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)
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.
Donāt forget āHallo Spaceboyā which has a Pet Shop Boys remix which ties it into the Major Tom songs. Arguably, āLazarusā by Bowie is a fourth Major Tom song but thatās only because Major Tomās decaying spacesuited body features in the video.
[āThe 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
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.
Interesting. I probably wouldnāt have picked up on this as Looky looās is the one track on Winter Wheat that I usually skip, but thatās more about my aversion to talking songs than anything else. Iāll have to give them a good listen together
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.
The Moody Blues released the 1988 hit song, āI Know Youāre Out There Somewhereā, the sequel to the 1986 hit āYour Wildest Dreamsā.
Even the music video for āI Know Youāreā¦ā continues where āYour Wildest Dreamsā left off. In the video, frontman Justin Hayward searches for his lost love, who was searching for him in the previous video.
Thereās also Metallicaās Unforgiven Trilogy.
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
"Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory" by Dream Theater is an entire album sequel to the song "MetropolisāPart I: 'The Miracle and the Sleeper'ā"
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.
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
You forgot the ā-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
āWhat 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
The original album release was a horrible victim of the loudness war, which I think is 90 percent of why it doesnāt get the attention it deserves. If you listen to a version that doesnāt have the horrible compression itās so good.
(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 Felinaās arms. A lot of people are aware that Robbins followed āEl Pasoā with ā[Feleena](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74AkX3D35fo)ā, which told the same story from Felinaās 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
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
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'
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)
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I havenāt 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.
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.
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 š
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)
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".
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.
>"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?
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
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.
The Police have Synchronicity and the much better Sync II, which donāt seem to be related.
Thereās also Hayloft and its sequel by Mother Mother. Iām not a fan of the second one.
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 Strawberryās Wake.
Between Emarosa and Jonny Craigās 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.
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.
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.
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
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)"
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.
Pearl Jam has a three song mini opera called Mamasan (I.e. mama-son) that starts with the song āAlive,ā and then is continued with the songs āOnceā and āFootsteps.ā
In āAlive,ā a mother seduces her son after revealing that his father is not his father and his real father has died. In āOnceā the son goes mad and goes in a killing spree. And in āFootsteps,ā the son is on Death Row and is looking back.
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
Itās 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 sisterās marriage is still going strong today.
The sequel to āThunder Roadā is āThe Promiseā
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).
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
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.
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.
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)
Sixty Minute Man-Billy Ward & the Dominoes(1951)
followed by Canāt Do Sixty No More-The Dominoes(1955).
I donāt think this counts but going to add anyway. At The Hop-Danny and the Juniors (1957) followed by Letās Go Smoke Some Pot-Dash Rip Rock(1995).
;D
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!
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.)
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.
Wow. I just read the lyrics to Return To Harper Valley. Thereās a whole verse about weed, coke, and pills. That was not a direction I expected it to take.
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)
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_.
The Fear series, with the first three released in ābackwards 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, thereās ā~~La Villa Strangiato: An Exercise In Self Indulgence~~ Whereās 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.
Geeze. I donāt know if this counts, but the Police has Synchronicity I & II. Genesis had Dukeās End, Dukeās Travels, and Duchess. I thought Meatloaf made a sequel to some song, but Iām not certain.
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 Maidenās āCharlotte the Harlotā series, or Metallicaās Unforgiven trilogy. Kamelot has two concept albums that each tell one part of a story (Epica, The Black Halo). Thereās plenty of examples.
One I learned about recently that kind of surprised me is actually in salsa, of all places. One of my countryās most well known and played songs is āPedro 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 thereās something a bit more āpulp fictionā about this one. Itās about a prostitute in New York who gets attacked by an idiosyncratic criminal known as Pedro Navaja (or āPedro 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 āSorpresas,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 Bladesās discography and just stumbled onto the song all these years later, only realizing it was a sequel as I heard the lyrics.
Every album of He Is Legend (starting with āI 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.
Maybe not sequels, but watch the videos for M83ās Midnight City, Reunion, and Wait in that order, and itās an interesting cinematic epic with 2001 overtones.
https://youtu.be/dX3k_QDnzHE
https://youtu.be/DJQQrjVmQG0
https://youtu.be/lAwYodrBr2Q
Blink-182 Anthem and Anthem Part 2
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
And Part 3 on the upcoming album!
