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

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    They’re not that popular compared to Pink Floyd or David Bowie, but there’s a band called The Dear Hunter that have 5 albums called Act I through Act V that are one continuous story of a guy’s life.

    So in that sense every song on those albums are a sequel and prequel to every other, but some of the musical themes and motifs are more obviously reintroduced, referenced, and re-applied in new contexts as the albums go on.

    They have albums that aren’t those 5, which are not in the canon, by the way.

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        11 hours ago

        Honestly, I was kinda “meh” on the colours 😅

        At first I thought it was maybe a “I like their earlier work” sorta thing, that can sometimes happen with bands, but when I looked up the release dates I was surprised to discover the spectrum came out between III and IV, but I like III and love IV and V, so I guess it’s not that!

        I guess maybe the identity of the Acts is just enough that they have something colours lack for me? I don’t know what, but they’ve never grabbed me. Oh well, such is taste!

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          That is fair, They vary their style a lot, which I think is pretty cool, but when you like one thing and they change it…

          After a while, I’ve come to learn why a lot of the popular artists only have hundreds of songs but only 1-5 of them get played on repeat.