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TheSwank

Blink-182 Anthem and Anthem Part 2


obiwanconobi

Also if you like Tom's work, he did Letters to God with Box Car Racer and Letters to God pt 2 with Angels and Airwaves


mcxn

And Part 3 on the upcoming album!


ITSBOSSMACHINE

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biesterd1

They go back-to-back if you go right from Enema to TOYPAJI too


[deleted]

David Bowie wrote a sequel to his song Space Oddity called Ashes to Ashes.


openletter8

And some other guy named Peter Schilling made a sequel to Space Oddity in his song, Major Tom. *Edit* Had to add in my favorite homage to these songs, courtesy of the [best show ever, The Venture Bros.](https://youtu.be/-aqvIU1dkD8)


Bodymaster

Or as Breaking Bad fans remember it, [Gale's Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v0VR6Kf7KQ).


[deleted]

And the TV Series life on Mars? Had a sequel called Ashes to Ashes as well.


peteypeteypeteypete

Hell yeah Idk that Iā€™ve met anyone else whoā€™s seen the tv show


ricalo_suarvalez

I try to bring it up all the time, agreed it doesn't get enough love. Now, the US adaptation on the other hand... yikes. It's like a parody of how badly an American version of a show can go.


thebeesbollocks

I love ashes to ashes, probably my all time favourite Bowie song


dagenhamdave1971

Donā€™t forget ā€œHallo Spaceboyā€ which has a Pet Shop Boys remix which ties it into the Major Tom songs. Arguably, ā€œLazarusā€ by Bowie is a fourth Major Tom song but thatā€™s only because Major Tomā€™s decaying spacesuited body features in the video.


HugoRBMarques

Not Lazarus. The title track, Blackstar.


BabyBark

"It's My Party" and then "Judy's Turn to Cry" by Lesley Gore. High school romance revenge.


AHMS_17

i absolutely LOVE Lesley Goreā€™s music! *Just Let Me Cry* is (imo) a serious contender for of the best pop songs ever written


TundieRice

She was really fighting for her right to cry, wasnā€™t she?


Grimm2020

The Royal Guardsmen had this down to a science: Snoopy vs the Red Baron The Return of the Red Baron Snoopy's Christmas


gabapenteado

Curious tidbit: The Last Baron, by Mastodon has absolutely no relation to those (Edit - I had the song name wrong. Joke's not as funny anymore)


jampapi

Thatā€™s because the Mastodon song is called ā€œThe Last Baronā€


bravoromeokilo

[ā€œThe Virtute Sagaā€](https://youtu.be/8zYG186spkY) by the band The Weakerthans (and solo John K Samson) A 4 part song series about a depressed alcoholic young man, three of which are from the perspective of his cat, Virtute One of my absolute favorite songwriters, due in no small part to this group of songs


deadmantra

I cry every time


bluemooncalhoun

Also from John K. Samson, Quiz Night at Looky Loo's and Alpha Adept. It's more of a two-parter, but Alpha Adept does follow the plot in that the main character finds someone else with psychic powers so that he can continue his journey to another planet.


bravoromeokilo

Interesting. I probably wouldnā€™t have picked up on this as Looky looā€™s is the one track on Winter Wheat that I usually skip, but thatā€™s more about my aversion to talking songs than anything else. Iā€™ll have to give them a good listen together


GregorZeeMountain

Screw you for making me cry but also I love you for sharing this amazing music. The Weakerthans is one of my favourites. John leaving Propagandhi was a tough but ultimately good decision for both bands. Propagandhi ended up getting Todd and moving into the more metal style they dreamed of and John got to release his thoughtful, more introspective music without fear of Chris riling up a bunch of boneheads.


its_justme

As a born Winnipegger, it always makes me happy when the weakerthans and propagandhi are mentioned.


JudasZala

The Moody Blues released the 1988 hit song, ā€œI Know Youā€™re Out There Somewhereā€, the sequel to the 1986 hit ā€œYour Wildest Dreamsā€. Even the music video for ā€œI Know Youā€™reā€¦ā€ continues where ā€œYour Wildest Dreamsā€ left off. In the video, frontman Justin Hayward searches for his lost love, who was searching for him in the previous video. Thereā€™s also Metallicaā€™s Unforgiven Trilogy.


