― m bott, Sunday, 6 November 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
MIND = BLWON
jesus, I've heard both of these songs countless times and I somehow never made the connection. No wonder I like the Monifah song so much.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 6 November 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 7 November 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time gaffled 'em up), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link
This one?Wonderland - White Horse (Mike Monday mix):http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3EHCKG1PWB52F1OHSDW1VTM9IB
― +, Monday, 7 November 2005 02:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 7 November 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link
"So, Laidback. Is that your philosophy of life?""Yeah, we try to be cool and relaxed in everything we do..."(etc etc)
I think they looked a bit like Black Lace.
"Sunshine Reggae" was SUCH a huge holiday hit 1983 that it even inspired a spin-off movie, Sunshine Reggae auf Ibiza, probably slung together in two weeks flat, featuring all your top bangin' Ibiza choons such as Ryan Paris "La Dolce Vita" etc.
Laibach missed the boat with that one, I reckon.
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 7 November 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oliver Man, Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― m herdman, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.eborg3.com/Graphics/Bible/66-Revelation/Rev06/White%20Horse3.jpg
― dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie B.C., Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― turboalbino (haitch), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― turboalbino (haitch), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
On the flip, Mtume's Juicy Fruit album is completely underrated. That entire album is great.
― dali madison's nut (donut), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― dali madison's nut (donut), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link
wow, nice one drawing attention to what you're blatantly ripping off!
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― X Janis (X Janis), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― CJ, Monday, 5 December 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― CJ, Monday, 5 December 2005 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Monday, 5 December 2005 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Monday, 5 December 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jessemina Wilhousen, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Dan Selzer - How in the world did you come across the 12 "We want Prince" we only made a few copies - that one is rare!
Sexual Harassment Releases:1. I Need a Freak EP - Heat Records (Distributed by Montage Records)2. I Need A Freak 12" - Heat Records (Distributed by Montage Records)3. K.I.S.S.I.N.G 12" - Heat Records (Distributed by Montage Records)4. We Want Prince 12" - Heat Records5. These Are The Things That I Like 12" - Future Entertainment Records
― Dale Jackson, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link
*hoping to seed minds of people in a position to make this happen*
― dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
hey-it was stirmonster who has the We Want Prince 12", I'd never heard about it and was just joking about how ballsy it is to name a song after an influence like that! I knew Lynn Tolliver was involved because another member of this community, Lauren, found that out somehow, and being from Cleveland, was familiar with him as a Cleveland radio personality of some sort? Had no idea he was behind a Black Eyed Peas song though!
And I know I Need a Freak is classic, but I'm still all about If I Gave You A Party.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bn1 (Bn1), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link
The group began with Lourdes Figueroa (A latina hottie who later became Mrs. Lynn Tolliver) and Myself. We later became a multi-ethnic band with a little something for everybody. Sexy, Hot and Horney - Good concept..It worked!
I have a couple of the origional radio commericals that aired back then. The audio quality is very poor because they were recorded on cassette tape. I'll try to clean them up and provide a link.
― Dale Jackson, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link
When I was tying to find a connection between the Black Eyed Peas "My Humps" and "I Need A Freak" I came across all of these links referencing our band.I was so suprised and excited. Lynn Tolliver now works for Hot 105.7 FM WHJX in Florida as the Program Director.
I did hear preview of "I Need a Freak" on Andrew Wetherall's Fabric 19 CD. I Like the way it mixes into The Egyptian Lover – Freak-A-Holic track. I fact I e-mailed Andrew thru the Haywire website (www.haywire.co.uk)last nite. He didn't seem to have a site of his own. I also like the "If I Gave you a Party" remix by Syrup. The only other "I Need A Freak" remix release that I knew of was by rapper Too Short awhile back. To be honest with you I don't belive that Lynn is aware of all the remixes either.
― Dale Jackson, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dale Jackson, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dale Jackson, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 02:36 (eighteen years ago) link
there have been a few covers of 'i need a freak'. this one is a bootleg that adds new drums and extends it. there's at least another two cover versions of it apart from the one by too short but the artists names escape me just now.
copies of this pressing turned up in the shops recently.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dale Jackson, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link
the Sexual Harrassment thread
Sorry to all the Laid Back/"White Horse" fans. You don't have to ride the white pony anymore. You also don't got to be a bitch, even if you wanna be rich.
― dali madison's nut (donut), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Was it the drugs part or the "rich / bitch" that was so incriminating?