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They go back-to-back if you go right from Enema to TOYPAJI too
David Bowie wrote a sequel to his song Space Oddity called Ashes to Ashes.
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)
Or as Breaking Bad fans remember it, [Gale's Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v0VR6Kf7KQ).
And the TV Series life on Mars? Had a sequel called Ashes to Ashes as well.
Hell yeah Idk that Iāve met anyone else whoās seen the tv show
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.
I love ashes to ashes, probably my all time favourite Bowie song
Donāt forget āHallo Spaceboyā which has a Pet Shop Boys remix which ties it into the Major Tom songs. Arguably, āLazarusā by Bowie is a fourth Major Tom song but thatās only because Major Tomās decaying spacesuited body features in the video.
Not Lazarus. The title track, Blackstar.
"It's My Party" and then "Judy's Turn to Cry" by Lesley Gore. High school romance revenge.
i absolutely LOVE Lesley Goreās music! *Just Let Me Cry* is (imo) a serious contender for of the best pop songs ever written
She was really fighting for her right to cry, wasnāt she?
The Royal Guardsmen had this down to a science: Snoopy vs the Red Baron The Return of the Red Baron Snoopy's Christmas
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)
Thatās because the Mastodon song is called āThe Last Baronā
[āThe 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
I cry every time
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.
Interesting. I probably wouldnāt have picked up on this as Looky looās is the one track on Winter Wheat that I usually skip, but thatās more about my aversion to talking songs than anything else. Iāll have to give them a good listen together
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.
As a born Winnipegger, it always makes me happy when the weakerthans and propagandhi are mentioned.
The Moody Blues released the 1988 hit song, āI Know Youāre Out There Somewhereā, the sequel to the 1986 hit āYour Wildest Dreamsā. Even the music video for āI Know Youāreā¦ā continues where āYour Wildest Dreamsā left off. In the video, frontman Justin Hayward searches for his lost love, who was searching for him in the previous video. Thereās also Metallicaās Unforgiven Trilogy.
Love those two tracks.
āPart IIā by Paramore is a sequel to āLet the Flames Beginā.
And itās even better than the original which is already stellar.
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
See also: the Fear trilogy
Part 1: The Enemy Within (Grace Under Pressure) Part 2: The Weapon (Signals) Part 3: Witch Hunt (Moving Pictures) Part 4: Freeze (Vapor Trails)
You sir are cultured
This! FTW.
"Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory" by Dream Theater is an entire album sequel to the song "MetropolisāPart I: 'The Miracle and the Sleeper'ā"
Great album
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.
They stopped it with Octavarium where the whole album loops back to the beginning of itself.
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
Thereās also colors 1 and 2 by between the buried and me.
Came here to say DT. They also have the entire twelve step suite.
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.
Because you're unforgiven thrreeee
MFs donāt forgive do they
Ask Dave.
You forgot the ā-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 āWhat 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
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Gimme fue, gimme fai Gimme dabajabazai
I can hear this in my head
This is one of the things that Beatallica nails so well in theirā¦ so we call them mashups? Parodies? I donāt know, theyāre good though.
No Un4given?
give them time
Un4gIVen is the ultimate form.
The ultimate 4m
The guitar solo on III is one of my favourite moments of Metallica. So friggen good
Death Magnetic doesn't get enough love. It was actually a pretty good album for a post-peak era Metallica
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
The original album release was a horrible victim of the loudness war, which I think is 90 percent of why it doesnāt get the attention it deserves. If you listen to a version that doesnāt have the horrible compression itās so good.
Thank you Guitar Hero: Metallica for giving us a massively improved mix of that album
I actually find myself listening to number 3 the most. Iām prepared for the hate.
(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 Felinaās arms. A lot of people are aware that Robbins followed āEl Pasoā with ā[Feleena](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74AkX3D35fo)ā, which told the same story from Felinaās 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
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
And here I thought El Paso was a sequel to Dark Star.
I came here to find this comment. You did a better job than I would have. Kudos
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'
Charlotte the Harlot also appears in From Here To Eternity where she's going on a motorcycle with the devil, in pure Maiden fashion.
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)
Bon Jovi Livin On A Prayer. It's sequel was It's My Life.
