Radiohead · The Bends
My Iron Lung
My Iron Lung is in C minor at 97.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
97 BPM · Andantemedian of 215 analyses · 97–97.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 76%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 215people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 617.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.4dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.926Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.231Essentia'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
215 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 76% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 215 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 97.1 BPM one beat lasts 617.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 154.5 ms and a dotted eighth 463.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 194.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.4 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 0.926 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 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 C minor
Each of these differs from C 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 97 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2471.7 | 0.4 |
| Half note | 2 | 1235.8 | 0.81 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 926.9 | 1.08 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 617.9 | 1.62 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 411.9 | 2.43 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 463.4 | 2.16 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 309 | 3.24 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 206 | 4.85 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 231.7 | 4.32 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 154.5 | 6.47 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 103 | 9.71 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 77.2 | 12.95 |
Half time 48.6 BPM · double time 194.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (617.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Slow RideBeastie BoysC minor97BPM
- GirlThe BeatlesC minor97BPM
- Time to Get IllBeastie BoysC minor98BPM
- Spanish Castle MagicThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceC minor98BPM
- Mr. SymsJohn ColtraneC minor96BPM
- Bodhisattva VowBeastie BoysC minor99BPM
- Paid in FullEric B. & RakimC minor99BPM
- SummertimeDJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh PrinceC minor95BPM
- QueerGarbageC minor95BPM
- FancyIggy Azalea feat. Charli XCXC minor95BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 97 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 97 BPMC minor at 90–99 BPMRadiohead
MusicBrainz collapses 208 recording ids into this one. Recording id 938ecadc-f343-4c06-a754-c9f262be1088.