43: "I'm a Believer" vs. "I Got You Babe"

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43: "I'm a Believer" vs. "I Got You Babe"

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Aug 11, 2020

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It's two of the biggest love songs of the '60s from two of the decade's biggest groups of fake hippies! Will the Monkees' fairy tale ending beat Sonny and Cher's real-life love anthem? Also: Shrek vs. Beavis and Butthead?

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Aug 11, 2020

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Hosted by Todd (in the Shadows) Nathanson and Alina Morgan, Song vs. Song pits two similar songs of an era against each other with controversial outcomes.

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43: "I'm a Believer" vs. "I Got You Babe"

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