The Best Way To Kill by Soft Cell Song Details

Soft Cell's ' "The Best Way To Kill" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1984. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. There are a total of 10 in the song's album "This Last Night In Sodom". In this album, this song's track order is #5. Based on our statistics, The Best Way To Kill's popularity is not that popular right now. Based on the vibe, this track doesn't seem to be that danceable, however its valence properties can make this some somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

With The Best Way To Kill by Soft Cell having a BPM of 150 with a half-time of 75 BPM and a double-time of 300 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. Looking at the BPM of this song, this song might go great with jogging or cycling. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of D Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, 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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Popularity
Loudness
-4.105 dB
Acousticness
0%
Danceability
39%
Energy
100%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
24%
Loudness
93%
Speechiness
10%
Valence
46%

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ISRC
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Label
L-M Records/RCA Records