See? We are so used to sequels associated with film, I forgot to call it a song… forever ruining my Sir Mix A Lot joke! It is hard these days to find a decent SMaL joke…sigh…
Warmgun- Matisse may very well have said “Mediocre artists borrow, great artists steal,” and Paul McCartney may simply like to quote him.
After all, Lennon and McCartney both went to art school, before becoming rock stars! Presumably, they were both familiar with Matisse.
Does it count if the two songs are on the same album? If so, we’ve got:
“Voodoo Child” and “Voodoo Child Slight Return” by Jimi Hendrix. On the same album are “Rainy Day, Dream Away” and “Still Raining, Still Dreaming”. Also, the first track on Electric Ladyland, “…And The Gods Made Love”, was said by Hendrix to be a sequel to “EXP”, the first track on the Axis album.
On White Zombie’s Astro-Creep 2000 album there is “Electric Head Part 1 (The Agony)”, and “Electric Head Part 2 (The Ecstacy”). I don’t know what either song is about, even though I have the lyrics right here in front of me.
Back in their club days Metallica had a song called “The Mechanix”, which was sung by then guitarist Dave Mustaine. After Mustaine got kicked out of the band, they changed the lyrics and it appears on the first Metallica album as “The Four Horsemen”. Later when Mustaine formed Megadeth, he released the original “Mechanix”.
Zagler and Evan’s wretched “Eve of Destruction” had a rebuttal/sequel called “Dawn of Correction” by the Spokesmen which was even more wretched. (It actually endorsed preemptive nuclear strikes, iirc)
In addition, the El Dorados (a wonderful '50’s do-wop group that I’ve just discovered) did a song called “Bim-Bam-Boom” (no relation to the Oingo Boingo one) about a woman banging on the singer’s kitchen door at midnight. They was a sequel called “(At My Front Door) Crazy Little Momma” about how the woman came back the next night.
God help me, 1910 Fruitgum Company’s “The Song Song” references just about every bad song of the period and tries to make them into a coherent whole, from the “The Jelly Jungle of Orange Marmalade” by the Lemon Pipers, to <urk> “MacArthur Park” to “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy”. It’s a masterpiece of badness. It’s…it’s…Y’know the Sgt Pepper’s movie (where they made Strawberry Fields a girl rather than real estate)? Imagine if, instead of using the Beatles, they used bubblegum music and compressed all the badness into four minutes.
And the other two Royal Guardsmen songs are “Snoopy’s Christmas” (“Christmas bells, those Christmas bells/Rang across the land/Bringing peace to all the world/and goodwill to man”) and “Snoopy’s Revenge” which was lame, even by the standards set by the other songs I’ve mentioned.
Fenris
Eve of Destruction was by Barry McGuire. Z & E did the also-wretched ‘In The Year 2525’.
King Crimson has put variations of ‘Larks Tongue in Aspic’ on many of their albums.
And then there’s Doug. Through two different groups and a solo career, Andrew Ratshin has written songs about a guy named Doug. A few years ago he got all the necessary people together for a concert of the Doug songs, which was recorded and released on the CD Doug.
Then there’s **El Paso City ** by Marty Robbins, sequel to his huge early hit El Paso and an excellent tune in itself in which the singer is in a plane flying over El Paso and thinks about the events that took place there “so long ago” in the earlier song.
One of my favorite parodies is Leader of the Laundromat which borrowed the tune of Leader of the Pack to great hilarity
Here’s a page about answer songs of the 50s and 60s, with sound clips:
Here’s two more you forgot. “The Unforgiven” and “The Unforgiven II” by Metallica. Both songs have the same opening, and incorporate some of the same lyrics.
-Brianjedi
I think the melody from “What I Got” by Sublime sounds just like “Lady Madonna” by the Beatles. Also, in less good music, Green Day’s “Waiting” melody was the same from “Downtown”(don’t know who wrote that one).
Dream Theater did a concept album that was supposed to be a sequel to a song. The original song was called **Metropolis Pt. I ** and an album they did quite some time later was called Scenes From a Memory: Metropolis Pt. 2. It’s actually more of a elaboration than a sequel, but they called pt. 2 so eh…