TempoPeek

Elvis Costello & The Attractions · Almost Blue

A Good Year for the Roses

A Good Year for the Roses is in A major at 97.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

98 BPM · Andantemedian of 133 analyses · 97.6–97.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
133people who ran the extractor
One beat
613.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.42dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.63Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.973Essentia'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

133 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 133 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 97.8 BPM one beat lasts 613.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 153.4 ms and a dotted eighth 460.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 195.6. A score would mark that Andante, 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 6.42 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 0.63 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 98 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note424540.41
Half note212270.82
Dotted quarter1.5920.21.09
Quarter note (one beat)1613.51.63
Quarter triplet0.6674092.45
Dotted eighth0.75460.12.17
Eighth note0.5306.73.26
Eighth triplet0.333204.54.89
Dotted sixteenth0.375230.14.35
Sixteenth note0.25153.46.52
Sixteenth triplet0.167102.29.78
Thirty-second note0.12576.713.04

Half time 48.9 BPM · double time 195.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (613.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Gypsy BootsAerosmithA major98BPM
  2. On the BorderEaglesA major98BPM
  3. Catholic School Girls RuleThe Red Hot Chili PeppersA major98BPM
  4. JunebugThe B‐52sA major98BPM
  5. The One Rose (That’s Left in My Heart)Johnny CashA major98BPM
  6. And You Tell Mea‐haA major98BPM
  7. Whipping PostThe Allman Brothers BandA major98BPM
  8. To FranceMike OldfieldA major98BPM
  9. E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)Blue Öyster CultA major97BPM
  10. You’re All I Need to Get ByMarvin Gaye & Tammi TerrellA major97BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 98 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 98 BPMA major at 90–99 BPMElvis Costello & The Attractions

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id f8ad9967-b8d1-42e0-9ffb-1eb1a5d85b96.