The Only Time by Nine Inch Nails Song Details

Nine Inch Nails's ' "The Only Time" was released on its scheduled release date, October 20, 1989. This song is quite longer than the average track at 4 minutes and 47 seconds. With that being said, this track is also considered explicit and may be offensive to some people. There are a total of 10 in the song's album "Pretty Hate Machine". In this album, this song's track order is #9. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. The popularity of The Only Time is currently average in popularity right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

With The Only Time by Nine Inch Nails having a BPM of 189 with a half-time of 94 BPM and a double-time of 378 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Presto (very, very fast) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of A Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 11B. So, the perfect camelot match for 11B would be either 11B or 12A. While, 12B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 8B and a high energy boost can either be 1B or 6B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 11A or 10B will give you a low energy drop, 2B would be a moderate one, and 9B or 4B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 8A allows you to change the mood.

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