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Last refuge of the artistically bankrupt (or those needing to top up their bank balance). Tubular Bells, Bat out of Hell etc
Are there any records where a sequel could actually be agood idea?

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

KLF Chill Out 2 - A journey through the United Kingdom in sound.

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MBV -- Loveless II : Raggett's final wrath

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'The Queen Is Dead Again'

― Tim DiGravina, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

LONDON CALLING BACK by the Clash

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MBV -- Loveless II : Raggett's final wrath

Well, The Second Coming was already taken, see.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ten years from now:

The New Nirvana -- Nevermind II, with Leif Garrett on vocals.

Alternately, Frampton Drops Dead would be fun.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Perhaps the Pinefox could tell us, at this point, why "Don't Look Down" by Go West is actually called "Don't Look Down - The Sequel".

I'd love Momus to record "The Ultraconformist II".

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 8 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pavement - "Slanted and Reprimanded"

― geeta, Friday, 8 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bobby Womack's 'The Poet II' is pretty good, though certainly not as terrific as its predecessor. The James Brown Live At The Apollo sequels are very good, but that's hardly the same thing.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On (Now)" ?

― Dare, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Would that one be better titled Where Am I?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eno Yet Another Green World

― Curt, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Assuming Eno is going to conceive of his death as a Cage-like conceptual piece, he could do sequel and prequel at once with After Before and After Science Before Silence.

What do we mean by sequel, tho? Does "Heroes" count, since it's a sort of formal/stylistic sequel to Low, but not a thematic one? Does Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2?

― xwerxes, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Heroes I would call an aesthetic follow-up* to Low but not a sequel.

Selected Ambient Works, 1985-92 and Selected Ambient Works II are both misnomers, aren't they? In the first case, the title serves only to tell us that, oh by the way, Richard just happened to have lying about these scraps of precociousness going back to his early teens don't you know. And the title SAW2 implies that, two years on, some feat of selectivity was needed to pare down the output of just the ambient facet of his genius to fit on two CDs. The titular relationship also serves to shock listeners with SAW2's seeming dissimilarity in sound and style to SAW1, as if Hitchcock given North By Nothwest the title Vertigo II.

*"Follow-up" in the sense of building on the strengths of what came before, and doing it quickly, striking while the iron is hot, NOT "follow-up" in the parlance of contemporary record reviewers, meaning "next later".

― Curt, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Heh-heh. I said "titular".

― Curt, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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