"Last Believer" was titled after an episode of the 1991 PBS documentary series on President Lyndon B. Johnson; the song had previously been released on the band's debut EP "Gidget" in 1993 and was re-recorded for "A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion".Singer Russ Rankin later remarked that "I think ["A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion"] is important because that's when I found out that I was a song-writer ... [it] was where I realized like, 'Hey I guess I'm the song writer for this band.