Tolwyn
Mighty Music Man
Posts: 202
Registered: 06-03 |
Don't know how to quote here... but a lot of you are barking up the wrong tree... :)
1. Bobby isn't to blame for the 'inspired music'. Romero asked him to do nothing but cover music and handed him Pantera, AiC, Black Sabbath and AC/DC cd's. (No metallica)
This is 100% accurate. BP was asked to emulate metal music, BP admitted to this in an interview a long time ago. I'm almost certain I have it saved. It might even be somewhere on John Romero's web page. BP even said that a lot of his pieces were SUPPOSED to be recognized as Metallica, Pantera, etc.
Due to the limitations of the GM instrument set, he augmented many of the pieces melodically, hence the unique style of the Doom music soundtrack. What it may lack in some areas of originality, it makes up for in interpretative *******.
Good lord. Have you listened to some of MY tunes?
Can you name the influences there that affected me? Special prize if you correctly name 3 bands.
2. I don't think you can call any of the songs ripoffs. (except perhaps map23) Bobby just took the best parts of the metal songs and based his song off of that.
Agreed. They aren't ripoffs. There are many borrowed MOTIFS, but not ripoffs. Espcecially since he made no effort to hide the fact of the source material.
3. IMO, Bobby's versions of the songs are much better than the original versions.
Well, they are better than a direct MIDI implementation of Metallica music. :) They "fit" better as they are easier to listen to repeated over and over again.
What a lot of you are missing is the state of id Software at the time Doom was released. They were all very impressionable people, like many of us are, and they wanted their product to be popular. They had the sense to know they couldn't license the real metal music, and technologically-speaking, they had General MIDI to work with. BP is a noted gaming composer that has a LOT of skill working with General MIDI instrument set (Klem is a General MIDI GOD and has a natural "knack" of utilizing the limitations into aural masterpieces - all hail Mark Klem!! ROFL).
They basically said, Bobby, do metal music and here are the bands we all listen to and dig. Do the best you can without it being obvious. Oh, and you have 3 months.
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Did some music here and there. ;)
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