AndyVale

Love those two tracks.


FunkIPA

ā€œPart IIā€ by Paramore is a sequel to ā€œLet the Flames Beginā€.


Frankie_2154

And itā€™s even better than the original which is already stellar.


Medical_Condition252

Rush had Cygnus X-1 as the last track on A Farewell To Kings. The next album was called Hemispheres. The title track was the whole of side 1 (as it was in the day) and was a continuation of Cygnus X-1


YourFavoriteBandSux

See also: the Fear trilogy


TossTheDog

Part 1: The Enemy Within (Grace Under Pressure) Part 2: The Weapon (Signals) Part 3: Witch Hunt (Moving Pictures) Part 4: Freeze (Vapor Trails)


Greatbigmouth727

You sir are cultured


SelectionNo3078

This! FTW.


AusToddles

"Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory" by Dream Theater is an entire album sequel to the song "Metropolisā€”Part I: 'The Miracle and the Sleeper'ā€‰"


Able_Vermicelli9401

Great album


lellololes

On that note, if you listen to DT albums consecutively, the outro of each album matches the intro to the next. They did T do it through their whole run, but it's a thing.


WasThatIt

They stopped it with Octavarium where the whole album loops back to the beginning of itself.


A_Change_of_Seasons

If we are counting albums, Ziltoid 1 and 2 are good examples, basically progressive metal rock operas where the second is directly and explicitly a sequel to the first, in both narrative and tone. Like using leitmotifs for characters


FartManJones8

Thereā€™s also colors 1 and 2 by between the buried and me.


PPLifter

Came here to say DT. They also have the entire twelve step suite.


ImJaxPhantomAcct

Metallica has a trilogy of Unforgivens. The Unforgiven on the Black Album, The Unforgiven II on Re-Load and The Unforgiven III on Death Magnetic.


leprosyhead

Because you're unforgiven thrreeee


boot2skull

MFs donā€™t forgive do they


MetalTigerDude

Ask Dave.


ApeShifter

You forgot the ā€œ-yuhā€ at the end of the word. I had a friend to a fantastic parody cover in a bar, and every line got funnier and funnier ā€œWhat I've felt, what I've knownNUH. Never shined through in what I've shownNUH. Never freeYUH, never meYUH. So I dub thee unforgiven-n-n-n-NUH!!!ā€


[deleted]

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rchan9487

Gimme fue, gimme fai Gimme dabajabazai


Fireal2

I can hear this in my head


nettrom

This is one of the things that Beatallica nails so well in theirā€¦ so we call them mashups? Parodies? I donā€™t know, theyā€™re good though.


red_storm_risen

No Un4given?


JallerHCIM

give them time


Business-Tea2117

Un4gIVen is the ultimate form.


itzal_itziar

The ultimate 4m


yousyveshughs

The guitar solo on III is one of my favourite moments of Metallica. So friggen good


Mocrue

Death Magnetic doesn't get enough love. It was actually a pretty good album for a post-peak era Metallica


[deleted]

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UglyInThMorning

The original album release was a horrible victim of the loudness war, which I think is 90 percent of why it doesnā€™t get the attention it deserves. If you listen to a version that doesnā€™t have the horrible compression itā€™s so good.


Talkimas

Thank you Guitar Hero: Metallica for giving us a massively improved mix of that album


romafa

I actually find myself listening to number 3 the most. Iā€™m prepared for the hate.


