Sequel Songs

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I have this! But with remixes! Ie I think a remix of a song I already know as being the sequel ie luv to me, luv to me eurobeat remix, Paranoia, Paranoia 180 etc.

Perhaps I have been playing too much DDR.

(Sarah, my Vibri is getting v happy. THe orbital/liberty x bootleg is officially the hardest Vibri song evah)

The champion has got to be U.T.F.O.'s "Roxanne, Roxanne," which, according to allmusic.com, spawned such response songs as "'Roxanne's Revenge,' 'The Real Roxanne,' 'Roxanne You're Through,' 'Roxanne's Mother,' 'Roxanne's Brother,' 'Roxanne's Doctor,' and perhaps strangest of all, 'Roxanne's a Man'."

"Work With Me Annie" by the Midnighters led to "Annie Had A Baby (Can't Work No More)", "Annie's Aunt Fannie," "Henry's Got Flat Feet (Can't Dance No More)," and "The Wallflower", which was subtitled "Roll With Me Henry" originally and "Dance With Me Henry" in a cleaned-up version.

Oooh - one of the hardest Vibri challenges I've tried has been Burn Baby Burn by Ash which is REALLY fecking impossible! Not heard the bootleg so can't comment on that chiz.

Just wondering: when you select yr tracks, can you select them fine? I think this is a prob with my PS1 - it seems to not let you pick the first track from an album and you have to adjust them to get the right song... grr rubbidge PS1.

See Classic or dud: Answer Records and SEQUEL SONGS: Info needed for new rock book! for ILM's coverage of this.

S: i have no probs -- it is your PS1. i remember the track 1 prob, but i don't get it. I have been profaning your Vib Ribbon by getting it to dance/play to Helen Love, Spearmint and Lemon jelly. HA HA HA. i can't believe you haven't been sucked into Zelda yet. grrr

isn't 'stronger' the sequel to '...baby one more time'?

(I can't find where I put Zelda now - don't worry it's not lost!! Just.. hiding!)

One of the funniest is the sequel to Daddy's Home by Shep & the Limelites: Daddy's Going Away Again by the Harps. Kitty Wells's It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, replying to Hank Thompson's The Wild Side Of Life, is another real classic. Mr Hound Dog's Back In Town (Roy Brown) and Bear Cat (Rufus Thomas) are Hound Dog responses. No, I'm An Iron Man by the Butthole Surfers responds to Black Sabbath. Sir Gibbs and Lee Perry battled with Gibbs' People Grudgeful and Perry's You Crummy (there are loads of modern rap examples which someone else can list). Reasons To Be Miserable replies to Ian Dury's Reasons To Be Cheerful. Bad News Baby (There'll Be No Rockin' Tonite) is Wynonie Harris revisiting his finest moment. The JAMMs disagreed with Dave Brubeck: Don't Take Five (Take What You Want). Can't Do Sixty No More (was the Du-Droppers' one the original? The Persuasions did it better) replies to the Dominoes' great Sixty Minute Man. Public Enemy turned around the Beastie Boys for Party For Your Right to Fight. Jimmy Reed's I'm the Man Down There replies to G.L. Crockett's It's A Man Down There. Smokey Robinson limply revisited his Shop Around with It's Time to Stop Shopping Around. Otis Redding and Steve Cropper did it better, remaking Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa (Sad Song) as Happy Song. Joe Tex made a moralistic sequel to the Coasters' Charlie Brown called Charlie Brown Got Expelled. Loudon Wainwright III made Saturday Morning Fever. Was (Not Was) boasted that I Feel Better Than James Brown.

Colin mentioned one Hank Ballard number, but surely the tune that spawned the most sequels was another of his: The Twist.

Although not a song, the minutemen's "Double Nickles on the Dime" album was named in response to Sammy Hagar's "I Can't Drive 55".