Satin Soul: The Speeds of Barry White

Barry White, from the URL: http://obits.eons.com/

iTunes imports Barry White's 20 All Time Greatest Hits

iTunes screen when one highlights a song and presses "contrl + I" simultaneously

Barry's 20 All Time Greatest, here, after all the speeds have been input, in acscending order



'All-Time Greatest Hits' is a compilation of Barry White's finest songs. All-Time Greatest Hits was released in 1994. The speeds of all twenty tracks are listed below.
In order to input these speeds into iTunes, simply press the Control key and the “I” keys simultaneously, where you will be able to enter the information.

1. Loves Theme
mean speed=97 beats per minute

2. I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby
mean speed=87 beats per minute

3. I've Got So Much To Give
mean speed=69 beats per minute

4. Never, Never Gonna Give Up
mean speed=85 beats per minute

5. Honey Please, Can't Ya See
mean speed=115 beats per minute

6. Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe
mean speed=110 beats per minute

7. You're The First, The Last, My Everything
mean speed=130 beats per minute

8. What Am I Gonna Do With You
mean speed=115 beats per minute

9. I'll Do For You Anything You Want Me To
mean speed=132 beats per minute

10. Let The Music Play
mean speed=99 beats per minute

11. You See The Trouble With Me
mean speed=114 beats per minute

12. Baby, We Better Try To Get It Together
mean speed=105 beats per minute

13. Don't Make Me Wait Too Long
mean speed=123 beats per minute

14. I'm Qualified To Satisfy You
mean speed=133 beats per minute

15. It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me
mean speed=102 beats per minute

16. Playing Your Game, Baby
mean speed=82 beats per minute

17. Oh, What A Night For Dancing
mean speed=77 beats per minute

18. Your Sweetness Is My Weakness
mean speed=119 beats per minute

19. Just The Way You Are
mean speed=68 beats per minute

20. Satin Soul
mean speed=107 beats per minute

measurements by
Ian Schneider
meanspeed.com
March 30, 2007

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Metallica--Speeds of the 1991 'Black Album'

arranged in ascending speed order


arranged in original album track order




In 1991 Metallica released an album called Metallica. The cover was very black. Almost as black as Spinal Tap’s ‘Smell The Glove.’

Metallica was released on August 12. In 2003, the album was ranked number 252 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

The speeds of all 12 American issued tracks were measured by meanspeed music as:

1. "Enter Sandman"
mean speed=124 beats per minute
2. "Sad But True"
mean speed=89 beats per minute
3. "Holier Than Thou"
mean speed=164 beats per minute
4. "The Unforgiven"
mean speed=70 beats per minute
5. "Wherever I May Roam"
mean speed=131 beats per minute
6. "Don't Tread on Me"
mean speed=108 beats per minute
7. "Through the Never”
mean speed=190 beats per minute
8. "Nothing Else Matters"
mean speed=48 beats per minute
9. "Of Wolf and Man”
mean speed=122 beats per minute
10. "The God That Failed"
mean speed=83 beats per minute
11. "My Friend of Misery"
mean speed=120 beats per minute
12. "The Struggle Within"
mean speed=196 beats per minute


Ian Schneider
meanspeed.com
March 29, 2007

Elton John, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, studio version and live at Wembley Stadium version: All Speeds

©2007, JULIANNA PHOTOGRAPHY


©2007, Meanspeed Music



Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is a concept album by Elton John.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 158 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2005, Elton released a 1975 concert of the album in its entirety. Below are the measured speeds of all 10 songs expressed as beats per minute of both the studio and concert albums:

1. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
mean speed, studio=81
mean speed, concert=83

2. Tower of Babel
mean speed, studio=78
mean speed, concert=81

3. Bitter Fingers
mean speed, studio=133
mean speed, concert=142

4. Tell Me When the Whistle Blows
mean speed, studio=89
mean speed, concert=90

5. Someone Saved My Life Tonight
mean speed, studio=65
mean speed, concert=69

6. (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket
mean speed, studio=139
mean speed, concert=152