originalcondition

(edited to include links because why not) Marty Robbins wrote ā€˜[El Paso](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zBzZJd-nfw)ā€™ about a cowboy who falls in love with a Mexican dancer named Felina (Feleena) and is eventually gunned down, dying in Felinaā€™s arms. A lot of people are aware that Robbins followed ā€˜El Pasoā€™ with ā€˜[Feleena](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74AkX3D35fo)ā€™, which told the same story from Felinaā€™s perspective. But he then followed both of these up with ā€˜[El Paso City](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SicLohDu-qk)ā€™, in which he sings from his own personal perspective in modern day about the possibility of reincarnation and wonders if he was the cowboy in the song in a previous life. He sings about looking out the window of an airplane down at El Paso and wondering how he knows the exact route that the cowboy rode back to Felina. >Somewhere in my deepest thoughts >Familiar scenes and memories unfold >These wild and unexplained emotions that I've had so long >But I have never told >Like every time I fly up through the heavens >And I see you there below >I get the feeling sometime in another world I lived in El Paso


gr8ful123

I know Bobby & The Grateful Dead & their offshoot bands performed "El Paso" (where I first heard it), but man oh man, I would love to hear Bobby perform "Feleena" as well as "El Paso City". Surprised he never did. r/gratefuldead


NovaPokeDad

And here I thought El Paso was a sequel to Dark Star.


asleepinthetreestand

I came here to find this comment. You did a better job than I would have. Kudos


SynnerSaint

Iron Maiden did 'Charlotte the Harlot' and it's sequel '22 Acacia Avenue', they also did 'The Prisoner' and 'Back in the ~~Valley~~ Village' (both about the British TV show The Prisoner. Metallica have done 'The Unforgiven', 'The Unforgiven II' and 'The Unforgiven III' Charlie Daniels did 'The Devil went down to Georgia' and 'The Devil comes back to Georgia'


BigMartinJol

Charlotte the Harlot also appears in From Here To Eternity where she's going on a motorcycle with the devil, in pure Maiden fashion.


rossrifle113

I believe the full series is Charlotte The Harlot (Iron Maiden), 22 Acacia Ave (Number of the Beast), Hooks In You (No Prayer For The Dying) then From Here To Eternity (Fear of the Dark)


cloudstrifeuk

Bon Jovi Livin On A Prayer. It's sequel was It's My Life.


reddragon105

Came here to say this! Livin' on a Prayer - >Tommy used to work on the docks, > >Union's been on strike, he's down on his luck, it's tough, so tough. > >Gina works the diner all day, > >Working for her man, she brings home her pay, for love... for love. It's My Life - >This is for the ones who stood their ground, > >For Tommy and Gina, who never backed down. Glad to hear things worked out for them!


MrBronsonsWig

Hey, don't forget 99 in the shade as well - 'maybe Tommy's coming down tonight.., if Gina says it's alright'!


nochumplovesucka__

It doesnt make a difference if they made it or not.


Earguy

Buddy Holly, *Peggy Sue* and *Peggy Sue Got Married* Chubby Checker, *The Twist* and *Let's Twist Again*


KermitTheArgonian

Ooh, your grand golden oldies made me remember Leslie Gore's "Judy's Turn to Cry", the sequel to her hit "It's My Party".


martej

*Like we did last summer*. Even has lyrics to remind everyone about the first song, just in case they forgot about it already.


SquirrelKing2022

Jessieā€™s Girl 2- Coheed and Cambria Ft Rick Springfield.


BarryMcLean

You could say most of coheeds stuff is sequels to earlier stuff.


joebleaux

Except for the ones that are prequels. And TCBTS.


JalapenoJamm

This song isā€¦ okay, didnā€™t match the pre-release hype.


Smallest-Yeet

To be honest the Directors Cut without Rick is a waaay better song. Original first song is obviously better then both, but the guy hammed it up in this one


The68Guns

Harry Chapin's has Taxi, then Sequel.


SelectionNo3078

Came here to say this But letā€™s face it Taxi works best on its own


YBFROT

Well, another man might have been angry, and another might have been hurt; but another man never would have let her go. I stuck the bill in my shirt That part gets me every time.


jta462

Coheed and Cambrias 1st 3 albums.


Kiwihara

Technically first 5 albums tell 1 story. Second Stage Turbine Blade In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume 1 Good Apollo Volume 2 Year of the Black Rainbow (a prequel to Second Stage, unfortunately a lot of love lost on this album from the fans due to the poor mixing, but there are some bangers). ​ Then they have the Afterman Ascension and Descension albums which take place long before the first 5 albums in the same universe. ​ And finally they've started Vaxis 1 and 2, with plans I believe for 5 or 6 total. ​ ​ I really love Coheed haha.


