163: "Good Vibrations" vs. "A Day in the Life"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In the mid-1960s, two bands thought, what if rock and roll could be ART?? And so we got two masterpieces, but only one can stand as the greatest of all time, so who made the greatest rock mini-symphony of all time,

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:04.0	And I read the news today.
0:06.6	Oh, boy.
0:09.2	Oh, boy. That's right.
0:11.0	We read the news today, and it is song versus song.
0:14.6	I consider this our first episode of the year.
0:18.3	Our first episode of the year was really just like the last, last episode of last year.
0:25.2	This is our first episode of 2026, I consider it.
0:29.7	It's going to be a day in the life by the Beatles
0:32.1	versus good vibrations by the Beach Boys.
0:36.2	Good morning, Lena.
0:37.7	Good morning. Good morning, Lena. Good morning.
0:39.0	Good morning.
0:40.3	Oh, my God.
0:42.9	Sure.
0:45.1	I guess this is, I like that you're like, this is the first real episode of 2026,
0:50.0	especially considering the fact that when you announced it,
0:52.7	as soon as we were done recording,
0:55.1	my response was,
0:58.1	ah,
0:58.4	some low effort content.
1:03.4	Like,
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