93: "Running on Empty" vs. "Against the Wind"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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There's nothing better than rocking down the highway and reflecting on your restless life while listening to some Boomer-y dad rock! But what's the better soundtrack, Jackson Browne's "Running on Empty" or Bob Seger's "Against the Wind"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:03.7	And I'm Elena Morgan.
0:05.1	This is Song versus Song.
0:07.4	This week, we have a major dad rock off.
0:13.0	We are doing Jackson Browns running on empty versus Bob Sears against the wind.
0:19.5	Or as I like to think of this episode,
0:22.2	one for me.
0:26.0	It definitely wasn't for me.
0:27.9	It was not a for me episode.
0:30.2	You're a classic rock person.
0:33.0	Not these particular classic rockers?
0:35.5	No, I definitely think that when you named the, so first of all,
0:39.1	I was not even sure I knew these songs when you named them. Oh, that's insane. That's insane to me.
0:46.0	I do know them. Once I heard them, I said, oh, those ones. You have any idea what brought this on? Why,
0:53.2	where I came up with the idea for these two particular songs together.
0:57.3	No.
0:58.0	And even if I did, I would have said no so that you could fill some time.
1:02.4	I thought you might.
1:03.4	You might.
1:04.5	Because a lot of the, a lot of people in the, in the comments got it immediately.
1:10.3	These are the two songs playing when Forrest Gump is running from coast to coast over and over again
1:17.4	throughout the entire waning boomer years.
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