04: "I Will Survive" vs. "Stayin' Alive"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It's an argument with no right answers. Comparing Gloria Gaynor's 1978 smash "I Will Survive" against The Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive" from 1977 is like asking a parent to pick a favorite child. And these are the indeed amongst the greatest progeny of Papa Disco.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:03.7	And I'm Danny Rob.
0:04.7	This is Song versus Song.
0:06.6	Today, we are doing the Battle of the Disco Classics.
0:11.3	The BeeGs, Staying Alive, versus Gloria Gaynor's, I Will Survive.
0:17.4	So, uh, I don't remember if we actually closed out the last episode,
0:23.2	wherein you vocally, very immediately staked your claim.
0:28.3	That certainly happened.
0:29.3	I just don't know if the kids at home heard you do it.
0:33.7	But for the record, which song did you pick?
0:36.9	I went immediately towards staying alive. Which, you know, for the record, which song did you pick? I went immediately towards staying alive.
0:39.9	Which, you know, for the record, I don't think staying alive is better than I will survive by a huge margin.
0:45.8	I think they're extremely close.
0:48.2	All right.
0:48.8	It's interesting.
0:49.6	So I will, I will say this.
0:50.8	When you, when you called the Bee Gees, I got, I was not sure. I thought
0:57.4	that was probably what I was going to pick. On first blush, that's where I would have went.
1:02.7	So what I, I guess what I'm saying is when I knew that I was going to be taking Gloria
1:07.3	Gainer at first, I was afraid. Oh, no. I was petrified. Anyway, that was the joke that
1:15.4	I had planned to make and now the podcast is over, go in peace. Why did you do that? Because it's
1:20.4	required. I mean, like if I had not done it, I got it out of the way. Really, you're welcome.
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