{"id":2746,"date":"2010-05-18T09:07:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T13:07:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-15T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T18:49:52","slug":"last-man-standing-flagging-rock-bands-that-release-a-self-referential-song-to-aid-in-reviving-their-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-flagging-rock-bands-that-release-a-self-referential-song-to-aid-in-reviving-their-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Flagging Rock Bands That Release a Self-Referential Song to Aid in Reviving Their Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>This has been said before, but I&#8217;m pretty sure <em>this<\/em> will be our most challenging <strong>Last Man Standing<\/strong> competition yet! If you&#8217;ve never played before, the idea is to submit <em>one entry at a time<\/em> until no other answers to the LMS competition come to mind. The reason I feel this LMS will be the most challenging ever is because I can only think of <strong>4<\/strong> possible answers, 2 of which come from the same band. I&#8217;m pretty sure there are no more than 4 possible answers, but I&#8217;m also pretty sure that I&#8217;m wrong about this. <em>Prove me wrong!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By the way, there are a couple of limitations. Only songs by ROCK artists will be accepted &#8211; no hip-hop artists, who are self-referential on 75% of their songs. Also, the song must come in the second half of the artists&#8217; relevant years. The song &#8220;Bad Company,&#8221; by Bad Company, for instance, does not qualify, because it was one of their first singles.<\/p>\n<p>Because there may be so few answers to this question, I will not kick off this thread with an entry, but I will give one clue regarding probably the best-known of these songs: although rock nerds would not rank it among the band&#8217;s top 20 songs, it&#8217;s become a staple of the band&#8217;s abbreviated sets for nationwide television performances and the like. Go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been said before, but I&#8217;m pretty sure this will be our most challenging Last Man Standing competition yet! If you&#8217;ve never played before, the idea is to submit one entry at a time until no other answers to the LMS competition come to mind. The reason I feel this LMS will be the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-flagging-rock-bands-that-release-a-self-referential-song-to-aid-in-reviving-their-brand\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}