10 Amazing Follow Ups To Classic Albums

2. Aladdin Sane - David Bowie

There's no real guidebook of where to go after you've laid the groundwork for an entire genre. If anything, there's going to be a slew of new artists looking at you to see where to push the genre forward as a result. Though David Bowie never really asked to be the inventor of glam rock as we knew it, he even managed to one-up his Ziggy Stardust character with Aladdin Sane.

Framed as Ziggy going to America, this is everything that made our favorite rock and roll alien good...just on steroids. Compared to the garage-y flair of Ziggy, Aladdin is a lot more brash sounding, with songs like Watch That Man even leaning on the punk side of the spectrum. Even though David's bite hadn't gone anywhere, this version leads to some of his most adventurous tracks yet, from the saloon style ballads of Drive In Saturday to the avant garde piano solo of the title track.

As much as Rock and Roll Suicide can't be topped, Lady Grinning Soul is one of the most elegant pieces of darkness that Bowie would ever write, sounding like it came from a long lost Bond movie than from the Thin White Duke. While this kind of excess was bound to take its toll on Bowie eventually, for this album, it was just a slamming good time.