Björk · Debut

There’s More to Life Than This (recorded live at the Milk Bar toilets)

There’s More to Life Than This (recorded live at the Milk Bar toilets) is in F sharp minor at 124 beats per minute.

Tempo

124 BPM · Allegromedian of 182 analyses · 123.5–124.1 across the middle eight tenths

Key: F♯ minor3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 182people who ran the extractor
One beat: 483.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 450.8Hz · +42 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 5.93dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.9Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.454Essentia's danceability, 0–3

Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

What the numbers say

182 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in F sharp minor, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 182 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 124 BPM one beat lasts 483.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 121 ms and a dotted eighth 362.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62 BPM, counted twice as fast 248. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 450.8 Hz, which is 42 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.93 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.9 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.

10 other recordings here are in F sharp minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.

Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.

Keys that fit with F♯ minor

Each of these differs from F♯ minor by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.

Delay times at 124 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1935.5	0.52
Half note	2	967.7	1.03
Dotted quarter	1.5	725.8	1.38
Quarter note (one beat)	1	483.9	2.07
Quarter triplet	0.667	322.6	3.1
Dotted eighth	0.75	362.9	2.76
Eighth note	0.5	241.9	4.13
Eighth triplet	0.333	161.3	6.2
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	181.5	5.51
Sixteenth note	0.25	121	8.27
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	80.6	12.4
Thirty-second note	0.125	60.5	16.53

Half time 62 BPM · double time 248 BPM. Every row is one beat (483.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in F sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 124 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F sharp minor All songs at 124 BPM F♯ minor at 120–129 BPM Björk

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id c2cfef9c-bf5d-4801-aa65-db9922235f8d.