Elvis Costello & The Attractions · Armed Forces
Goon Squad
Goon Squad is in E minor at 138.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
139 BPM · Allegromedian of 134 analyses · 137.4–138.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 134people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 432.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.25dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.842Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.204Essentia'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
134 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 137.4 to 138.6 BPM.
At 138.6 BPM one beat lasts 432.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 108.2 ms and a dotted eighth 324.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 69.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 277.2. 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 3.25 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 0.842 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 E 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 E minor
Each of these differs from E 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 139 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1731.6 | 0.58 |
| Half note | 2 | 865.8 | 1.16 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 649.4 | 1.54 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 432.9 | 2.31 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 288.6 | 3.47 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 324.7 | 3.08 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 216.5 | 4.62 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 144.3 | 6.93 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 162.3 | 6.16 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 108.2 | 9.24 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 72.2 | 13.86 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 54.1 | 18.48 |
Half time 69.3 BPM · double time 277.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (432.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Leper MessiahMetallicaE minor139BPM
- Down to the WaterlineDire StraitsE minor139BPM
- DenisBlondieE minor139BPM
- Eleanor RigbyThe BeatlesE minor137BPM
- Knights of CydoniaMuseE minor137BPM
- TroubleColdplayE minor140BPM
- Learning to LiveDream TheaterE minor140BPM
- AnthemRushE minor140BPM
- Human After AllDaft PunkE minor136BPM
- [Grey Stripe]Aphex TwinE minor136BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 139 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 139 BPME minor at 130–139 BPMElvis Costello & The Attractions
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id de170042-2f09-43c1-b383-4079c02fc0b0.