154: "The Whole of the Moon" vs. "Under the Milky Way" (with Andrew Unterberger!)
Song Vs. Song
Todd Nathanson
4.7 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Song vs. Song is back from our unscheduled hiatus!! We finally cover two songs you might not know but your favorite artists definitely know and probably covered at one point. What is the best celestial and vaguely Celtic college rock song of the '80s, The Waterboys' "The Whole of the Moon" or The Church's "Under the Milky Way"?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Todd Nadenson. |
| 0:03.7 | And I'm Lena Morgan. |
| 0:04.7 | And this is Song versus Song. |
| 0:06.8 | We are not on vacation anymore. |
| 0:09.0 | We are back after an unintended break. |
| 0:12.4 | But we are back and we promise that we are not nearly at full strength. |
| 0:18.3 | That's true. |
| 0:18.9 | I love this idea that we're back. |
| 0:20.7 | Like we haven't recorded two bonus episodes, |
| 0:23.0 | one of which we did late last night for that very important cause, |
| 0:27.8 | the video music awards. |
| 0:30.0 | Also known as the, hey, those are the video music awards are still on? |
| 0:34.8 | Every year. |
| 0:35.9 | Every year. |
| 0:37.6 | So we just did that last night. |
| 0:39.5 | I could have been watching the Bills game, which was apparently the best football |
| 0:42.7 | game in the last five years, but no, I had to watch MTV. |
| 0:45.3 | And now we have to do the real podcast, the main episode, where we are doing the water |
| 0:50.8 | boys, the whole of the moon versus versus the churches under the Milky Way. |
| 0:56.3 | Maybe not like the biggest comeback we've ever, not the biggest episode we've ever done. |
| 1:01.3 | If we had planned it, we probably wouldn't have done it like this. |
| 1:04.0 | This is one for me, basically. |
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