113: "Candle in the Wind 1997" vs. "One Sweet Day"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The mid-'90s were a sadder time than you remember! For weeks and weeks and weeks, two songs conquered the charts with insanely long runs at #1, and now no one even seems to remember them! Which is the better grief song of the decade, Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" or Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day"?

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:03.7	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:05.0	Happy Yom Kippur to all who celebrate.
0:07.4	It's not even going out on that as Todd.
0:11.3	Is this a sad holiday?
0:13.4	I am not one of your people, so I don't.
0:16.1	It is an Atonement holiday.
0:19.4	But certainly since we're recording about two grief songs, sure.
0:26.3	It's a very, welcome to our in-memorium episode of Song versus Song, I guess.
0:32.3	We're going to get all sad and grievy and weepy, I guess.
0:36.3	We are doing Mariah Carey and Boys Demands One Sweet Day versus Elton John's Candle in the Wind, 1997.
0:47.3	Specifically that one for the time period.
0:52.0	Because for some reason, we were incredibly sad in the 90s.
0:57.0	Why? Things are great.
0:59.0	Yeah. What was our problem?
1:01.3	I don't know. Listen, this is weird. This episode's weird.
1:06.0	How's it weird?
1:07.1	Well, I understand why it's these two songs.
1:13.6	Technically speaking, they both have connections to Lady Die one more so than the other.
1:20.4	Do they?
1:21.2	They do.
1:22.2	Technically, One Sweet Day was sang at, I think, like an award show or something, like, as an in memoriam specifically
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Todd Nathanson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Todd Nathanson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.