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We Call It Acieed

"We Call It Acieed"
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Single by D Mob featuring Gary Haisman
from the album A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That
Released 3 October 1988
Format 7", 12", CD maxi
Recorded 1988
Genre Acid house
Length 3:17
Label FFRR
Writer(s) D Mob (as The D)
Producer(s) Danny D
D Mob singles chronology
" We Call It Acieed "
(1988)
"It Is Time To Get Funky"
(1989)
Music video
"We Call It Acieed" on YouTube

"We Call It Acieed" is an acid house-influenced song from A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That by D Mob featuring Gary Haisman. The song ranked #1 at Dance Music/Club Play Singles and #25 at Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales in 1989. It reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

The song is also featured on Dance Massive, Vol. 2 [Phantom], History of Techno [ZYX], Smash Hits 1988 and Acid House Anthems.

The video features D Mob and singing in front of people with yellow masks in the shapes of triangles, squares and circles, with the occasional mask of an eye. The song involves Haisman chanting "Acieed" through the entire video. The yellow smiley face icon had recently been adopted as a symbol of the acid house scene.

The original music video only lasted approximately two minutes long, as the record label FFRR did not think the song would be a hit and chose not to spend further money. Many years later, an unofficial edit of the video was made, stretching the length out to the full 3 minutes and 14 seconds of the radio version by repeating certain parts.

Because the song seemed to be condoning drug use (despite Danny D's claim that the song was about the music and points that out in the lyrics), in October 1988, the BBC removed the song from their playlists. The decision to ban the song came especially after the Caron Keating and a smiley face T-shirted Steve Wright enthusiastically introduced the video for the song on the 20 October 1988 edition of Top of the Pops during an acid house backlash from tabloids, and this lead for an absence of acid house tracks on the show until "Stakker Humanoid" by Humanoid two months later.


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