7. Better Off Dead
mean speed, studio=95
mean speed, concert=101

8. Writing
mean speed, studio=137
mean speed, concert=146

9. We All Fall in Love Sometimes
mean speed, studio=64
mean speed, concert=69

10. Curtains
mean speed, studio=67
mean speed, concert=73



Ian Schneider
meanspeed.com
March 28, 2007

Fleetwood Mac, 'Fleetwood Mac'--11 speeds

Fleetwood Mac’s success in the mid and late 1970s was a phenomenon. People of every taste could come together and quietly decide that Fleetwood Mac was “cool.” While acts like Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson were huge “cross-over” acts where people of any race liked music that is ‘generally seen’ in communities of another race, Fleetwood Mac was the band at the time the was “cross-over” where people of any type of social group or background accepted them.
On a personal note, I was in 7th grade—about 12 years old—when this album came out, and I remember this being the single album that all the “geeky” kids and all the “cool” kids could agree, if in silence: this is sophisticated relaxing music. They brought a bright, fresh spirit with them—a reason Bill Clinton asked them to reunite—and in fact use the song highlighted below, Don’t Stop, as campaign theme music as the campaign theme song in 1992 respectively. It was the contemporary version of the Democrat standard: “Happy Days Are Here Again.”
As far as using the BPM column on your digital music program, I posted some screen shots above of the different configurations that are possible when proper speed—for this album, this entry is the only place I could find online to obtain accurate song speed—in beats per minute—of every track. Imagine this every day situation: you find out that you are going to leave in 10 minutes on a long car trip and are looking to burn a new CD or build a new Playlist for a trip with a new friend who mentions that they are 'huge fans of Fleetwood Mac’s self entitled album and Rumours.' You want to impress. You want to have fun with the music. You want to feel that hard, driving beat. Would you rather use the screen on the top, which simply lists the song by appearance as the songs appear on each album, or the screen beneath which lay out all 22 songs in order of ascending speed? The great thing about iTunes and most of the rest is that you need not choose! Play around with reverse alphabetization of album names--whatever--the BPM or Speed element is just a great new toy--except (1) it's free, (2) it lasts forever and (3) only gets stronger as you use it, like a body part (brain) and not a toy, like the computer screen upon which you are reading this.

Below are the speeds of every song on Fleetwood Mac’s self-titled 1975 album, where numbers represent beats per minute, all measurements by Liam Schneider:

1. Monday Morning, 107
meanemotion=lust

2. Warm Ways, 92
meanemotion=enthusiasm

3. Blue Letter, 149
meanemotion=mixed fast

4. Rhiannon, 129
meanemotion=mixed fast

5. Over My Head, 101
meanemotion=natural

6. Crystal, 41
meanemotion=surreal

7. Say You Love Me, 128
meanemotion=victory

8. Landslide, 80
meanemotion=lonely

9. World Turning, 115
meanemotion=foreboding

10. Sugar Daddy, 122
meanemotion=victory

10. I'm So Afraid, 63
meanemotion=ceremony.


For more about the correlation between speed in beats per minute and emotional expression in music speed, please visit meanspeed.com.


Ian Schneider
meanspeed.com
March 27, 2007

Fleetwood Mac, 'Rumours'--all 11 mean speeds, meanspeed charts, and using tempo awareness to improve self-control

In 1977, Fleetwood Mac released ‘Rumours,’ one of the most popular albums ever recorded. Online and elsewhere, one can find out almost everything one would want to know about the album except that one element that will let them use it better on playlist: SPEED—there is a reason every DJ knows the speeds for all the songs: mixing by speed works. Also, as you can see from the graphics above, when you start to use the BPM column on your digital music programs, the choices are organized and exciting..

The speeds below were measured by Meanspeed Music and are accurate. Use these hard, driving beats to make playlists that will get you in that right frame of mind.


