Gorillaz · Demon Days
Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head
Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head is in A minor at 100.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
100 BPM · Andantemedian of 152 analyses · 100–103 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 90%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 152people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 599.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.03dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.89Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.497Essentia'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
152 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 152 readings; 88% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 100 to 103 BPM.
At 100.1 BPM one beat lasts 599.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 149.9 ms and a dotted eighth 449.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 200.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 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 4.03 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 0.89 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 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 A minor
Each of these differs from A 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 100 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2397.6 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1198.8 | 0.83 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 899.1 | 1.11 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 599.4 | 1.67 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 399.6 | 2.5 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 449.6 | 2.22 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 299.7 | 3.34 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 199.8 | 5.01 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 224.8 | 4.45 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 149.9 | 6.67 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 99.9 | 10.01 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 74.9 | 13.35 |
Half time 50.1 BPM · double time 200.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (599.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Same Deep Water as YouThe CureA minor100BPM
- Hey MamaThe Black Eyed PeasA minor100BPM
- Creeping DeathMetallicaA minor100BPM
- BailamosEnrique IglesiasA minor100BPM
- Stupid GirlsP!nkA minor100BPM
- Interstellar OverdrivePink FloydA minor100BPM
- Africa BambaSantanaA minor100BPM
- Leave a TraceCHVRCHESA minor100BPM
- Bloody MaryLady GagaA minor100BPM
- Here Comes the HotstepperIni KamozeA minor100BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 100 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 100 BPMA minor at 100–109 BPMGorillaz
MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id 81519da9-b8db-4d42-bd8b-011070c78bb7.