question: Which band was formed first, The Pretenders or Shinedown ?
answer: The Pretenders
context: Title: Save Me (Shinedown song)
  Passage: "Save Me" is a song by American rock band Shinedown.  The song was released as the first single in promotion of the band's second studio album, "Us and Them".  "Save Me" was the theme song for WWE's No Mercy 2005 pay-per-view event, and is their second most commercially successful single to date, reaching number one on the U.S. mainstream rock chart (and remaining there for 12 weeks).  It is also Shinedown's third-highest charting song on the "Billboard" Hot 100 (behind "Second Chance" (number 7) and "If You Only Knew" (number 42), peaking at number 72.
  Title: Shinedown
  Passage: Shinedown is an American rock band from Jacksonville, Florida.  Formed by Brent Smith in 2001 after the dissolution of his prior band, Smith, still under contract with record label Atlantic Records, recruited the band's original lineup of Jasin Todd as guitarist, Brad Stewart on bass, and Barry Kerch on drums.  Consistent for the first two album cycles, a few lineup changes followed in the late 2000s, eventually stabilizing with Smith and Kerch, as remaining members alongside newcomers Zach Myers on guitar, and Eric Bass on bass.  The group has released five studio albums: "Leave a Whisper" (2003), "Us and Them" (2005), "The Sound of Madness" (2008), "Amaryllis" (2012), and "Threat to Survival" (2015).  Shinedown has sold more than ten million records worldwide, and has had 11 number one singles on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock charts, the third most of all-time, behind Van Halen and Three Days Grace.
  Title: Harris, Forbes &amp; Co.
  Passage: Harris, Forbes & Co. was an investment banking affiliate of Harris Bank incorporated in 1911.  Harris, Forbes firm was acquired by Chase Manhattan Bank in 1930 to form Chase Harris, Forbes.  Just two years later, in 1932, the firm was dissolved after the passage of the Glass–Steagall Act in 1932.  Chase transferred what remained of its securities business to the Bank of Boston's newly formed First Boston Corporation, buttressing that firm's early municipal bond department.
  Title: Devour (song)
  Passage: "Devour" is a song by American rock band Shinedown.  The song was released as the first single in promotion of the band's third studio album, "The Sound of Madness".  The track landed online and at multi-format rock radio outlets nationwide on May 5.  As has been the case with other new singles by bands such as Disturbed, Theory of a Deadman, and Seether, "Devour" is so far Shinedown's fastest rising single to date, reaching the top five of the "Billboard" Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in four weeks.  In a No. 1 countdown interview, vocalist Brent Smith said that the single was "a letter to the President," and that it is about Smith's distaste towards George W. Bush.  It is their second No. 1 song on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
  Title: Not Strong Enough (Apocalyptica song)
  Passage: "Not Strong Enough" is a song by Finnish rock band Apocalyptica.  The song is the third single from their seventh studio album "7th Symphony".  The song features Brent Smith of Shinedown on lead vocals.  It was first released on iTunes on November 1, 2010, but not in the US, where another version of the song, featuring Doug Robb of Hoobastank on vocals, was released on January 18, 2011.  The song was re-recorded with Robb after the band failed to secure the rights to release the song in the US with Smith's vocals from Shinedown's label, Atlantic Records.
  Title: The Pretenders
  Passage: The Pretenders are an English-American rock band formed in Hereford, England, in March 1978.  The original band consisted of initiator and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete Farndon (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Martin Chambers (drums, backing vocals, percussion).  Following the drug-related deaths of Honeyman-Scott and Farndon, the band has experienced numerous subsequent personnel changes, with Hynde as the only consistent member, and Chambers returning after an absence of several years.
  Title: Sound of Madness
  Passage: "Sound of Madness" is a single by American rock band Shinedown from their 2008 album "The Sound of Madness" and is also the album's title track, despite the exclusion of the word "the" in the song's title.  The song was chosen to be the title track after some road testing on a short run of dates.  It was released on February 23, 2009 in Europe.  As of June 20, 2009, the song has peaked at No. 1 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, making it their third straight single to reach the top spot on the chart.  This makes Shinedown the only band to have their first ten singles all reach the top five on the Mainstream Rock chart.  It also reached No. 5 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart making it the band's fourth top ten hit and third top five hit.
  Title: Like a Storm
  Passage: Like a Storm is a hard rock band from Auckland, New Zealand, best known for combining heavy baritone guitar riffs and hard rock songs with didgeridoo.  Formed by Chris, Kent, and Matt Brooks, Like a Storm have shared American & European stages with Alter Bridge, Korn, Shinedown, Black Veil Brides, Creed, Puddle of Mudd, Staind, Sick Puppies, and many others, as well as touring North America extensively as a headline act.  Like a Storm are the highest charting New Zealand hard rock band in American radio history .  Both of Like a Storm's two studio albums, "The End of the Beginning" and "Awaken the Fire", debuted in the Billboard 200.  The band has toured with Alter Bridge, Black Stone Cherry, Three Days Grace, Steel Panther, Shinedown and Hellyeah.
  Title: Japp–Maitland condensation
  Passage: The Japp–Maitland condensation is an organic reaction and a type of Aldol reaction and a tandem reaction.  In a reaction between the ketone 2-pentanone and the aldehyde benzaldehyde catalyzed by base the bis Aldol adduct is formed first.  The second step is a ring-closing reaction when one hydroxyl group displaces the other in a nucleophilic substitution forming an oxo-tetrahydropyran.
  Title: Konstantin Vakulovsky
  Passage: Captain Konstantin Konstantinovich Vakulovsky (born 28 October 1894, died Summer 1918) was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories.  A major general's son, he volunteered for aviation duty on 8 August 1914, six days after graduating from university.  He taught himself to fly, and became one of Russia's first military pilots on 13 June 1915.  After escaping the fall of the Novogeorgievsk Fortress in a hazardous flight, Vakylovsky flew reconnaissance missions, some through heavy ground fire.  Given command of the newly formed First Fighter Detachment, he became a flying ace credited with six aerial victories.  He died in a flying accident during Summer 1918.
citations: Shinedown The Pretenders