Smear Campaign by Rory Gallagher Song Details

Rory Gallagher's ' "Smear Campaign" was released on its scheduled release date, July 1, 1987. 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. The song is number 8 out of 12 in Defender (Remastered 2017) by Rory Gallagher. In terms of popularity, Smear Campaign is currently not that popular. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Smear Campaign by Rory Gallagher is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 98 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 has a musical key of E Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 12B. So, the perfect camelot match for 12B would be either 12B or 1A. While, 1B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 9B and a high energy boost can either be 2B or 7B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 12A or 11B will give you a low energy drop, 3B would be a moderate one, and 10B or 5B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 9A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-8.179 dB
Acousticness
17%
Danceability
46%
Energy
86%
Instrumentalness
21%
Liveness
60%
Loudness
86%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
69%

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ISRC
This song does not have an ISRC.
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records