Dissect DJs - Benny Mardones - Into the Night

Episode Date: August 1, 2024

In Episode 126 we uncover a rare song from the 80s that turns out to be rarely heard for a very good reason... It's Benny Mardones - "Into the Night".DJ JAG brings a deep cut to the table with some lyrics that must be heard to be believed. It's time to dissect some problematic throwback music from the 80s, Benny you're NEXT! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DOSECD DJ in the building What's going on everybody? It's the Dicec DJs. What's up, Steeze? What are we doing today? This is one from me, guys. I wanted to introduce Castle. I've been actually singing this song,

and you're going to hear Why Castle. This man absolutely gets on the microphone and has a voice on him that I just like, I've got to sing that, and I've been singing it and loving every minute of it. But I want to discuss what he's talking about, Because every time I sing, I'm like, hmm. And so I just, you know, the words, like we usually do, we're going to dissect this song.

And then you're going to hear why I love it and also why I'm confused by it. So you're telling me there's lyrics coming. There is lyrics coming right now. But yeah, just wanted to introduce everybody. Because we are the DJs. I like to stick it. Throwback and dissect it. DJ Jack, DJ Castle.

This is going to be a quick one. We're going to get into it. I want to hear the words. I'm going to ask classical questions about it. And then we're going to move right through it. He told me this is a heavy list. very listening one heavy listening so here we go gonna do a lot of Benny sing to us who is it wait wait wait we haven't even said who it oh you're right

this is Benny Madonis just know what you're saying that right madonis some one of those things and this is into the night sing it Benny let's bring this here do you hear the soul behind do you hear the almost pain if they just he's he is singing from the bottom of his lungs and and he's just getting started can you feel that absolutely can I absolutely can I I'm trying to look this up. So it looks like it's Benny Mardonas. Don't do the lyrics, though.

I don't want you to. I literally just want to know what, like, year it was. Because it feels like if I had to guess, 1988. Yeah, it's around there. It may be a little earlier. Dude, why can't you ever just have, like, a hard actual piece of information about a song? I always do the research about, like, where is the song? You're a better researcher.

I know, but when I don't know the song. Well, why you're looking for it, I'll go over the lyrics here. So separated. Is it called Into the Night? Yeah, into the night. Because you said sing to the night. So that's... No, into the night.

Separated by fools who don't know what love is yet. Separated by fools who don't know what love is yet. What is separated by fools? Sorry, I miss the beginning. That's the beginning. That's where it starts. It kind of awkwardly. They're confused.

It feels like... He's like, we're separated by fools. It feels like a fragment sentence, but go on. And then he gets right into it. If I could fly, I'd pick you up. I'd take you into the night and show you a love it's like you've never seen

ever seen sounds like some Aladdin shit yeah I can show you the world so what I get from this so far is that there's like you know quickly people are trying to separate the love that they found

and if he could he'd go get her fly her and they'd show her the world and love like you said the Aladdin feel like he's never seen too bad you can't fly home boy Benny you're screwed You got no wings

You got no magic fucking carpet Is that all you're banking on Is your whole thing If I could fly This shit would pop right now It would be a party girl You and me would be fucking But he can't fly so

You're right And there's your king size bed And there's your king size bed for And Hubba, hubba. Stop that. But because I can't, like, so what's up? Like, you want to, like, get a burger or something?

Let's go to Joe's Crab Shack. I got, like, a coupon. I got two for one. It's happy hour. I think we can catch a flick. I don't know. He's got nothing. But he's got nothing.

All he's got is this wish that he could fly. I don't know. I'm judging a lot. And he's being separated by, he's calling them fools. But who knows why they're being separated or what's happening there. You're right. It is kind of a brief sentence there at the beginning. And continue it on.

Let's listen to the road. Like I said, I want to move through this pretty quickly. Let's hear him sing a little bit more. Wait, what happened? There it is. Bandy, sing it.

All right, two major subjects he just brought up. So it's like having a dream where nobody has a heart. First of all, dreams are crazy as fuck as it is. They may not have hearts. I don't think anybody in my dreams has a heart.

Like, the one time I got into a drive-by with Travis Scott, and he told me I better shoot it or he's going to kill me. And so I just started doing a drive-by, and then I realized I just killed people, and then I was laughing. And then I woke up, and I was like,

an hour I was sweating, thinking I committed a trip. Do we tell that story on the podcast already? I think we did. I'm just repeating it again. That shit's crazy. Maybe he's in the top ten special. We haven't posed a-dreams. Dreams are, I don't know.

