Kicks by Lou Reed Song Details

Lou Reed's ' "Kicks" was released on its scheduled release date, 1976. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 6:04, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. This song is part of X2 (Coney Island Baby/Walk On The Wild Side) by Lou Reed. The song's track number on the album is #4 out of 25 tracks. Based on our data, United States was the country where this track was produced or recorded. Kicks is unknown right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

Since Kicks by Lou Reed has a tempo of 80 beats per a minute, the tempo markings of this song would be Andante (at a walking pace). With Kicks being at 80 BPM, the half-time would be 40 BPM with a double-time of 160 BPM.In addition, we consider the tempo speed to be pretty slow for this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of C Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-17.891 dB
Acousticness
60%
Danceability
52%
Energy
24%
Instrumentalness
1%
Liveness
11%
Loudness
70%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
45%

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ISRC
USRC17507693
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records