What is the best and worst song in Doom in your opinion?

[xdude_gamer]

My opinion is that the best song is "Into Sandy's City" and the worst song is "Running From Evil" (D_RUNNIN). What are your opinions?

[Zilch]

I don't hate any specific track.  i have never played Doom and thought to myself "Well, gee.  I think they should've scrapped this song!"  I believe the Full Doom soundtrack complements each and every level pretty decently.

 

That said, there are a lot of tracks in TNT: Evilution I really don't like.  Some I hate so much I open the terminal and switch the song.

 

My two favorites from TNT is 02, 04, and 05.  The one I hate with all my soul is 08.

[Biodegradable]

Shawn has the Shotgun, The Demons from Adrian's Pen, Into Sandy's City and Kitchen Ace are my top favourites. The only track I don't really like is Bye Bye American Pie because it's just Alice in Chain's song Them Bones (an already repetitive song) looping endlessly and it becomes excruciating to listen to very quickly.

Edited August 12, 2021 by Biodegradable

[xdude_gamer]

6 hours ago, Zilch said:

I don't hate any specific track.  i have never played Doom and thought to myself "Well, gee.  I think they should've scrapped this song!"  I believe the Full Doom soundtrack complements each and every level pretty decently.

 

That said, there are a lot of tracks in TNT: Evilution I really don't like.  Some I hate so much I open the terminal and switch the song.

 

My two favorites from TNT is 02, 04, and 05.  The one I hate with all my soul is 08.

But MAP08 of TNT has a great OST! Maybe the level gives you PTSD?

[Omniarch]

My favourite IWAD track has to be They're Going to Get You, its an incredibly moody and atmospheric piece, despite its simplicity. My least favourite is, without a doubt, the E3M8 theme. It is grating, repetitive and utterly devoid of virtue, much like the map on which it plays.

 

If we're talking Doom 2, my favourite is probably The Demon's Dead, due to how gloomy and oppressive it is, while my least favourite is the MAP32 theme, which I find to be inexplicably obnoxious, much like the level itself.

 

I don't have a least favourite TNT track, since all of them are at least decent and many are total bangers. My favourite hands down is Cold Subtleness, which I find to be the most interesting IWAD track, due to how creepy and off-kilter it is.

[Faceman2000]

Apparently @Omniarch and I have very different tastes. XD

 

Doom

Best: Sinister

Worst: They’re Going to Get You

 

Doom II

Best: Into Sandy’s City

Worst: Waiting for Romero to Play

 

TNT

Best: Death’s Bells

Worst: Cold Subtleness

 

I do agree that The Demon’s Dead is freaking amazing though.

 

Edit:

PG/HtP because they actually have the best commercial Doom soundtrack

Best: HtP Map07 theme

Worst: Teeth

Edited August 12, 2021 by Faceman2000

[Omniarch]

33 minutes ago, Faceman2000 said:

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Oddly, I really like all three of your favourite tracks. Into Sandy's City is a classic through and through, Sinister is one of my favourite background themes due to how moody yet unobtrusive it is (especially when played in Chocolate or Crispy Doom), and Death's Bells is easily the most dramatic track in any of the IWADs. I dunno, perhaps I simply have broader tastes ;)

[xdude_gamer]

I should put individual games tbh.

 

The Ultimate DOOM

Best: Kitchen Ace (And Taking Names) [Kicks ass]
Worst: Intermission from Doom [Too repetitive]

 

Doom II
Best: Into Sandy's City [Kicks some very major ass]
Worst: Countdown to Death [Boring and repetitive]

[Beany_bot]

Best is SIGIL - You aint the boss of me. 

Worst is maybe - DOOM2 - In the dark. 

 

[Cinnamon]

I think there are far too many good songs to pick just a few. I tried to make a list, but it got up to 5 contenders after Ultimate DOOM only. Also, while Plutonia doesn't add any new tracks, TNT does, and a lot of it is really good, too.

 

The worst ones are easier for me:

1) E3M8 is barely a good fit for the end boss (which is a crap encounter in and of itself already) even though I understand what they were going for, but it's been used somewhere else in a longer level and just, urgh... 

