Games and IRL music that is similar to each other?

[MeetyourUnmaker]

I just noticed that the Fragile (1999) has a song on it with a melody progression that sounds similar to a song in Doom 64, you think I am overthinking it a bit?

 

 

[Taw Tu'lki]

Hmm, yeah, I feel some similarities.

 

[hybridial]

Oh I got a couple of good ones for this

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And yeah I guess this one isn't technically a videogame theme (but has definitely been used in a bunch of them) but still I can't believe this hasn't been noted more. 

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Edited December 5, 2019 by hybridial
put in spoiler tags

[Taw Tu'lki]

Hmm...

 

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin - Trouble in Russia

 

Sting - Russians

 

[Gez]

If this is gonna be a video embed thread, please put your stuff in spoilers. E.g.:

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[Nekr0s1s]

TNT Map05: Hanger

Yoshida Brothers - Storm

 

 

[Taw Tu'lki]

I have listened one of soviet post-punk's song and that reminded me soundtrack from Final TNT

Игры - The Sun Is Rising

 

Doom Final TNT OST "Let's Kill At Will"

 

Edited December 5, 2019 by Taw Tu'lki

[ASD]

Revenge of Shinobi

Long Distance = Aces High - Iron Maiden

 

Duke Nukem II
Shooting Range = Ride the Lightning - Metallica
He's Back! = Angry Again - Megadeth
Squeak = Skin O' My Teeth - Megadeth
Nukemania = Enter Sandman - Metallica

 

Major Stryker

Major Stryker = Money For Nothing - Dire Straits 

 

Blake Stone - Aliens of Gold

E1M2 = Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

[Doominator2]

 

 

[Mr. Freeze]

 

 

[Taw Tu'lki]

Doom 2D

Sample - The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone

You're Dead - Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

Ease - Виктор Цой и Группа "Кино" - Дальше Действовать Будем Мы

 

Hearthlight

General Theme

Mysterious Art

 

Commander Keen

Make It Tighter - Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart

[Taw Tu'lki]

Doom OST - E2M8 - Nobody Told Me About Id

 

I think that Prince was inspired by this song

Little Nemo - La ballade des pendus

[TheUltimateDoomer666]

Unlikely.  Staccato chords like that are very common in music.  You can even hear it in this game:

 

 

[Taw Tu'lki]

Hmm, maybe. But when I heard a song of this post-punk band, it reminds me "Nobody told me.."

 

Some examples, when post-punk songs remind me Doom OST

 

DooM

The Demons from Adrians Pen - Joy Division - Lord Of The Days

 

DooM II

DOOM - Bauhaus - Mask (the drumming and intro in particular are identical)

Waiting For Romero To Play - Кино - Раньше в Твоих Глазах

Into Sandy's City - The Sisters of Mercy - Black Planet

 

Final TNT Evilution

Death's Bells - Siouxsie And The Banshees - Face To Face (very similar arrangement)

Let's Kill at Will - Something from The Cure (because I think that this midi is arranged to post-punk from 80s by bass and drum part)

More - Something from the early The Sisters Of Mercy

Edited March 3, 2020 by Taw Tu'lki

[Geniraul]

 

 

[MrFroz]

 

I know this one borrowed from a few songs that weren't meant for games.

[indigotyrian]

On 12/5/2019 at 7:57 PM, Doominator2 said:

(Unreal Tournament menu music vs Led Zeppelin - Kashmir)

 

you know I more mentally associate Kashmir with nuts.wad than anything else

[leejacksonaudio]

3 hours ago, MrFroz said:

 

I know this one borrowed from a few songs that weren't meant for games.

 

Yes! I made a medley out of four songs - "Kalinka," "Grabbag," "The Broad and Rolling Steppe," and the Russian National Anthem. To my knowledge, all of them (except for Grabbag) are Russian folk songs, and are public domain within the United States.

[taufan99]

Oh wow, I finally got a chance to post this one! It's such a curiosity, since personal computers like ZX Spectrum weren't a thing in Indonesia, and far too few people know about this, so I can practically brag that I'm the only Indonesian who knows this factoid.

