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

I'm waiting for the dubstep version.

― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, May 18, 2012 7:09 PM (2 months ago)

your wish is ....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZfAjWroKp0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZfAjWroKp0

Usher's take- Amarillo Chop Shop's remix:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgxB331V2E4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgxB331V2E4

that was a remix of a remix btw, and much improved on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbyFY-7w-Vw

wau i seriously only just noticed that this song is about statutory rape

uh, great sound tho

ur-text for the 21st century

http://soundcloud.com/whatupsupertrog/why-worship-death

not sure how someone entered this descrip into wikipedia w/ a straight face or w/o commentary

Music video

Mardones made a music video for the song, but, as it pre-dated MTV by a year, it was not widely broadcast.

The video opens with Mardones walking down a street and approaching a house. The song plays over the video, and the lyrics serve as Mardones' monologue. He is met at the door by a bearded man who tells him, "She's just 16 years old. Leave her alone." Mardones leaves and walks around to the back of the house, peering through a window at a girl sitting sullenly in her room. The video then cuts to Mardones at a pay phone, speaking to the girl on the other end of the line and professing his love. The video then cuts again to Mardones returning to the girl's house, carrying a rolled-up carpet. He crawls through her bedroom window, unravels the magic carpet, and taking the girl's hand, they take flight into the night sky. The video closes with Mardones serenading the girl as they embrace, the scene finally fading to black as they kiss.

Mardones made a music video for the song, but, as it pre-dated MTV by a year, it was not widely broadcast.

so MTV didn't play the video when it recharted in 1989? C'mon guys, this is way better than "Thriller"!

maybe it wasn't widely broadcast because the MTV execs were busy giving themselves eye baths after watching it

bedridden for days with mysterious vomiting illnesses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=U3_UM8rcGe4

hahahaha he totally throws tepper under the bus

http://youtu.be/U3_UM8rcGe4

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.

this is a fucking beautiful post and people need to show love imo

like wtf there's now a FIFTH version

i'm speechless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esFvmO5OXyU

this was on at the laundromat yesterday (1980 version) and zero and the signified and i were karaokeing around the place like doofuses.

He must have seen the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZtT8v0rkN8

deeply hoping this comes to fruition

i rocked the shit outta this at karaoke a couple weeks ago

alltime karaoke song, no doubt

Mardones needs to be told that the lyrics only get creepier every time he records a new version. 73-year-old Benny needs to walk away from cheerleader practice and get back to his mopping before the principal calls his parole officer.

"The song's just thirty-one years old..."

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YJvdVb-oEQ

a timeless holiday classic

just heard at the coffee shop

i lolled

ha! i heard this on the radio the other day and it was toward the end and i was disappointed.

for a while a local philly-area convenience store chain was playing this every other time i went in and now they never play it u_u

a local philly-area convenience store chain

say wawa. say it

Can't believe it took me so long to realize he's singing this from prison.

http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq313/doctorcasino/mardones_zpswxi9gbwy.png

show some respect

into the night (four tet remix)

If he was gonna milk a single song for his whole career, he could've at least mixed it up a little, a la Chubby Checker and 'The Twist'. 'Into The Night Again'. 'Macarena Into The Night'. 'Into The Judgment Night (feat. Grand Puba)'. '(Go) Into The Light (Fallen Heroes of 9/11)'.

Whoomp! (There It Goes, Into The Night)

has anyone ever covered this?

no-one big

this one is pretty bad
https://youtu.be/DqqM4u4ir-8

i kinda like this reggaed-out cover tho
https://youtu.be/oJrqDNBF1Yk

good revive. this is my favorite ilm thread

There's an alternate universe where Benny first rerecorded this song in 1984, with a gospel choir thrown on it, and it is that universe's "I Want To Know What Love Is."

Jam Dev 2 weeks ago
Not sure I follow the story of the vid. Think he's her dad, but his ex won't give him access unless he pays child support?

Ali Bee
Ali Bee 2 weeks ago
Who cares about the story... Enjoy the music!

We were wrong. There is something creepier than than the song "Into the Night." That thing: the original video for Benny Mardones' "Into the Night," featuring a goblin-faced Benny Mardones in a sleeveless striped t-shirt stalking a sixteen year old girl through a window, and then through a spectral statutory rape Tardis, and finally on a magic carpet that smells like Night Train and old cigarette smoke.

http://i.imgur.com/09bN1TK.png

http://i.imgur.com/xBcz9zm.png

Who cares about the story... Enjoy the music!

The only way this song can be enjoyed

i wish Mike Patton/Faith No More would cover this
it's so in their wheelhouse of cheesy covers

aaand I posted the same thing 4 yrs ago, lol

CMON PATTON, wtf

I'll say this: This is a rough song to have stuck in one's head for more than a day.

http://i.imgur.com/NWivCZb.jpg

a+

Cranking the Mardones rn

is that euphemism
have you broken any state laws y/n

hahaha no but i got home from the bar and saw this and listened to "into the night" get progressively worse with the 89, 2002, and finally acoustic versions

'Into the K-Hole (feat. Death in Vegas)' from the Spawn original motion picture soundtrack.

that doesn't make sense but at the same time it makes a lot of sense