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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It definitely is exciting, just in a different way. My issue with it is that the classic-to-dud ratio seems to be just a little lower than the first installment (I mean really, Barry Waite?).

Tonight when I chase the dragon
The water will change to cherry wine
And the silver will turn to gold
Time out of mind

Yeah, it's a drug reference.

these cds were probably one of my first exposures to this stuff and after the fact, i've found a lot more of the records of stuff on 1 than 2

http://tbs.com/broadband/videoplayer/0,,70640,00.html

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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