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Count Five · Psychotic Reaction

Psychotic Reaction

Psychotic Reaction is in F sharp major at 165.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

165 BPM · Vivacemedian of 198 analyses · 164.2–165.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F♯ major6 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
198people who ran the extractor
One beat
363milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.7Hz · -5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.8dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.86Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.169Essentia'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

198 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in F sharp major, a key signature of 6 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 198 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 164.2 to 165.4 BPM.

At 165.3 BPM one beat lasts 363 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 90.7 ms and a dotted eighth 272.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 330.6. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.7 Hz, which is 5 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.8 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 0.86 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 major; 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♯ major

Each of these differs from F♯ major 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 165 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41451.90.69
Half note27261.38
Dotted quarter1.5544.51.84
Quarter note (one beat)13632.76
Quarter triplet0.6672424.13
Dotted eighth0.75272.23.67
Eighth note0.5181.55.51
Eighth triplet0.3331218.27
Dotted sixteenth0.375136.17.35
Sixteenth note0.2590.711.02
Sixteenth triplet0.16760.516.53
Thirty-second note0.12545.422.04

Half time 82.7 BPM · double time 330.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (363 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Travelin’ BandCreedence Clearwater RevivalF♯ major165BPM
  2. Better in TimeLeona LewisF♯ major164BPM
  3. A Winter’s TaleQueenF♯ major163BPM
  4. Oh! You Pretty ThingsDavid BowieF♯ major162BPM
  5. It’s TrueBackstreet BoysF♯ major162BPM
  6. He’s Misstra Know‐It‐AllStevie WonderF♯ major162BPM
  7. Something That I Already KnowBackstreet BoysF♯ major162BPM
  8. Surf Wax AmericaWeezerF♯ major172BPM
  9. MichaelFranz FerdinandF♯ major156BPM
  10. Country GirlBlack SabbathF♯ major156BPM

Recordings in F sharp major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 165 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F sharp majorAll songs at 165 BPMF♯ major at 160–169 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 18 recording ids into this one. Recording id 454e3b0c-0501-4663-a283-7ef627a4621a.