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Song Vs. Song

65: "Stairway to Heaven" vs. "Free Bird" (w/Andrew Unterberger!)

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7752 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It's the big one. The episode this show was invented for, the two towering titans of classic rock, the most requested song on the radio of all time vs. the most requested song live of all time. Will Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" reign as the greatest guitar-solo-heavy epic of all time or will it be denied by "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin? 

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Todd Nadinson.

0:03.7

And I'm Lena Morgan.

0:05.1

And if there is a bustle in your headroad, do not be alarmed.

0:08.2

It is just song versus song.

0:10.6

And we are finally doing it.

0:12.3

We are finally doing the one thing I think I invented this podcast for we are doing at long,

0:19.6

long last stairway to heaven versus free bird.

0:23.7

I can't believe it took us this long to get there.

0:27.0

I can't believe we finally made it to say it for the 100th episode quite honestly.

0:31.4

It's the one.

0:32.7

It's the big one.

0:34.3

The reason we haven't done it is because Lena doesn't like either of these songs.

0:37.9

That's, well, we'll talk about it. We'll talk about it. Who's our guest, Todd? Oh, and let us

0:44.7

welcome back into the studio for the, I think the third time. This is editor of billboard.com,

0:50.4

Andrew Underberger. Always great to have you on the show. Do you like either of these songs?

0:55.7

I do. Yeah. I know. I'm honored to be invited on for the main event. This is a debate that I've

1:01.6

sort of been prepping on and off for, I was there for the last 25 years maybe. So I'm very,

1:06.2

very honored to be part of it here. You know, it's a funny thing. I was reading the comments

1:10.3

and a bunch of the

1:12.8

comments were like, what do these two songs have in common? Why did you pick these two songs? Like,

1:17.5

do you not immediately associate the one song with the other? How do you not get this?

1:22.7

If you just type it in stairway to heaven, Freebird, you can find like six gazillion mashups and like

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