For example, Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall part 1 and part 2.

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Sandstorm by Darude has a song right before it on his album called “the calm before the storm” and I actually enjoy it quite a bit.

  • emb@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Dream Theater has a song called Metropolis Part 1. Originally they didn’t plan to have any additional parts, but it worked out that eventually they decided to follow it up. Instead of a single song, they did a whole album: Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory. And I think it’s their best work.

    • Dis32@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      Can’t say I’ve heard of them, but I will listen to these, thanks for your recommendation 🤘🏽

    • felsiq@piefed.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Hold up, tech noir… 2??? Thank you so much for introducing this to my life

    • Darohan@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      I’m recording this because the survivors no longer envy the dead.

      The opening of tech noir 2 goes so fricken hard and really sets the radically hopeful tone of the song so well. Wasn’t expecting to see Gunship mentioned on here, but glad someone did.

  • ClipperDefiance@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Primus has the four Fisherman’s Chronicles songs.

    1. John the Fisherman
    2. Fish On
    3. The Ol’ Diamondback Sturgeon
    4. Last Salmon Man

    Another thing that might count as an example is that Wings’ Band on the Run and Helen Wheels both mention a character named Sailor Sam.

    Edit: Added to post.

    • Dis32@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      I like it when songs are connected to each other, like a big storyline kinda of thing, thank you for the recommendation 😎

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    David Bowie wrote a continuation to “Space Oddity” (“Ashes to Ashes”) and the original also inspired a few songs by other artists that directly reference it (“Major Tom (Coming Home)” by Peter Schilling, “Hallo Spaceboy” by Pet Shop Boys).

  • yyyesss?@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    Ozzy had “Crazy Train” and also “A.V.H.” which contained the lyrics

    Riding on a train that I can’t control

    One might say such a train was… crazy.

    • Dis32@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      This also reminds me of Nelly, his song E.I. the line says “I’m a sucker for cornrows” and then his song Shake Ya Tailfeather “I’m still a sucker for cornrows you know I never changed that”

  • hopesdead@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    The Smashing Pumpkins- “1979” and “Perfect”.

    People said “Perfect” sounded so much like “1979” that the music video was intentionally made to be a sequel to the latter.

    EDIT: The Smashing Pumpkins are my favorite band. If you can find a copy of Greatest Hits Video Collection (1991–2000) (a DVD collection of music videos and other goodies; acted as a companion to Rotten Apples), I recommend it. There is extensive audio commentary on the videos. For example, Stéphane Sednaoui who directed “Today”, claimed to had never listen to the song before the first day of filming. “1979” in particular had master tapes got destroyed after someone left them on the roof of their car, so the entire video had to be re-shot. “Perfect” commentary, Corgan makes the connection to the similarities with “1979”; all but one of the original teenage actors from the first video returned. There is a short film version of “Try” that featured a different ending to “Try, Try, Try”. A few live recordings are included, among them “Fuck You (An Ode to No One)” from the final Metro show when they broke up and “Geek USA” (a special mix that utilized maximum volume on the audio system).

  • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Tool - Parabol / Parabola

    Tool - Intermission / Jimmy (although probably among their less popular songs)

  • Kennystillalive@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    For me it’s panic at the disco:

    Part 1. Say Amen (2018)

    Part 2. This is Gospel (2013)

    Part3. Emperor’s new clothes ( 2015)

    (Specially the vids they did are conected if you wanna watch them in that order.)

    • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Don’t they also have some disc where the song titles complement each other, forming full sentences, or something similar?

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    For that song I wouldn’t have chose these two parts. I would’ve gone for Part 1 and Part 3. Instead of a sequel Part 2 feels like a separate installment if you get what I mean.

    Plus that’s kind of cheating. Is every prog song split into multiple parts considerable for this? Like also from Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here (the suite?) is split into two large sections, and the folksy Pigs on the Wing acts like a storybook introduction and ending split into two parts and put at the start and end of the album.

    There’s a ton more examples like that. Especially on concept albums. The Beach Boys’/Brain Wilson has Wonderful, Song for Children (Look), Child is Father of the Man, and Surf’s Up exploring the same idea and building on top of one another.