ONML music titles

[DoubleU]

In CodieKitty's Lemmings music page, she gives titles to unknown tunes after the name of a level she thinks fits it. (Except that the ever-familiar Lemming 1, which she used to call Take Good Care of My Lemmings, she calls Pachelbel's Canon, which doesn't sound like it to me. You might recognize it as the one the original DOS version keeps resetting to when you fail, or the level 2 tune on Mac, Amiga or SNES.)

She doesn't name the six ONML tunes because she doesn't like the game as much. What might they be called? There are no right or wrong answers; I just wanna hear people's thoughts.

[nin10doadict]

That's a tough one because there's not much to go on. I mean, the Amiga version of the game orders them a little differently than other versions (I think) so it's tough to even identify which one you're referring to, heh...
I think the first tune (or maybe the second) could be called "Lemming March." It sounds upbeat and bouncy so I think it fits. As for the others, I don't have any ideas right now...

[Tsyu]

If you decompress the ADLIB.DAT file from original DOS Lemmings (using Lemmings DAT Decompressor, found here in the zip file starting with "lemmings-tools") and open the resulting file in a hex editor, you can find the "names" of each song (although they're all generic stuff like "Awesome," "Lemming2," and "Tim4"). If you do the same with the DOS version of ONML, however, you get these names:

• Very cute
• Wacky
• Patronizingly happy
• The smiling blues
• Much joviality
• Not at all serious

I'm pretty sure the order here corresponds with the order in which the songs are played in the DOS version.

[ccexplore]

DOS version's ordering with youtube links for reference:

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s08dtSrbQk
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_5wo_KSd4k
3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4VVU6npsQE
4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_BFKUTtd90
5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGu3XOM9KbE
6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M90bhzEITro

I believe the order in the Amiga version (relative to DOS's above) is 1,2,3,5,6,4 but not 100% positive (I didn't play that version much and it was a long while ago).  I also seem to remember the Mac version uses the same order as Amiga's.

[DoubleU]

Her music names are after level names when she can't identify them. My question is, what level names fit the musics? For example, she says:

Mind The Step - Oh by the way, I wasn't sure what, if anything some of these songs were called, so I just named them after a level that I felt fit the song. For example, this one [Tim 5] sounds like careful treading, so I named it after that level where you have to navigate a single lemming through a bunch of obstacles.

[ccexplore]

Honestly the ONML music is somewhat lacking in variety compared to Lemming's.  5 out of 6 are in a major key (as opposed 12 out of 17 in Lemmings) and I'd labeled 1, 3, 5, 6 (in DOS ordering) as all "generically happy/upbeat" (2 I'd labeled "wacky/humorous" instead).  I'm not at all surprised that CodieKitty didn't bother at all with the ONML music.

The only thing that kind of stands out for me is that I always found DOS's version of #3 to be kind of Christmas-y, because the instruments it uses sound kind of like bells and the melody is cheerful.  (And perhaps it helps too that Tame 3 where that music is first featured, uses the Snow set.)  But that's quite particular to the DOS version; versions like Amiga's use primarily brass instruments instead, and don't have quite that same feel to me.