This thread is like having a dream where nobody HAS A HEART.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
It's like having it all, and watching it fall AAAAAPART.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
It's like having a mall, guarded by PAAAAUL BLART
It's like having a date and driving a DAAAAAAAAART
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
It's like having a dream where somebody discovers the bodies in your crawlspace.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
If I could flyI'd pick you upI'd take you back to my lairAnd bathe in your blood
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, May 18, 2012 12:27 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dying
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
i just listened to both versions alternating for like 15 minutes
i like how his look eerily anticipated ariel pink's unisex schtick
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:13 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah i was thinking this too, perfect example of that thing i said about random white dude pop on the altered zones thread ages ago
― r|t|c, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
xpost i know, i can't stop. benny's magic rug has sucked me in. that carpet he flies on in the video is pretty amazing, too. ayo
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
if i'm honest (and wildly generalising) i feel this whole shitty subfusc undie machinery has denied us a kinda random white dude variety in pop music - like what would your peter gabriels or robert palmers or thomas dolbys or whatever be doing if they were 21 now yknow
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 22:22 (1 year ago) Bookmark
― r|t|c, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
I was tempted to post my bullshit rap song that uses this as the main sample, however sanity + restraint won the day
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
Some of these comments are so funny, saying that the girl in the song is 16 and that he's too old for her, making him somekind of pervert...but, hello, more than half of the states in the US put the age of consent at 16, so he's not a predator or pedophile
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
HELLO
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
i mean DOY
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
so much goodwill from me to whoever gifs that eyeroll and his mugging during the separated by fools part
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
Why's Benny wearing a wedding band while dialing the rotary pay phone?
― matt2, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
He doesn't know what love is yet.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
There's NOTHING creepy about a 16 yr old getting with an aged rock dude with pink socks, jeez you guys.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
There's nothing to compare it to.
btw the album closer and longest track is titled 'too young'
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think y'all are appreciating what a trailblazer benny was, he was out there smashing the artificial boundaries fathers put between their teenage daughters and 30yo musicians, fighting the good fight like a lover and a poet
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8mS4B8OYrVI
I will buy copies for everyone.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
Benny now has Parkinson's disease, but continues to hold it down on the live scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_7DxCham0k
― matt2, Friday, 18 May 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
i'm so tempted but you just know it would end up being every other ilx post
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Like that's a bad thing!
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, this elevates it from classic to ALL-TIME
― get wolves (get bent), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
I think around 2:14 when his tongue darts out of his mouth like a snake pretty much sums it all up for me
;_;
I secretly love this song and have been able to spend 30+ years pretending it's not the creepiest song ever
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
loling at girl sitting stiffly on the flying carpet like he just abducted Helen Kellershe doesn't even LOOK at him until they start making out
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Due to the success of "Into the Night," Curb Records signed Mardones and he recorded "Into the Night '89." The track appeared on his self-titled release (known as the "Blue Album" by his fans.) Not long after that, Mardones appeared on a Showtime tribute to Roy Orbison, alongside such luminaries as Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Johnny Cash and k.d. lang. Elvis Presley's band was the house band for the evening. When Mardones came on stage to sing "Running Scared," few people knew his name, but when he finished the song, he received a standing ovation.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA3tFmnTULQ
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
The dad in the video sort of reminds me of strongo. Maybe it is the glasses.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
I'm running scared from that mullet.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
there's a couple of spots in that performance where he looks genuinely terrified
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
ha, this song was always brought up on the yacht rock ilm threads and I could never quite place it. i think it just blended so much into the background and i forever thought it was a journey song or something. he has some of that steve perry emotiveness in his vox
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
ok fuck – the "Running Scared" cover is not embarrassing. I was hoping it would be.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, dude has a great voice
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
I always wanted Faith No More to cover "Into The Night" (because I have crush on Mike Patton and that would make the creepy part easier to take, lol)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
And yeah Benny's Running Scared is awesome. I've heard it covered a lot and everyone goes for the big powerful build but Benny really nails the emotion.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, he really picked it up and took it into the night.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
I not-so-secretly love this song despite the fact that it seems like a hastily rewritten paean to the consumption of teenaged flesh.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
how dare you dis Benny on my ILX, Haircare!
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
OMG there is a third studio version of this song from 2002
"This record was initially recorded as the soundtrack to the documentary, Into the Night: The Benny Mardones Story, writes Benny Mardones, in his liner notes for A Journey Through Time
To those listeners outside of Syracuse New York, where Benny Mardones lives, he makes clear that he is, in his own words, "a superstar," playing to audiences of thousands on a regular basis. The fact that Benny Mardones has a documentary about his rise, fall, and comeback is a shocker. ( - Erlewine, AMG)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N1yEvXIyu4
― Lee626, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
Can not get this song out of my head now, thanks a lot you guys.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 18 May 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
Benny Mardones is the new Chubby "The Twist"/"Let's Twist Again"/"The Twist (Yo, Twist!)" Checker.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
In the third version, Mardones changed the lyrics to "'She's just sixty-four years old, put her in a home,' they said"
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
She's, like, 60 years oldTotally gross, I said
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
looool
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
You know I realize we keep quoting from the Wikipedia page but the slow burn tautology here:
The story behind "Into the Night" charting twice is this: In 1989, KZZP, a radio station in Arizona, ran a segment titled "Where Are They Now?" The most popular question was "Whatever happened to the guy who sang 'Into the Night'?" Scott Shannon, then program director for Pirate Radio in Los Angeles, added "Into the Night" to its playlist. Radio stations across the country followed suit and "Into the Night" was once again a hit.Mardones was 33 years old when the song became a hit for the first time and he still lives quite well on the royalties received from this song that was also a hit in 1989.
Mardones was 33 years old when the song became a hit for the first time and he still lives quite well on the royalties received from this song that was also a hit in 1989.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
BTW, the opening fifteen seconds of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM6Gox5Ynu8
I mean, the rest of it as well, of course. Especially when you hear the first use of the title.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
modern english had the same thing happen down to the rerecording for new label like a year later w/ 'i melt w/ you', though there it didn't chart either time nearly as high as benny did both times w/ 'if i could fly'. i'm trying to think of other similar instances this has happened w/ us charts/radio, i'm sure in the uk where old songs rechart all the time it's not so rare.
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link