JoeClimax

And then there's the color before the sun which is... Fine. It has a catchy song or two but the lack of overarching story really made it feel flat. And then prize fighter inferno also exists. I'm not a big fan but it's there. Either way the OP question of sequel songs immediately made me think "so like... All of Coheed's albums?" as well lol.


GregorZeeMountain

I'm glad i'm not the only one thinking "oh, so Coheed's entire discography basically?" Unpopular opinion, at least to Coheed fans, but I enjoyed CBTS since it showed off a bit more of Claudio's range. And it also had Atlas on it and that song is next level awesome.


eldonte

I havenā€™t been as into them lately, but during the era of the first 3 albums I saw them live 5 times. So good. Opened my eyes to some great bands too - Under0ath, Dredg, Blood Brothers.


porcubot

Don't forget, they wrote Jessie's Girl 2 with Rick Springfield


futanari_kaisa

Dethklok - Murmaider Dethklok - Murmaider 2: The Water God


Djrobl

Every Breath You Take - The Police If You Love Somebody Set Them Free - Sting


JGCities

The most famous musical stalker of all time correcting his mistake and yet so few remember the correction. FYI - Every Breath You Take is one of the most financially successful songs of all time.


SaintArkweather

The most disturbing thing about that song isn't the song itself - a lot of people write songs from the perspective of bad people (e.g. Nebraska by Springsteen is written from the perspective of a serial killer; Shelby Lynne's Heaven's Only Days Down The Road is written from the perspective of her father who committed a murder-suicide). Its the fact that many people perceive it as a romantic song to play at a wedding or something similar. Now I'm just hoping nobody's ever misperceived "Heavens Only Days Down the Road" based on its title and used it as a funeral šŸ˜Ÿ


bassman1805

On a similar note: "Okie from Muskogee" by Merle Haggard is satirical, he's basically saying "Get a load of these rednecks, right?" and it became a redneck anti-hippy *anthem* for decades. Nixon asked Johnny Cash to play it in the White House as a political statement (instead, Cash wrote and performed "What is Truth", a song about leaders telling bold-faces lies to young people). Years later, Merle was asked on a talk show "So, Okie from Muskogee starts out with 'We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee' but you've been spending a lot of time with Willie Nelson of late, what gives?" Merle replied "Well, you'll notice I'm not often found in Muskogee..." (I drove through Muskogee last year and it's fuckin *loaded* with pot shops ever since Oklahoma legalized it)


amancalledj

Unforgiven 6: Unforgiven Takes Manhattan


Abacab4

Unforgiven 7: Unforgiven in Space


TheSl0thWrangler

Un(4x2)given: never forg8


electric_ocelots

Un4given


bassman1805

2 Fast, Un4given.


Snarcastic

Unforgiven 22, electric boogaloo


fishsauceinmybagswag

Another brick in the wall - the trilogy


BlatantlyThrownAway

In the Flesh? and In the Flesh.


KermitTheArgonian

Some Johnny Cash fans aren't aware Shel Silverstein wrote "A Boy Named Sue", and even fewer know that there's a sequel (with hilarious lyrics) called "The Father of a Boy Named Sue".


[deleted]

If you like Shel Silverstein stuff look at the Early Stuff from Dr Hook, before they went bankrupt. "Everybody's making it big but me" and "The cover of the rolling stone" were both his.


dackinthebox

IIRC, he also wrote ā€œI Got Stoned and I Missed Itā€ which was like the second Dr Hook song Iā€™d ever heard


KermitTheArgonian

I also love "Freakin' At the Freakers' Ball"!


tntdaddy

>"And on nights that I can't score Well, I can't tell you any more But it sure is a joy to have a boy named Sue" Is that line saying what I think it's saying?


Kozzinator

If it's even half as funny as the original then it's gonna be great lol thank you


flwrchld77

Meat Loaf did Bat Out of Hell with Jim Steinman, and they've released two albums since, Back into Hell and Monster is Loose, each with titular followups to the original


timberwolf0122

Alestorm, wooden leg is now up to part 3


jeffers667

Finally, another person of culture in here!


