Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel by Simple Minds Song Details

Simple Minds's ' "Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel" was released on its scheduled release date, July 15, 1982. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:49, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. There are a total of 48 in the song's album "New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)". In this album, this song's track order is #2. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United Kingdom. In terms of popularity, Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel is currently below average in popularity. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

With Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel by Simple Minds having a BPM of 99 with a half-time of 50 BPM and a double-time of 198 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Andante (at a walking pace) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of G Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 9B. So, the perfect camelot match for 9B would be either 9B or 10A. While, 10B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 6B and a high energy boost can either be 11B or 4B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 9A or 8B will give you a low energy drop, 12B would be a moderate one, and 7B or 2B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 6A allows you to change the mood.

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