Ownership of 140.0 beats per minute as pure speed: U2, "Vertigo," live in Milan, 2005

This month, the band from Ireland, U2, released a Deluxe version on iTunes of their new album U218 Singles.

In addition to the 18 singles plus the bonus 19th track, 9 tracks were released from a concert in Milan, Italy in 2005 in anticipation of a DVD which was recorded during a concert.

Track #1 of 9 in the live iTunes Deluxe version of U218 Singles is called “Vertigo,” composed by Adam Clayton, Bono, Larry Mullen and The Edge under the genre of “Rock.”

We measured the frequencies of this song as:
a) meanspeed=140.0 beats per minute,
b) meanemotion=mixed fast,
c) meanspace=429 milliseconds per beat,
d) meanphase=2.33 beats per second,
e) meanpitch=597.44 hertz, 29 cents above D5=587.330 hertz, 71 cents below D#5/Eb5=622.254 hertz.

Ian Schneider
Meanspeed Music Trust
December 10, 2006
New Jersey, US