"White Horse" by Laid Back - what is this song about?

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.

This one?
Wonderland - White Horse (Mike Monday mix):
http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3EHCKG1PWB52F1OHSDW1VTM9IB

"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.

http://www.eborg3.com/Graphics/Bible/66-Revelation/Rev06/White%20Horse3.jpg

On the flip, Mtume's Juicy Fruit album is completely underrated. That entire album is great.

wow, nice one drawing attention to what you're blatantly ripping off!

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 Records
5. These Are The Things That I Like 12" - Future Entertainment Records

*hoping to seed minds of people in a position to make this happen*

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.

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.

if i can have that song
-- Majid, Sunday, April 30, 2006 12:19 AM (1 year ago)

my version has "now that we've found love (what're we gonna do)" on the flip!

best song evar

yet another classic my mom was into before I was when this thang hit

That thing never gets old.

I remember when that song came out and my friends and I were scared out of our wits.

I remember, in fourth grade, a kid in our class brought the 12" of this in for show and tell. The teacher let him play it on the class turntable, but I don't think we even made it halfway through before it getting yanked for being "inappropriate". I'm not sure that I've heard it more than twice since then.

Was it the drugs part or the "rich / bitch" that was so incriminating?

Fly Away/Walking In The Sunshine's first few seconds are also v nice

it was probably how unbelievably nasty the beat is - there's something obviously inappropriate about the song from the very beginning

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.

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.

i would write a 45 RPM series book on "White Horse"

sub "weird tempo change" to "weird beat count" (probably due to editing the song on tape, most likely)

/staktrekman

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

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.

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.

any chance of the remix?

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

pretty bad "Kickin'" song if u ask me

just alittle drug info

This into "Erotic City" is a great 12ish minutes of dancing etc.

"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.

Best commercial ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OdEWFr9lO0

Very funny.

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!!!!!

huh?

Aceman80: I think yr confusing thus with "White Lines"

baker man

is baking bread

Man, "Fly Away" is such a great tune.

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.

YES PLEASE

baker man

is baking bread

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hwz5-MNLTY

^ not terrible

it was inevitable that "White Horse" is too classic for them to repeat, but i like this other stuff in its own ways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0fnZiYXz9w

loved this for years before discovering it was a massive 'White Horse' sample

It was pointed out to me a couple weeks ago that the skydiving video for "Baker Man" was directed by... Lars von Trier

wild. just watched that video for the first time today.

Sakubona, unjani wena?

White horse

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

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.

brilliant band. bakerman, white horse, fly away - most bands can only dream of three distinct hits of that quality.

cocaine cool also had a revival in Denmark few years back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r95ub7GSm5k

Here's the Gandalf TBS commercial (with "White Horse")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTkja0ojTYs

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