{"id":8443,"date":"2011-07-26T07:04:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T11:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=8443"},"modified":"2011-07-26T07:06:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T11:06:22","slug":"last-man-standing-meta-video-rock-song-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-meta-video-rock-song-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Meta-Video Rock Song Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7mLeo692-kQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>In 1984, at the birth of my personal Too Cool for School Era, I must have avoided a movie called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electric_Dreams_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">Electric Dreams<\/a><\/em>, with a synth-pop soundtrack and a plot revolving around some icky new thing called &#8220;home computing,&#8221; like the plague. Or maybe the movie was a flop, with limited release and an early exit from theaters. Today, I don&#8217;t recall this film ever having existed. I also don&#8217;t recall this <strong>Jeff Lynne<\/strong> song and video from the soundtrack. We&#8217;re talking HVB&#8217;s Holy Trinity of Rock material! (Do you remember this, hrrundivbakshi?)<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate this (at least, personal) discovery, today&#8217;s <em>Last Man Standing<\/em> seeks <strong>meta-rock video song videos<\/strong>, that is, songs <em>about<\/em> videos with accompanying rock videos. Songs about videos that do not have an accompanying video are\u00a0<strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong> eligible. Songs about film (eg, <strong>Duran Duran<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Girls on Film&#8221;) are <strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong> eligible, even if accompanied by a rock video. This may be the shortest RTH LMS challenge <em>ever<\/em>\u2014or most likely you will dazzle me with your collective knowledge!<\/p>\n<p><em>Let the (fun and) games begin!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1984, at the birth of my personal Too Cool for School Era, I must have avoided a movie called Electric Dreams, with a synth-pop soundtrack and a plot revolving around some icky new thing called &#8220;home computing,&#8221; like the plague. Or maybe the movie was a flop, with limited release and an early exit <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-meta-video-rock-song-videos\/' 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":[46,55,47,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443"}],"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=8443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}