Meanspeed™ Music Journal: The 24th Greatest Song of All Time on the Rolling Stone 500 List, People Get Ready, written by Curtis Mayfield, meanemotion=Grace

The 24 top songs, according to the Rolling Stone magazine, of All Time, in order of The Stone.

The 24 top songs, according to the Rolling Stone magazine, of All Time, arranged in descending order of speed.

Song #24 on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time is called People Get Ready, written by Curtis Mayfield, recorded by The Impressions. An excerpt from the Rolling Stone article found at http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595869/people_get_ready:

"It was warrior music," said civil-rights activist Gordon Sellers. "It was music you listened to while you were preparing to go into battle." Mayfield wrote the gospel-driven R&B ballad, he said, "in a deep mood, a spiritual state of mind," just before Martin Luther King's march on the group's hometown of Chicago...."

Meanspeed Music measured 8 trials of the song, each trial divided into contiguous 4 beat groups. Those trials were averaged to minimize error, and the results were:

beats measured=156
mean time=2 minutes, 10.7 seconds
meanspeed=71.6 beats per minute
meanspace=0.837 seconds per beat

The speed graphs below represent the data above visually--