The Best Of Times by Styx Song Details

Styx's 'The Best Of Times' had a release date set for January 1, 1981. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:17, 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 11 in the song's album "Paradise Theatre". In this album, this song's track order is #5. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. The Best Of Times is average in popularity right now. In our opinion, the overall tone is not very danceable and projects negative sounds, such as being sad, depressed, or angry.

BPM and Tempo

With The Best Of Times by Styx having a BPM of 79 with a half-time of 40 BPM and a double-time of 158 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 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
-11.864 dB
Acousticness
13%
Danceability
34%
Energy
32%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
13%
Loudness
80%
Speechiness
2%
Valence
32%

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ISRC
USAM18000366
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records