100: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" vs. "Closer"
Song Vs. Song
Todd Nathanson
4.7 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
OUR ONE HUNDREDTH NUMBERED EPISODE!! How have we gotten this far? We don't know, but we're going to celebrate it with a jumbo-sized podcast about two songs that are near and dear to our hearts, the alternative teen angst songs that changed the lives of so many '90s kids, especially us. What is the great alt-rock game-changer of the decade, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana or "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm Lena Morgan. |
| 0:05.0 | This is it. |
| 0:06.4 | The 100th episode of Song versus Song. |
| 0:11.4 | Here we are now. |
| 0:12.4 | Entertain us. |
| 0:14.2 | Oh, I want a podcast like an animal. |
| 0:18.5 | No, you don't. |
| 0:20.0 | No, I hate this. No, no. No, no, no. No, I hate this. |
| 0:21.6 | No, no, no, no, no. |
| 0:24.2 | We love this. |
| 0:25.6 | And we have a very special one for this. |
| 0:28.4 | Our centennial, that's probably not the word, |
| 0:30.7 | but our centennial episode, |
| 0:32.6 | we are doing at long last, |
| 0:35.3 | smells like teen spirit by a little band called Nirvana. |
| 0:39.7 | Versus closer by the band Nin, which I think stands for something. |
| 0:45.0 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:46.0 | What it says in my notes is this is nine-inch nails. |
| 0:49.5 | And apparently these are pretty important songs to both you and I. |
| 0:53.6 | It could be. There are certainly important songs to both you and I. It could be. |
| 0:54.4 | There's certainly important songs. |
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