A day late, but I don’t believe we’ve ever done a Last Man Standing on Rockers With Presidential Names. Of the 41 (?) distinct United States President surnames, is there a rocker who shares each surname?

For the purposes of this Last Man Standing—and to avoid, say, 392 rocking Washingtons—let’s limit ourselves to one rocker per Presidential name.

Ex-US Townspeople are invited to add the names of rockers who share the name of one of their own country’s political heads of state, but keep it to names of heads of state, please.

As always, don’t bogart that thread: limit yourself to 1 entry per post. Thank you.

My younger son has gotten into The Fiery Furnaces. Last night, as we listened to “Tropical-Iceland” for the third time in a row it occurred to me that there probably aren’t too many songs that reference puffins. That got me thinking whether we could put together a special kind of Last Man Standing: Noah’s Rockin’ Ark. Here’s the deal:

• Can we cite pairs of animals referenced in 2 different songs?
• No pairs of animals may be repeated; once a pair of animals has been loaded that animal is accounted for.
• If you know of 3 songs referencing a certain animal—or 300—we don’t care. Just list the 1 animal referenced in 2 songs.
• To conserve RTH Rock Police resources, I will allow us to cite up to 3 different animals from the same song.

For instance, Noah’s Rockin’ Ark includes ponies: the ponies from both The Fiery Furnaces’ “Tropical-Iceland” and The Beatles‘ “I Dig a Pony.” Ponies are loaded on Noah’s Rockin’ Ark. Ponies are off the board. It’s time we move onto to a new pair of animals, perhaps puffins.

Here’s an earlier Last Man Standing that will get you half the way there.

Entries for this Last Man Standing will close at 7:16 am EST on Monday, January 14.

Get up!

As we tussle in one-upmanship over each other on yet another LMS, what better theme could there be than the act of standing itself? This time around, get up on your feet and enumerate song titles with “stand” or whatever participle or variation you’re into. Don’t take it lying down!