* OC Remix had a completely different take on a track for Dis, and I love it. Fits way better:

 

2) DOOM 2's MAP30. I get that they went for the weirdness angle rather than for a bombastic and epic, or even hectic (as in DOOM) track, but it just does not work at all.

 

3) E3M3 "Deep into the Code." I just think it's annoying. But it's fairly rare for me to like guitar solos, even as a metalhead, so that's probably why.

Edited August 14, 2021 by Cinnamon Killjoy

[out_of_service]

IN.MY.OPINION.

 

-Doom-

 

Best: All of Doom 3D0 ost

Worst: Intermission. UGH.

 

-Doom II-

 

Best: Getting Too Tense

Worst: d_runnin

 

-TNT-

 

Best: Horizon

Worst: Sadistic

 

[Dusty_Rhodes]

On 8/12/2021 at 7:43 AM, Biodegradable said:

Shawn has the Shotgun, The Demons from Adrian's Pen, Into Sandy's City and Kitchen Ace are my top favourites. The only track I don't really like is Bye Bye American Pie because it's just Alice in Chain's song Them Bones (an already repetitive song) looping endlessly and it becomes excruciating to listen to very quickly.

Wow I looked up Them Bones and it really is exactly the same lol

[Somniac]

There isn't a single one I outright don't like. I always thought The Healer Stalks sounds a bit like elevator music and doesn't quite fit, but I don't dislike it.

 

That said, even though the metal sounding tracks are lifted from some great songs and work really well, I tend to prefer the more at atmospheric ones, like They're Going to Get You for example.

[Nikku4211]

You're talking about from the IWADs of the original DOS versions of the Doom games, right?

 

'Legion of the Lost' takes the best spot for me. It's the only one I'd go out of my way to listen to, among entire soundtracks that I normally find to be just 'meh'.

 

The worst is easily 'Opening to Hell'. It's 100% appropriate for what it is, and very different from other Doom 2 songs, but as a song itself, I wouldn't want to listen to it.

[LadyMistDragon]

In Ultimate Doom, it's "Donna to the Rescue." Much as I might like "Sinister" (it was literally the Doom95 startup music!), "Donna to the Rescue" was the only one whose melody I could recall in almost perfect detail when I originally played it on DOS, back when we had a crappy Disney sound card. Also, some of the other ones there were just stolen. My least favorite would probably be either "Demons on the Prey," or maybe "They're Going to Get You." I lean toward the latter, but it does sort of fit the atmosphere of E2M4 and "Demons on the Prey" absolutely stinks of genericness, so idk.

 

In Doom II, "Message for the Arch-vile" is unquestionably my favorite, due to the sheer amount of largely subtle musical development that happens in it, with "The Demon's Dead" being a suprisingly close second though. The least favorite is really a race to the bottom though. From the sleepy groove of "In the Dark" to the hideous synth of the "Dave D. Taylor Blues" to the ugly-ass guitar in the surprisngly-catchy "Into Sandy's City", to the completely unchanged melody of "Bye, Bye American Pie", there's far too much here that makes me want to hemorrage myself. But I think "Welcome to Hell" has to take the prize. It's not quite the dullest midi out there, but it's profound lack of menace is something I can not get down with at all.

 

Final Doom: "Sadistic" for all the cool melodic changes it undergoes, as well as being an excellent starting track.

 

Least favorite is very tricky. "Infinite" might be the one I least like listening to because of how sleepy it feels, but also, the underlying scent of menace it contains does kind of go well with suddenly teleporting hordes (but Mill is probably just a little bit too large for this to play in it). I think though, the prize has to go with the original midi version of "Smells Like Burning Corpse." Try listening to this without the percussion, and you'll see why. Lots of high-pitched guitars and other shit that seem design to make you turn the music off in disgust. For a while, "Death's Bells" on here for being stupidly overused and sounding like the worst sort of overblown prog, but after hearing a version with a quiet string section, it no longer sounds quite so bad.

Edited August 16, 2021 by LadyMistDragon