1. Second Hand News
mean speed=118 beats per minute
meanemotion=foreboding

2. Dreams
mean speed=120 beats per minute
meanemotion=victory

3. Never Going Back Again
mean speed=88 beats per minute
meanemotion=renewal

4. Don't Stop
mean speed=119 beats per minute
meanemotion=victory

5. Go Your Own Way
mean speed=136 beats per minute
meanemotion=mixed fast

6. Songbird
mean speed=93 beats per minute
meanemotion=enthusiasm

7. The Chain
mean speed=76 beats per minute
meanemotion=grace

8. You Make Loving Fun
mean speed=121 beats per minute
meanemotion=victory

9. I Don't Want to Know
mean speed=140 beats per minute
meanemotion=mixed fast

10. Oh Daddy
mean speed=69 beats per minute
meanemotion=ceremony

11. Gold Dust Woman
mean speed=123 beats per minute
meanemotion=victory.

For more information about the correlation between song speeds and meanemotions, you can visit meanspeed.com.


Ian Schneider
meanspeed.com
March 26, 2007

14 Songs from the 1980s: Examples showing how Meanspeed Music is different from the BPM List and the organization www.bpmdatabase.com

Above are pictured some of the things you can do when you input the proper number into the BPM column. You can arrange any way you want: in ascending speed order, descending speed order, reverse alphabetical order by song titles—whatever you like is possible. Very fun.
This is just the sample of 14 from iTunes’ 1980s “Soft Hits of the1980s” album. You may see though, the more you add to the BPM column, the more you can pick and choose into your PLAYLIST columns—which, of course, are the key to digital music sets. As in—you do not want to hear someone else’s mixes, or a mix someone else made “especially for you” (to their taste, usually)—you want to make you own, and so of course--best, playlist. We’re giving you the tool to do it no one else is giving you: the proper speed.

What about all the BPM programs out there, though? Can’t they scan your library and obtain the BPM automatically? Short answer: not close. I have tried many of them, and (1) nothing affiliated with iTunes may be scanned by an outside scanner, period, (2) the numbers in beats per minute that I was getting from some of the better reviewed software programs at times were simply outlandish—I was to believe, via www.beaTunes.com, a program where they brag about themselves so much I just can’t wait to try the program—alas—a miserable failure. Computers simply cannot figure out where the beat falls. This is an easy concept, geniuses have tried to ‘work around the problem that a computer cannot recognize a silence as a beat,’ and, noble though the effort has been, the results are always a waste of money.

Do it yourself. It’s so much more fun.

The twelve songs and artists shown above and listed below in text were listed as measured speeds only as everything else about a record--from the producer to the woman who tuned the backup guitarists backup guitar may be found online as it is. Where else can you get speed? www.bpmdatabase.com, who puts out speeds as “correct” where those running the site itself have not done the work—they plead for “submissions,” they plead for money, but they don’t back up the work--and has a limited selection, which is kinda good because you want good songs from which to choose—but their list is very house music oriented—great for the house DJ’s, terrible for the 40 year old who just wants to go out and run a couple of miles. You can try: www.bpmlist.com where you will need to pay $80 to get a look at the [work and speeds]—after you get to track the package for a week---there is no online version. Also, the “author” of the BPM List did not do and cannot and does not vouch for any speed—so here we are. Why for free? Cause we’re beyond cool. All numbers are in beat per minute and are mean speeds.

