The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell by David Bowie Song Details

David Bowie's 'The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell' had a release date set for September 29, 1999. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The track order of this song in David Bowie's "Hours..." album is number 7 out of 10. Based on our statistics, The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell's popularity is not that popular right now. Although the tone can be danceable to some, this track does projects more of a negative sound rather than a postive one.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell by David Bowie to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 128 BPM, a half-time of 64BPM, and a double-time of 256 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, walking, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

D♭ Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 3B. So, the perfect camelot match for 3B would be either 3B or 4A. While, 4B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 12B and a high energy boost can either be 5B or 10B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 3A or 2B will give you a low energy drop, 6B would be a moderate one, and 1B or 8B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 12A allows you to change the mood.

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