R.E.M. · Out of Time
Country Feedback
Country Feedback is in C major at 144.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
144 BPM · Allegromedian of 147 analyses · 144.3–144.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 147people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 415.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.63dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.946Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.046Essentia'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
147 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 144.4 BPM one beat lasts 415.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 103.9 ms and a dotted eighth 311.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 288.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 2.63 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 0.946 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 144 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1662 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 831 | 1.2 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 623.3 | 1.6 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 415.5 | 2.41 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 277 | 3.61 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 311.6 | 3.21 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 207.8 | 4.81 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 138.5 | 7.22 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 155.8 | 6.42 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 103.9 | 9.63 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 69.3 | 14.44 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 51.9 | 19.25 |
Half time 72.2 BPM · double time 288.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (415.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 144 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 144 BPMC major at 140–149 BPMR.E.M.
MusicBrainz collapses 36 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0c4b7e22-9b70-4a6c-bc96-60258ae3d372.