77: "November Rain" vs. "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Was the early '90s all grunge and alternative? No, we were still making big-budget lavish productions of music, and two of the biggest came from unlikely sources, one the biggest badass metal band in the world, the other a forgotten '70s washout on the most improbable comeback of the decade. But only mega-epic 10-minute ballad can reign supreme, so we must decide which is the MEGA-mega-ballad of them all, Guns n' Roses' "November Rain" or Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:03.7	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:04.9	And this is song versus song.
0:07.5	It's a very, extremely timely song versus song this week.
0:12.1	This week, in tribute to the late Barb and Leah Day, we're going to do one that I've been waiting to do for a long time.
0:19.1	We are doing Guns and Roses November Rain versus the man, the legend, meatloafs.
0:27.4	I'd do anything for love, but I won't do that.
0:33.1	What I think I'm going to do is I'm going to play one in the background while we're recording,
0:38.2	and then the other one in the background while we're recording,
0:40.5	and we'll see which one finishes first.
0:42.3	The podcast are those two songs.
0:44.7	There's a lot of research to do with this one just by listening to both songs back to back.
0:50.8	Wow, it felt like it took for fucking ever.
0:53.4	Do you remember when these songs came out?
0:55.0	I feel like that's, okay, do you want to do the, the, did you have a natural inclination?
0:59.2	Like, did you have like a leaning point? Which one you preferred? Which one is it? When we picked
1:04.6	this, and this was a collaborative one, the two of us, when we picked this, my immediate instinct was
1:10.2	November rain. And I think that I already know
1:13.3	that was going to be unpopular, even if, you know, the late grade meatloaf wasn't so recently
1:19.0	deceased. But for me, November rain has always like, it is so deeply embedded in my soul. I
1:25.3	fucking love November rain.
1:28.2	That was my first pick.
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