baxxter
  • Schilde
  • Thele
  • Mark Carpentier
  • Shea Duncan
  • Oscar Bishop
3:17
12."Анастасия"
  • Baxxter
  • Schilde
  • Simon
  • Thele
6:57
13."Devil's Symphony"
  • Baxxter
  • Schilde
  • Simon
  • Thele
  • Pohel
  • Kridlo
  • Charlotte Boss
3:05
14."These Days"
  • Baxxter
  • Schilde
  • Simon
  • Thele
4:03
15."Wand'rin' Star"
  • Frederick Lowe
  • Alan Jay Lerner
3:59
Total length:52:17
CD 2: I Want You to Stream!
No.TitleLength
1."Intro"1:24
2."One (Always Hardcore)"4:15
3."The Logical Song"4:49
4."Bora! Bora! Bora!"3:50
5."My Gabber" (with Jebroer)3:47
6."God Save the Rave" (with Harris & Ford)4:49
7."Fire"4:36
8."How Much is the Fish?"3:52
9."The Age of Love (Live Version)"2:30
10."Fuck the Millennium/Call Me Mañana"5:39
11."J'adore Hardcore/Jumping All Over the World"7:59
12."Maria (I Like It Loud)"5:01
13."Which Light Switch is Which?"4:29
14."Endless Summer/Hyper Hyper/Move Your Ass! (Noisecontrollers Remix)"7:41
Total length:64:41

Notes

Sample credits

Charts

Chart performance for God Save the Rave
Chart (2021)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [11] 7
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [12] 159
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [13] 4
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [14] 22
Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI) [15] 91
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [16] 12
UK Dance Albums (OCC) [17] 2

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