Last Great American Whale - Live by Lou Reed Song Details

Lou Reed's ' "Last Great American Whale - Live" was released on its scheduled release date, July 24, 2025. This song is quite longer than the average track at 5 minutes and 5 seconds. With that being said, this track is also considered explicit and may be offensive to some people. The track order of this song in Lou Reed's "Look Out The Window (Live Denver '89)" album is number 4 out of 15. In terms of popularity, Last Great American Whale - Live is currently not that popular. 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 Last Great American Whale - Live by Lou Reed to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 97 BPM, a half-time of 48BPM, and a double-time of 194 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 is in the music 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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