73': "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" vs. "Wonderful Christmastime"
Song Vs. Song
Todd Nathanson
4.7 • 752 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It's time for that age-old holiday debate: Who's your favorite Beatle? Christmastime with John and Paul as we argue for the better Beatle Christmas song, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" vs. "Wonderful Christmastime"! Will Paul's holiday cheer or John's goodwill towards man win out?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Todd Naidenson. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Lena Morgan. |
| 0:05.0 | The Moon is Right, the Spirit's Up, and this is Song versus Song. |
| 0:10.0 | It is our annual Christmas episode. |
| 0:13.0 | Are you ready? |
| 0:14.0 | Are you ready, Lena? |
| 0:16.0 | Yes. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, this one specifically for you. |
| 0:20.0 | This is a Beetle versus Beetle match match of the first one we've ever had. |
| 0:24.7 | I can't believe it's taking us this long. And I'm not sure this is the right one to be doing it with. |
| 0:28.7 | But here we go. We are doing Paul McCartney's wonderful Christmas time versus John Lennon's happy X-Miss parentheses war is over. Are you simply having a |
| 0:40.8 | wonderful Christmas time, Lena? Let me tell you something. As I was getting on this call with you |
| 0:46.3 | to record this episode, Raven said, I cannot wait for this episode to be over. I said, you know, |
| 0:53.7 | it will still be the Christmas season. |
| 0:56.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.6 | And then Raven said, yes, but I won't be hearing these two songs over and over and over and over again. |
| 1:02.8 | Have you been listening to them over and over again? |
| 1:05.1 | I had, so I have a theory. |
| 1:06.7 | I had a plan. |
| 1:07.7 | My plan was to see if I could get myself into a Stockholm syndrome situation with one of |
| 1:15.6 | these two songs, the one that I have, I don't know if I've ever gone on public record |
| 1:21.0 | of saying I hate, but I do, I did go in hating one of these songs and I wanted to see |
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