I’m an old school raver from the late 80s all the way through 2005-2006. I used to love that 303 sound. These days I cringe when I hear it. To me it’s like the listening to 80s big hair metal music. I don’t know maybe it’s just me but it’s like nails on a chalkboard. Whenever I hear people trying emulate it on Elektron hear and then they feel so proud I just wonder why. Move on is all I can think.
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I don’t think they should be the ones moving on…
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I’m not the biggest acid fan but I love me some 80s hairbands so in that light: Nah, live and let live 
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acid will never die!
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Haha. This is the exact thing my friends say when I start whining.
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Who cares? If you dont like acid any more, ignore it.
I dont like country music, couldn’t give a flying one about people that do, I have nothing to do with their bizarre kind.
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The 303 sound is eternal! If you were anywhere near me I would slap you with a wet fish you damn heretic 
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303 sound is like the classic guitar sound.
Should folk/pop/country do not exist anymore because the classic guitar sound is always that one?
(I would develop more this topic, but I’m currently in lazy devil fish mode, sliding 
)
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Well, there is A LOT* of shit acid, so maybe just listen to the good stuff?
*Just as in any kind of music.
Personally I tend (mostly) not to like “‘avin it” acid techno, mainly because 99.9% of it is utter shite, derivative and formulaic. Plus when it gets too fast and too “hard” it starts to sound like a comical parody, like they are trying too hard.
Also (mostly) I tend to dislike overdriven/distorted 303, but mainly because most of it sounds shite, it can sound awesome, but I think that a lot of producers don’t know what they are doing. It often just sounds like annoying screeching (channeling my inner @craig 
) and all the subtleties and dynamics of the 303 are lost under the screeching.
Also, acid is not one genre, there is acid house, acid trance, hard acid techno, acid techno, IDM acid, braindance acid, ambient acid, dub acid, electro acid, acid dancehall and lots more besides.
Should acid die is a bit like saying should the electric guitar die. To some yes, to others no.
If you don’t like it don’t make it or listen to it, piss with the cock you got, YMMV, etc.
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Acid is still innovating
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There’s never enough cowbell in acid so there you go.
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This question is similar to the one asked about the relevance of different hardware in the year of xxyy, and the same - but much older one - about the death of painting immediately comes to my mind.
As stated long ago, painting will not only remain relevant, but every previous form of painting will be used and reconfigured into new and vibrant styles of painting.
The news of the death of acid has been greatly exaggerated.
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I haven’t eaten any in years. I thought it was dead.
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80’s Hair Industrial Country Metal Acid House fusion is my new chosen genre.
I call it HICMAH8.
(pronounced ‘hick-mate’)
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May I ask where are you from ?
I don’t care for that sound either. So cliche 
I just ignore it, don’t listen to it.
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Right on, acid always
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I think that elitism in art isn’t all that interesting or constructive. I could do without it, that goes with my own attitude as well.
I don’t think any genre of music should “die” but instead run it’s natural course and evolve into something else over time.
Honestly I don’t even know what “acid dying” even means when I stop to think about it.
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clenched teeth “There’s this thing people have pleasure of, I don’t want them to feel pleasure!!!” vein pops
meanwhile:
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