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Post by Whi$tlin' Pete on Nov 13, 2003 0:51:41 GMT -5
Does anyone remember this 1984 hit? I found it to be amusing. The lyrics were so simplistic, but it was a great dance tune. I believe it was sampled in Monifah's 1998 hit "Touch It."
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Post by tico on Nov 13, 2003 10:21:36 GMT -5
Classic! My grandma even danced off this song!
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Post by mst3k on Nov 13, 2003 10:47:31 GMT -5
LOL! Go Grandma!  Love this song (was it supposed to be about heroin, I seem to recall?). The radio station I listened to back then (WINK-FM 97 in Fort Myers) usually played the single edit, but at night they would throw on the full version (which featured the word "bi+ch" several times... scandalous, for 1984!). |
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Post by Jeff on Nov 15, 2003 2:42:55 GMT -5
I love this song! WJDX-FM (Mix 96) played it one Saturday night in '94.
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Post by stevie nice on Nov 15, 2003 16:38:41 GMT -5
Yeah it was about Heroin use. It was also originally the B side of a shitty song called Sunshine Reggae, at least the 12 inch version on Sire Records was. Great record to mix with almost anything within a 122-128 BPM range; if they weren't gonna dance to this, they were a corpse.
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Post by reception on Apr 8, 2004 21:09:53 GMT -5
Cheesy.
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Post by Jeff on Apr 9, 2004 1:50:08 GMT -5
I believe it was sampled in Monifah's 1998 hit "Touch It." Yes, it was. :) |
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Post by cartman2002 on Nov 14, 2006 16:58:36 GMT -5
It went to #26 on the pop chart but also hit #1 on the dance chart and #5 on the R&B chart not bad for a musical act from Denmark.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 17, 2007 10:07:54 GMT -5
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Post by Whi$tlin' Pete on Feb 9, 2009 0:55:20 GMT -5
I like Taylor Swift's remake of this song!
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Post by WotUNeed on Feb 9, 2009 2:50:55 GMT -5
I like Taylor Swift's remake of this song! LOL I really like this song. Simple. Fun. Effective. I actually don't think "Sunshine Reggae" is so bad either, although it doesn't compare. |
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Post by Hervard on Feb 9, 2009 9:39:18 GMT -5
No. Just no.
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Post by disman00911 on Feb 5, 2021 14:03:14 GMT -5
One of my all-time favorite 80s songs, whether it was pop, R&B, or dance. I heard this song alot as 80s gold on WGCI, V103, and B96 as a youngster but I never could understand the meaning of this song. "Ride the White Horse", "Ride the White Pony". I also remember Monifah's 1998 hit "Touch It" sampling it. Despite the weirdness of this song, it remains one of my all-time favorite 80s cuts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwATF5dnfq4 |
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Feb 28, 2024 11:04:26 GMT -5
40 years ago this week, "White Horse" debuted at #85 on the February 25, 1984 Billboard Hot 100. German tv performance: MTV did play the video: Video Adds for 6/9/84 BERLIN Now It’s My Turn BON JOVI She Don’t Know Me THE CARS Magic JOE COCKER Civilized Man THOMAS DOLBY I Scare Myself BOB DYLAN Jokerman ROGER GLOVER The Mask THE HUMAN LEAGUE The Lebanon KILLING JOKE The Eighties LAID BACK White HorseJOHN LENNON Borrowed Time MAMA’S BOYS Mama We’re All Crazy Now THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT Prime Time 38 SPECIAL One Time For Old Times TRACEY ULLMAN Breakaway WHITESNAKE Slow An’ Easy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Horse_(Laid_Back_song)#1 Dance #5 R&B #22 Cash Box #25 R&R: web.archive.org/web/20230327010707/https://gghunt.utasites.cloud/charts/laid_back.htm |
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Post by jdanton2 on Feb 28, 2024 16:17:58 GMT -5
really good song . sort of a mix of 80's new wave and dance music . interesting that r&b radio would play something like that back in the 80's . don't think they would play something like that today.
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