# Songs with sequels

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 26, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660 "2005-08-26T01:25:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sutremaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@Sutremaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sutremaine)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/61 "2005-08-26T18:29:59Z")

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Dream Theater’s 1999 album _Scenes From A Memory_ is Part 2 of _Metropolis Pt.1_, a song from their 1992 album _Images And Words_. They originally put Pt.1 in the title not expecting to ever write a Pt.2, but people kept asking and they did it. 😃

Most of the similarities are musical, the song and the album being based on different stories and the song having less than completely lucid lyrics, but it’s fun matching up the words.

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**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaucho)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/62 "2005-08-26T19:23:42Z")

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Brian Wilson wrote “Don’t Worry Baby” as a follow up to the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby”, but Phil Spector wouldn’t let Ronnie record it.

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**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/63 "2005-08-27T02:20:54Z")

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Death Cab For Cutie’s “Company Calls” is followed by “Company Calls Epilogue,” which is a segue and a continuation of the story. I think.

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**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/64 "2005-08-27T02:39:22Z")

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Pearl Jam: Daughter: the shades go down i’s in her head…  
Pearl Jam: Rearviewmirror: finally the shades are raised…

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**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/318660/65 "2005-08-27T05:39:44Z")

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Jack and Diane, those two American kids holdin’ onto 16 as long as they can, from John Mellencamp’s 1982 hit _Jack and Diane_ grow up, go to a Ricard Pryor movie and lament how they could have been so wrong in Mellencamp’s late-90s _Eden Is Burning_.

Sir Rhosis

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