hahaha no but i got home from the bar and saw this and listened to "into the night" get progressively worse with the 89, 2002, and finally acoustic versions
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 13:50 (seven years ago) link
'Into the K-Hole (feat. Death in Vegas)' from the Spawn original motion picture soundtrack.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
that doesn't make sense but at the same time it makes a lot of sense
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
Bump.
Just remembered this classic thread after Mr. Mardones came up on shuffle. Those screams in the fade are truly crazed, the sound of a desperate man being dragged away from a high school fence after going to all that trouble of cutting off his ankle monitor.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
I get so mad now when I hear this song.
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
truly the grossest thing i have ever done is sing this song at a karaoke barcomplete with screams at the endi am disgusting!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
<3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
wkiw
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
i had forgotten about this song. hearing it now returned me to the back of my mom's silver Honda Civic .
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
truly the grossest thing i have ever done is sing this song at a karaoke bar
o m g
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 November 2019 03:47 (four years ago) link
Wish he woulda at least updated the ages when he kept remaking the song.
Soon he can just say "she's just sixty years old"
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2019 03:50 (four years ago) link
No, no, it was a different sixteen year old girl the second time, hence the re-release
― Vinnie, Thursday, 14 November 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
At least this time around the sixteen year old girl in question is just an anime print on a body pillow. I guess that's progress?
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 November 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
Listening rn after an inexcusably long lapse. Happy to announce that it's lost none of its power to induce bone-deep creep-outs.
I could've sworn there was a lyric about Benny conveying this message by scrawling it in his own blood across the side of this poor girl's family house and being sent to jail when her father found him passed out in the yard the next morning, but perhaps it's just subtextual.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Monday, 30 March 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/9402923/benny-mardones-into-the-night-dead-73
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 June 2020 13:49 (three years ago) link
Was just thinking about this guy.
Dad turns 71 this summer and sent me a photo of Johnny Cash from 2001. "This is what 71 looks like!"
Made me think of Rick Rubin calling up Benny Mardones, asking if he wanted the CASH treatment.
RUBIN: Got some ideas perfect for the first single: "Soma" by Smashing Pumpkins, um, song called "Harrowdown Hill" by Thom Yorke – he's the guy from Radiohead....
MARDONES: What about.... "Into the Night"?
― pplains, Monday, 29 June 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
She's just 16 years oldLeave her alone.You're dead
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 June 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
RIP to an ILX creepy legend
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 June 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
Wonder if he'll die again in 2029?
― pplains, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
Hahaha
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 June 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
Though the opening lines ("She's just 16 years old/ 'Leave her alone,' they said") made many listeners uncomfortable coming from the then-33-year-old Mardones, he would later explain the song was inspired by his platonic relationship with a teenage neighbor of his whose father had left her. (The first line was supposedly meant as a rejoinder to his co-writer, who got a little leery when meeting her for the first time.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_UM8rcGe4
― enochroot, Monday, 29 June 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
Elevated by Mardones' powerhouse vocal performance -- influenced by his love of both Pavarotti and Teddy Pendergrass
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
"Elevated by Mardones' powerhouse vocal performance -- influenced by his love of both Pavarotti and Teddy Pendergrass"
LOL
― skip, Monday, 29 June 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
"I'm not creepy, I'm writing in character, maaaaan."
At the beginning of that video he looks like Christoper Walken in a wig.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
And then when he walks around the corner to peer in her window, it reminds me of a scene from Mindhunter with the houses and circa-1980 cars in the background.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
there's a 2002 version too btw
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 03:58 (three years ago) link
she's still 16 in that version
if I had written a song that sounded as good as “Into The Night” I’d record a hundred versions of it too
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 06:18 (three years ago) link
Benny Mardones - Into the Night vs. In 2 the Night by Tulip Sweet and Her Trail of Tearshttps://youtu.be/610FDGsOxVE
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
it's a great vocal performanceit's a pretty great songsuper creepy though
this makes zero fucking sense:
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
it's like having a dreamwhere nobody has a heartit's like having it alland watching it fall apart
BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 July 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
benny mardones: 'actually, it's ephebophilia'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 July 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
Heard it at Trader Hoe’s today
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
Omg JOE’sso embarrassed
Truly honest typo vvv sorry
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 01:36 (one year ago) link
Benny would appreciate it in spirit.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
benny: portrait of a serial killer
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, May 18, 2012
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
Saw this album in a thrift store yesterday. Had never heard anything by this guy other than his big gross hit, but the album opener's title, "She's So French", piqued my curiosity. The first ten seconds seem to sum up the lyrical themes and vocal stylings of Mr. Mardones. "You'd better/Give me/Some of your/Good loving/Right nooooooooooooowwww!!!!! [wailed with maximum gusto]". And besides the repeated assertion that She's So French, no other references to Frenchness appear.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 14 March 2024 05:57 (two months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/cQfKc9R/2024-03-14-09-39-48.png
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 13:41 (two months ago) link
ironically, it was actually Mardones who said this to Robert Tepper IRL when the latter made an inappropriate remark about a 16-year old girl who he paid to walk his dog. he and all his apologists keep pointing to this to suggest it isn't a song about wanting to have sex w/ teenage girls, that it's a platonic love for someone he wants to take out of poverty...
...which would be maybe 35% believable if not for the chorus and the fuckin' music video, lol
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 13:44 (two months ago) link
[Hook]
― pplains, Thursday, 14 March 2024 13:52 (two months ago) link
"You'd better/Give me/Some of your/Good loving/Right nooooooooooooowwww!!!!! [wailed with maximum gusto]
Haha that was about my reaction way upthread when I listened to the album. It certainly makes a mark out of the gate, shall we say.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:12 (two months ago) link
"If you don't gimme your love/Well, what?"
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:15 (two months ago) link
was just looking at mardones on wikipedia - his first album was produced by andrew loog oldham and features mick ronson on guitar and jerry shirley from uriah heep on drums!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:48 (two months ago) link
and a restraining order on rhythm guitar
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:52 (two months ago) link
the creepiness of the song notwithstanding, I found a video of his last ever performance and his Parkinson's had gotten so bad by that point he was visibly shaking and barely able to hold the microphone. and he introduces "Into the Night" and asks the crowd to join him for what will be his last performance of the song ever. it was incredibly sad to watch.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:55 (two months ago) link
'She's So (Good At) French(ing)'
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:08 (two months ago) link
he wants you to know
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:09 (two months ago) link
listening to the first Benny record (Thank God for Girls lol)
some wisdom:
"One lesson I've learned in lifeyou gotta butter your breadbefore they let you use the knife"
so i'm wondering if he just smeared the butter on his bread with his hand?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:38 (two months ago) link
lmao
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:41 (two months ago) link