Inspirations for the Doom soundtracks

[Rare Hatchiama]

Hear something in a movie or song that came out before a selected Doom title that makes you wonder if Id Software drew inspiration from said source?  Post it here.

 

I am watching Full Metal Jacket right now and just passed this scene.  I hear The Imps Song (E1M2) without a doubt.

 

 

Edited February 9, 2020 by Rare Hatchiama

[Lüt]

1 hour ago, Rare Hatchiama said:

Hear something in a movie or song that came out before a selected Doom title that makes you wonder if Id Software drew inspiration from said source?  Post it here.

It's been discussed many times.

 

Doom Wiki has dedicated music pages for Doom and Doom II that list each composition and their source of inspiration.

 

Of course, there's lots of basic motives and fundamental chord progressions that consistently appear in western composition, so what qualifies as "clear inspiration" or simply "common practice" is debatable.

 

I don't think the two shifting pitches in the FMJ video are distinct enough that I'd cite it as a source for E1M2, especially given they're a different interval, but on the topic of film music, I'd also argue the wiki page is missing James Horner's Going After Newt (0:14-0:32) as a clear inspiration for E2M6.

 

I will at least say the FMJ music has a similar atmosphere to the intro of E1M2. If that map ever got the film treatment, that might be an appropriate track.

[VGA]

Check out this video and also read the UPDATE in the description for better fitting songs

 

 

[Gez]

We have a whole Wiki article for this where we decided to only list things that were either confirmed by MIDI metadata from Romero's release of unused MIDIs, or deemed likely because of other songs seeming to come from the same album.

 

And yes, we actually have documented evidence that E1M1 is not derived from No Remorse, Beyond the Crooked Cross, Master of Puppets, Total Destruction, The Family Ghost, or the eleventy gazillion other songs that have been claimed as being E1M1's clear inspiration. Bobby Prince said it was just a generic riff he used, and the fact that the current count of rock songs he totally ripped in E1M1 is at eleventy gazillions would tend to prove that claim IMO.

[Rare Hatchiama]

Oh well.

[VGA]

Holy crap I just read a post in the duke4 forum and listened to this interview. Bobby Prince did not mean for some of those songs to be used. He thought they would be sued :D Listen after 13 minutes