[deleted]

There are also some tie ins, if not direct sequels. For example, Death Throes of the Terrorsquid ties in wirh Fannybaws.


theHip

There are like I think four or more ā€œIt Gets Funkierā€ by Vulfpeck which gets funkier with each iteration.


Draconocard

It gets so funky they need to bring in Louis Cole for backup on It Gets Funkier IV.


Healthy-Travel3105

King of carrot flowers part 1 and 2 from from neutral milk hotel


lacunatech

Same album has Two-Headed Boy parts 1 and 2 as well


VictimOfCircuspants

NOFX had a song called "Liza & Louise" about the sexual exploits of a lesbian couple, and then followed it up with a song called "Louise" years later, presumably post-breakup. Edit: as someone pointed out in response, there's another sequel song called "Liza" in between, which had slipped my mind.


yousyveshughs

But between those two song releases there was a tune called ā€˜Lizaā€™ on Heavy Petting Zoo.


myleftone

The Police have Synchronicity and the much better Sync II, which donā€™t seem to be related. Thereā€™s also Hayloft and its sequel by Mother Mother. Iā€™m not a fan of the second one.


damone78

GnR. Don't cry, November rain and estranged Pearl Jam. Alive, once and footsteps.


Thrillhouse763

Had to scroll too far to see those GnR songs. The videos are epic also.


lawlgoblin

Dance Gavin Dance: The Robot With Human Hair pt. 1, 2, 3, 2 1/2, 4, Death of the Robot with Human Hair, Young Robot, and Son of Robot. They also have Strawberry Swisher Pt. 1, 2, 3, Death of a Strawberry, and Strawberryā€™s Wake. Between Emarosa and Jonny Craigā€™s solo stuff: I Still Feel Her Pt. 1, A City Called Coma Pt. 2, Istillfeelher pt.3, I Still Feel Her pt. 4, and I still feel her pt. 5. Part 1, 2, and 4 are emarosa, 3 and 5 are Jonny solo. Escape the Fate: The Guillotine, This War Is Ours (The Guillotine 2), The Aftermath (G3) are a song series about Halo.


SmellyMcPhearson

Usher - Confessions (Part II)


rossrifle113

Weird Al- Confessions (Part III)


SmellyMcPhearson

Oops, my bad! But you'll be madder at me when I give you part 4 of my confessions


The_Schwartz_

Tool does this with a couple of consecutive tracks in albums like Parabol then Parabola on Lateralus. Wings for Marie then 10,000 Days is a poignantly stylized tribute to the lead singer's late mother. The reluctant acceptance of her devoted beliefs at the end of it all is surprisingly touching in its own way.


clc1997

The most obvious Tool sequel: Message to Harry Manback II


FesteringNeonDistrac

Can we count Intermission and Jimmy?


The_Schwartz_

I'm good with it. Though the carnival ditty to start with is catchy enough to stand on its own


Got_2_Git_Schwifty

Wings for Marie gets me in the feels. And if I hear it, it stays in my head for days.


Cyanopicacooki

On the "Ace of Spades" album there are 2 tracks that follow each other in sequence - "Bite the bullet" about breaking up and "The chase is better than the catch" about getting another partner. Lynn Murdock, Superstar, is a very clear reply to Billie Jean by Micheal Jackson.


Sky-Flyer

green day has Jesus of Suburbia, and Homecoming, the first song talks about teenage angst, while the second is about getting out of the phase and having to become a functional member of society


itamarka

Pretty much every song on American idiot (besides wake me up when September ends) is connected


The_Mesh

I was also thinking Green Day, but on their next album *21st Century Breakdown*, the songs "Ā”Viva La Gloria!" and then "ĀæViva La Gloria? (Little Girl)"


Pyrochazm

Slipknot has Vermillion part 1 and 2, but they're on the same album not sure if that counts.


