Follow-ups that could almost be part twos of classic albums

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The first two Stooges albums feel fairly distinct to me in terms of rhythmic feel, production quality, and even instrumentation (sax on the latter album, some piano and viola on the earlier one).

All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Monday, 2 September 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link

Achtung Baby/Zooropa

Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 September 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book / Innervisions.

I always mentally group Innervisions with Fulfillingness' First Finale because the cover art styles are similar.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 September 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link

Another version of this would be "albums you got used to listening to on a single CD but which wouldn't otherwise sound like they should fit together" - for me The Soft Machine / Volume Two

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 2 September 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link

Spirit of Eden -> Laughing Stock

Duke, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes/Hard Promises

whalemusic, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link

ZZ Top - Eliminator and Afterburner

confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link

The first two Magnetic Fields albums feel like this though the later album is perhaps a bit more jaunty. They obviously encouraged this impression by making the CD edition a twofer almost immediately. (And then by having Merritt finally singing his own songs by the third album.)

Also the artwork is super similar!

Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link

Fleetwood Mac: Future Games -> Bare Trees

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link

the first two david axelrod albums —song of innocence + songs of experience— fit here pretty well.

bill evans has a couple, but i'm not sure if it's cheating to include them, as they were recorded at the same time and then split up into single lps later. the ones i'm thinking of are:
sunday at the village vanguard + waltz for debby
moonbeams + how my heart sings

would also like to mention some curtis mayfield in the form of:
back to the world + sweet exorcist (+ arguably even got to find a way)
and obviously curtis + roots

and finally, adrian borland and the sound:
shock of daylight + heads and hearts

Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link

Swordfishtrombones...Rain Dogs

fetter, Saturday, 7 September 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link

This came to mind last night, though it doesn't fit squarely within the parameters of this discussion: The Cult's Electric and the first Danzig album sound and feel like two chapters of the same story.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 September 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link

Cultosaurus Erectus and Fire Of Unknown Origin

valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 9 September 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link

The Cult's Electric and the first Danzig album sound and feel like two chapters of the same story.

I've always felt similarly about Primal Scream's XTRMNTR and David Holmes' Bow Down to the Exit Sign.

fetter, Monday, 9 September 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link

How about the One Dove album as a sequel to Screamadelica?

Mark G, Monday, 9 September 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link

surely the sequel to XTRMNTR is Evil Heat?

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 September 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link

XTRMNTR was already kind of a sequel to Vanishing Point.

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 9 September 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link

Dan Lissvik’s 7Trx & Taken By Trees - East of Eden

brotherlovesdub, Monday, 9 September 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link

why are you all so bad at this?

Talk Talk "Spirit of Eden" and "Laughingstock"

Οὖτις, Monday, 9 September 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link

see Duke's post a week ago!

Dan S, Monday, 9 September 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link

ah sorry I was control+f'ing Talk Talk

Οὖτις, Monday, 9 September 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link

Boston --> Don't Look Back

Lee626, Monday, 9 September 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link


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