The Boulevard of Broken Dreams is a contemporary piece of music by Green Day. The song, though released years ago, becomes more popular each day, holding at Google’s #7 on the trend list.
Meanspeed-Spencer Summary
song=”The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams”
performer=Green Day
composer=Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool/Mike Dirnt, Billie Joe, Tré Cool
total time elapsed=2,198.23 seconds
total beat measured=3,060 beats
average number of beats per trial=340
average time per trial=244.24777 seconds
meanspeed/average velocity/standard tempo=83.5 beats per minute
emotive speed territory according to meanspeed music theory=loneliness
average beat=0.718 seconds
album=America Idiot
Size=8.1 MB
Bit Rate=258 kbps
Sample Rate=44.100 kHz
Volume (-13.0 dB)
File type=m4a
Profile=Low Complexity
Channels=Stereo
Encoded with iTunes v7.5, Quick Time 7.3.1
Neil Diamond was inspired to write his 4- year old still going strong (sorry) “Sweet Caroline” when he was a very young songwriter during the John F. Kennedy Administration. Neil saw a picture of Caroline looking “sweet and innocent” in some photos he saw in a magazine in 1962.
It’s a tricky cross-over song. As in: sure, it’s part kitsch, a la Barry Manilow, another Brooklyn musician of supposed Hebraic background. So how has it stayed around? Socially, because the Irish descended Americans love it so much – and at Red Sox games, it became a fan favorite. Yes, it has a smooth vamp and maintains a groove that still is catchy. At the same time, Neil teases the listener and even singer, hence the song as a great sing-along by SYNCOPATING each verse. During the verses, Neil continuously comes in on the “2″ or “3″ where most songs see the main melody notes on “1.” Sure enough, by the first chorus where we all sing SWEET CAROLINE!, it is the first of only two bars where there is a strong entrance on the ONE . That is usually fun.
On top of that, the song is played at the speed of victory according to the Newman tempo Scale introduced by the meanspeed® music school.
BEATS PER MINUTE ANALYSIS - SWEET CAROLINE - 9 trials - time velocity calibration by the meanspeed music school
Neil Diamond - SWEET CAROLINE - tempo graphic by the meanspeed music school
"As" Stevie Wonder - SONGS IN THE KEY OF IFE - the greatest solo studio double albums in musical history? I think so.
“As” / Stevie Wonder / SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE
tempo map - Stevie Wonder - SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE - as VP
I looked around the internet and beyond in 1988 for a book in which the exact speeds of songs were listed. I looked for years. Then I found Bruno Repp of the Hastings Lab, associated with Yale in New haven, who rightly told me that I had not “READ MUCH OF THE EXTANT STUDIES IN THIS AREA OF STUDY.” This was in 1990, very pre- internet, but I admit now he was right. But I have had many years to catch up to both the “extant” (I had to look that up – it means a ‘a heck of a lot’). Still, as the saying goes, the more you know the more you realize what you do not know. I think this song is archetypical of songs in 4/4 time – “As” being the perfect title to a speed where from 98-105 beats per minute the songs are predictably natural, easy, just: THERE. I try to describe the speed territories with nouns. So said, if one had to be a verb or verbal phrase (see Newman Tempo Chart on the right) it would be songs in this category, the working title of which and still ism to be candid, “CARPE DIEM.” As by Stevie means it is what it is, as, well, it is and that, as every American knows, and I know as the Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, as myself, attorneys who passed the bar in their home state and have moved around, what the meaning, in a given context, of what is is. This matter of defining a verb would be an element of journalism and not a laughing point on the part of non-lawyers if journalists would present themselves as either presenting fact, opinion, or a mixture of both. The mean frequencies for the live version of “As” by Stevie Wonder are: meanspeed=102.1 beats per minute meanemotion=natural meanbeat=1.702 meanspace=588 milliseconds per beat. meanspace=2351 milliseconds per measure. meanphase=1.702 cycles per second. meanpitch=435.627 Hertz, 82 cents above G#4/Ab4=415.305 Hertz, 18 cents below A4=440.000 Hertz.
/Ian Andrew Schneider/
meanspeed music school
June 14, 2009
revised and extended from information originally measured in July, 1988
“To whom much is given, much is expected. To whom much more is given, much more is expected” – The Gospel According to St. Luke, quoted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams is a contemporary piece of music by Green Day. The song, though released years ago, becomes more popular each day, holding at Google’s #7 on the trend list.