Truth_decay

Really excited to answer this one. Primus has the Fisherman's Chronicles which consists of 4 songs across 4 albums. John the Fisherman from Frizzle Fry, Fish On from Sailing the Seas of Cheese, The Ol' Diamondback Sturgeon from Pork Soda, and The Last Salmon Man from Green Naugahyde.


grafter270

Mother mother, Hayloft and Hayloft II


EuphoricMoose8232

Pearl Jam has a three song mini opera called Mamasan (I.e. mama-son) that starts with the song ā€œAlive,ā€ and then is continued with the songs ā€œOnceā€ and ā€œFootsteps.ā€ In ā€œAlive,ā€ a mother seduces her son after revealing that his father is not his father and his real father has died. In ā€œOnceā€ the son goes mad and goes in a killing spree. And in ā€œFootsteps,ā€ the son is on Death Row and is looking back.


RunDNA

And Rearviewmirror is thought by many to be a sequel to Daughter. Daughter says: "The shades go down" and RVM says: "Finally the shades are raised."


[deleted]

For a bleak one, The River by Bruce Springsteen is meant to be about the same couple as thunder road. I don't think of it as such because it really tarnishes the unwavering hope of Thunder road, but the River as an album is generally a lot darker than Born To Run (which thunder road is from) was


Stardustchaser

Fuck The River just kills me. So beautiful and sad.


Colavs9601

Itā€™s not. The River is about his sister who met a rodeo rider and got pregnant after 6 weeks so they got married. Bruce gave it a downbeat ending in the song compared to real life where his sisterā€™s marriage is still going strong today. The sequel to ā€œThunder Roadā€ is ā€œThe Promiseā€


Samuel7899

The River is definitely about his younger sister and brother-in-law. Since the events from her life that are described in The River took place several years before Thunder Road was written (1965 and 1974 respectively), I'm skeptical that Thunder Road was written about such a very specific and narrow time of her life. The closest thing to a sequel to Thunder Road might be [The Promise](https://youtu.be/KQh8yxEkzrY).


mordeh

This. I am reading _Born to Run_ and he specifically mentions that itā€™s about his sister


Peanutz1

Steely Dan had a song called Your Gold Teeth and later put out Your Gold Teeth 2.


Bizznitchy

If you've ever heard a song by a Man in Black singing about a "Boy Named Sue" https://youtu.be/WOHPuY88Ry4 , Then you should hear that same Man in Black sing what the "Father of a Boy Named Sue"( *written by Shel Silverstien) had to say. https://youtu.be/NeQmfPZUmHk


WrathOfMogg

Prog rock and symphonic metal have lots of sequels.


yuttington

Ween - the Stallion The Stallion part 2 The Stallion part 3 the Stallion part 4 The Stallion part 5


dkinmn

Ben Folds - Cigarette and Fred Jones Pt 2


Most_Attitude_9153

Glass Onion makes several references to earlier Beatles tracks.


wolftamer9

I didn't realize until hearing Glass Onion on the radio that Hey Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal by They Might Be Giants is referencing it when it references TMBG's earlier songs.


ExternalPiglet1

People were a bit whiffed that there wasn't an Un4gIVen song from Metallica this time.


mjsarlington

Veruca Saltā€™s Volcano Girls has a callback to their other big hit, Seether.


SelectionNo3078

Spoiler alert The seetherā€™s Louise


EuphoricMoose8232

And this is an allusion to the Beatlesā€™ Glass Onion!


SickAndBeautiful

one, two, three, WHAAAOOOHHH


tackthiratrix

The killers have a sequel to Mr Brightside called Miss Atomic Bomb. An amazing song and music video which brings back the actors from the mr brightside music video.


itamarka

It also interpolates a part of the opening track to the same album as miss atomic bomb (flesh and bone is the song it interpolates and battle born is the album)


Timstunes

Sixty Minute Man-Billy Ward & the Dominoes(1951) followed by Canā€™t Do Sixty No More-The Dominoes(1955). I donā€™t think this counts but going to add anyway. At The Hop-Danny and the Juniors (1957) followed by Letā€™s Go Smoke Some Pot-Dash Rip Rock(1995). ;D


XVelvetThunder

The Wonder Years have an incredible song called Cardinals that was released back in 2015. On their newest record (The Hum Goes On Forever, 2022) they released Cardinals 2. Very different songs musically. But thematically and, at a point, lyrically they are very clearly companion songs. Those songs, and the band as a whole, are very worth checking out!


