What does the term 'Rave' mean to you.

[Amelie]

To me, i don't really welcome it- its sort of a caricature (sp?) of the whole movement, rather than a representation if that makes sense.

When someone says Rave, i can't help but think of topless men, dummy sucking loons and basically chicken in a basket style pa's. To me it my mum watching Oceanic or similar on TOTP's with me and someone like Philip Schofield saying 'Rave On', and my mum thinking thats what its all about.

Is rave a dirty word, or do you like it?

 

[silocybe]

Aye , its a bit of a dirty word to me aswell , espacially with that silly arse tune "Im ravin..Im ravin" (walking in memphis thing)

 

[spiely]

If i remember rightly there was about a two week period when it was OK to use the word.
It then quickly became, as you say, a euphemism for everything which was quickly going wrong in the dance scene. So much so that it became quite an insult to call someone a "raver" lol

 

[Shooms]

I don't like labels....

I am me (I just like to dance for hours on end to synthetic & repetitive dance music whilst imbibing mind altering chemicals with other like-minded individuals )

 

[Shooms]

If i remember rightly there was about a two week period when it was OK to use the word.
It then quickly became, as you say, a euphemism for everything which was quickly going wrong in the dance scene. So much so that it became quite an insult to call someone a "raver" lol

heh - I've got a compilation tape somewhere with the best of wrong bits from MCs... up there in the top 10 was some gruff MC barking "Oi ! Cheesy Quaver ! Get the fuck out !"

 

[db909]

To me the word rave is a southern thing

Northerners say party southern types say rave

As in M25 raves Vs Blackburn parties

It also conjours up images of funfairs and

traveller types juggling fire on ropes wtf!!

 

[Jiglo]

I don't use the term now and haven't used it since 91 or 92.

To me it describes a specific type of event, at a specific time and I even understood the term when they used it in Mixmag to describe a hard & edgier style of house music.

We used to say "we're going raving" in 1991 when we went to a club, or field at the time, but it all changed and we then started saying "we're going clubbing"

 

[Konspiracy]

To me, i don't really welcome it- its sort of a caricature (sp?) of the whole movement, rather than a representation if that makes sense.

Couldnt have put it better myself

After the illegal parties had died a death, which I suppose the word originated from, "rave" was used by certain sections of the music press and snobbier club going folk to look down on other people

By that time the "scene" had already started to disintegrate

 

[Mike]

Aye , its a bit of a dirty word to me aswell , espacially with that silly arse tune "Im ravin..Im ravin" (walking in memphis thing)

Or even worse, does anyone remember the 'We Are Raving' tune (sung to the tune of we are sailing) ..... no? Just me then? :$

 

[Jiglo]

Or even worse, does anyone remember the 'We Are Raving' tune (sung to the tune of we are sailing) ..... no? Just me then? :$

Vaguely

 

[Amelie]

When i bumped into an old friend a few years back, he introduced me to his wife and she said 'oh yeah, she is the one from the pics when you used to out raving'.

We both went bright red. I mean, i know i looked a right state but to be called a raver was just bizarre. Its not like i had a jesters hat on or anything.

I don't think it was ever used round my end, only much later when, as Neil said we all knew in our hearts it was over.

 

[Amelie]

Or even worse, does anyone remember the 'We Are Raving' tune (sung to the tune of we are sailing) ..... no? Just me then? :$

Oh dear, my goodness yes! We are raving, we are raving- ahh i can just see all the lighters in the air right now.

 

[silocybe]

Oh dear, my goodness yes! We are raving, we are raving- ahh i can just see all the lighters in the air right now.

So... .uhm (scratching his chins)... you must have been in clubs that played these types of "Rave" tunes...so you indeed were a raver of the raving type !! I for one never witnessed the afore mentioned "we are raving" though I did catch it on radio , but only because someone had glued my head to the wireless !

 

[cutter]

i like "rave"

but then again i like straws

 

[nowthen]

heh - I've got a compilation tape somewhere with the best of wrong bits from MCs... up there in the top 10 was some gruff MC barking "Oi ! Cheesy Quaver ! Get the fuck out !"

LOOOL! Now that is an MC I would pay to see!

The dictionary definition of raver has it right on both counts for that kid!!

raver

n 1: a participant in a rave dancing party 2: someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner [syn: ranter]

 

[JACKG]

'Rave' or a 'Rave' means to me one of those illegal dance parties that went on when the dance music seen just started to kick off... and I missed out on ..just slightly before my time

Going out 'Ravin' has always sounded and been used like a comedy/piss takin term, more often it used be those who didn't have a clue about goin clubbin

If I was goin to a particular club I was just goin out, NOT going Raving

 

[Northern Star]

Rave was used a lot back then...just cus sum folk jumped on the bandwagon..thats where we all came from and lets not forget it :|

Dont particularly use the terminology myself much, but then again i never did......however.....i think i understand what is bein talkied about when some1 says 'a rave' so i think its ok


Are we all getting too picky in our old age......

Heres a definition of the word RAVE


A rave party, more often just called a rave, also called free parties, is typically defined as an all-night dance event where DJs and/or other performers play electronic dance music and rave music. The slang expression rave was originally used by peoples of Caribbean descent in London during the 1960s to describe a party. In the late 1980s, journalists reassigned the term to describe the party phenomenon and subculture that grew out of the acid house movement

 

[Amelie]

Rave was used a lot back then...just cus sum folk jumped on the bandwagon..thats where we all came from and lets not forget it :|

Dont particularly use the terminology myself much, but then again i never did......however.....i think i understand what is bein talkied about when some1 says 'a rave' so i think its ok


Are we all getting too picky in our old age......

Heres a definition of the word RAVE


A rave party, more often just called a rave, also called free parties, is typically defined as an all-night dance event where DJs and/or other performers play electronic dance music and rave music. The slang expression rave was originally used by peoples of Caribbean descent in London during the 1960s to describe a party. In the late 1980s, journalists reassigned the term to describe the party phenomenon and subculture that grew out of the acid house movement

Nah, i think you have misunderstood. I have an Oxford Concise to hand for a textbook deffo, what i was after was a personal view on term, in retrospect. Like if someone asks you your views on France, you would'nt go reading out of a brochure would you when you had been yourself!

I am lost on the whole 'picky' thing with the middle finger too. It really is no different than poll's on certain tracks, or someone asking what they view, i dunno, northern soul as.

I actually said the word BECAME dodgy as it was missused, not that its origins were dodgy.

 

[Ed]

I don't use the term now and haven't used it since 91 or 92.

To me it describes a specific type of event, at a specific time and I even understood the term when they used it in Mixmag to describe a hard & edgier style of house music.

We used to say "we're going raving" in 1991 when we went to a club, or field at the time, but it all changed and we then started saying "we're going clubbing"

Is the correct answer!

I was never a 'clubber' though. That conjours up images of wankers going to gatecrasher with their hair dyed silver

 

[silocybe]

Nah, i think you have misunderstood. I have an Oxford Concise to hand for a textbook deffo, what i was after was a personal view on term, in retrospect. Like if someone asks you your views on France, you would'nt go reading out of a brochure would you when you had been yourself!

I am lost on the whole 'picky' thing with the middle finger too. It really is no different than poll's on certain tracks, or someone asking what they view, i dunno, northern soul as.

I actually said the word BECAME dodgy as it was missused, not that its origins were dodgy.

I think that middle finger thing is actualy a wagging "tut,tut" type finger. I am however with you 100 percent on this one , in that from your original post that "Rave" has become a dirty word and the truth is that it has . I think we all know its origins but it has become a misused and Cliched expression over the years !of that theres no doubt is there ?