18: "With or Without You" vs. "Every Breath You Take"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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That slow, driving '80s bass. Two smash rock ballads by two of the greatest rock bands of the '80s! Who will reign supreme, U2 or the Police? And as a bonus, who's more annoying, Sting or Bono?

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0:00.0	I'm Todd Nathanson. And I'm Danny Rob. Welcome back to Song versus Song. And this week we got one,
0:08.6	apparently people really lit up for it because we got a lot of votes on this one. I saw that.
0:12.3	It didn't come at first, but then all of the sudden, they came by the hundreds and hundreds.
0:17.8	Eventually, there's going to be one that gets thousands. I can't wait for that. But this got more than anything we've ever had before. Yeah, we are, you know, who knows,
0:24.7	we are a growing podcast. That's how it works. Tell your friends. Wow.
0:29.0	We should tell you what the songs are, I guess. Yes, go ahead. Okay, I pick for this one.
0:33.4	This is one I've been wanting to do for a while. With or Without You by you,
0:38.6	Smash Head from 1987,
0:42.9	versus every breath you take by the police from 1983.
0:44.1	Okay.
0:45.1	So,
0:46.2	uh,
0:47.1	what,
0:49.0	so when you decided that you were going to do it,
0:50.8	you said the words out loud to me last week. What was your,
0:51.6	your gut instinct?
0:53.6	What was the one that you leaned towards
0:55.0	immediately? You know, I don't remember what I said. And honestly, these two songs are just like
1:00.6	top tier great songs that I, you know, there's not a whole lot of distance between them. But it,
1:05.2	you know, sitting here right now, I would go with every breath you take. Oh, that's what I,
1:09.6	that's, yeah, that's where I went too.
1:11.6	Oh, we were aligned on this one.
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