Back in the U.K. explained

Back in the U.K.
Cover:back in the uk.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Scooter
Album:Our Happy Hardcore
Released:14 November 1995
Recorded:1995
Genre:Happy hardcore
Length:3:25
Label:
  • Club Tools
  • Scorpio Music
Producer:
  • H.P. Baxxter
  • Rick J. Jordan
  • Jens Thele
  • Ferris Bueller
Prev Title:Endless Summer
Prev Year:1995
Next Title:Let Me Be Your Valentine
Next Year:1996

"Back in the U.K." is a song by German group Scooter. It was released in November 1995 by Club Tools and Scorpio Music as the lead single from their second album, Our Happy Hardcore (1996). In the United Kingdom it became their biggest hit ever up to that point, entering at number 18 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1996. It would remain their highest charting single until the release of "The Logical Song" in 2002, which reached number two. The song was re-recorded as "Back in Ireland" for the Irish market.

Samples

Critical reception

Jennifer Nine from Melody Maker said, "A Union Jack-bedecked sleeve houses a hysterically nosebleed-speed Nintendo game theme, with added stadium-crowd roars and what sounds like miniature steel drums played by demented midgets."[1] Pan-European magazine Music & Media wrote, "These three Anglophile ravers from Hamburg have a taste for fast and loud techno. Their driving sound and catchy melodies nail down the listener like an out of control steamroller."[2] Music Week gave the song three out of five, adding, "A riff that sounds like "You Are My Sunshine" and rabble rousing singing gives this German four-piece's latest track some personality. Otherwise, it's the sort of frantic technopop that gets lapped up on the Continent but engenders a lukewarm response in the UK."[3]

Track listings

Original version

  1. "Back in the U.K." (Long version) – 5:24
  2. "Back in the U.K." (Radio Version) – 3:25
  3. "Unity Without Words Part II" – 5:28 (misprinted as 6:28)
  4. "Crank It Up" – 4:08
  1. "Back in Ireland" (Long version) – 5:24
  2. "Back in Ireland" (Radio Version) – 3:49 (misprinted as 3:25)
  3. "Unity Without Words Part II" – 5:28 (misprinted as 6:28)
  4. "Crank It Up" – 4:08
  1. "Back in the U.K." (Long version) – 5:24
  2. "Unity Without Words Part II" – 6:28
  3. "Crank It Up" – 4:08
  1. "Back in the U.K." (Radio version) – 3:24
  2. "Crank It Up" – 4:08
  1. "Back in the U.K." (Long version) – 5:24
  2. "Back in the U.K." (Radio Version) – 3:25
  3. "Unity Without Words Part II" – 5:28 (misprinted as 6:28)
  4. "Crank It Up" – 4:08
  5. "Back in the U.K." (Tom Wilson Remix) – 5:49
  6. "Back in the Kellys Mix" (Paddy Frazer mix) – 6:44
  1. "Back in the U.K." (Radio Version) – 3:25
  2. "Back in the U.K." (Long version) – 5:24

Remixes

  1. "Back in the U.K." (Tom Wilson Remix) – 5:49
  2. "Back in Villabajo" – 5:58
  3. "Back in the U.K." (Double M's Bassss Mix) – 7:13
  4. "Back in the Kellys Mix" (Paddy Frazer Mix) – 6:44
  5. "Back in the U.K." (Double M's Bassss Dub Mix) – 7:13
  1. "Back in the U.K." (Tom Wilson Remix) – 5:49
  2. "Back in the Kellys Mix" (Paddy Frazer Mix) – 6:44
  3. "Back in the U.K." (Double M's Bassss Dub Mix) – 7:13
  1. "Back in the U.K." (Tom Wilson Remix) – 5:49
  2. "Back in Villabajo" – 5:58
  3. "Back in the Kellys Mix" (Paddy Frazer Mix) – 6:44
  4. "Back in the U.K." (Double M's Bassss Dub Mix) – 7:13

Charts and certifications

Certifications

Notes and References

  1. Jennifer. Nine. Singles. Melody Maker. 20 January 1996. 28. 9 May 2024.
  2. New Releases: Singles . . 12 . 51/52 . 23 December 1995 . 7 . 19 May 2021 .
  3. Reviews: Singles . . 27 January 1996 . 27 . 25 May 2021 .
  4. Web site: Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts. German . . 7 August 2015.
  5. Germany. Back in the UK.

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