HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Love the middle-aged eyeroll after "leave her alone, they said". DUDE, YOU'RE OLDER THAN HER DAD.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
yknow how ccr and the band came along at the end of the sixties and it was as if the beatles had never happened? basically same thing w/ benny and the 80s. it was as if the bourgeois tagg had never happened.
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
ilx comp v. five - this is not the music of l. ron hubbard, music maker (available to download)
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/cop-grudgingly-admits-suspect-is-the-best-goddamn,28215/
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
anyway 1980 vers forevah
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/IMG-20110507-00094.jpg
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
haha omg
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
good lord was the followup titled 'it puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again'?
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
the girl from the 1980 version would be 48 now
i hope they're very happy together
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 18 May 2012 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
"No, you can't date my daughter...wait, aren't you the guy we had to sign a thing for before you could move into the neighborhood?"
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
"And aren't you the same guy who came around 10 years ago asking about my older daughter?"
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
i really liked this song in 1989...i think somehow i thought the singer was singing it from a previous p.o.v. when he, too, had been sixteen years old?
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 May 2012 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
i cannot stop laughing at that album title
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, the days when a Benny Mardones could become a star.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
benny: portrait of a serial killer
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 18 May 2012 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
needless to say I now own that $1 copy of never run never hide
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, May 18, 2012 12:34 AM Bookmark
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 May 2012 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
seriously, the opening few seconds of this really rival "HEY! YOU! GET INTO MY CAR!" for unintentional super-creepiness on record.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 May 2012 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ benny rolling his eyes at dude who won't let him near his 16 yo daughter
― don't judge a book by its jpg (Edward III), Thursday, May 5, 2011 1:28 PM (1 year ago)
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
working in a record store during 1980, i recall benny mardones was one of those "hit" albums that NOBODY ever bought. and we were the square store in town, the go-to for gino vanelli and late-period chicago albums.
voting 1980 - thanks for the memories, ben
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Friday, 18 May 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
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
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 (three 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
― 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 weeks ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/cQfKc9R/2024-03-14-09-39-48.png
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 13:41 (two weeks 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 weeks ago) link
[Hook]
― pplains, Thursday, 14 March 2024 13:52 (two weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago) link
and a restraining order on rhythm guitar
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:52 (two weeks 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 weeks ago) link
'She's So (Good At) French(ing)'
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:08 (two weeks ago) link
he wants you to know
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:09 (two weeks 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 weeks ago) link
lmao
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:41 (two weeks 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 weeks ago) link
guess he was one and (mar)done(s)
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:54 (two weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago) link
don't you?
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:20 (two weeks 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 weeks ago) link
― dyl, Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:46 (two weeks 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 weeks ago) link