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!
Hey, don't forget 99 in the shade as well - 'maybe Tommy's coming down tonight.., if Gina says it's alright'!
It doesnt make a difference if they made it or not.
Buddy Holly, *Peggy Sue* and *Peggy Sue Got Married* Chubby Checker, *The Twist* and *Let's Twist Again*
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".
*Like we did last summer*. Even has lyrics to remind everyone about the first song, just in case they forgot about it already.
Jessieās Girl 2- Coheed and Cambria Ft Rick Springfield.
You could say most of coheeds stuff is sequels to earlier stuff.
Except for the ones that are prequels. And TCBTS.
This song isā¦ okay, didnāt match the pre-release hype.
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
Harry Chapin's has Taxi, then Sequel.
Came here to say this But letās face it Taxi works best on its own
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.
Coheed and Cambrias 1st 3 albums.
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.
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.
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.
I havenāt 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.
Don't forget, they wrote Jessie's Girl 2 with Rick Springfield
Dethklok - Murmaider Dethklok - Murmaider 2: The Water God
Every Breath You Take - The Police If You Love Somebody Set Them Free - Sting
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.
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 š
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)
Unforgiven 6: Unforgiven Takes Manhattan
Unforgiven 7: Unforgiven in Space
Un(4x2)given: never forg8
Un4given
2 Fast, Un4given.
Unforgiven 22, electric boogaloo
Another brick in the wall - the trilogy
In the Flesh? and In the Flesh.
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".
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.
IIRC, he also wrote āI Got Stoned and I Missed Itā which was like the second Dr Hook song Iād ever heard
I also love "Freakin' At the Freakers' Ball"!
>"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?
If it's even half as funny as the original then it's gonna be great lol thank you
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
Alestorm, wooden leg is now up to part 3
Finally, another person of culture in here!
There are also some tie ins, if not direct sequels. For example, Death Throes of the Terrorsquid ties in wirh Fannybaws.
There are like I think four or more āIt Gets Funkierā by Vulfpeck which gets funkier with each iteration.
It gets so funky they need to bring in Louis Cole for backup on It Gets Funkier IV.
King of carrot flowers part 1 and 2 from from neutral milk hotel
Same album has Two-Headed Boy parts 1 and 2 as well
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.
But between those two song releases there was a tune called āLizaā on Heavy Petting Zoo.
The Police have Synchronicity and the much better Sync II, which donāt seem to be related. Thereās also Hayloft and its sequel by Mother Mother. Iām not a fan of the second one.
GnR. Don't cry, November rain and estranged Pearl Jam. Alive, once and footsteps.
Had to scroll too far to see those GnR songs. The videos are epic also.
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 Strawberryās Wake. Between Emarosa and Jonny Craigās 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.
Usher - Confessions (Part II)
Weird Al- Confessions (Part III)
Oops, my bad! But you'll be madder at me when I give you part 4 of my confessions
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.
The most obvious Tool sequel: Message to Harry Manback II
Can we count Intermission and Jimmy?
I'm good with it. Though the carnival ditty to start with is catchy enough to stand on its own
Wings for Marie gets me in the feels. And if I hear it, it stays in my head for days.
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.
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
Pretty much every song on American idiot (besides wake me up when September ends) is connected
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)"
Slipknot has Vermillion part 1 and 2, but they're on the same album not sure if that counts.
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.
Mother mother, Hayloft and Hayloft II
Pearl Jam has a three song mini opera called Mamasan (I.e. mama-son) that starts with the song āAlive,ā and then is continued with the songs āOnceā and āFootsteps.ā In āAlive,ā a mother seduces her son after revealing that his father is not his father and his real father has died. In āOnceā the son goes mad and goes in a killing spree. And in āFootsteps,ā the son is on Death Row and is looking back.
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."
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
Fuck The River just kills me. So beautiful and sad.
Itās 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 sisterās marriage is still going strong today. The sequel to āThunder Roadā is āThe Promiseā
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).
This. I am reading _Born to Run_ and he specifically mentions that itās about his sister
Steely Dan had a song called Your Gold Teeth and later put out Your Gold Teeth 2.
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
Prog rock and symphonic metal have lots of sequels.
