Hot 100 Peak: Number 26
Perhaps the a lot of bizarre anti-drug song of all time, "White Horse" (slang for both heroin and cocaine) became an electro-funk accepted by analysis that apparent Eighties alcove of playfully annoying garbaggio. With a wheezing, slide-whistle click-and-thud 808 beat, some proto-acid flickers and a comically apocalyptic Euro articulation intoning accidental balderdash like, "If you wanna be rich/Then you got to be a bitch," Danish duo Tim Stahl and John Guldberg created a time-capsule of borderless synth-and-drum-machine flukery (though you can absolutely apprehend hints of Green Velvet's sly techno prankishness). The B-side of arguable European hit "Sunshine Reggae" (Jack Johnson's aggressive by comparison), "White Horse" was a Number One ball clue in the U.S. (Number 26 pop), acknowledgment in allotment to the advice of Prince, who apprenticed Warner Bros. to absolution a 12-inch individual featuring "White Horse" on one ancillary and "When Doves Cry" on the other. C.A.
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