Rush_Clasic

On the AFI album *Sing the Sorrow*, track 2 is *The Leaving Song Pt. II* and track 11 is *The Leaving Song*. Many fans believe that these two songs are ordered this way to hint at the album's circular nature in both theme and construction. (The outro music on the album is the intro music backwards, if I remember correctly.)


tugboaconstrictor

"Lloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken" by Camera Obscura is a response to "are you ready to be heartbroken" by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions.


ElderberryAgitated51

Shook Ones Part II By Mobb Deep Yeah, to all the killers and a hundred dollar billers


Boomershot

Bullet For My Valentine has Tears Donā€™t Fall and Tears Donā€™t Fall, part 2.


HippasusOfMetapontum

Yes. Another example is the "song" Lark's Tongues in Aspic, by King Crimson, which has at least three sequels, across multiple albums.


ZooterOne

Wellā€¦in the '70s, Jeannie C. Riley did a great little country song called "Harper Valley PTA." Then in the '80s ('90s?), she pretty much ruined it with a sequel, which was essentially the same tune with new lyrics. Riley became a hard-right born-again Christian in-between the two songs, and boy, does it show.


yerfatma

Rough guess without looking: Tom T Hall did not write the sequel.


runjimrun

Wow. I just read the lyrics to Return To Harper Valley. Thereā€™s a whole verse about weed, coke, and pills. That was not a direction I expected it to take.


JoeMonma420

The Unforgiven, 1,2 and 3


jingle1996

Touch Me I'm Going to Scream pt 2 by My Morning Jacket


FunkyStudent21

Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Pt. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Gang Starr - The Militia Pt. 1, 2, 3, 4


HankHillIsTheBest

Megadeth had Hangar 18 and Return to Hangar


UglyInThMorning

Return to Hangar is mostly Hangar 18 but significantly worse in every way.


ProteinStain

Korn has two songs which could be considered siblings. It's especially clear when you watch the music videos (the second picks up immediately after the end of the first). 1. [Korn - Freak On A Leash](https://youtu.be/jRGrNDV2mKc). 2. [Korn - Falling Away From Me](https://youtu.be/2s3iGpDqQpQ)


Theher0not

Sonata Arctica have a few. To start off there's the whole Caleb Saga (the songs: _Caleb_, _Till Death Do Us Apart_, _The End of This Chapter_, _Don't Say a Word_ and _Julliet_). It's a really disturbing story about a man who goes insane after his wife leaves him, eventually resulting in him attempting to murder her. Then I think _Among the Shooting Stars_ is meant as a sequel to _Fullmoon_.


intercepter101

Another brick in the wall has multiple sequels. There's also in the flesh? and well, in the flesh.


Arkhampatient

The Devil Came Back to Georgia is a sequel to the Devil Came Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniels


cobaltjacket

/r/rush had several like this, one set of which spanned four songs across four decades. They had another which was labeled as a sequel as a joke.


slapshots1515

The Fear series, with the first three released in ā€œbackwards order.ā€ Witch Hunt in 1980, The Weapon in 1982, and The Enemy Within in 1984, with part four being Freeze in 2002. And then yep, thereā€™s ā€œ~~La Villa Strangiato: An Exercise In Self Indulgence~~ Whereā€™s My Thing: (Part IV of Gangsters in Boats Trilogy).ā€ Apparently when Geddy and Alex write the music for the songs before they sent it to Neil for lyrics, they give it a ridiculous title to force him to change it. In retaliation this time, Neil just kept their title.


SelectionNo3078

Didnā€™t know they did a part four Fell out of rushā€™s new releases after about 1990


Gunnar_Peterson

Luv sic 1, 2 and 3


deelyte3

Geeze. I donā€™t know if this counts, but the Police has Synchronicity I & II. Genesis had Dukeā€™s End, Dukeā€™s Travels, and Duchess. I thought Meatloaf made a sequel to some song, but Iā€™m not certain.