Ween - the Stallion The Stallion part 2 The Stallion part 3 the Stallion part 4 The Stallion part 5
Ben Folds - Cigarette and Fred Jones Pt 2
Glass Onion makes several references to earlier Beatles tracks.
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.
People were a bit whiffed that there wasn't an Un4gIVen song from Metallica this time.
Veruca Saltās Volcano Girls has a callback to their other big hit, Seether.
Spoiler alert The seetherās Louise
And this is an allusion to the Beatlesā Glass Onion!
one, two, three, WHAAAOOOHHH
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.
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)
Sixty Minute Man-Billy Ward & the Dominoes(1951) followed by Canāt Do Sixty No More-The Dominoes(1955). I donāt think this counts but going to add anyway. At The Hop-Danny and the Juniors (1957) followed by Letās Go Smoke Some Pot-Dash Rip Rock(1995). ;D
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!
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.)
"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.
Shook Ones Part II By Mobb Deep Yeah, to all the killers and a hundred dollar billers
Bullet For My Valentine has Tears Donāt Fall and Tears Donāt Fall, part 2.
Yes. Another example is the "song" Lark's Tongues in Aspic, by King Crimson, which has at least three sequels, across multiple albums.
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.
Rough guess without looking: Tom T Hall did not write the sequel.
Wow. I just read the lyrics to Return To Harper Valley. Thereās a whole verse about weed, coke, and pills. That was not a direction I expected it to take.
The Unforgiven, 1,2 and 3
Touch Me I'm Going to Scream pt 2 by My Morning Jacket
Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Pt. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Gang Starr - The Militia Pt. 1, 2, 3, 4
Megadeth had Hangar 18 and Return to Hangar
Return to Hangar is mostly Hangar 18 but significantly worse in every way.
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)
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_.
Another brick in the wall has multiple sequels. There's also in the flesh? and well, in the flesh.
The Devil Came Back to Georgia is a sequel to the Devil Came Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniels
/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.
The Fear series, with the first three released in ābackwards 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, thereās ā~~La Villa Strangiato: An Exercise In Self Indulgence~~ Whereās 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.
Didnāt know they did a part four Fell out of rushās new releases after about 1990
Luv sic 1, 2 and 3
Geeze. I donāt know if this counts, but the Police has Synchronicity I & II. Genesis had Dukeās End, Dukeās Travels, and Duchess. I thought Meatloaf made a sequel to some song, but Iām not certain.
Damien Trilogy by DMX.
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 Maidenās āCharlotte the Harlotā series, or Metallicaās Unforgiven trilogy. Kamelot has two concept albums that each tell one part of a story (Epica, The Black Halo). Thereās plenty of examples. One I learned about recently that kind of surprised me is actually in salsa, of all places. One of my countryās most well known and played songs is āPedro 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 thereās something a bit more āpulp fictionā about this one. Itās about a prostitute in New York who gets attacked by an idiosyncratic criminal known as Pedro Navaja (or āPedro 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 āSorpresas,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 Bladesās discography and just stumbled onto the song all these years later, only realizing it was a sequel as I heard the lyrics.
Dead Kennedys: āCalifornia Uber Allesā about Jerry Brown āWeāve Got A Bigger Problem Nowā about Reagan
Bowie has Ashes to Ashes as a sequel to Space Oddity
Bitch Please ll - Eminem, is a sequel to Snoop Dogg's Bitch Please
Metallica has the Unforgiven songs. Mellencamp has a follow up (maybe prequel?) to Jack and Diane...the name escapes me though.
Every album of He Is Legend (starting with āI 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.
Lupe Fiasco had the song Mural off his album Tetsuo and Youth. He followed that up with Mural Jr. from his album Drogas Wave.
Mural is so damn good
EPMD did a series of raps about a character named Jane (the J to the A to the N to the E).
Redman did a similar series with his Soopaman Lover tracks, pretty sure it was directly inspired by EPMD
Maybe not sequels, but watch the videos for M83ās Midnight City, Reunion, and Wait in that order, and itās an interesting cinematic epic with 2001 overtones. https://youtu.be/dX3k_QDnzHE https://youtu.be/DJQQrjVmQG0 https://youtu.be/lAwYodrBr2Q
Ween has The Stallion parts 1-5
Coheed and cambria album in general