R.E.M. · Green
Orange Crush
Orange Crush is in E minor at 120.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
121 BPM · Allegromedian of 218 analyses · 119.1–120.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 218people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 497.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.3Hz · +9 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.39dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.963Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.175Essentia'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
218 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 218 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 119.1 to 120.7 BPM.
At 120.6 BPM one beat lasts 497.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.4 ms and a dotted eighth 373.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 241.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.3 Hz, which is 9 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 2.39 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 0.963 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 121 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1990 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 995 | 1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 746.3 | 1.34 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 497.5 | 2.01 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 331.7 | 3.01 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 373.1 | 2.68 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 248.8 | 4.02 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 165.8 | 6.03 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 186.6 | 5.36 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 124.4 | 8.04 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 82.9 | 12.06 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.2 | 16.08 |
Half time 60.3 BPM · double time 241.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (497.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- DiscothèqueU2E minor120BPM
- Stay High (Habits remix)Tove Lo feat. Hippie SabotageE minor121BPM
- Invisible ChoirsScannerE minor120BPM
- The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)The DoorsE minor120BPM
- Beds Are BurningMidnight OilE minor119BPM
- The KillThirty Seconds to MarsE minor122BPM
- StrangeloveDepeche ModeE minor119BPM
- Boogie NightsHeatwaveE minor119BPM
- You’re All I’ve Got TonightThe CarsE minor123BPM
- Eat the RichAerosmithE minor123BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 121 BPME minor at 120–129 BPMR.E.M.
MusicBrainz collapses 46 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3f491dde-82d8-40dc-bdbd-a0ea9373724d.