_ramsi_

Damien Trilogy by DMX.


n30l1nk

Sequels and series are fairly common in progressive rock and metal; a big trend in prog is concept music. Some comments have already posted examples with bands like Dream Theater and Rush. One extreme example would be Ayreon which is a project spanning from the early 90s to now where every album is set within the same fictional sci-fi universe, with the stories going back and forth in the timeline and involving precognition, time travel, simulated realities, alien-induced panspermia, and more nerdy stuff. Metal more broadly can also play with concepts between songs or in albums. Comments already mentioned Iron Maidenā€™s ā€œCharlotte the Harlotā€ series, or Metallicaā€™s Unforgiven trilogy. Kamelot has two concept albums that each tell one part of a story (Epica, The Black Halo). Thereā€™s plenty of examples. One I learned about recently that kind of surprised me is actually in salsa, of all places. One of my countryā€™s most well known and played songs is ā€œPedro Navajaā€ by Ruben Blades from 1978. Ruben often tells some kind of story in his songs, based on social and political realities and messages he wants to impart, but thereā€™s something a bit more ā€œpulp fictionā€ about this one. Itā€™s about a prostitute in New York who gets attacked by an idiosyncratic criminal known as Pedro Navaja (or ā€œPedro the Knife,ā€) who has a gold tooth, a tipped hat, and always carries a knife inside his overcoat. But right as he lands his blow, the woman pulls out a revolver and shoots him, while mocking him for stooping lower than her, and they both supposedly die on the street, with a drunk then coming across their dead bodies, looting them, and taking off. A number of albums and 6 years later, Blades recorded a sequel called ā€œSorpresas,ā€ which tells the story of a thief who robbed the drunk panderer who looted the bodies before, and demanded to know where he found the haul. When he goes to loot the bodies some more, he recognizes Pedro and laughs at his death, but suddenly gets stabbed by Pedro, who was playing dead the whole time, and always carries two knives. He plants his ID on the thief to confuse the cops and takes off boasting about how this is his neighborhood. The crazy thing for me was that I always heard Pedro Navaja growing up, but not Sorpresas, which nobody talks about. And I was recently going through Ruben Bladesā€™s discography and just stumbled onto the song all these years later, only realizing it was a sequel as I heard the lyrics.


MiniAndretti

Dead Kennedys: ā€œCalifornia Uber Allesā€ about Jerry Brown ā€œWeā€™ve Got A Bigger Problem Nowā€ about Reagan


Teenage_Wasteland_1

Bowie has Ashes to Ashes as a sequel to Space Oddity


MahBucketz

Bitch Please ll - Eminem, is a sequel to Snoop Dogg's Bitch Please


kemphasalotofkids

Metallica has the Unforgiven songs. Mellencamp has a follow up (maybe prequel?) to Jack and Diane...the name escapes me though.


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Every album of He Is Legend (starting with ā€˜I Am Hollywood) has a song that continues the story of the song China White. So far there are 7 parts I believe. China White 1-3, Heavy Fruit, The Garden, The Interloper(it hard to tell on the album White Bat. Lots of songs seem to deal with similar issues), and Return to the Garden. He is legend is amazing because there music is just a bunch of short stories. Not music about the real world or some other relatable situation in real life.


T-STAFF19

Lupe Fiasco had the song Mural off his album Tetsuo and Youth. He followed that up with Mural Jr. from his album Drogas Wave.


Neemoman

Mural is so damn good


Mr_M0t0m0

EPMD did a series of raps about a character named Jane (the J to the A to the N to the E).


juany8

Redman did a similar series with his Soopaman Lover tracks, pretty sure it was directly inspired by EPMD


Stardustchaser

Maybe not sequels, but watch the videos for M83ā€™s Midnight City, Reunion, and Wait in that order, and itā€™s an interesting cinematic epic with 2001 overtones. https://youtu.be/dX3k_QDnzHE https://youtu.be/DJQQrjVmQG0 https://youtu.be/lAwYodrBr2Q


9793287233

Ween has The Stallion parts 1-5


imMadasaHatter

Coheed and cambria album in general