Nobody has a heart in dreams, so I don't know where he's going with that. Maybe I never ask. That's not at the top of my conscience when I'm thinking like, hey, what's up? What about your heart, though? Is your heart in this? Okay. I know you want me to jump off the Empire State Building, clear cross to the Grand Canyon, but I need to question your heart first.

And then the next one, it's like having it all, having it all, but watching it all fall apart. Now that sounds traumatic. Like, can you imagine, like, having it all and then just watching it all just crumble in front of you? I would argue that that's just what a lot of people feel like post-breakup. I'd be like, I had it all, no, it's all crumbling apart. And, you know, it's like, maybe get back to me in like a year. See if you're probably fine. He'll bounce back, chap.

You won't feel like, yeah, I had it all Now I have nothing at all. Maybe you will. Maybe you did. Maybe you fucked everything up. I don't know. But I'm just saying, that sounds like a grandiose statement

that tends to follow the person that just like broke up. No, like say some fucking extreme shit like that. Yeah, I agree with you. You're overblowing it, I think, a little bit, Benny. All right. Benny, two more. Wait, go ahead.

I have to fucking say. I was waiting for it to come up because as soon as the first thing I read when I looked at the lyrics. I told you not to read the lyrics. I was trying to make it fun and bring it all. the way back and now we have to now we have to bring it didn't what says this verse one it is the

very first line of the subject because the rest of the song why didn't you bring it up because i didn't want to because i wanted to build up like is you talking about love and then all right all right now we got to go back no no scratch all this now you brought let you let you do your thing it's new and it right so let's go back then as i was doing i was trying to avoid the fact that the very first line is this ladies and gentlemen let's listen to the very beginning because there was castle called it out it sounded very fragmented and this is what he starts with i asked you what he said and you fucking ignored it to move on and I was trying. This is the whole thing I was trying to do

the whole time but let's go do your thing. Benny, sing to us. She's just 16 years old. This guy's fucking, this piece of shit, dude. I had to sing this song and I have to fucking avoid that first line. You don't have to sing the song.

Nobody has to sing this song. I move it to 19. I was like, she's just 19. So I make it legal and like a little boy. But like, that was better, man. Yeah, right. She's just 36 years old

But yeah This guy's an absolute new bag And then you wonder As he says that The next one Separated by fools No sir Those are

Those are officers of the law They're doing their job Because you're a fucking petto You piece of shit You piece of shit Benny Mardones Put your name on the track By the way

The photo The photo is like It's like a shooting star This is a shit. This dude's fucking old. This guy's even older and I thought. I gave him the benefit of the doubt because you can't really tell by... You think about it, 19, 16.

His voice sounds like he could be like, I don't know, in his early 20s maybe, but no. This man's 38 or something. He looks like he's 48. I mean, granted, back in the 80s or whenever, I'm looking for the year. Yeah, this, and then he said separate, it could be responsible parents separating him. He's just calling him fools. Friends. People that have interjected for your well-being or her.

her well-being. Literally anybody around you. Separated. And then he says, right after that, who don't know what love is yet, no, I think they do. And they know that what you're doing is not that, sir. Like, you're... It's called predatory behavior.

You're fucking dead. And it serves five to ten in the clink. All right? So what's funny is that, like, I heard the song and I kind of didn't hear the first line. I was just like, oh, I didn't pay attention. And then he starts singing the song. You're going to hear this song. This man screams.

the song. He sings it and I fell in love with the song. I was like oh this is a great song I got to hear it again and then I heard it the second time and I was like wait what the fuck did he just say then I repeated it I was like he just said that and now I know as you guys are all hearing this man is basically a pedophile singing a song about a love to a 16 year old that he who he wants to whisk away into the sky like fucking Aladdin like a love she's never seen yeah because she's 16 because she doesn't know love because she just fucking started her second semester of high school. You piece of shit.

You shirt ball, Sanchez. I would fuck this guy up if I ever saw him, dude. I mean, isn't it crazy that it was just not that long ago? Like, this is probably made within our life. Why won't it give me the fucking year?

I literally have to just Google search this. I got you. It was probably within our lifetime that this song was made, and that means that this shit was just sort of like a, oh yeah, she was 16. Wasn't that one song?

Was it Abba song? Only 17. Dancing queen? It used to be a thing to just like glamorize, like, young teenagers. Like it was some fucking love interest that you should just, you should just feel right about, you know? Sometimes I'm glad we've come this far. June of 1980. As a society.

