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

boy my dog does NOT like 'she's so french'

le woof!

Your dog has the right damn idea.

My kid begged me to turn it off. She had a point. xp

she's just three years old
twenty one in
dog years

Another Tepper cowrite from Never Run Never Hide. Comparatively saner/duller, just.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9wFHO-1_G0

have you been listening to this album all afternoon? Brave man.

Hey, it beats Medicine.

It's that boring at work.

"Crazy Boy"! Cowritten by the "She's So French" cowriter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oriuPKe-6T8

wow B+ from xgau

xpost -- That cowriter, BTW, ALSO has his own rep -- I give you D. L. Byron, aka David Leigh Byron, from his 1980 album This Day and Age:

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2936524-1323812317.jpeg

"Listen to the Heartbeat"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjzE0AANHJY

Okay you have to c/p the full review there.

Back to Benny -- "Hold Me Down" -- and quite the opening scream there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98JJsnafYQ

man who originated this lou gramm/steve perry rock vocal style? paul rodgers?

Was wondering that. I've heard Rodgers be credited/blamed for it before so I think you're right. Before that...who was Free's lead vocalist?

And the next song on Benny's album was "American Bandstand" -- so no points in guessing where he ended up playing it once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWtR1DaOedA

lol jk about xgau

paul rodgers was free's vocalist! i think

Ah well, that makes sense then, doesn't it! :-D

"Hey Baby"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWS9is-v8a0

"Hometown Girls"! Almost properly new wave there at the start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4kql72WHg

And finally, yes, "Too Young"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCuHYO1r8w

re "Hey Baby" -- that's not the Bruce Channel classic is it

Oh Jesus Christ, there's a FOURTH version of "Into the Night"...

ACOUSTIC!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZBbcrcRgMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZBbcrcRgMA

xpost - O FUCK YOU

I'm waiting for the dubstep version.

That "She's So French" intro is just BEGGING to be sampled.

btw spotify does have several benny albums, none of which are never run never hide.

"listen to the hearbeat" is one of the worst things i've ever heard

haha i am so glad i started this

i had visions of it being one of those sad little polls with six posts and two votes, but you came through, ilm. you came through.

pederasts and 80s mullets, bringing us together as always.

I have this habit of really babbling when I watch the lil one by myself...she was yelling because she wanted more bananas and I wasn't cutting them fast enough...I caught myself saying - outloud - ” Hold your horses there Benny Mardones”

you were a fool separating her from her banana

lmao i can't believe robert tepper starred in and directed the room under a pseudonym!

If this thread has achieved nothing else, I doubt that I'll ever again lump Benny Mardones in with the yacht rock crowd.

as Ned and strongo pointed otu, Mardones is closer to the Bad Company-Michael Bolton crowd anyway.

Yeah, this was never really apparent to me on the basis of the one creepy Mardones song I'd ever heard before this thread.

Richard Marx owes a lot to these dudes.

Richard Marx's mullet owes a lot to these dudes' mullets.

They paved the way for parties in the back.

Richard Marx was a pop guy; he worked for Lionel Richie and Madonna.

to think i genuinely used to like music

never thought i would be able to say "i hate ned raggett" but everything is different now

that d.l. byron song would sound right in place on one of the rhino american power pop compilations.

then they should be destroyed posthaste

this is what i love about ILM.... i come here looking to read up and chat about my cult-fave indie bands, only to find we're all exhuming the recorded legacy of Benny Mardones

i swear that "listen to the heartbeat" song was the Chevrolet jingle used for several years during the '80s. I can't decide which is worse....

that d.l. byron song would sound right in place on one of the rhino american power pop compilations.

or even better, this punk compilation

lest we forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG8-Ay6nIQA

Wonder if the "Good Girls Don't" cover has the "sitting on her face" line

btw this was the "listen to the heartbeat of america" chevrolet jingle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MdrOVzvb7I

man, because this thread is so entertaining i have listened to "into the night" like five times today and i still couldn't tell you how it goes