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Home | Theme Song: "This is Acid"

May 8, 2009

Anybody remember this?

"This is Acid" was recorded by Chicago House producer Maurice Joshua -- originally credited as just "Maurice" -- in 1989. That was my senior year in high school. The track was one of a million released that year, assembled from the same set of audio elements -- a Roland drum machine, a detuned chord line, a rapper, sirens, samples instructing you to "jack your body."

Good times.

Click on the forward-arrow icon below to listen to "This is Acid" by Maurice.

I haven't been dancing in a long time because the music all sounds like someone is beating a washboard with a spoon. The tracks are too long, there are no vocals and the crowds on the dance floor seem angry. Pity.

-- Aaron | Link

Comments

One of a million, indeed. I remember sneaking out of the house my junior year of high school ('90) and going to "Masquerade". They'd play what sounds exactly like this between sets of industrial and 80s music where everyone was doing the same bob, rock and sway dance. Them were the days!

-- Jeremy | May 08, 2009

It's when I discover songs from the end of my teens are twenty years old that I begin to feel really ancient.

-- gareth wyn | May 08, 2009

The funny thing is that this track still sounds totally fresh to me. I haven't kept up with contemporary pop music for a while.

-- Aaron | May 08, 2009

This track is a huge landmark in my musical life. I'd do anything for a one night trip back to the summer of 1988...but just one night.

-- Cyrus | May 11, 2009