benny mardones - "into the night" 1980 version vs. 1989 version

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....

Here's my number and a dime, call me anytime.

There are so many moments in that video that should be animated gifs.

some days it's a tough call whether this or "born to be alive" is my favorite video.

I just met you, and this is crazy, but you're just 16 years old, so call me maybe.

if i could fly
i'd pick you up
and take you into the night
viiiiiiideooooo gaaaaaaaaames

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.

One of my favorite parts is the falsetto "it's trooo-hooo" and also the nonsense wailing at the end obvs.

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.

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

I'LL
TAKE
YOU
ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAA

WHOO-OOOAH
WHOO-OOOAH
WHOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
if i could fly
i'd
1) pick you up
2) take you into the night
3) show you love

this song is so absurd that i just never ever get sick of it

I don't really understand why the ability to fly is a necessary prerequisite for him doing any of those things.

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

I don't really understand why the ability to fly is a necessary prerequisite for him doing any of those things.

he's just a pelican for her love

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.

I don't really understand why the ability to fly is a necessary prerequisite for him doing any of those things.

It's easier to abduct teenagers that way?

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

If I could fly
I'd pick you up
I'd take you back to my lair
And bathe in your blood

haha

How come when I do a gis for Mardones gifs I get pictures of Michael Fassbender?

Separated by fools who don't know what love is...yet

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.

i know, this video has ruined the eyeroll as a viable non-ironic expression/gesture from here unto perpetuity

also very possibly sleeveless stripey shirts

and matching your socks with your would-be girlfriend's sweater

Incubated by ghouls who don't know what blood is...yet

His eyerolls are ALL TIME classics.

This thread is delivering hardcore on the crepey lols.

need "into the night" mashup w/ "skulls" by the misfits

This thread is like having a dream where nobody HAS A HEART.

It's like having it all, and watching it fall AAAAAPART.

It's like having a mall, guarded by PAAAAUL BLART

It's like having a date and driving a DAAAAAAAAART

It's like having a dream where somebody discovers the bodies in your crawlspace.

If I could fly
I'd pick you up
I'd take you back to my lair
And 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

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

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

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

I was tempted to post my bullshit rap song that uses this as the main sample, however sanity + restraint won the day

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

HELLO

i mean DOY

so much goodwill from me to whoever gifs that eyeroll and his mugging during the separated by fools part

Why's Benny wearing a wedding band while dialing the rotary pay phone?

He doesn't know what love is yet.

There's NOTHING creepy about a 16 yr old getting with an aged rock dude with pink socks, jeez you guys.

There's nothing to compare it to.

btw the album closer and longest track is titled 'too young'

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

[Hook]

"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.

"If you don't gimme your love/Well, what?"

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!

and a restraining order on rhythm guitar

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.

'She's So (Good At) French(ing)'

he wants you to know

listening to the first Benny record (Thank God for Girls lol)

some wisdom:

"One lesson I've learned in life
you gotta butter your bread
before they let you use the knife"

so i'm wondering if he just smeared the butter on his bread with his hand?

lmao

oh my god this album sucks

guess he was one and (mar)done(s)

i tapped out halfway through "Susquehanna Lady"

The final curtain came down
On Johnny at thirty-five
Left a family of nine little kids
And a devastated wife

Damn Johnny

so i'm wondering if he just smeared the butter on his bread with his hand?

don't you?

mad at me because I can finally afford to provide my family with cutlery

lol

i tapped out halfway through "Susquehanna Lady"

― 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