What a Waste - Ian Dury, The Blockheads Information

Acousticness
0%
Danceability
17%
Energy
63%
Instrumentalness
36%
Liveness
55%
Loudness
89%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
6%
Popularity
Loudness
-6.316 dB

Summary

"What a Waste" by Ian Dury, The Blockheads was released on January 1, 1987. What a Waste is considered explicit and may contain foul language. This song is about 3 minutes and 29 seconds, which is about the average length of a typical song. There are a total of 16 in the song's album "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll". In this album, this song's track order is #4. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United Kingdom. In terms of popularity, What a Waste is currently not that popular. In our opinion, the overall tone is not very danceable and projects negative sounds, such as being sad, depressed, or angry.

What a Waste BPM

With What a Waste by Ian Dury, The Blockheads having a BPM of 116 with a half-time of 58 BPM and a double-time of 232 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Moderato (at a moderate speed) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall moderate tempo. Looking at the BPM of this song, this song might go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

What a Waste Key

This song is in the music key of G Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 9B. So, the perfect camelot match for 9B would be either 9B or 10A. While, 10B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 6B and a high energy boost can either be 11B or 4B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 9A or 8B will give you a low energy drop, 12B would be a moderate one, and 7B or 2B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 6A allows you to change the mood.

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ISRC
GBAFR7710186
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records

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