Nobody Told Me About id

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Nobody Told Me About id
Composer Bobby Prince
Released 1993-12-10
Title Origin Official

Nobody Told Me About id is the song from Doom composed by Bobby Prince. The song is apparently play-on-words: the name, id, references the company which developed Doom, id Software, and the phrase "Nobody told me about it".

Bobby Prince used Sequencer Plus Gold to compose this track.

Composition

The song starts out with tricking its listeners into thinking the song is a 12/8 ballad. However, the notes playing are just triplets. The song later goes to a straight beat. The chord structures are Am Dm (on A) G#+, then Cm Fm (on C) B+.

The song has a similar style to a song Prince had previously written for Wolfenstein 3D, Hitler Waltz. Unfortunately, that song was not used, and later used in Spear of Destiny during the Copy Protection screen.

Games

Doom (DOS)

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Doom (DOS)
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Arranger Bobby Prince
Released 1993-12-10
Length 2:54
Format MUS
Loops Yes

Nobody Told Me About id is the music for the toughest boss fight in all of Doom, E2M8: Tower of Babel. This is the music you hear while the huge cyberdemon is raining rockets down on you.

Its internal name is "D_E2M8". This track is not included in the shareware version of the game.

Doom (JAG)

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Doom (JAG)
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Arranger John Carmack
Released 1994-11-01
Length 3:05
Loops Yes


Blake Stone: Planet Strike (DOS)

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Blake Stone: Planet Strike (DOS)
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Arranger Bobby Prince
Released 1994-??-??
Length 2:50
Format IMF
Loops Yes

This version of the song arranges the intro so it sounds like a straight beat, as opposed to the ballad sound of the original.

Doom (SNES)

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Doom (SNES)
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Arranger Paul Webb
Released 1995-09-01
Length 2:42
Format SPC
Loops Yes

Nobody Told Me About id is the music for the E2M5: Tower of Babel level and is output to S-SMP chip.

Final Doom: The Plutonia Experiment (DOS)

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Final Doom: The Plutonia Experiment (DOS)
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Arranger Bobby Prince
Released 1996-06-17
Length 2:54
Format MUS
Loops Yes


Doom (GBA)

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Doom (GBA)
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Arranger Unknown
Released 2001-10-26
Format UNK
Loops Yes


Trivia

Mourning is the song from Blake Stone: Planet Strike which was also composed by Bobby Prince has an almost identical motif suggesting that one of both songs was likely inspired by the other one.

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