Wasting Away by The Northern Pikes Song Details

The Northern Pikes's 'Wasting Away' had a release date set for January 1, 1999. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:05, 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 Northern Pikes's "Hits And Assorted Secrets (1983-1993)" album is number 11 out of 18. In terms of popularity, Wasting Away is currently not that popular. Although the overall vibe is very danceable, it does project more negative sounds.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Wasting Away by The Northern Pikes to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 100 BPM, a half-time of 50BPM, and a double-time of 200 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 D Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 10B. So, the perfect camelot match for 10B would be either 10B or 11A. While, 11B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 7B and a high energy boost can either be 12B or 5B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 10A or 9B will give you a low energy drop, 1B would be a moderate one, and 8B or 3B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 7A allows you to change the mood.

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