Friction by Television Song Details

Television's ' "Friction" was released on its scheduled release date, February 8, 1977. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The track order of this song in Television's "Marquee Moon" album is number 3 out of 8. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, Friction's popularity is 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

We consider the tempo marking of Friction by Television to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 121 BPM, a half-time of 60BPM, and a double-time of 242 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, walking, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of E Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 12B. So, the perfect camelot match for 12B would be either 12B or 1A. While, 1B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 9B and a high energy boost can either be 2B or 7B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 12A or 11B will give you a low energy drop, 3B would be a moderate one, and 10B or 5B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 9A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-8.6 dB
Acousticness
0%
Danceability
58%
Energy
78%
Instrumentalness
19%
Liveness
47%
Loudness
86%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
72%

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ISRC
USEE10181883
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records