David Bowie · Lodger
Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger is in A major at 129.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
129 BPM · Allegromedian of 202 analyses · 129.2–129.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 80%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 202people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 464milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.78dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.923Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.145Essentia'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
202 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 80% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 202 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 129.3 BPM one beat lasts 464 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 116 ms and a dotted eighth 348 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 258.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.78 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 0.923 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 A 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 129 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1856.1 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 928.1 | 1.08 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 696.1 | 1.44 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 464 | 2.16 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 309.4 | 3.23 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 348 | 2.87 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 232 | 4.31 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 154.7 | 6.47 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 174 | 5.75 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 116 | 8.62 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 77.3 | 12.93 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58 | 17.24 |
Half time 64.7 BPM · double time 258.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (464 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Here Comes the SunThe BeatlesA major129BPM
- Bird on the WireLeonard CohenA major129BPM
- Hang ’Em HighVan HalenA major129BPM
- JetPaul McCartney & WingsA major129BPM
- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Jess and Crabbe Regulator mix)Daft PunkA major129BPM
- Green EyesColdplayA major130BPM
- No More Mr. Nice GuyAlice CooperA major129BPM
- It’s Only Rock ’n’ RollThe Rolling StonesA major129BPM
- Hammer to FallQueenA major129BPM
- Zoo StationU2A major129BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 129 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 129 BPMA major at 120–129 BPMDavid Bowie
MusicBrainz collapses 64 recording ids into this one. Recording id dc375229-c810-4d7d-94f0-bbb160bf301f.