Merciless by The Railway Children Song Details

The Railway Children's ' "Merciless" was released on its scheduled release date, 1988. The duration of This song is about 3 minutes long, at 3:03. Based on our data, This song appears to be safe for all ages and is not considered explicit. This track is about the average length of a typical track. There are a total of 11 in the song's album "Recurrence". In this album, this song's track order is #4. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United Kingdom. Based on our statistics, Merciless's popularity is not that popular right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

With Merciless by The Railway Children having a BPM of 156 with a half-time of 78 BPM and a double-time of 312 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. Looking at the BPM of this song, this song might go great with running. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of E Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 12B. So, the perfect camelot match for 12B would be either 12B or 1A. While, 1B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 9B and a high energy boost can either be 2B or 7B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 12A or 11B will give you a low energy drop, 3B would be a moderate one, and 10B or 5B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 9A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-6.743 dB
Acousticness
4%
Danceability
55%
Energy
87%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
24%
Loudness
89%
Speechiness
7%
Valence
72%

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ISRC
GBAAA8800720
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records