Plain

Miss You Like Crazy, Natalie Cole, 65
Hard To Say I’m Sorry, Chicago, 72
Little Jeannie, Elton John, 72
You’re The Inspiration, Chicago, 74
One Moment In Time, Whitney Houston, 78
Words Get In The Way, Gloria Estefan, 78
Eternal Flame, The Bangles, 79
What Kind Of Fool, Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb, 79
Hard Habit To Break, Chicago, 81
No One Is To Blame, Howard Jones, 94
True, Spandau Ballet, 97
Key Largo, Bertie Higgins, 101
Any Day Now, Ronnie Milsap, 103
Too Late For Goodbyes, Julian Lennon, 123

Separated as meanemotions:
ceremony, 63-69
Miss You Like Crazy, Natalie Cole, 65

grace, 70-76
Hard To Say I’m Sorry, Chicago, 72
Little Jeannie, Elton John, 72
You’re The Inspiration, Chicago, 74

bittersweetness, 77-78
One Moment In Time, Whitney Houston, 78
Words Get In The Way, Gloria Estefan, 78

loneliness, 79-84
Eternal Flame, The Bangles, 79
What Kind Of Fool, Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb, 79
Hard Habit To Break, Chicago, 81

enthusiasm, 90-97
No One Is To Blame, Howard Jones, 94
True, Spandau Ballet, 97

natural, 98-105
Key Largo, Bertie Higgins, 101
Any Day Now, Ronnie Milsap, 103

victory, 119-128
Too Late For Goodbyes, Julian Lennon, 123.

For more on the definitions of meanemotions and their relation to mean speeds, visit meanspeed.com

Ian Schneider
meanspeed music
March 23, 2007

The Archetype song at the Speed of Natural: Hello, Goodbye, in 1967 by the Beatles, 2002 by Sir Paul in New York City

©2007 Meanspeed Music



Many people ask: "what is the one single example you can give me of a song that embodies the 'meanemotion' of natural? Huh?"
My reply: your ears, your brain--a few charts offered as proof above and there you go. Ultimately natural. Leave it to John Lennon, Sir Paul, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.


Elemental speeds, as indicated above:
Beatles, Hello Goodbye, 1967
mean speed=100 beats per minute

Sir Paul McCartney, Hello Goodbye, 2002
mean speed=102 beats per minute

For more on the correlation between meanspeeds ad meanemotions, visit meanspeed.com.


Ian Schneider
March 22, 2007

Meanspeed Theory, applied: Mean speeds and meanemotions to Michael McDonald's Motown Two: Making Class-A Playlists

photo from the URL: http://www.pbs.org


A year after his biggest album, ‘Motown,’ Michael McDonald, the Missourian blue-eyed soul keyboardist, released a follow up, ‘Motown Two.’ iTunes.com lists every song under the genre of: Rock. They tell us who wrote every song. Notwithstanding, again, there is nothing given to us about how fast these songs are—even though iTunes provides an element called “BPM” which, if filled in, would allow anyone to manipulate their music and playlists in general by speed.

Which is where Meanspeed Music comes in—below is the information given us with the speed information—allowing for Class-A Playlist creation.

The track listings, composers and elementary speeds of the 14 tracks on this album are:

Track #1
“You’re All I Need To Get By”
composers=Nikolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson
mean speed=92 beats per minute
meanemotion=enthusiasm

Track #2
“I Was Made To Love Her”
composers=Henry Cosby, Lula Mae Hardaway
mean speed=96 beats per minute
meanemotion=enthusiasm

Track #3
“Reach Out, I’ll Be There”
composers=Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Brian Dozier
mean speed=120 beats per minute
meanemotion=victory

Track #4
“Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)”
composers=Linda Creed, Thomas Bell
mean speed=74 beats per minute
meanemotion=grace

Track #5
“Baby I Need Your Loving”
composers=Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Brian Dozier
mean speed=120 beats per minute
meanemotion=victory

Track #6
“Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever”
composers=Ivy Jo Hunter, Stevie Wonder
mean speed=99 beats per minute
meanemotion=natural

Track #7
“The Tracks Of My Tears”
composers=Marv Tarplin, Warren Moore, William Robinson
mean speed=86 beats per minute
meanemotion=renewal

Track #8
“What’s Going On”
composers=Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye, Renaldo Benson
mean speed=95 beats per minute
meanemotion=enthusiasm

