Talking Heads · Little Creatures
Road to Nowhere
Road to Nowhere is in E major at 110.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
110 BPM · Moderatomedian of 154 analyses · 110.1–110.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 154people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 544.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.78dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.879Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.277Essentia'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
154 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 154 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 110.2 BPM one beat lasts 544.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 136.1 ms and a dotted eighth 408.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 220.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 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 3.78 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 0.879 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 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 110 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2177.9 | 0.46 |
| Half note | 2 | 1088.9 | 0.92 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 816.7 | 1.22 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 544.5 | 1.84 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 363 | 2.76 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 408.3 | 2.45 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 272.2 | 3.67 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 181.5 | 5.51 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 204.2 | 4.9 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 136.1 | 7.35 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 90.7 | 11.02 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 68.1 | 14.69 |
Half time 55.1 BPM · double time 220.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (544.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All RightBob DylanE major110BPM
- Life in the Fast LaneEaglesE major110BPM
- BruisesLewis CapaldiE major110BPM
- Marvin GayeCharlie Puth feat. Meghan TrainorE major110BPM
- Can’t Stand StillAC/DCE major111BPM
- ColaLana Del ReyE major110BPM
- True Men Don’t Kill CoyotesThe Red Hot Chili PeppersE major111BPM
- FlyCéline DionE major111BPM
- On the Road AgainWillie NelsonE major111BPM
- Hollywood WaltzEaglesE major111BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 110 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 110 BPME major at 110–119 BPMTalking Heads
MusicBrainz collapses 15 recording ids into this one. Recording id 345b6c01-f0f7-4f91-ad2f-7a272d25d2d9.