131: "Fortunate Son" vs. "All Along the Watchtower"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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We have some of the fiercest, growliest songs of the '60s for you today! Which is the greatest songs that isn't about the Vietnam War but basically is, "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival or "All Along the Watchtower" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nadenson.
0:03.7	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:05.2	And this is Song versus Song.
0:07.9	This week, we are doing Fortunate Sun by CCR versus all along the watchtower by the Jimmy Hendrix experience.
0:18.2	We are very boomer today.
0:21.1	Yeah, but I think we're pretty experienced at it.
0:24.2	At what? Being boomers?
0:26.2	Yeah, we've done some boomer stuff.
0:27.9	This is the most boomer, I think, we've ever done.
0:31.6	Like when we did...
0:32.4	The full fogarty.
0:33.9	Yes, the full fogarty.
0:36.0	Well, why is it the full foggy, not the full Hendricks?
0:38.7	I don't know. I think that the Boomer stuff is something you grow into, and Hendrix never had the chance.
0:48.7	Whereas Fogarty definitely, like, already kind of had the bones of boomerism and has only become more of a boomer with time.
0:59.7	I don't know what you mean by that because when you say boomer, I feel like it usually refers to shitty politics and I don't think that's Fogarty.
1:10.4	Oh, no, I just meant that like he's a self-centered, self-involved dick.
1:15.9	Yes, that is absolutely true.
1:17.9	Of a specific generation.
1:20.3	He is, I did an episode on him on my YouTube channel and I was not prepared at what a bitter dick that man is.
1:32.6	One of the greatest to ever do it.
1:34.9	But like up there with Roger Waters and Van Morrison as just like a humongous dick.
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