Very obviously inspired by this track from a ZX Spectrum game...

...which, in turn, also inspired other renditions.

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Edited January 8, 2023 by taufan99

[Grimosaur]

^ A Trip to the Fair 3:32 onwards and Cotton Island 0:07 onwards

Tim Follin has said a lot of his songs were inspired by prog rock so I wonder if this was something he'd lifted or if it's just a coincidence?

 

^ Vibes and Stuff 0:03 onwards and Peggle 1:15 onwards

This however surely can't be a coincidence I mean come onnn!

[MrFroz]

On 1/7/2023 at 8:50 PM, leejacksonaudio said:

 

Yes! I made a medley out of four songs - "Kalinka," "Grabbag," "The Broad and Rolling Steppe," and the Russian National Anthem. To my knowledge, all of them (except for Grabbag) are Russian folk songs, and are public domain within the United States.

 

Thanks for clarifying! The end result was quite nice.

[SiFi270]

This one time my dad was listening to BBC radio and something came on that was incredibly similar to Plasma by @leejacksonaudio. I was able to find it again later with the iPlayer, and apparently it was called "Zone Out" and composed by Holly Archer, but searching both of those names in quotes gets me barely anything. I recorded it with Audacity and uploaded it, but I'll understand if a mod thinks I shouldn't have and removes the link.

 

[Master O]

 

 

 

[leejacksonaudio]

12 hours ago, SiFi270 said:

This one time my dad was listening to BBC radio and something came on that was incredibly similar to Plasma by @leejacksonaudio. I was able to find it again later with the iPlayer, and apparently it was called "Zone Out" and composed by Holly Archer, but searching both of those names in quotes gets me barely anything. I recorded it with Audacity and uploaded it, but I'll understand if a mod thinks I shouldn't have and removes the link.

 

 

Eh, it's close, but it's not anything that you could say they infringed on me or I infringed on them. They're both unique enough pieces that they stand out from each other. Thanks for posting it, though!

[Kinsie]

My friends and I are insistent that Lower Brinstar from Super Metroid pulls more than a little inspiration from the guitar at the start of This Love by Pantera, but nobody else on Earth seems to be able to hear it. We're probably just crazy.

[Murdoch]

2 hours ago, leejacksonaudio said:

 

Eh, it's close, but it's not anything that you could say they infringed on me or I infringed on them. They're both unique enough pieces that they stand out from each other. Thanks for posting it, though!

 

I would call them "Atmospherically similar". The melody sounds quite different to my ears. Neat tunes both. With a finite number of chords and notes, some accidental similarity is bound to happen.

[SiFi270]

I never really thought it was deliberate. I should have made that clear in the initial post.

[Sena]

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I don't think I could pinpoint it to a specific track, but Burn from the Natural Born Killers OST would've been right at home in Quake 2.

[PsychEyeball]

The soundtrack of old Fallouts owe a fair bit to Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol II, especially with these two songs. 

 

Aphex Twin (Windowsill): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGcT-mbAeTg

Fallout (Moribund World): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMkWkNuxFAA

 

Aphex Twin (Grass): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBU3uAzRejs

Fallout (City of Lost Angels): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjy8XqJClTc

 

And as a bonus, here's a band called .O. Rang which provided the backbone for another Fallout song. 

 

.O. Rang (Little Sister): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItYTwaYWTeI

Fallout (A Trader's Life): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6So4k5UqHw

 

And now for something different. While the overall structure of both pieces aren't quite the same, I always found the Tristam theme in Diablo kinda reminiscent of this Tangerine Dream song, especially in the way the guitar is played and the overall guitar sound.

 

Tangerine Dream (Cloudburst Flight): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFTmznY0sgw

Diablo (Tristram): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnMR6SOBa9k

Edited January 12, 2023 by PsychEyeball

[thiccyosh]

Not sure if this is too farfetched.

 

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and

 

(at 0:35)

 

Edit: I also found this, but I think this is just a freak coincidence

 

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(at 3:38)

 

and

 

D_DM2TTL of Going Down

 

 

 

Edited January 12, 2023 by thiccyosh
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