The #6 Song of All-Time on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 list: Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, meanspeed=146.5 BPM, meanspace=410 milliseconds per beat

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The #6 song on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs is the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations. The songs varies in speed from 131 beats per minute at its slowest parts to 155 beats per minute in the faster sections. After measuring the song consistent with the manner explained on meanspeed.com, we measured Good Vibrations as:

number of beats=520
mean time=3 minutes, 13.0 seconds
meanspeed-146.5 beats per minute
meanspace=410 milliseconds per beat.

for more on The Beach Boys classic, an excellent article appears at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Vibrations

Ian Schneider meanspeed.com May 7, 2007