― u s steel, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Fly Away/Walking In The Sunshine's first few seconds are also v nice
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
it was probably how unbelievably nasty the beat is - there's something obviously inappropriate about the song from the very beginning
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:11 (fifteen years ago) link
The teacher was growing more and more uncomfortable as the song played, but yeah, I think it was the "bitch" that finally pushed it over the edge.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
The blasts of distorted guitar/synth-thing in "White Horse" are quite underrated and unique. One of the more underrated passages of the song is that one time the distorted guitars hit a drone and sustain for several bars early on in the song, and let the weird flute melody putter on over it.
Then in a weird tempo change, the distorted guitar/synth-thing releases, and "IF YOU WANNA RIIIDE".
Extremely subtle, beautiful, different. Even moreso than the rare accented 7-beat counts in Blondie's "Heart Of Glass" bridge -- which is also brilliant.
― System Jr. (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i would write a 45 RPM series book on "White Horse"
― System Jr. (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
sub "weird tempo change" to "weird beat count" (probably due to editing the song on tape, most likely)
/staktrekman
― System Jr. (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
all djs are aware of that little hurdle, as well as the hurdle near the end when everything drops out besides a percussive "BAH-BSSH BA-BSSSH BA-BSSSH BA-BSSSH" which if you've already starting mixing a track in will fuck yo shit right up
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
The 12" version has another such hurdled in an extended "BAH-BSSH BA-BSSSH BA-BSSSH BA-BSSSH" part that's not on the 4-beat before going back to the "RICH?... you bitch" refrain.
― System Jr. (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
AH, we were talking about the same thing, never mind. Yeah, the song ends in a single cold BAH-BSSH too, but at that point, the quick fade-in will have to do.
― System Jr. (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
any chance of the remix?
― admrl, Friday, 26 June 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey ya'll I hate to burst your bubble, but I believe "white Horse" is refering to Heroin...Which also goes by the name of White Horse...just alittle drug info for ya all...Still a Kickin' song!!!― m herdman, Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:19 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Friday, 26 June 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty bad "Kickin'" song if u ask me
― goole, Friday, 26 June 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
just alittle drug info
― admrl, Friday, 26 June 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
This into "Erotic City" is a great 12ish minutes of dancing etc.
― Eazy, Friday, 26 June 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
"This into "Erotic City" is a great 12ish minutes of dancing etc.
― Eazy"
i wonder how many times this has been done? i know many of my friends and i have done it at various house parties and the like. it almost seems way too obvious but it works every time.
― pipecock, Saturday, 27 June 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Best commercial ever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OdEWFr9lO0
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 28 June 2009 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Very funny.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 28 June 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
For anyones information the ORIGINAL VERSION was made by Grand Master Flash. If the song isn't a minimum of 5 minutes and 45 seconds, You probably have the wrong version. Happy Holidays!!!!!
― Aceman80, Monday, 14 December 2009 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
huh?
― andrew m., Monday, 14 December 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Aceman80: I think yr confusing thus with "White Lines"
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Monday, 14 December 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
baker man
― max, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
is baking bread
Man, "Fly Away" is such a great tune.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 08:38 (thirteen years ago) link
They're back or something:
Danish duo Laid Back -- responsible for the massive, underground dance track "White Horse" that crossed over onto the American pop charts in 1983 -- have announced the forthcoming release of Cosyland on May 22nd, a collection of reworked old tracks, and lost recordings from the famed sessions that put them on the map. But, of course, there's more to the Laid Back story. Back in the seventies, Tim Stahl and John Guldberg met in a band called The Starbox Band and soon found out that there was a special chemistry between them. They were always the ones left that kept on jamming when band rehearsals ended. After a disaster of a support gig for The Kinks in Copenhagen, people walked out on them... and the band split up. New technology then came: multi-track tape recorders, rhythm boxes and synthesizers, etc. In a backyard downtown Copenhagen, John had set up a small studio where they began jamming together and creating tape recordings. They soon realized that they had created a new sound, a new way of making music. The debut album Laid Back contained their first #1 hit “Maybe I'm Crazy,” and was released in 1981. The next single, “Sunshine Reggae”, was the summer hit of 1982 in Denmark. In the USA, the focus was however on another song, “White Horse”, which became a #1 Dance track and trendsetter with an influence that is still felt today. When their US record company told them “don't come, people think you are black”, Tim and John saw it as the biggest acknowledgement a musician could ever get and stayed away... and now today, “White Horse” is known for being a benchmark cornerstone of the electronic music-making in the Eighties, having been sampled over and over again and becoming a true classic.Absolute rarities are unearthed on Cosyland, taken from original multi-track archive tapes. Recordings at the source of it all were done in 1981 with brand-new equipment such as a Roland TR-808 rhythm box, a SH-101, a Pro-One monophonic synthesizer and a GR-500 guitar controller-and-synth. Relevant tapes copied from analogue to digital have just an added drumbeat, bass and vocal ahead of mixes. All recordings were improvised for their own pleasure while experimenting with a new technology. Besides, they were mere newcomers and beginners in this context, not knowing to later end up defining a new type of trademark sound. It is something of an archaeology excavation trip, so welcome aboard on a journey to Cosyland.
