No matter how good your music is, if someone loops it 20 times in the wrong place, it won't sound good.
Most game music today sounds quite predictable, generic and boring and that is, in my opinion, one of the biggest problems with game music today.
Back in those days, when I heard a mod that was better than mine I went back to the drawing board and tried to figure out how this sound was made and how the idea was thought up. I still think this way.