Oh, June. Okay. So, never mind. We were not alive. So early 80s. Wow. Okay. Wow.

Yeah, that's. Yeah. This guy's a pile for sure. But let's say this is a song. I wanted to hold that and bring it all the way full circle. But fuck it, now that we know, this guy's a piece of shit. And now let's listen to the rest of this song, be sung awkwardly. Why would you start with that?

And people were just like, okay, okay. Yeah, tell me more, Benny. Fucking Benny. There's nothing to compare his love to. Is this man, a 40-year-old version? What is this? You picked the weirdest songs, bro. Every time we do it for Jag one, it's always just like, I don't know what I'm getting into.

I don't know what's around the next corner. What's what I'm going to be ambushed by? That's pretty much the rest of the song. I just kind of keep doing like that. And it just fades out or it doesn't fade out. No, bring it back. But the chorus sing. Let the chorus sing.

So good. But so bad. So good, but so bad. But so terrible. So terrible, dude. He's not put his sword to that, though? Like, you got to hear him you sing karaoke. I know.

I do. I love it. The mic is like all the way over here. I'm screaming. It sounds good because I got reverb and shit. It's fantastic. I can see it. Yeah.

I love to imagine he just gives this glory performance. The backup singers, the orchestra, everybody's like fucking crushing it. He's like on his knees. He's doing the shit that you were just doing. And then everybody's like, yeah. And he's just like, thank you. He just like a bow. And he's like, thank you.

And then he like takes two steps off stage. And then officers are just like, get the fuck on the ground. Get on the ground. Stam! Even the audience is like, they're clapping. Dirtbag? That guy's a douchebag. Yeah, no, he deserves it.

He deserves it. Dope song, though. Good song. He's saying a shit out of it. He's saying it. Yeah, man, it's so weird. I had to change was the age just a little bit. Taking her on taking her into the night.

The show her love she's never seen. Oh, God, it's so weird. But, God, he sings the shit out of it. I feel so weird about the song. Because I can't stand what you're talking about. But, God, he sings it so good. So it makes me want to sing it, and I do sing it. Anyways.

Can't explain it, but my slaps and snaps. So this is a weird one for me, right? This is a weird one. It's a weird one for all of us, Justin, and we all have you to thank for bringing us here. Have you ever heard this song? Nobody has heard this song. Comment on our Instagram.

Let us know. Let us know. Nobody would see it unless they actually went and saw Justin's karaoke. Yeah, so come out to karaoke if you want. You're not, you know. Whatever. Other people go. It's a great time.

I mean, I'm not giving any slaps and snaps on the actual story of the song. So zero if not negative on that aspect. I might judge you otherwise, but go for it. But with the actual song, I'm going to go ahead and give it a... As far as I can go. I can't go much far as. Is that four? Four slaps?

No, three. I just gave it three slaps. All right. It's basic to the point. I love the song as far as how much he gets into it, but then I hate the lyrics of the song. Even though I love the lyrics of the song, except for the first lyric, which throws the whole entire rest of the song. It's a shit.

But if he just changed the age, I couldn't have said any age. Could have said anything. He could have said 26. She's just 26 years old. And then it's still young. Or you just live the age out of it. Keep it ambiguous. Fuck, I'm imagining that as you get older, you'd probably want the, Benny, I'm talking

to you, you probably, are you really going to stick it at 16 for the rest of your life? Like that's, got to be the age of the girl I'm singing about. Keep it ambiguous, bro. It might be like whatever age you want. This song would still be popular if you just did. Yeah, you fucking killed all future plays. But nobody is ever going to play this song again, except right here in the Diasic D. D.Js.

Because DJ Jagg. You know I got to bring a weird one. Is it some weird filthy shit? He's in some weird fucked-up songs. As long as they have a soulful voice and they bring the house down in that last verse, which that dude absolutely did. That guy did, right? With that in mind.

My slabs and snaps. My slaps and snaps for old Benny guy here. Go as follows. Fuck in the ground. Fuck in the ground. Come back. Girls only six years old, you piece of shit. Fucking curve.

Got a guy named Wakey. He's going to show you a fucking time with a pet. Oh, you're going to know what it's like to be shown love like you've never felt before. Spilled my drink over here. I got worried for a second. It was empty. It was empty. My old Celsius.

I got worried about that for a second. I was like, ah. You know what? been a bad experiment anyways that's just that's what that's so that's my so you gave it to and then he beat the shit and then he just had to fucking get taken down you need to be a fucking thrown in the pen and now i guarantee he's gonna find some love like he's never known before next