Broken To Begin With by The Mountain Goats Song Details

The Mountain Goats's ' "Broken To Begin With" was released on its scheduled release date, November 7, 2025. The duration of This song is about 3 minutes long, at 3:02. Based on our data, This song appears to be safe for all ages and is not considered explicit. This track is about the average length of a typical track. There are a total of 12 in the song's album "Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan". In this album, this song's track order is #12. Based on our statistics, Broken To Begin With's popularity is average in popularity right now. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

With Broken To Begin With by The Mountain Goats having a BPM of 134 with a half-time of 67 BPM and a double-time of 268 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 walking. 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
-9.485 dB
Acousticness
2%
Danceability
75%
Energy
54%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
22%
Loudness
84%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
57%

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ISRC
QT5GB2500012
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records