Sequel Songs

[Liam]

The Dani California character runs through all three, I believe.

[Clawson]

Lyla is Sally's sister from Don't Look Back In Anger or something.

[Stormshadow]

Yeah not mentioned by name in Californication but "Teenage bride with a baby inside/Gettin' high on information" Then in By The Way "Dani the girl" and then yeah Dani California is obvious.

[METALMAN]

Oh god I can't believe I forgot the "Dani the girl" bit in By The Way. It's not like it's the bloody chorus or anything.

I must be getting old.

[Jayzon]

White Zombie: Electric Head, parts 1 and 2, from the album Astro-Creep:2000.

[Bushmeister]

Static-X had "Otsego Electric", "Otsego Undead" and "Otsegolation" on subsequent albums, fuck me if I can remember the exact order though.

[YI]

Not sure if they count as 'sequel' songs, as such, but here's a few.

It's been a little while since I've listened to it, but a good majority (if not all) of "We Have The Facts & We're Voting Yes" by Death Cab For Cutie is about the same guy. Also "Cath..." (while awesome) is just a newer, poorer version of "Company Calls Epilogue".

"Travels" by Defeater is a story about some guy who killed his family and stuff, and is denied forgiveness from God (or something vaguely like that, can't be arsed to get into the finer details). Their forthcoming EP is also going to be stories of a homeless man introduced in the song "Prophet In Pain Clothes".

"Winter's Daughter" by RickoLus..."Winters Daughter" tells the tale of Maryn Winter, who is the daughter of the season winter, and Emory Tate, the boy who woke up the sun.

"Angry Johnny & The Radio" and "Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?" by The Gaslight Anthem seem to be linked. The best description I've heard of it are they are both about Brian Fallon's wife, which does kind of make sense.

...I used to know loads of this kind of shit...grrrr. My mind's blank.

[Colly]

Anyone remember the tracklisting for the Murder Trilogy by the Killers? I know it involved Midnight Show, and I think Jenny Was a Friend of Mine from the first album along with a B-side, and was basically the story of a murder. Remember when the Killers weren't shit?

[METALMAN]

"Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf" is the other part. It's also on Sawdust.

And I don't see how if you used to like the Killers you would think they're shit now. They're better if anything.

[YI]

Yeah, the 3rd album was fucking awesome. The first was all singles (and "Jenny..." and maybe "On Top" at a shove) with the rest being wank, the 2nd was eugh ("Bling...", "When You Were Young" and "For Reasons Unknown" are the only songs I like).

[Avenged Probably]

On just about all their albums Soulfly have had tracks entitled 'Soulfly' and then numbered II to VI there after I believe.

[Colly]

Yeah, the 3rd album was fucking awesome. The first was all singles (and "Jenny..." and maybe "On Top" at a shove) with the rest being wank, the 2nd was eugh ("Bling...", "When You Were Young" and "For Reasons Unknown" are the only songs I like).

To be honest I didn't buy the third based on not liking the second or the singles from the newie, but I think my major problem with the Killers is that they responded to the accusations of the first album sounding loads like Shed Seven by making sure nothing else they ever did sounded like Shed Seven, forgetting that Shed Seven were awesome.

In closing, go listen to Shed Seven.

[METALMAN]

I didn't like the second much but I really liked the third. If you liked the first album so much it's worth giving it a listen on Spotify or whatever. You might be pleasantly surprised.

[hackerjack]

* The Ramones - Judy Is a Punk/The Return of Jack & Judy

* Chubby Checker - The Twist/Let's Twist Again

* Buddy holly - Peggy Sue/Peggy Sue got Married

* Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer/???

Can't remember the others now but I know Bo Jovi have references Tommi and Gina from this several times on later albums

* Iron Maiden - ???

Again can't remember the titles but they referenced a hooker called Charlotte (i think) in several songs.

* David Bowie - Space Oddity/Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes, tells the story of what happenned to Major Tom from Space Oddity

* The Who - My Generation / Generation X - Your Generation

Generation X (Billy Idol + others) aparently mae the claim that The Who were out of touch even by th time of My Generation.

* Meatloaf - Two out of Three / Elvis - I Want You I Need You I Love You

A bit tenuous this one but my mate in the office reckons he heard Meatloaf say in a documentary that he always wanted to use the lyric "I want you, I need you, But I don't love you" (ended up as "I want you, I need you, But there aint no way i'm ever gonna love you") after hearing and hating the Elvis song.

* American pie

References a ton of other songs, not sure if youd include that though.

* The Streets - A grand don't come for free album

Is a bunch of songs all about the same group of people, so slightly different again. Green Day's American Idiot album had tracks that lead into one another ass well liek a story although it was more a collection of shorts in literary terms.

* Eminem - Anything about his family

In fact lots of rap/hip hop musicians have doen this as well but he is the most prominent.

[Iain76er]

Jay-Z: Friend or Foe/Friend or Foe '98

[K]

Scroobius Pip - The First Time I Met Musik (later turned into a DLS/Pip song called The First Time We Met Musik.. though the two are almost identical lyrically) was later sequalised in Unspoken Word Poetry (The Second Time I Met Musik).

[slain]

Maybach Music Part 2 by Rick Ross, featuring Kanye West, T-Pain, and Lil' Wayne.

I recommend EVERYBODY listen to it.

[METALMAN]

The Beatles...

I Am The Walrus - "I Am The Walrus"

Glass Onion - "The walrus was Paul"

And then there's all the Billy Shears stuff as well. And the songs that supposedly carry references to Paul being dead.

[Jayzon]

Sonata Arctica has a plethora of interconnected songs, but a couple that pop in my mind are "Letter To Dana" from their debut album Ecliptica, and "Shy" from the EP Successor.

[Draevyn]

Godsmack-Voodoo and Voodoo Too

That was the only one I could think of that hasn't been mentioned