Track #9
“I Second That Emotion”
composers=Al Cleveland, William Robinson
mean speed=93 beats per minute
meanemotion=enthusiasm

Track #10
“After The Dance”
composers=Leon Ware, Marvin Gaye, T-Boy Ross
mean speed=113 beats per minute
meanemotion=lust

Track #12
“Tuesday Heartbreak”
composer=Stevie Wonder
mean speed=101 beats per minute
meanemotion=natural

Track #13
“Mercy, Mercy Me”
composer=Marvin Gaye
mean speed=91 beats per minute
meanemotion=enthusiasm

Track #14
“Baby I’m For Real”
composers=Ana Gaye, Marvin Gaye
mean speed=50 beats per minute, in triplet rhythm
meanemotion=mixed slow.

In order to add these speeds to your iTunes “BPM” column, simply highlight a song, press Control and ‘I’—and there you go—you can input the speed information and go to town. I have only starting doing this on my iTunes account—and I think you might some fun in this—especially if you’ve read this far!

For more on the correlation between mean speeds and meanemotion, visit http://meanspeed.com.


Ian Schneider and Sarah Anthony
Meanspeed.com
March 22, 2007

Shakira and Beyonce team up: "Beautiful Liar"--meanspeed=92 beats per minute, meanemotion=Enthusiasm

As I point pout, iTunes will give you just about all the information about a song except for the one that we really care about: the speed।

Beyonce and Shakira have teamed up for an EP featuring different versions of the song Beautiful Liar. The speed of the song is:
92 beats per minute, a value you can add to the BPM column on your iTunes--such speed generally associated with songs which emote themes, meanemotions, of:
Enthusiasm.

The iTunes cataloged genre of the song: Pop.

Ian Schneider
Meanspeed.com
March 20, 2007

Michael McDonald, the doctor of Blue-Eyed Soul: 'Motown,' all 14 elementary speeds, all meanemotions

Michael McDonald, (born 1952-02-12, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American R&B/soul singer (sometimes described as a "blue-eyed soul" singer), known for his tall, physically attractive figure and his trademark husky baritone voice.

In 2003, Michael released this 14-track tribute to his voice and musicianship—and the sound of Motown! These are the meanspeeds and meanemotions 14 tracks to “Motown” (for whatever reason marked Motown/Japan on iTunes).


1. “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”
meanspeed=109.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=lust

2. "You Are Everything"
meanspeed=75.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=grace

3. "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
meanspeed=104.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=natural

4. “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me”
meanspeed=86.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=renewal

5. "Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing"
meanspeed=90.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=enthusiasm

6. “Reflections”
meanspeed=91.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=enthusiasm

7. "How Sweet It Is (To Be loved By You)"
Meanspeed=77.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=bittersweetness

8. "Ain’t No Mountain High Enough"
meanspeed=120.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=victory

9. "All In Love Is Fair”
meanspeed=67.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=ceremony

10. "I Want You"
Meanspeed=99.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=natural

11. “Distant Lover
meanspeed=49.3 beats per minute, with doo-wop triplets
meanemotion=mixed slow

12. "I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)"
meanspeed=63.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=ceremony

13. "Since I Lost My Baby"
meanspeed=69.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=ceremony

14. "Too High”
featured performer=Four Play
meanspeed=100.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=natural

For more information about how meanspeeds are created and corellated to meanemotion, please visit, (1) the archives here, (2) the archives at http://meanspeed.blogspot.com, or (3) simply go to the main site, MeanSpeed.com, where we explore this scale, developed in 1992:

30-54=mixed slow
55-58=melodrama
59-62=sincerity
63-69=ceremony
70-76=grace
77-78=bittersweetness
79-84=loneliness
85-89=renewal
90-97=enthusiasm
98-105=natural
106-113=lust
114-118=foreboding
119-128=victory
129-390=mixed fast,

For more personal look at human speed in general, http://ActYourSpeed.com can be interesting and we take articles from everyone in cyberspace and beyond.




