# Songs that are sequels to other songs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079 "2008-04-20T03:08:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/41 "2008-04-21T02:35:28Z")
The songs themselves aren’t really sequels, but the Smashing Pumpkins’ **Perfect** was considered sort of a spiritual successor to **1979** , so they made the _video_ into a sequel, bringing most of the kids back a couple of years later. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/42 "2008-04-21T02:43:19Z")
From the Motown hit factory. Mary Wells, _My Guy_ followed immediately by the Temptations, _My Girl_. The unfortunate answer to Barry McGuire’s _Eve of Destruction_, The Spokesmen and [_Dawn of Correction_.](http://www.atomicplatters.com/more.php?id=140_0_1_12_M1) ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/43 "2008-04-21T02:54:08Z")
**The Four Tops** did exactly the same tune twice. The second one is called “_The Same Old Song_,” but for some reason the first one is not coming to mind. Now I remember–“_Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch_.” ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/44 "2008-04-21T04:06:46Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] You’re right on your first point, so I withdraw that bit. But I do maintain that I recall Sting making the point that yes, IYLSSTF is a response of sorts to EBYT.) [/QUOTE] I’m looking for the cite now. IRRC, Sting has said in at least one interview that he wrote IYLSSTF as an antidote for EBYT. So far, I’m only finding websites that are referring to the interview, but not a cite for the interview itself. It’s possible I fell pray to an urban legend. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/45 "2008-04-21T04:31:17Z")
Glass Onion was a sort-of sequel to Strawberry Fields: > [@](#): > > I told you about strawberry fields, > You know the place where nothing is real > Well here’s another place you can go > Where everything flows. It also refers to Lady Madonna, I Am The Walrus, The Fool On The Hill, and Fixing A Hole (Where the Rain Gets In), but not in a sequelly way I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/46 "2008-04-21T05:15:30Z")
Dream Theater’s concept album **Metropolis Pt 2** is a sequel to the song (surprisingly) “Metropolis Pt 1”. So not quite a song but along those lines. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/47 "2008-04-21T11:01:16Z")
[QUOTE=Panurge] Each of EPMD’s albums contains a song that forms part of an ongoing story about “Jane” (Called _Jane, Jane 2, Jane 3, etc._). Redman continued the narrative on _Supaman Lova_. [/QUOTE] Thank you for mentioning EPMD. I haven’t thought of them in a long time. Now I am gonna YouTube them and get some of that good old school in my system. As to the OP, the “Roxanne, Roxanne” hip-hop series is famous to hip-hop fans. It was started by U.T.F.O., but my favorite one is the one by Roxanne Shante. ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/48 "2008-04-21T13:34:26Z")
Britney Spears. 🙂 Her first hit, “Baby One More Time,” contains the lyric, “My loneliness is killing me.” “Stronger,” a song from her second album, contains the lyric “My loneliness ain’t killin’ me no more, I’m stronger.” ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/49 "2008-04-21T16:05:09Z")
Wilbert Harrison had a song “Goodbye Kansas City” a while after his version of “Kansas City” became popular. This is more a “response” than a sequel, but bears mentioning, Koko Taylor’s “I’m a Woman” to Bo Diddley’s “I’m a Man.” ---
**Author:** ![AlmondJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@AlmondJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlmondJoy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/50 "2008-04-21T20:50:56Z")
Hands Open by Snow Patrol references - Sufjan Stevens “Chicago” ---
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/51 "2008-04-21T20:59:24Z")
On a more obscure note, the **Hoodoo Gurus** did two songs “Hayride to Hell” and “Hayride to Hell - Part II”. The latter song changes all of the assumptions you would make after hearing the first song. ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/52 "2008-04-21T21:06:09Z")
Neil Young’s “Southern Man” got Lynyrd Skynyrd mad, leading to, “Sweet Home Alabama”. Not sure about the spelling there. But y’all know who I mean, I ween. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/53 "2008-04-22T03:12:25Z")
[QUOTE=vison] Neil Young’s “Southern Man” got Lynyrd Skynyrd mad, leading to, “Sweet Home Alabama”. Not sure about the spelling there. But y’all know who I mean, I ween. [/QUOTE] As did the OP, who mentioned _exactly those songs in the very first line of his post_. ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/54 "2008-04-22T19:20:10Z")
[QUOTE=Askance] As did the OP, who mentioned _exactly those songs in the very first line of his post_. [/QUOTE] Oops. Not sure how I missed that, but evidently I did. I’ll just crawl back under this here rock. :o ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mike\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Fun)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/55 "2008-04-23T15:00:04Z")
The mother of all song sequels: [The Roxanne Wars](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxanne_Wars) ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/56 "2008-04-23T18:26:14Z")
Death Cab for Cutie’s “Company Call Epilogue” follows…“Company Calls.” ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/57 "2008-04-23T18:32:30Z")
**The Moody Blues** - 1. In Your Wildes’t Dreams 2. I Know You’re Out There Somewhere ---
**Author:** ![Dogberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@Dogberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogberry)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079/58 "2008-04-23T19:51:33Z")
John Fogerty’s _I Saw It On TV_ is a sequel to his earlier _Who’ll Stop The Rain_ (from his CCR days). And _Deja Vu (All Over Again)_ could be considered another sequel, or the third in a trilogy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-sequels-to-other-songs/446079.md?page=2)