One of the grossest records ever recorded. In the last minute-long bellow he promises to take her into his mouth.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 11:22 (eleven years ago) link
omg what the hell is this video
lol as if you werent already totally creeped out, yep of course it's a vest
― r|t|c, Friday, 18 May 2012 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/04/article-1304521700119-0BE1652A00000578-546024_466x310.jpg
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
ew ew the climbing through the window and rolling out the carpet!!
― r|t|c, Friday, 18 May 2012 11:39 (eleven years ago) link
tbh I never noticed there were two versions of this song, although I'd heard them both. The 1980 version has much cleaner production and is better.
― Lee626, Friday, 18 May 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
Leave it alone, we said.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
they still had rotary dial pay phones in 1980?
― Lee626, Friday, 18 May 2012 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
yup
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 12:00 (eleven years ago) link
must have taken a really long time to send a text message back then....
wow 1980 really was still the dark ages. Cell phones hadn't been invented yet, and you could have a hit record about child abduction....
― Lee626, Friday, 18 May 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
Here's my number and a dime, call me anytime.
― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Friday, 18 May 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
There are so many moments in that video that should be animated gifs.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
some days it's a tough call whether this or "born to be alive" is my favorite video.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 18 May 2012 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
I just met you, and this is crazy, but you're just 16 years old, so call me maybe.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
if i could flyi'd pick you upand take you into the nightviiiiiiideooooo gaaaaaaaaames
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 18 May 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
I LOVE singing this song at karaoke. One of my finest moments was on the day that R. Kelly was acquitted, and he got this gem dedicated to him by yours truly. I really wailed during the part at the end too.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
One of my favorite parts is the falsetto "it's trooo-hooo" and also the nonsense wailing at the end obvs.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
I've been singing the shit out of this since last night. It really is a lot of fun. Will karaoke it at earliest convenience and report back.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
wtf that first video? is that his amish bandmate who answers the door? and then his eyeroll ahahaha
i like how his look eerily anticipated ariel pink's unisex schtick
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
I'LLTAKEYOU ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAA
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
WHOO-OOOAHWHOO-OOOAHWHOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHif i could fly i'd1) pick you up2) take you into the night3) show you love
this song is so absurd that i just never ever get sick of it
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
I don't really understand why the ability to fly is a necessary prerequisite for him doing any of those things.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
tbh the him being into a sixteen-year-old thing doesn't disturb me as much as his insistence that "i'll show you a love that you've never seen..."
similar serial killer intensity operative in "endless love", esp. if you are familiar with the film, which is actually super-disturbing
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
he's just a pelican for her love
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
He has to pick her up from high school before he takes her into the night and shows her love. Due to school regulations prohibiting mulleted old men from loitering around campus, this requires airlift.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
It's easier to abduct teenagers that way?
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
i heard "endless love" while food-shopping the other day and i don't know if i've ever felt that uncomfortable before while browsing heads of lettuce
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:26 (eleven 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, 18 May 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
How come when I do a gis for Mardones gifs I get pictures of Michael Fassbender?
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
Separated by fools who don't know what love is...yet
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
This song reminds me of when some stranger gets overly-chummy with you and starts going on about these damn minorities or something, like he just assumes you must be on his side, as any rational person would be. Forced into integration by fools who don't know what the bell curve is yet.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
i know, this video has ruined the eyeroll as a viable non-ironic expression/gesture from here unto perpetuity
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
also very possibly sleeveless stripey shirts
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
and matching your socks with your would-be girlfriend's sweater
― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Incubated by ghouls who don't know what blood is...yet
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
His eyerolls are ALL TIME classics.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
This thread is delivering hardcore on the crepey lols.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
need "into the night" mashup w/ "skulls" by the misfits
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
This thread is like having a dream where nobody HAS A HEART.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:42 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
― 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 (eleven years ago) link
i just listened to both versions alternating for like 15 minutes
― 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years 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 (one month ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/cQfKc9R/2024-03-14-09-39-48.png
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 13:41 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
[Hook]
― pplains, Thursday, 14 March 2024 13:52 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
"If you don't gimme your love/Well, what?"
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:15 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
and a restraining order on rhythm guitar
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:52 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
'She's So (Good At) French(ing)'
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:08 (one month ago) link
he wants you to know
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:09 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
lmao
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:41 (one month ago) link
oh my god this album sucks
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:48 (one month ago) link
guess he was one and (mar)done(s)
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:54 (one month ago) link
i tapped out halfway through "Susquehanna Lady"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:55 (one month ago) link
The final curtain came downOn Johnny at thirty-fiveLeft a family of nine little kidsAnd a devastated wife
Damn Johnny
― President Keyes, Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:00 (one month ago) link
don't you?
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:20 (one month ago) link
mad at me because I can finally afford to provide my family with cutlery
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:22 (one month ago) link
lol
― dyl, Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:46 (one month ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, March 14, 2024 12:55 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol, is susquehanna the least notable place to have its own lady
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:51 (one month ago) link