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 | ||||
| Length | 3:17 | |||
| Label | FFRR | |||
| Songwriter(s) | D Mob (as The D) | |||
| Producer(s) | Danny D | |||
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| 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.[2] It reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart.[3]
The song is also featured on Dance Massive, Vol. 2 [Phantom], History of Techno [ZYX], Smash Hits 1988 and Acid House Anthems.[4]
Video
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. [5] 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.
Removal from BBC Playlist
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,[6] the BBC removed the song from their playlists.[7] 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.[8]
Charts
| Charts (1988–89) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA)[9] | 85 |
| Germany (Media Control Charts)[10] | 22 |
| Irish Singles Chart[11] | 16 |
| Netherlands (Single Top 100)[12] | 42 |
| UK Singles Chart[3] | 3 |
| US Billboard Dance/Club Play Chart[13] | 1 |
See also
References
- ↑ History of Techno [ZYX] - Various Artists | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic
- ↑ D-Mob. "D-Mob - Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
- 1 2 "Official Charts > D-Mob". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
- ↑ "We Call It Acieed - D-Mob : Listen, Appearances, Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
- ↑ "D-Mob "We call it acieed"". YouTube. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
- ↑ Richard Vine (2011-06-15). "We Call It Acieed banned on R1October | Music". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
- ↑ Craig Hitchings (2008-08-25). "BBC's banned music to be released". MusicRadar. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
- ↑ Aitken, Stuart (11 November 2013). "Stakker Humanoid: how the Future Sound of London won hearts and minds" – via The Guardian.
- ↑ "Chartifacts (from The ARIA Report No. 20)". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 2016-05-28.
- ↑ "D-Mob feat. Gary Haisman – We Call It Acieed (single)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
- ↑ "The Irish Charts – All there is to know > Search results for 'We Call It Acieed' (from irishcharts.ie)". Imgur.com (original site published by Fireball Media). Retrieved 2016-05-28.
- ↑ "D-Mob feat. Gary Haisman – We Call It Acieed" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
- ↑ "Billboard > Artists / D-Mob > Chart History > Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
