The Big Country by Talking Heads Song Details

On July 14, 1978, the song "The Big Country" was released by Talking Heads. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 5:30, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. The track order of this song in Talking Heads's "More Songs About Buildings and Food" album is number 11 out of 11. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, The Big Country is currently below average in popularity. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of The Big Country by Talking Heads to be Moderato (at a moderate speed) because the track has a tempo of 111 BPM, a half-time of 56BPM, and a double-time of 222 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is moderate. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of B♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 6B. So, the perfect camelot match for 6B would be either 6B or 7A. While, 7B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 3B and a high energy boost can either be 8B or 1B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 6A or 5B will give you a low energy drop, 9B would be a moderate one, and 4B or 11B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 3A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-11.911 dB
Acousticness
14%
Danceability
72%
Energy
46%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
17%
Loudness
80%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
86%

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ISRC
USWB19900862
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records