What a Waste by Ian Dury, The Blockheads Song Details

Ian Dury, The Blockheads's ' "What a Waste" was released on its scheduled release date, May 18, 1979. What a Waste is considered explicit and may contain foul language. This song is about 3 minutes and 25 seconds, which is about the average length of a typical song. The song is number 11 out of 33 in Do It Yourself (Deluxe Edition) by Ian Dury, The Blockheads. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United Kingdom. What a Waste is unknown right now. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of What a Waste by Ian Dury, The Blockheads is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 82 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of B♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 6B. So, the perfect camelot match for 6B would be either 6B or 7A. While, 7B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 3B and a high energy boost can either be 8B or 1B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 6A or 5B will give you a low energy drop, 9B would be a moderate one, and 4B or 11B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 3A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-7.039 dB
Acousticness
22%
Danceability
64%
Energy
69%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
8%
Loudness
88%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
62%

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ISRC
GBAFR7710186
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records