Musical Sequels

So hey...I was listening to Vance Gilbert's latest album this morning. He has a song called "If You See James" that is a moving sequel to "When Jimmy Falls in Love". It made me wonder what other music sequels are out there. I know there are some. Like "It's My Party" and "Judy's Turn to Cry". Anyone have some to add?

Spiraling has "Your New Boy" which has the sequel of "Song".� Your New Boy being about his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend, and Song being summed up in the chorus "You got everything you wanted, all I got was a song."� (Spiraling is a local NJ band who has opened for TMBG many times for those who are wondering)

Ben Folds - Fred Jones Part. 2 being the sequel to Cigarette?

TMBG - (She Was A) Hotel Detective, a 1994 disco sequel to the original on the 1st album.

Chubby Checker - Let's Twist Again, sequel to The Twist.

Who can forget Tent Pole Blues, the sequil to the Killer Tents!� Didn't CDB do the Devil went back to Geogia?� And there is weird Al's sequil to Eat It, Fat, which makes some sence.

I sort of think of EFO's "Abraham" as a sequel to "Atlantic"��- it makes it that much more heartwrenching.

Along the same lines....what songs do you WISH would have a sequel? Characters you really got into and would like to know more about?

How about prequels? Ever itching to know how characters got to the point in the song.

wasn't 'aurora' like a bad sequel to 'everlong'? *grin* :D

Cheryl Wheeler has a sequel or more like a response of sorts to her Gandhi/Buddha song.� I don't believe it's recorded but it's�essentially the same song, but with alternate lyrics.� The original song is about how she must have done something so great�to find her current partner.�� The alternate version is a parody written from the perspective of her partner and how she must have done something�really bad to get stuck with Cheryl. :)

the Nields claim that Merry Christmas, Mr. Jones is the sequel to Ash Wednesday, and as far as the general theme goes, that may work, but there's just no way you can find out you're pregnant on Ash Wednesday and give birth on Christmas.

Heheheh yes I remember that from her live show :)

Kelly Joe Phelps has It's James Now, a sequel to River Rat Jimmy.

Stephen Fearing's The Assassin's Apprentice is a sequel to The Bells of Morning. The original song being about the 'Montreal massacre'. Gorgeous, evocative lyrics...

Bowie's Ashes to Ashes is a sequel to Space Oddity.

hmmmmmmmmm

Southern man ----> Sweet home Alabama

does that count?

That's a response not a sequel. Are there any others like that?

I thought Ashes to Ashes was the sequil to Ziggy Stardust

Got Vance's new album the other day.� Love it.

but on the sequel note, john mayer's 'City Love' is followed by 'Covered In Rain.'

I like the latter more, but without listening to City Love you don't know what's going on.

*S*

and then if you add the new 'walk humbly, son' to the trilogy, it's a three-hankee set.

The John Lennon-Paul McCartney strife, like "How Do You Sleep?"

I'd say "Translucent Soul" by Ellis Paul and "Taking it All to Tennessee" by Vance Gilbert fall into that category. They're about each other, and Vance mentions in his song that "Unless you're singing 'coming home' then I don't want to hear another song about me" which he's said was a response to Translucent Soul specifically.

I just thought of two.

Woody Guthrie's This Land was a response to God Bless America

Back in the USSR Is a response to Chuck Berry's Back in the USA.

It has the lines

Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky
You know Major Tom's a Junky

Major Tom in in Space Oddity.

It is actually more a sequel to that era in Bowie's career.

closing html tags is fun. gordon, you should try it sometime. :)

Dare I bring up that Jian's "Lousy Boy" was supposed to be a response to Dar's "When I Was A Boy"? At least I thought I heard that somewhere....

TMBG - (She Was A) Hotel Detective, a 1994 disco sequel to the original on the 1st album.

eh, these songs really have nothing to do with each other, except for the titles. (and you have them reversed - the parenthesized version was on the first album)

Now there's an�ALBUM that has its own sequel: Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell.

Then there's the Liz Phair album (Exile in Guyville?) that's an answer to a Rolling Stones album (Exile on Main Street?)

And of course, the album we call C, the sequel disc to B!� Yea!!!!

My favorite combo is BNL's "Be My Yoko Ono" followed by Dar's "I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono," though I have no evidence that it was at all intended.

yeah, I always thought that too

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"much at all" is susan werner's sequel to "maybe if i sang cole porter."� and on her new album, she has a whole string of piano songs that sort of follow the course of a relationship in sequential order.

I personally would like to see a sequel to "stuck in the 90's."

and does anybody know where i can get "tent pole blues?"

Revolution - fast and Revolution - slow

Honey Pie and Wild Honey Pie

And I've always thought that Phish's Fee was an update of Rocky Raccoon

It was totally unintended. Dar didn't even know the song at the time.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I closed all my tags and I certainly didn't go back and put in the close tag after you posted this.

actually, she knew the song, or knew of it at least, but didn't know it was BNL.

She thought it was fruvous?

Actually, John Flansburgh had this to say in a Q&A session (http://www.essl.com/www.tmbg.com/fidelity/qa_tmbg.html):

Actually the original song has the words "She Was a" in parentheses. The second song was an attempt at a follow-up song in the tradition of "Peggy Sue Got Married" and "Let's Twist Again."

So it presumably was intended to be a sequel, as were the other two songs Flans mentioned.

Tori Amos has said that "Pretty Good Year" is the sequel to "Ode To The Banana King," but I don't really see how.

Neil Young's "Southern Man" and "Alabama" prompted a friendly riposte from Lynyrd Skynyrd, titled: "Sweet Home Alabama."

In the first half of the 19th century Fr�d�ric Chopin wrote two sets of etudes. They were finger exercises for piano players that happened to be enjoyable to listen to at the same time, provided the performer had mastered them. Mastering them meant, you could play anything at all that was possible to be played on the piano. Some years later Claude Debussy wrote another set of etudes, demonstrating that there was some way further to go yet.

Depends on what date Ash Wednesday falls and how prematurely or late the baby is born, doesnt it?

*thwap* ;)