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In 2020, rave nostalgia is at an all-time high. From the greenest EDC infants to veteran ravers from the old days, everyone is reeling from the pandemic-inflicted party shutdown. As electronic music fans continually seek a taste of the clubland they once knew — via livestreams like Beatport’s ReConnect series or VR music festival experiences — the itch for how it used to be isn’t going away anytime soon.
In lieu of going out, one of the safer options is to stay at home, put your speakers on full blast, open up YouTube, and let the algorithm do its thing. It’s not as fulfilling as losing your mind on the dance floor (clearly), but sometimes, it can be just as entertaining.
Enter “UK Rave YouTube Comments,” the best social media account to come out of the dumpster fire of a year that is 2020. An ode to the raver’s “YouTube Hole,” this Twitter profile shares YouTube comments from acid house, UK hardcore, jungle, trance, drum & bass, and UKG videos — narcotics and nostalgia galore!
From your standard “not a phone in sight” comments to incredible stories about drug-fueled adventures or getting goosebumps during their first club experience — even stealing cars to get their rave on — and hilarious stories about their musical heroes as they pledge their undying allegiance to acts like 808 State, Orbital, Carl Cox, and the like, UK Rave YouTube Comments is the best thing on Twitter. An unapologetically bright spot in the darkness that is the Internet in 2020.
But don’t just take our word for it. Check out our favourite takes below along with some of the tracks that inspired these golden memories. Be sure to visit the account here.
shame that illegal raves are illegal now
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 30, 2020
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) September 1, 2020
can’t handle no more Baby Shark me just raising the kids on Breakbeats now
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 31, 2020
I think I experienced mental illness for a few days when i heard this. Love it.
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 19, 2020
HOW DO YOU SPELL LEEDS? TWO E’S AND LSD !!
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) May 22, 2020
808 State The only State I will submit to.
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 15, 2020
I had a children’s book I would take with me to every rave. It was called “The House That Jack Built.” In the car park after the rave I would scour cars for an empty seat and would knock on the window and ask If I could sit in the car and read the book to whoever was inside.
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 18, 2020
I failed my exams because of this scene!!! Wicked tune
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 18, 2020
todays music just doesnt compare to the proper old school rave tracks!! So Feelgood. If I didnt spend mostve the 90’s in prison I would have be out raving all the time.
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 10, 2020
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 24, 2020
wish i name my dog Hardcore so he wouldn’t die
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 13, 2020
Picked moby up at Glasgow Airport and took him to a gig in dumfries on the way a told him we had stole the bmw 5 series earlier just for him he went mental and didn’t want to party with us later on booo hooo
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) July 23, 2020
this is what butter molecules sound like when you spread it on fresh warm toast
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 22, 2020
Some of u lot need therapy
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) September 1, 2020
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 30, 2020
SORRY IF I EVA NICKED UR ASTRA JUST NEEDED SOMETHING TO PLAY MY TAPES ON YOU KNOW
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) September 6, 2020
A few of us lived on a farm in Ammanford, we loved the water from the upstairs bathroom so much we used to bottle it and take it to raves and offer it to people. It got a bit famous in raves around Wales. People would see our van and ask us for some “upstairs bathroom water.”
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 18, 2020
Used to play this loud in robbed cars in Dublin early 90’s
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) May 30, 2020
drank 3 glowsticks on a night out once, wasn’t too bad from what I remember. tasted like shite but I had a couple fags and chewed some gum and felt alright.
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) August 26, 2020
Shame theres this pandemic on
— UK Rave YouTube Comments (@UKRaveComments) September 3, 2020
Cameron Holbrook is a staff writer for Beatportal. Find him on Twitter.
