The Friend Catcher by The Birthday Party Song Details

The Birthday Party's ' "The Friend Catcher" was released on its scheduled release date, February 27, 1979. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:21, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. The track order of this song in The Birthday Party's "Hee Haw" album is number 5 out of 13. On top of that, Australia appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, The Friend Catcher 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 Friend Catcher by The Birthday Party to be Moderato (at a moderate speed) because the track has a tempo of 110 BPM, a half-time of 55BPM, and a double-time of 220 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 A Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 11B. So, the perfect camelot match for 11B would be either 11B or 12A. While, 12B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 8B and a high energy boost can either be 1B or 6B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 11A or 10B will give you a low energy drop, 2B would be a moderate one, and 9B or 4B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 8A allows you to change the mood.

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