Meanspeed™ Music Journal: The Ultimate Songs at The Speed Of Grace, Compared- We Skipped The Light Fandango/You May Say I'm A Dreamer, but I'm not the only one

Procol Harem performing Whiter Shade of Pale , courtesy of YouTube.com -

John Lennon performing Imagine, thanks to YouTube.com -

The song "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harem is one which John Lennon used to listen to on a loop - on headphones - as often as forty times in a row, and fall asleep thereto. This song is said to be the most popular song in the history of English popular music. John Lennon's "Imagine" mirrors the speed or A Whiter Shade of Pale. Just as meanspeed music theory asserts that emotions of languid bittersweetness (77-78 beats per minute) turn into emotions of loneliness and despair as they are faster (79-84 beats oer minute) - only to recover with songs which tend to emote renewal (85-89 beats per minute).

As much as one might think: OK, so the speeds are handed down from one rock generation to the next - so what? Why a theory? Answer - this just happens to be a fantastic example in terms of song quality and overall popularity. A look at the lists of songs at the speed of grace will show other songs emoting much the same thing. This is what we are always stressing here at Meanspeed Music - TAKING BACK YOUR MIND FROM ANY CONTROL.

Overall: look at the way these songs of graceful confidence AVOID the meanspeed - √60 seconds x 10 -1, or 77.459666 - beats per minute. The speed itself is that which appears more territorial than either the singer *or* the song, and serves to expose a performers true emotions--not *always* - I would never use the word always. But songs at 76 are going to be gracefully confident, and songs at 83 are going to be desperately lonely.