99: "Whip It" vs. "Cars"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The great new wave pioneers of 1980! The unexpected crossover smash hits that proved that the record buyers of the '80s might like this "synth-pop" thing! But only one can be crowned champion, so which will it be, Devo's "Whip It" or Gary Numan's "Cars"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson. And I'm Lena Morgan. And this is Song versus Song. And this week, we are going to a very, very special year.
0:12.6	1980, the weirdest year of the 80s. We are doing Devo's Whippet versus Gary Newman's cars.
0:22.5	Are you pumped?
0:23.7	I have an immediate bone of contention.
0:25.9	Oh, what's going on?
0:27.2	Well, the albums that these songs are on, neither of them, are from the 80s.
0:32.7	Hold on, hold on.
0:33.6	I'm pretty sure freedom of choices, at least, from the 80s.
0:35.8	Freedom of choice by Devo.
0:37.3	Yes. I'm pretty sure it's,, at least from the 80s. Freedom of Choice by Debo. Yes.
0:37.5	I'm pretty sure it's, I believe it's 79, isn't it?
0:39.5	You are incorrect.
0:40.2	You are wildly incorrect.
0:41.4	All right.
0:42.1	But you're correct about the other one.
0:44.1	I didn't know that one off the top of my head.
0:46.0	I don't think there is a single thing that is more 1980 than either of these songs, except maybe Christopher Cross. That's the other thing.
0:58.2	That's the wild other end of the 80s of 1980.
1:04.3	But I cannot think of Gary Newman's cars as a 70s song.
1:05.4	You'll never get me to do it.
1:09.7	Well, that's the cool thing about that song. And I mean, I'm sure that these songs were both written prior to the 1980s.
1:16.8	Because these are both bands that, you know, also like Devo predates the 90s band.
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