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

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

Bump.

Just remembered this classic thread after Mr. Mardones came up on shuffle. Those screams in the fade are truly crazed, the sound of a desperate man being dragged away from a high school fence after going to all that trouble of cutting off his ankle monitor.

I get so mad now when I hear this song.

truly the grossest thing i have ever done is sing this song at a karaoke bar
complete with screams at the end
i am disgusting!

<3

wkiw

i had forgotten about this song. hearing it now returned me to the back of my mom's silver Honda Civic .

truly the grossest thing i have ever done is sing this song at a karaoke bar

o m g

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"

No, no, it was a different sixteen year old girl the second time, hence the re-release

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?

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.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/9402923/benny-mardones-into-the-night-dead-73

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"?

She's just 16 years old
Leave her alone.
You're dead

RIP to an ILX creepy legend

Wonder if he'll die again in 2029?

Hahaha

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

Elevated by Mardones' powerhouse vocal performance -- influenced by his love of both Pavarotti and Teddy Pendergrass

"Elevated by Mardones' powerhouse vocal performance -- influenced by his love of both Pavarotti and Teddy Pendergrass"

LOL

"I'm not creepy, I'm writing in character, maaaaan."

At the beginning of that video he looks like Christoper Walken in a wig.

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.

there's a 2002 version too btw

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

Benny Mardones - Into the Night vs. In 2 the Night by Tulip Sweet and Her Trail of Tears
https://youtu.be/610FDGsOxVE

it's a great vocal performance
it's a pretty great song
super 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.)

it's like having a dream
where nobody has a heart
it's like having it all
and watching it fall apart

BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW

benny mardones: 'actually, it's ephebophilia'

Heard it at Trader Hoe’s today

Omg JOE’s
so embarrassed

Truly honest typo vvv sorry

Benny would appreciate it in spirit.

benny: portrait of a serial killer

― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, May 18, 2012

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.

https://i.ibb.co/cQfKc9R/2024-03-14-09-39-48.png

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.