The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve Song Details

"The Drugs Don't Work" by The Verve had its release date on September 29, 1997. 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. There are a total of 27 in the song's album "Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016)". In this album, this song's track order is #4. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United Kingdom. The Drugs Don't Work is fairly 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

With The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve having a BPM of 77 with a half-time of 38 BPM and a double-time of 154 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Andante (at a walking pace) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of C Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-8.648 dB
Acousticness
18%
Danceability
44%
Energy
52%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
15%
Loudness
86%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
18%

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ISRC
GBUM71601819
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records