Ian Schneider and Sarah Anthony
Meanspeed Music
March 20, 2007

Linkin Park, "Crawling," meanspeed=105.3 beats per minute, meanemotion=natural

We received a letter from Phil of Wisconsin who commented: “Dude—where’s the Linkin Park, man?” So, Phil: From their album Hybrid Theory, here is the song “Crawling” by Linkin Park, Meanspeed=105.3 beats per minute Meanemotion=natural.


Ian Schneider
Meanspeed Music
March 19, २००७

Linkin Park

Official website includes biographies, photos and lyrics.
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"Louisiana Bayou," Dave Matthews Band, live, Bristow, Virginia, 'The Best Of What's Around,' meanspeed=100.6 beats per minute, meanemotion=natural

Meanspeed Music ©2007 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO USE WITHOUT PERMISSION.


On their Greatest Hit album called The Best of What’s Around, the Dave Matthews Band offered some bonus live tracks. Among the bonus tracks was a version of the song Louisiana Bayou. Above are two histograms, or “speed visuals” of the song. The line of advance shows the speed of the song. The charts were created with exactly the method explained in do-it-yourself simplicity on http://meanspeed.com. mean speed=100.6 beats per minute, 723 beats counted in 7 minutes, 11.2 seconds as the mean of 10 trials. Meanemotion=natural

Ian Schneider
Meanspeed Music
March 16, 2007

Grammy's Album of the Year, 1987: Paul Simon's GRACELAND--background, all meanspeeds and meanemotions

Continuing on with the best albums of the last 25 years as determined by the Grammy’s choice for Album of the Year. Today’s subject of speed analysis: Paul Simon’s Graceland, the Album of The Year, 1987.

According to http://en.Wiki[-‘we know it all, therefore, you don’t’-]pedia.org:

“Graceland is an album released in 1986 by Paul Simon. The title track was inspired by a visit to Graceland, Elvis Presley's estate in Memphis, Tennessee. In the Graceland Classic Albums video, Simon states that he considers "Graceland" the best song he has ever written.

Coming at a time when Simon's musical career was at something of a low ebb following the disappointing public response of Hearts and Bones, the project was originally inspired by Simon's repeated listening to a cassette of the Boyoyo Boys instrumental "Gumboots", given to him by a friend. He later wrote lyrics to sing over a re-recording of the song, which became the fourth track on the album.

Much of the album was recorded in South Africa and featured many South African musicians and groups. Simon faced accusations that he had broken the cultural boycott imposed by the rest of the world against the apartheid regime in South Africa. This view was not supported by the United Nations Anti-Apartheid Committee, as the album showcased the talents of the black South African musicians while offering no support to the South African government. The worldwide success of the album introduced some of the musicians, especially the vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, to global audiences of their own.

Simon included American 'roots' influences with tracks featuring Zydeco and Tex-Mex musicians. The Everly Brothers sing harmony on the title track. Linda Ronstadt appears on the track "Under African Skies", the second verse of which Simon wrote based on her childhood experiences. The group Los Lobos appear on the last track, "All Around The World or The Myth Of Fingerprints." A popular music video starring Simon and Chevy Chase was made for the hit song "You Can Call Me Al".

Simon toured the album extensively featuring many of the artists from the album plus exiled South Africans Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba. A concert in Harare, Zimbabwe was filmed for release as ‘The African Concert’.”

