Name instances where an artist gave an album the same title as a previous album but adding "Part 2" or "II". Are there any instances where "II" is better than the original? Off the top of my head...
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
Neal Morse - Testimony
Neither Tull nor Rhapsody eclipsed their first album with their "II". I haven't heard Testimony 2 yet to compare that one.
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Eloy - Ocean and Ocean 2. Imho, Oceans 2 is a really strong album but does not eclipse the original.
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King Diamond did Abigail II: The Revenge.
I haven't listened to it in many years, but anything after the amazing run of Abigail-Them-Conspiracy
would pale in comparison. IMO
Fernando Perdomo has Out To Sea , Out to Sea 2 , 3, and 4
I have 1 and 3 and like them both.
as well as Dreaming in Stereo and Dreaming in Stereo 2
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Helloween - Keeper of the 7 keys
ELP: Works Vol. 1 & Works Vol. 2 (a/k/a Dumb and Dumber)
Klaus Schulze: Body Love & Body Love 2
Gong: Expresso & Expresso 2
Zappa's Joe's Garage Acts 2 & 3 was better than Act 1.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
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Of course in UK, Gong's Expresso was called Gazeuse! - which always makes Expresso 2 sound odd.
The Kinks did two albums of Preservation.
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We should distinguish between I and II albums released concurrently or serially (GNR Use Your Illusion, Zappa Joe's Garage) from II's that were released far later, often in an attempt to revive fading careers.
Regarding the latter, Mike Oldfield's TB2 and Meat Loaf's BooH 2 were hugely successful commercially. TB2 is actually a very good album IMHO. I think the key is that the artist has to really re-create the feel of the original album not just re-use the title or the "story". That is why TAAB2 sucked so badly. Not that it is a terrible album, but musically it has nothing to do with the original prog masterpiece. It's a singer-songwriter album fer chrissakes!
A few I have not seen mentioned. Of these the Imaginos albums were the only ones that got better IMO.
Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime 1 & 2
Meatloaf – Bat Out Of Hell 1, 2 & 3
Albert Bouchard – Imaginos 1, 2, & 3
Eloy also released Chronicles I and II
I put those two about equal. They are both very good.
Not sure if that counts since they were compilation albums. There are quite a few examples of Greatest Hits Vol 1, 2......etc.Eloy also released Chronicles I and II
Return to the Center of the Earth - Rick Wakeman
Tangerine Dream and Edgar Froese:
Phaedra/Phaedra 2005
Tangram/Tangram 2008
Hyperborea/Hyperborea 2008
Epsilon in Malaysian Pale/Epsilon in Malaysian Pale 2005
I know they're considered travesties by some fans, but I've never actually heard the remakes.
... and The Vision, the Sword and the Pyre part II.Eloy also released Chronicles I and II
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I have Tangram 2008
Mike Oldfield did multiple versions of Tubular bells. (Think I lost count)
And of cause 2 versions of Ommadawn.
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Jean Michael Jarre did 2 follow ups of Oxygene and one of Equinoxe
Ahh......didn't catch that.Of course they don't count, that's where the WINK finds its meaning;
I liked all of those.
Me too.
Two '2' albums that never had a '1':
XTC Go 2
Neil Young Chrome Dreams II
Speaking of Neil Young, he did "Harvest Moon" as a sequel to "Harvest".
Big Big Train's "English Electric" Part One and Part Two.
Tough to choose between them. Of course then they were combined, with added material, into "English Electric: Full Power" so we don't have to.
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