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Hello folks,

what happened to TUAO? I knw that the two songs which got released were not successfull but is this a reason to make like "the album did not exist"? It seems to me that Scooter has totally forgotten the album and its great tracks. On concerts they do not play songs from that album except LUT, they did not release further single after relasing BTC and LUT although in my opinion there are some great tracks on it with hit potential like The S**t that killed elvis or the united vibe.


It's like they never released the album but why?

Me too :-)

1. UTROTT
2. TUAO
3. ATBGO/OHHC

I acquired this snippet of information from the BME festival interview documented on the 15/9/2009 on Jay's site;

Quoted

STHU: You say that you don't like the track "I'm Your Pusher" and the album "Sheffield", but you never said why. It's not a bad track, and the album became gold in many countries.
H.P.: Yes, yes, 'Sheffield" isn't that bad, but sometimes in your career you come to a point, where you don't know which way to go. It was the same at "The Ultimate Aural Orgasm" - it was an album without a special concept. We produced it, but we didn't know exactly what we were doing. Same goes for "Sheffield", when we came up with "I'm Your Pusher", we tried the best we could, but at the end, we were not happy with it. That just happen sometimes, we have nearly 50 singles released now, and I think it's natural that you don't like all of them equall

Given that the gang had no clue as to the direction of the first album from the Fourth Chapter, they did a pretty damn impressive job of producing a memorable album! I wrote quite a long and detailed post about the greatness of the TUAO in another thread, in which I basically theorized about the twisted redundancy of releasing an album with tracks that border on perfection. I'm not sure you could apply this standard in the same way for 'Sheffield', as some of its pieces were a little bizarre-- although in a good way, I suppose. I can see how 'Sheffield' is perceived by the group in a negative light, as it is a little different compared to their other work. But I honestly fail to grasp how you could lump TUAO with 'Sheffield' and not see how strikingly different they are!

It seems incomprehensible to me that they'd try exhaustingly to put some of the classics from TUAO behind them. Saying that, I have seen a number of forum members on here praise 'Sheffield' as one of the most unique and experimental albums to date. In the end, it's all subjective. It's just a shame that they try to neglect performing tracks like 'Behind The Cow' (Jay's favorite), The United Vibe, Scarborough Affair... The tracks that we all know and love.

My faves are BTC, LUT, UFO Phenomena, TSTKE, Imaginary Battle, East Sands Anthem and Love Is An Ocean. So over half the album for me is great.

The guys just seem to have their favourite tracks, including album tracks, that they like to rehash at the live performances and ignore a vast quantity of forgotten gems. I am for instance getting sick of hearing The Chaser at concerts, and would prefer it if they played Like Hypa Said for example instead.


It's a pity that Scooter seem to pretend like this album never got
released. Instead they play a lot of tracks from what I consider to be
inferior albums like No Time To Chill and The Stadium Techno Experience.


With regard to the comparison between Sheffield and TUAO, I like both albums but probably consider TUAO superior by a small margin. The first 2 tracks from Sheffield are excellent and leaving you wanting more, but sadly the rest of the album peeters out in my opinion. Space Cowboy and Never Slow Down are nice instrumentals, but the final 2, for me leave something to be desired. She's The Sun is a great track, but Sex Dwarf and Summer Wine I can barely listen to all the way through. So it's an album I pick and choose from whenever I open the folder on my computer, as opposed to TUAO which I can easily listen to all the way through.