But, of course, there's more to the Laid Back story. Back in the seventies, Tim Stahl and John Guldberg met in a band called The Starbox Band and soon found out that there was a special chemistry between them. They were always the ones left that kept on jamming when band rehearsals ended. After a disaster of a support gig for The Kinks in Copenhagen, people walked out on them... and the band split up. New technology then came: multi-track tape recorders, rhythm boxes and synthesizers, etc. In a backyard downtown Copenhagen, John had set up a small studio where they began jamming together and creating tape recordings. They soon realized that they had created a new sound, a new way of making music. The debut album Laid Back contained their first #1 hit “Maybe I'm Crazy,” and was released in 1981. The next single, “Sunshine Reggae”, was the summer hit of 1982 in Denmark. In the USA, the focus was however on another song, “White Horse”, which became a #1 Dance track and trendsetter with an influence that is still felt today. When their US record company told them “don't come, people think you are black”, Tim and John saw it as the biggest acknowledgement a musician could ever get and stayed away... and now today, “White Horse” is known for being a benchmark cornerstone of the electronic music-making in the Eighties, having been sampled over and over again and becoming a true classic.
Absolute rarities are unearthed on Cosyland, taken from original multi-track archive tapes. Recordings at the source of it all were done in 1981 with brand-new equipment such as a Roland TR-808 rhythm box, a SH-101, a Pro-One monophonic synthesizer and a GR-500 guitar controller-and-synth. Relevant tapes copied from analogue to digital have just an added drumbeat, bass and vocal ahead of mixes. All recordings were improvised for their own pleasure while experimenting with a new technology. Besides, they were mere newcomers and beginners in this context, not knowing to later end up defining a new type of trademark sound. It is something of an archaeology excavation trip, so welcome aboard on a journey to Cosyland.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
YES PLEASE
― Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
― max, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
they sent this one around as a promo a while back
the beat is pretty good, i'm not into the vocals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r95ub7GSm5k
― dmr, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hwz5-MNLTY
^ not terrible
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
it was inevitable that "White Horse" is too classic for them to repeat, but i like this other stuff in its own ways
― Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0fnZiYXz9w
loved this for years before discovering it was a massive 'White Horse' sample
― Sylv_ebanks (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
It was pointed out to me a couple weeks ago that the skydiving video for "Baker Man" was directed by... Lars von Trier
― an elk hunt (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
wild. just watched that video for the first time today.
― dmr, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
Sakubona, unjani wena?
― jed_, Saturday, 3 November 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
White horse
― j., Thursday, 6 November 2014 08:43 (nine years ago) link
When their US record company told them “don't come, people think you are black”
Still can't get over how bad that sounds.
So, wait, that Deftones album title is about cocaine too? I thought they were chasing sales from the preteen girl demographic.
"White Horse" wasn't much of a hit outside the U.S.. "Bakerman" I first heard on Dom Joly's vanity album, but until now I'd never seen the video... it's fantastic. In five minutes, Lars von Trier makes up for his entire film career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JAFppD_cGY
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 06:53 (eight years ago) link
Wow, here I've been lurking for years, thinking no thread I started ever went anywhere. I remember now!
But wait -- White Horse uses an 808? Did I misread that? And I always thought I Need A Freak was a Too $hort original. Wonder if he actually got rights or if that was a bootleg cover.
― viborg, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 09:49 (eight years ago) link
brilliant band. bakerman, white horse, fly away - most bands can only dream of three distinct hits of that quality.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 09:51 (eight years ago) link
cocaine cool also had a revival in Denmark few years back
― niels, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 11:08 (eight years ago) link
Here's the Gandalf TBS commercial (with "White Horse")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTkja0ojTYs
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Saturday, 19 September 2015 07:33 (eight years ago) link
Nine degrees last night. Perfect evening for some super warm Danish bros. Bonus: Pittsburgh Penguin's own Phil Kessel on drums! Ba ba baaaa ba!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGV3GKZYwW4
― andrew m., Tuesday, 2 January 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link