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31 MIDI's that didn't make the cut in DOOM ...

rome.ro — Doom has a massive cult following -- but would it have been as successful if it included the following 31 MIDI's? Admittedly some are pretty awesome, while others are junk. Then theres "un48.mid" which combines a familiar tune with (what *sounds* like) a mentally challenged chipmunk mashing a xylophone -- I shouldn't talk about Romero like that...

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 26, 2007

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  • MikeonTV, on 11/26/2007, -4/+40Wow. Files were last modified in 1993.
  • LValentino, on 11/26/2007, -1/+26Story title should have simply been, "NEDM".
  • joep0, on 11/26/2007, -1/+22Woah, un20 is a midi cover of Alice in chains - man in the box
  • VaporBro, on 11/26/2007, -2/+12These are cool. On a cooler note this chocolate milk is ***** awesome.
  • DrMilkdad, on 11/26/2007, -0/+7un51 sounds like "Walk" by Pantera
  • AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+7"a mentally challenged chipmunk mashing a xylophone -- I shouldn't talk about Romero like that..."

    Except for Romero didn't do the music to Doom, or Doom 2. Bobby Prince did.
  • theforrester, on 11/26/2007, -0/+6I love useless information!
  • mrdeathgod, on 11/26/2007, -0/+6And now that I think back, another song in Doom2 was basically a MIDI of 'Them Bones' by Alice in Chains.
  • Rethcir, on 11/26/2007, -0/+5Doom 1 had really cool music. Especially Episode 1. Doom was a great way for me to anti-socially waste my jr. high and high school years.
  • pnmoore, on 11/26/2007, -0/+5un15, un23 and un32 are also covers....see if you can name them...
  • reckless8594, on 11/26/2007, -1/+6Un17 is Raining Blood by Slayer. It's an alright song until you get to Kerry King's "solo", which is just random wailing annoying sounds.
  • nullx42, on 11/26/2007, -1/+6IDDQD MOTHER *****
  • gen0, on 11/26/2007, -2/+6Not even doom music can save this digg.
  • sdrawkcaB, on 11/26/2007, -0/+4There's a bunch of MIDI versions of songs here, as well as many that made it in game. http://doomisalotofmetal.ytmnd.com/ lists lots of them.
  • Asianwaste, on 11/26/2007, -0/+4Wow MIDI... that goes a ways back. I remember I went through soundcard after soundcard to find the perfect MIDI interface for gaming. You'd be surprised how superb MIDI can sound if you have the right instrument definitions. I believe I left MIDI with Yamaha XG soundcards. The Duke Nukem 3d, Doom OSTs, (Robert Prince was the freaking man), Sierra adventure games, and a lot of downloads from VGmusic.com all sounded excellent on Yamaha XG instruments. They were cheap cards too.
    As great as they were, I'm glad we moved past relying on MIDI files for PC gaming.
  • nullx42, on 11/26/2007, -0/+4or James just being a rich dick.
  • Trollhammaren, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4Doom turns 14 this December 10th. Remember to wish it happy birthday and play some good ol' ***** deathmatch!
  • doosteen, on 11/26/2007, -0/+4I can't wait for unreleased Daikatana midi's!
  • relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -0/+4un31 is Rusty Cage! ***** yeah, old Soundgarden
  • Klarth, on 11/26/2007, -0/+4Similarly, the theme from level 2 of episode 2 is Metallica's "The Call of Ktulu".
  • voodoo68, on 11/26/2007, -0/+3un32 is Outshined by Soundgarden
  • fubar109, on 11/26/2007, -0/+3un52.mid is South of Heaven by Slayer.
  • mrdeathgod, on 11/26/2007, -0/+3I seem to remember that the 'Monster Condo' music of Doom2 had a bit from 'This Love' by Pantera.
  • MJDub, on 11/26/2007, -0/+3un23 is Sex Type Thing by Stone Temple Pilots
  • dn11, on 11/26/2007, -0/+3don't we all - why else would we all be digg fans
  • inactive, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2dropped due to licensing issues perhaps ?
  • McGrude, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2I have most of the Doom and Doom 2 midi's on my phone. They make great ring tones, especially since they are so small, and "free" (I already bought the Doom95, Doom2, Ultimate Doom CD, so they were "free" to me").


  • dn11, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2that opening is spooky - sounds 50's sci-fi-ish
  • evil-doer, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2thats because it is.
  • TomKarpik, on 11/26/2007, -1/+3Doom MIDIs run through higher-end synthesizer equipment, and recorded as MP3s: http://www.sirgalahad.org/paul/doom/

    That is something any fan of Doom music will appreciate, I think. ;-)
  • Terr01, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2I dunno, I think that the scarcity of "ear-candy" and effects that could be accomplished actually drove a far greater emphasis on the music on a core, instrumental level. In many games the music was relied upon to evoke emotion in the audience--even more than in some movies, since a video has it's own impact.

    In a world of MIDI, we would have been spared the spectre of boy bands, among other things. I find I prefer instrumental stuff far more than music with vocals, since half the time the music is about "baby come back to me", or something which I'm not really in a context to empathize with. If I had an algorithm that could take music and turn vocal tracks into instrumental ones, odds are I'd use it pretty often.
  • mancat, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2From the site, a lot of the songs are early versions of what went into the game.

    For some reason, the song un49, which ended up in the game, always gave me the creeps when I played this game as a kid.
  • nullx42, on 11/26/2007, -2/+4Well.. thats when DooM came out.
  • Meus1, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2un30 sounds like something from the first sim city series :D
  • inactive, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Theres an entire awesome album full of Doom remixes, The Dark Side of Phobos: http://doom.ocremix.org/
  • cs188, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2the beginning of un41 sounds like Alice in Chains - Rooster....maybe?
  • khyberkitsune, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1Umm, problem is quite a few of these tracks WERE in DOOM. Some of this music is not unreleased. buried as inaccurate.
  • Sneakernets, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1Uhm, no, I just gotta digg that comment down.
  • Natetendo83, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1A bunch of these eventually made the cut for Doom 2
  • KloroFormd, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1dncornholio is god mode, dnstuff is items/weapons/ammo.

    I forgot the rest. :(
  • solid12345, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1Hmm I may have to dig out my 200+ meg soundfonts on a CD-R somewhere.
  • mancat, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1I was talking to a buddy the other day who barely ever played computer games as a kid, played doom a few times on my computer years ago. He remembered that damn code.
  • sgtpppr, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1Either Norway lets you browse digg in jail or you're not really Varg.
  • eviscerator, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1if you look in the file info of the midi files, you will notice that many of them actually contain the name of the song they are rips of.
  • Flappity, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1Whoops, completely off - How about Alice in Chains - Dirt. The first part anyways; the middle part sounds like something completely different
  • sam98597, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1un46 is Alice in Chains - Angry Chair
  • khyberkitsune, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1Barrels o Fun level

    *plays Them Bones on guitar*
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