The elementary meanspeeds and meanemotions for all 11 tracks of this album were measured as:

1. "The Boy In the Bubble"
Meanspeed=136.2 beats per minute
Meanemotion=mixed fast

2. "Graceland"
Meanspeed=118.0 beats per minute
Meanemotion=foreboding

3. "I Know What I Know"
Meanspeed=117.9 beats per minute
Meanemotion=foreboding

4. "Gumboots"
Meanspeed=144.8 beats per minute
Meanemotion=mixed fast

5. "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"
part one, a cappella:
Meanspeed=70.4 beats per minute
Meanemotion=grace

part two, full band
Meanspeed=110.7 beats per minute
Meanemotion=lust

6. "You Can Call Me Al"
Meanspeed=128.4 beats per minute
Meanemotion=victory

7. "Under African Skies"
Meanspeed=75.0 beats per minute
Meanemotion=grace

8. "Homeless"
Meanspeed=70.4 beats per minute
Meanemotion=grace

9. "Crazy Love Vol II"
Meanspeed=130.7 beats per minute
Meanemotion=mixed fast

10. "That Was Your Mother"
Meanspeed=228.6 beats per minute
Meanemotion=mixed fast

11. "All Around The World or The Myth Of Fingerprints"
Meanspeed=179.2 beats per minute
Meanemotion=mixed fast


Ian Schneider
meanspeed music
March 16, 2007

"A Woman Knows," John Anderson--sexual betrayal at southern speed, meanspeed=70 beats per minute, meanemotion=grace

John Anderson’s video A Woman Knows is about how even though a woman secretly knows that their husband and father-to-their-children is unfaithful sexually, because “it’s all about the family, she’ll stay with him, no matter what she chooses not to see.” Meanwhile, the video shows this Southern family of four, a young white couple with 2 young daughters, and a cheating husband and a wife crying herself to sleep at night as the husband turns his back to her. Meanwhile, on the surface, he is still going to church with her, making “love” to her every night, and buying dozens of roses every Valentine’s day. Still: She knows! The speed? Pure grace. I have to say: this song’s genre is “Country,” and John Anderson is a country singer. I’d love to see a New York City version of this—or maybe not! An attitude of calm reflection in the sexual betrayal is conveyed by the 53-year old veteran singer-songwriter Anderson. In fact, the video is practically John watching a video of the couple as the “wise older person,” knowing what really goes on in the bedroom—and how a woman always knows—you do, do you not? Meanspeed=70.0 beats per minute Meanemotion=grace William O’Brien Meanspeed Music March 14, 2007

Grammy's Album of the Year, 1986: Phil Collins, No Jacket Required, all meanspeeds and meanemotions

We thought that it would a fine thing to count up year by year--now that the light of the 2007 Grammy Awards has shone, back to 1986 and move up day by day to the present.

On February 25, 1986, the Grammy Awards were given at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The Album of the Year Award went to: Phil Collins for his album No Jacket Required, a group of songs that featured Phil’s signature 1980s sound. An outstanding article about this album appears at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Jacket_Required.


These are the songs, the meanspeeds and the meanemotions for each of 11 tracks:

1. "Sussudio"
Meanspeed=121.3 beats per minute
Meanemotion=victory

2. "Only You Know And I Know
Meanspeed=141.2 beats per minute
Meanemotion=mixed fast

3. "Long Long Way To Go"
Meanspeed=58.8 beats per minute
Meanemotion=sincerity

4. "I Don't Wanna Know"
Meanspeed=130.2 beats per minute
Meanemotion=mixed fast

5. "One More Night"
Meanspeed=68.2 beats per minute
Meanemotion=ceremony

6. "Don't Lose My Number"
Meanspeed=161.4 beats per minute
Meanemotion=mixed fast

7. "Who Said I Would?"
Meanspeed=131.0 beats per minute
Meanemotion=mixed fast

8. "Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore?"
Meanspeed=108.2 beats per minute
Meanemotion=lust

9. "Inside Out"
Meanspeed=94.8 beats per minute
Meanemotion=enthusiasm

10. "Take Me Home"
Meanspeed=118.8 beats per minute
Meanemotion=victory

11. "We Said Hello, Goodbye (Don't Look Back)"
Meanspeed=71.1 beats per minute
Meanemotion=grace



William O’Brien
Meanspeed Music
Kendall Park
March 14, 2007

Eric Clapton, AUGUST--Meanspeeds and meanemotions for all 12 tracks

August is an album by blues rocker Eric Clapton released in 1986. Primarily produced by Phil Collins in association with longtime Clapton associate Tom Dowd, it became Clapton's biggest-selling LP to date. Clapton's studio band for the album included drummer/vocalist Collins; bassist Nathan East and keyboard player Greg Phillinganes; saxophonist Michael Brecker, trumpeters Randy Brecker and Jon Faddis, and trombone player Dave Bargeron.
Clapton, drummer/vocalist Collins, bassist East and keyboard player Phillinganes would recreate their studio roles in for Clapton's acclaimed live appearances over the next two years.

