"We Call It Acieed" is the debut single by British musician
D Mob. An
acid house-influenced song from the debut album ''
A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That'', it features vocals by
Gary Haisman
Gary Haisman (29 January 1958 – 28 November 2018) was an English singer and one of three acts whose No. 1 songs on the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart were featured on D Mob’s ''A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That'' a ...
. The song reached No. 1 on
''Billboard'''s Dance Music/
Club Play Singles
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chart and No. 25 on the
Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
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chart in 1989. It also reached number 3 on the
UK Singles Chart
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.
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The song is also featured on the compilation albums ''Dance Massive, Vol. 2 hantom', ''History of Techno YX', ''Smash Hits 1988'' and ''Acid House Anthems''.
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Video
The video
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features D Mob and singing in front of people with yellow
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mask
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s in the shapes of triangles
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, square
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s and circle
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s, 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.
Removal from BBC Playlist
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s. The decision to ban the song came especially after
enthusiastically introduced the video for the song on the 20 October 1988 edition of ''
'' during an acid house backlash from tabloids, and this lead for an absence of any records that referenced acid house on the show until "
'' in 2018.