10 Greatest Sequel Songs In Rock Music History
6. Outlaws - Green Day
By the time that Green Day got around to making Revolution Radio, they didn't have to prove their songwriting chops anymore. Although the last trilogy of albums left a sour taste in the mouth of a lot of fans, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown kicked off the next era of the band, with some of the greatest rock operas that the rock world could have asked for at the time. After learning from their mistakes though, Outlaws shows them going back to their old stomping grounds.
Considering the chorus talks about destroying suburbia, many people thought that this was going to be a follow up to the titular Jesus of Suburbia from American Idiot. When Billie Joe opened up about the origin though, this goes much further back, being a sequel to the kids that were chilling out in the sleepy towns of California in Christie Road, which turned up on Kerplunk.
If anything, this slowburn is definitely going for a similar tone, having the same reflective mood and dreaming of what it was like back in the day. Whereas Christie Road was about wasting time in your youth, this is the same man looking back on that time and remembering how many memories he still has to relive. Since Tre had a more ambitious tone to it, this is the kind of lived-in track that most of us wish Green Day could have written on the trilogy.