Why does Americans never want to rave?

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Don't they ever get bored with rap and rock and reggaeton and feel the need to rave for a bit instead? Isn't it a human need to rave once in a while?

And are there any glowstick-free US techno parties?

― Technoholic Anonymous, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

ibl

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link

What about that Buddy Holly song, "Rave On?" Americans wrote the book on raving. Americans rave all the time; you just aren't paying enough attention. I raved just last night for a good twenty minutes. Anyway, no one in America listens to rap. It's just a fabrication by record company executives.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Too few of us have damaged our brains with the drugs that make the music that goes with raves sound good.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Chicago has summerdance.

http://j3s.net/photolog/2004jul/20040714_crowdbuilding.jpg

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link

my time machine wont take me to 1990 anymore

― no bones, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Not at all a rave, obv.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link

We prefer to do our drugs in the privacy of our own homes.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, but we do. Cascada's "Everytime We Touch" is really big here.

― Richj (Rich), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.mouseplanet.com/notebook/raver.jpg

candy ravers r k-k3wl

peace - love - unity - respect

http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~ciocci/art/plurslime.jpg

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

im so happy the loveparade died

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

our men are too strong to rave

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

raving is for HBO

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

An equally valid question is why does Europeans still want to rave?

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i think we should stalk about the HBO revelation.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Stalk away

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

typo!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

celeriously raving is a cable tv thing..ask the thudding shoes of any muppet footed e-er,Whats your favorte show?SIXFEETUNDER they have to yell over th music,,and then u get self conscious and drink more than u have to to get more info

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoChannel.aspx?storyid=831a80c38a4253b9bcfdbaf495f97e2cb8f55ace

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link

ORANGE MISTAKE

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Love Parades only continue in Acapulco, San Francisco and Santiago.

americans DO want to rave!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

IT'S RAVING MEN

― latebloomer: virtuous, pure and masculine like only an American male can be (lat, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link

americans want to rave but we have few places to do it

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

our kingdom for a string of abandoned airline warehouses

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe the economy will stay in the shitter and some will close

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

uns uns uns uns uns uns uns uns uns uns uns uns uns uns uns uns...
tweeeeeet tweeeeeet tweeeeet...

"The system is down."

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Goddamn I miss raving

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i miss ranting

― latebloomer: virtuous, pure and masculine like only an American male can be (lat, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

There are lots of vacant warehouses in this city. Also some nasty antirave laws i believe.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

"antirave"

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Phoenix has "raves"

― Stephen C (ihope), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't a lot of American cities make a very deliberate effort to "crack down" on raves a while back? Wasn't there this news-induced Rave scare, or am I imagining things?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 06:17 (eighteen years ago) link

yes! the RAVE Act passed Congress; it basically shut them permanently in the U.S.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link

The video at the top is absurd.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 07:53 (eighteen years ago) link

So while Fullmer is consulting his attorney about a possible lawsuit, local law enforcement vow to crack down on the increasingly popular raves.

"increasingly popular"

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.javelinamx.com/kimraver/gallery.htm

― y no dance?, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link

SIMON REYNOLDS DISCUSSES CURRENT DANCE MUSIC IN TODAY'S NY TIMES

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Re: The Rave Act
Yeah, wasn't there something in there about glow-sticks being prosecutable?

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I said this before on some other thread but the real reason is that America is Puritan at heart (as opposed to Europe, which is pagan).

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

And you were wrong then, too.

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

the only real American pagan tradition anyone can point to is Mardi Gras (and even that is seriously stretching the definition). Look at who founded this country and the path of its cultural traditions - getting large groups of people to injest mind-altering substances and dance around fires (or strobe lights, in this case) is by and large not part of America's cultural history.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link

According to Chomsky, it's George Bush's fault.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

because we're less tolerant of boredom?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link

actually i do want to rave, but only with a friend or two. antisocial rave? is it only after taking e that you can't get enough of people??, or is that the general state of people outside of U.S.? a serious SERIOUS question!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahaha, Google reveals that the RAVE in RAVE act stands for "Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstacy"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 19 January 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

My favorite song for raves.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 19 January 2006 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link

we will always having burning man

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 19 January 2006 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link

There was a party in an abandoned airport in Austin a couple weekends ago. People were told about the map point via word of mouth on Thursday. 250 people showed up on Saturday night. It was a great night out. America still wants to rave...

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Thursday, 19 January 2006 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link

With an name like technoholic anonymous wouldn't that imply that your habits with techno have become problematic to the point where you need to go get help for it?

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe Americans are more intelligent than we think?

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:59 (eighteen years ago) link

"getting large groups of people to injest mind-altering substances and dance around fires (or strobe lights, in this case) is by and large not part of America's cultural history."

Ever been to a fiddle festival in West Virginia?

― novamax (novamax), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

js from upthread -- if you're still reading, you made me fall off my chair laughing. lightswitch rave!!

― belle.haleine, Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

"I said this before on some other thread but the real reason is that America is Puritan at heart (as opposed to Europe, which is pagan)."

O.T.fuckinM.

sides, didn't we all get enough of that crap in the early 90's,ya know, when it was popular and people had yet to encounter "e-tards"?

unfortunately, people will always TRY to 'rave' here in the U.S. and then complain when the cops arrive.
"man, how'd they know?!?"
"i dunno,man!! i only told like 300 people and we're only on the outskirts of a minor/major city that's utterly cracked down on E like the Plague was in it!!!"

― eedd, Thursday, 19 January 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Because we can't pronounce "Ibiza"

― Gukbe (lokar), Thursday, 19 January 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

One day I will go to Boston and walk around asking people to say "Ibiza".

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

just watch one of the episodes of Veronica Mars from the second season...can't remember next one. The entire episode, everyone says, "eye-beeezzzzaaa".

― Gukbe (lokar), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

The other day I was talking to a cousin who I had not seen in ten years. He is living in Los Angeles and is putting on new-agey non-drug-oriented raves: www.spiritrave.com. It struck me as the sort of thing that could only really work in California.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey, did any of you guys catch that movie "COLUMBO LIKES THE NIGHT LIFE" a few years ago??!! Columbo in a feather boa, so I've heard! Man I still regret missing that one...

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 20 January 2006 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link

......guess not.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Sunday, 22 January 2006 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link

It's certainly a part of Scots-Irish culture (ok, substitute alcohol for drugs), but I guess
indentured servants don't count as contributors to American culture.

― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Sunday, 22 January 2006 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

In Soviet Russia, light blinds you! Oh, wai

Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow last week have lost partial vision after a laser light show burned their retinas, Russian health officials said on Monday.

Moscow city health department officials confirmed 12 cases of laser-blindness at the Central Ophthalmological Clinic, and daily newspaper Kommersant said another 17 were registered at City Hospital 32 in the centre of the capital.

Attendees at the July 5 Aquamarine Open Air Festival in Kirzhach, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Moscow, began seeking medical help days after the show, complaining of eye and vision problems, health officials told Reuters.

"They all have retinal burns, scarring is visible on them. Loss of vision in individual cases is as high as 80 percent, and regaining it is already impossible," Kommersant quoted a treating ophthalmologist as saying.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1452972520080714?sp=true

― James Mitchell, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Because they can haz cheezburger

― iago g., Monday, 14 July 2008 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link

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