142: "My Sweet Lord" vs. "Spirit in the Sky"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Remember when God was cool? In the early '70s, we had one legend and one nobody storm the charts about the greatness of the higher power, and we're going to see how gave glory to the Lord better? What's the better hippie-dippy religious song, George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" or Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:03.7	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:04.9	This is Song versus Song, and we are going to church.
0:09.5	We are going to get religious up in here.
0:12.0	We are doing two of the great classic songs of the early 70s, maybe late 60s.
0:18.4	I'm not sure when the date is technically on that, but we are doing
0:21.3	Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum versus My Sweet Lord by George Harrison.
0:30.1	Do you know what God used to be cool? Of course I knew that.
0:34.6	Like there was a bizarre trend in the late 70s when the hippies got into Jesus and all of a sudden Jesus was cool and there were like big rock musicals several of them about Jesus Christ.
0:48.0	Well he looks like a hippie, so it makes sense.
0:50.9	He does look like a hippie.
0:52.0	Or like hippies look like Jesus, more likely.
0:55.4	They modeled themselves on Jesus.
0:57.8	And they did all sorts of Christly things.
0:59.9	Like drugs.
1:01.7	Exactly.
1:03.0	That's the kind of religion I need.
1:05.3	So, I did this because I know you have lots of feelings about the Beatles.
1:11.8	I'm not sure you have any thoughts about Norman Greenbaum, though.
1:15.7	So there may have been a flaw in this plan.
1:18.1	I'm going to tell you that there is a flaw in the plan,
1:22.0	but it is the opposite of what you think.
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