What Keeps Mankind Alive? by Tom Waits Song Details

Tom Waits's ' "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1985. The duration of This song is about two minutes long, specifically at 2:11. This song does not appear to have any foul language. What Keeps Mankind Alive?'s duration is considered a little bit shorter than the average duration of a typical track. The track order of this song in Various Artists's "Lost In The Stars: The Music Of Kurt Weill" album is number 13 out of 20. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. What Keeps Mankind Alive? is not that popular right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of What Keeps Mankind Alive? by Tom Waits to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 81 BPM, a half-time of 40BPM, and a double-time of 162 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of E♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 5B. So, the perfect camelot match for 5B would be either 5B or 6A. While, 6B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 2B and a high energy boost can either be 7B or 12B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 5A or 4B will give you a low energy drop, 8B would be a moderate one, and 3B or 10B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 2A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-17.711 dB
Acousticness
56%
Danceability
57%
Energy
15%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
13%
Loudness
70%
Speechiness
15%
Valence
48%

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ISRC
USUM72004167
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records