Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson. And I'm Lena Morgan. And this is Song versus Song. It is almost Halloween, so this is a vaguely Halloween-related episode of Song versus Song. One of them for sure. I don't think we've ever done one before. No, I mean like one of the songs. I feel like I feel confident I can make the case

for the, for both of them. Okay. I listen. Maybe. Here's the thing. You can make an argument for one of them

and the other one feels like its argument has already been made. Yeah. All right. The two songs are Hotel California by the Eagles and don't fear the Reaper by Blue

Oyster Cult or Blue Ouster Cult because you got to pronounce the umlaut.

You fucking don't.

I don't think it's actually pronounceable with the umlott.

I don't think so either.

I mean, I didn't look into it. That pronounceable with the umlot. I don't think so either. I mean,

I didn't look into it.

That why afterwards just completely ruins your ability to purse your beak properly to pronounce it.

I'm not sure this episode makes sense.

So,

I mean,

they are both beloved triple guitar classics from, I think, I want to say within like a year of each other.

I would say that I think that's it. So there's something that's kind of similar about these songs in that.

Like you said, it was the first thing I thought, which is that they both work a lot with guitar layering.

That is the thing they have in common.

They are someone within a similar time period within about a year of each other.

And I think that there's something that is a little bit, because of the way that it's built,

there's something like, I think there's something kind of orchestral about Hotel California

and something kind of symphonic almost about, don't fear the Reaper, which we can talk about

more as we go.

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