Radiohead · OK Computer
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Subterranean Homesick Alien is in C minor at 100.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
101 BPM · Andantemedian of 237 analyses · 99.9–148.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 73%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 237people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 595.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.43dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.877Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.947Essentia'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
237 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 73% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 237 readings; 62% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 99.9 to 148.8 BPM.
At 100.7 BPM one beat lasts 595.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 149 ms and a dotted eighth 446.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 201.4. 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 2.43 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 0.877 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 101 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2383.3 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1191.7 | 0.84 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 893.7 | 1.12 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 595.8 | 1.68 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 397.2 | 2.52 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 446.9 | 2.24 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 297.9 | 3.36 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 198.6 | 5.04 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 223.4 | 4.48 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 149 | 6.71 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 99.3 | 10.07 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 74.5 | 13.43 |
Half time 50.4 BPM · double time 201.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (595.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Worth ItFifth Harmony feat. Kid InkC minor100BPM
- BoadiceaEnyaC minor101BPM
- Fascination StreetThe CureC minor100BPM
- Gett OffPrince & The New Power GenerationC minor100BPM
- Hear MeKelly ClarksonC minor99BPM
- Paid in FullEric B. & RakimC minor99BPM
- Bodhisattva VowBeastie BoysC minor99BPM
- Spanish Castle MagicThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceC minor98BPM
- Time to Get IllBeastie BoysC minor98BPM
- FrictionImagine DragonsC minor104BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 101 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 101 BPMC minor at 100–109 BPMRadiohead
MusicBrainz collapses 36 recording ids into this one. Recording id bd82738d-163c-4b1a-bfaf-7acffe30e68a.