Speed elements to 10 tracks as offered by http://iTunes.com were measured by Meanspeed Music as:

1. "It's In The Way That You Use It"
Meanspeed=100.9 beats per minute
Meanemotion=natural

2. "Run"
Meanspeed=111.7 beats per minute
Meanemotion=lust

3. "Tearing Us Apart"
Meanspeed=121.7 beats per minute
Meanemotion=victory

4. "Bad Influence"
Meanspeed=114.7 beats per minute
Meanemotion=foreboding

5. "Walk Away"
Meanspeed=109.0 beats per minute
Meanemotion=lust

6. "Hung Up on Your Love"
Meanspeed=109.8 beats per minute
Meanemotion=lust

7. "Take a Chance"
Meanspeed=122.7 beats per minute
Meanemotion=victory

8. "Hold On"
Meanspeed=109.7 beats per minute
Meanemotion=lust

9. "Miss You"
Meanspeed=90.0 beats per minute
Meanemotion=enthusiasm

10. "Holy Mother"
Meanspeed=77.8 beats per minute
Meanemotion=bittersweetness

11. "Behind the Mask"
Meanspeed=118.3 beats per minute
Meanemotion=foreboding

12. "Grand Illusion"
Meanspeed=84.1 beats per minute
Meanemotion=loneliness


Ian Schneider
Meanspeed Music
March 13, 2007

Eric Clapton: August

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Alanis Morissette Unplugged, 1999--Speed elements for each of 12 tracks

Alanis Unplugged is the fifth album and first live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released by Maverick Records in the United States on 1999-11-09 (see 1999 in music). It comprises songs performed by Morissette on the television program MTV Unplugged. Twelve tracks were included on the album.

1. "You Learn"
composers=Glen Ballard, Alanis Morissette
Meanspeed=83.5 beats per minute
Meanemotion=loneliness

2. "Joining You"
composers=Ballard, Morissette
Meanspeed=93.1 beats per minute
Meanemotion=enthusiasm

3. "No Pressure over Cappuccino"
composers=Nick Lashley, Morissette
Meanspeed=79.9 beats per minute
Meanemotion=loneliness

4. "That I Would Be Good"
composers=Ballard, Morissette
Meanspeed=85.7 beats per minute
Meanemotion=renewal

5. "Head Over Feet"
composers=Ballard, Morissette
Meanspeed=83.8 beats per minute
Meanemotion=loneliness

6. "Princes Familiar"
composers=Ballard, Morissette
Meanspeed=96.9 beats per minute
Meanemotion=enthusiasm

7. "I Was Hoping"
composers=Ballard, Morissette
Meanspeed=88.1 beats per minute
Meanemotion=renewal

8. "Ironic"
composer=Ballard, Morissette
Meanspeed=82.7 beats per minute
Meanemotion=loneliness

9. "These R the Thoughts"
composers=Ballard, Morissette
Meanspeed=99.3 beats per minute
Meanemotion=natural

10. "King of Pain"
composers=The Police
Meanspeed=106.2 beats per minute
Meanemotion=lust

11. "You Oughta Know"
composers=Ballard, Morissette
Meanspeed=99.2 beats per minute
Meanemotion=natural

12. "Uninvited”
composer=Morissette
Meanspeed=63.1 beats per minute
Meanemotion=ceremony

Ian Schneider
Meanspeed Music
March 12, 2007

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