134: "Both Sides Now" vs. "Fire and Rain"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

We've seen fire, rain, and clouds. From both sides even! But it is time to decide the most heartbreaking acoustic song from the singer-songwriter movement, so what helps us reflect more, Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" or James Taylor's "Fire and Rain"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:03.7	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:05.0	This is Song versus Song.
0:08.0	Coming to you on, again, what was supposed to be on my vacation.
0:12.6	I am not going to stop complaining about this.
0:15.2	Well, we'll get her vacation after this, kind of.
0:17.6	Well, I will.
0:18.9	And by vacation, I mean, I'll be laid up in bed with a face that was broken on purpose.
0:25.4	Oh, I feel like we should have, like, led into the month we take off with something a little more bombastic.
0:33.8	And instead, we are doing James Taylor's Fire and Rain versus Joni Mitchell's both sides
0:40.9	now and really that's my gift for you before you uh you know head out to recuperate
0:47.2	I was going to say this this seems like it feels like you picked these very pointedly
0:52.7	uh no not at all.
0:55.0	You know, I come up with these like a half a second before I say them at the end of the show.
0:59.6	Oh, what, I mean, like, this is a gift to you because you wanted to do a Joni Mitchell episode for the longest time.
1:06.8	I did.
1:07.5	I mean, the longest time, I would say, 2024 was, for the year of 2024, I've wanted to do it.
1:14.0	I mean, but like, I tailor these.
1:15.8	September now. Wow.
1:18.5	I tailor these episodes to you because when, you know, you get going about something, I don't have to do anything.
1:24.9	And I know you can talk about Joni Mitchell for a long time.
1:28.5	Regrettably, you're going to have to talk about half the time.
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