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Church of the Poison Mind

Church of the Poison Mind is in C major at 130.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

131 BPM · Allegromedian of 319 analyses · 130.3–130.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
319people who ran the extractor
One beat
459.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
443.3Hz · +13 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.69dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.827Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.117Essentia'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

319 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 319 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 130.5 BPM one beat lasts 459.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.9 ms and a dotted eighth 344.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 261. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.3 Hz, which is 13 cents above 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 3.69 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 0.827 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 131 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41839.10.54
Half note2919.51.09
Dotted quarter1.5689.71.45
Quarter note (one beat)1459.82.18
Quarter triplet0.667306.53.26
Dotted eighth0.75344.82.9
Eighth note0.5229.94.35
Eighth triplet0.333153.36.53
Dotted sixteenth0.375172.45.8
Sixteenth note0.25114.98.7
Sixteenth triplet0.16776.613.05
Thirty-second note0.12557.517.4

Half time 65.3 BPM · double time 261 BPM. Every row is one beat (459.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Time After TimeCyndi LauperC major131BPM
  2. Touch and GoThe CarsC major131BPM
  3. Big MeFoo FightersC major131BPM
  4. Stringsblink‐182C major130BPM
  5. Fool in the RainLed ZeppelinC major130BPM
  6. Pay It BackElvis CostelloC major131BPM
  7. Fragments of TimeDaft Punk feat. Todd EdwardsC major130BPM
  8. Since U Been GoneKelly ClarksonC major131BPM
  9. LuckyJason Mraz feat. Colbie CaillatC major130BPM
  10. Walking in MemphisMarc CohnC major130BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 131 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 131 BPMC major at 130–139 BPMCulture Club

MusicBrainz collapses 17 recording ids into this one. Recording id d16ee261-6918-4685-ac82-7aaf55c304bc.