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10 songs that feel like Doomsday

Matched to Doomsday by MF DOOM on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

Doomsday
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Doomsday
MF DOOM
safe 31/100 intensity 95 BPM
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Almost Grown — Chuck Berry safe 120 BPM

A 92% feel-match — carries the same confident pull and runs a little hotter at 37/100.

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Award Tour — A Tribe Called Quest safe 95 BPM

92% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it runs a little hotter at 39/100. Same smooth texture.

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The Way We Get By — Spoon moderate 126 BPM

Keeps the same confident pull — runs a little hotter at 38/100. Measured 91% alike.

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Electric Relaxation — A Tribe Called Quest safe 92 BPM

Measures 91% the same. It sits a little calmer at 25/100. Same smooth texture.

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Check the Rhime — A Tribe Called Quest moderate 96 BPM

A 91% feel-match — carries the same confident pull and runs a little hotter at 39/100. Nearly the same tempo, too (96 BPM).

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Pushover — Etta James moderate 92 BPM

91% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it runs a little hotter at 39/100. Same smooth texture.

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Roots, Rock, Reggae — Bob Marley & The Wailers safe 78 BPM

Keeps the same confident pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (34/100). Measured 95% alike.

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Skateaway — Dire Straits safe 110 BPM

Measures 90% the same. It runs a little hotter at 40/100. Same smooth texture.

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Man I Need — Olivia Dean moderate 110 BPM

A 90% feel-match — carries the same confident pull and runs a little hotter at 40/100.

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If I Didn't Have You — Randy Newman safe 90 BPM

95% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (31/100). Same smooth texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Doomsday” by MF DOOM?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Almost Grown” by Chuck Berry, “Award Tour” by A Tribe Called Quest, “The Way We Get By” by Spoon — the top match scores 92% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

How intense is “Doomsday”?

It measures 31/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 4/10, smooth texture, mild sudden shifts, and dynamic vocals. Tempo is 95 BPM.

How do you decide which songs are similar?

Every song in our catalog is measured on 8 dimensions — intensity, dynamic range, tempo, sudden changes, texture, predictability, vocal force and fine sound detail. Similarity is the distance between two songs across those measurements, so matches cross genres and eras. Shared mood tags break ties.

By the numbers: how this song compares

Computed from this song’s place among the 19,209 songs we’ve measured.

Where it sits in 19,000 songs

This sits near the calm end of everything we've measured — gentler than 80% of the 19,209 songs in the library. Its intensity reading of 31/100 comes from a dynamic range of 4/10, smooth texture, mild shifts, and dynamic vocals. Relatively few songs occupy this exact corner of the spectrum.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is an unusually steady, even volume: more extreme on that axis than 97% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on full chaos — sudden changes, huge quiet-to-loud swings, and relentless energy — the kind of track this one is the counterpoint to.

Feels almost identical to

Closest matches by feel across all 19,209 measured songs — not by genre or artist, by how they actually move.

What it’s good for

Sleep6/10
Focus9/10
Workout2/10
Dinner8/10
Party / hype2/10

Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.

1999 in context

The 304 songs we’ve measured from 1999 average a dynamic range of 6.3/10. At 4/10, this track is gentler and steadier than its year.

Mixes smoothly with

Within a few BPM and close in feel — they flow without a jarring transition.

The fingerprint

Intensity31
Dynamics33
Tempo31
Surprise25
Density0
Predictability0
Vocal force75
Trigger load25

The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.

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