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''Back to the Heavyweight Jam'' is the sixth studio album by German band Scooter, released on 27 September 1999. It contains two singles, "
Faster Harder Scooter "Faster Harder Scooter" is a song by German group Scooter. It was released in August 1999 as the lead single from the 1999 album ''Back to the Heavyweight Jam''. The song is played as an anthem by FC Tokyo Football Club Tokyo, commonly known ...
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Fuck the Millennium "Fuck the Millennium", sometimes spelled "***k the Millennium", is a protest song by the band 2K—Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty—better known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the JAMs) or the KLF. The song was inspired musically by Jerem ...
". After the single release of "Fuck the Millennium" the album was re-released in December 1999 in limited edition with bonus tracks. The album title is borrowed from a repeated line in one of the versions of
the KLF The KLF (also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the JAMs, the Timelords and other names) are a British electronic band formed in London in 1987. Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) began by releasing ...
song "
Last Train to Trancentral "Last Train to Trancentral" is a song released, in different mixes, as a series of singles by British electronic band The KLF, including "Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent)". A commercially successful single of April 1991, ...
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Track listing

All songs written and composed by
H.P. Baxxter Hans Peter Geerdes (born 16 March 1964), professionally known by his stage name H.P. Baxxter, is a German musician who is best known as the lead vocalist of the German techno band Scooter. He founded Scooter with his friend Rick J. Jordan in 19 ...
, Rick J. Jordan, Axel Coon, and Jens Thele. All lyrics written by The Radical MC H.P. #"Keyser Soze" – 1:12 #"Watch Out" – 4:15 #"
Faster Harder Scooter "Faster Harder Scooter" is a song by German group Scooter. It was released in August 1999 as the lead single from the 1999 album ''Back to the Heavyweight Jam''. The song is played as an anthem by FC Tokyo Football Club Tokyo, commonly known ...
" – 3:46 #"Well Done, Peter" – 3:53 #"
Fuck the Millennium "Fuck the Millennium", sometimes spelled "***k the Millennium", is a protest song by the band 2K—Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty—better known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the JAMs) or the KLF. The song was inspired musically by Jerem ...
" – 4:28 #"The Revolution" – 4:05 #"Psycho" – 5:05 #"The Learning Process" – 4:55 #"I'll Put You on the Guest List" – 5:11 #"Main Floor" – 5:35 #"Kashmir" – 4:44 #"No Release" – 6:16 Strictly Limited Fuck the Millennium Edition: #"Fuck the Millennium" (Single Version) #"Dutch Christmas" #"Waiting for the Spring / Let Me Be Your Valentine" (Live) #"The Age of Love" (Live) #"No Fate" (Live) Notes *"Keyser Soze" samples the alien-contacting theme from the 1977 film ''
Close Encounters of the Third Kind ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' is a 1977 American science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It tells the story ...
'', also known as the noise programmed to unlock a door in the 1979
James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have ...
film '' Moonraker''. When played backwards, the track contains the line "Use your dildo" *"Faster Harder Scooter" samples the 1995 songs "Come On" by Axis and "The Sound of E" by Ultra Shock. *"Well Done, Peter" samples the 1999 song "Embargo!" by Embargo. *"Fuck The Millennium" samples "The Passion" by
Technohead Greater Than One is an English electronic music band, founded by husband and wife Michael Wells and Lee Newman in 1985. They released many albums under this name, and also under the names Tricky Disco, GTO, John + Julie, Church of Extacy, Sign ...
. The title of the track comes from a song by the same name by
The KLF The KLF (also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the JAMs, the Timelords and other names) are a British electronic band formed in London in 1987. Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) began by releasing ...
, released in 1997 under the pseudonym ''2K''. Likewise, "Back to the Heavyweight JAMs" is a refrain from The KLF's work. The version of the song released as a single contains a melody from
Norman Petty Norman Petty (May 25, 1927 – August 15, 1984) was an American musician, record producer, publisher, radio station owner, and considered to be one of the founding fathers of early rock & roll. Biography Petty was born in the small town of Clo ...
song "Wheels", first recorded by The String-a-longs in 1961. *"The Revolution" samples the 1999 song "Who Do I Care" by Hermen. *"The Learning Process" samples the 1995 song "Technocat" by Tom Wilson. *"Main Floor" samples the song "Madagascar" by
Art of Trance Simon Paul Berry, known by his alias Art of Trance, is a trance music artist from England. Berry is also known as Poltergeist or Vicious Circles, and has been a member of the trance groups Clanger, Conscious and Union Jack. He has been producin ...
, taken from the 1999 album ''Voice of Earth''. *"Kashmir" samples the song " Living on the Ceiling" by the British
synth-pop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s ...
band
Blancmange Blancmange (, from french: blanc-manger ) is a sweet dessert popular throughout Europe commonly made with milk or cream and sugar thickened with rice flour, gelatin, corn starch, or Irish moss (a source of carrageenan), and often flavoured with ...
, taken from the 1982 album ''
Happy Families Happy Families is a traditional British card game usually with a specially made set of picture cards, featuring illustrations of fictional families of four, most often based on occupation types. The object of the game is to collect complete famil ...
'' and "Turkish Bazar" by Emmanuel Top.


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