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:
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.)
― 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
oh my god this album sucks
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:48 (two months ago) link
guess he was one and (mar)done(s)
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:54 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months ago) link
don't you?
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:20 (two months 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 (two months ago) link
lol
― dyl, Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:46 (two months 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 (two months ago) link