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Sting’s Tempo Operations – MAD ABOUT YOU – 84 4/5 beats per minute – Breaking It Down, Building It Back, Watching The Video.

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Sting, formerly known as Gordon Sumner, wrote, performed, played bass and sang on

a haunting song know as Mad About You.

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I went on a search for the PRECISE tempo map of the song, not a number some site that I won’t name wanted to [REDACTED], but decided to just blame their sloppy work of ‘volume volume volume.’

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Of songs. This is a theory to use and the list of songs used to illustrate the feel of a sped are vastly LIMITED.  Once you have 615K+ songs, almost none of which you measured yourself, you have a football field pile of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

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Yeah, they all taste ok, but not much there in the way of something you couldn’t have made in your kitchen without coming on to a football field of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for.  The songs on this site are kept UNDER 1,000 visible at any time.  All the speeds were measured and vouched for here.  And if you knew the programs and labor intensive and, frankly, repetitively dull nature of the work of meanspeed® music, you might come here to find something that doesn’t have a loose number based on flawed algorithms backing it up.

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Which is not to say: that’s great site!  We are just completely opposite in aim.  If you want a speed of song on he fly and you aren’t very precise, a musical slob, that’s a good place to go.  This is more of  music snob or geek site, which “is what it is.”

Meanspeed®-Spencer Publications Song Summary

File Kind=MPEG-1, Layer 3

Channels=Stereo

ID 3 Tag=v2.2

file extension=mp3

File Size=9MB

Bit rate=32- kbps

sample=44.1– kHz

median expected tempo=84.8 beats per minute

average beat=~0.704 seconds

most inter(sting) rhyme=I have never in my life, felt more alone than I do now.

And though I hold opinions over all I SEE,

It means nothing to ME,

There are no *victories*

in all our *histories*

Without love! – written by Sting, for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY (so you see a profit motive here?  That was a joke on me!  No, no money for me.  Just peace of mind for You – and me – if I wasn’t fascinated by the power of speed I’d be taking my dog for a walk.

cotemporary tempo map by the New Jersey Free School. © 2008. All Rights Reserved by Meanspeed® Music Nonprofit Company

STEELY DAN- the boston rag - contemporary tempo map by the NJ FREE SCHOOL / @NJFreeSchool

This is though, they’re mad about themselves, I’m Mad About YOU.  The really smart ones of you reading this – you are not going to pass this on – the secret patterns are too clever.  I know who y’all are and you IP numbers are not even looked at – I see enough numbers n a day.  CBS, ABC, NBC and CNN though: love you guys!

Best,

Jackson Malcolm Winters

Meanspeed® Music Speed Surveyors

Princeton, N.J.

United States

July 14, 2001

PS

This is what I had found when I looked for tempo maps as seen above.  My hat off to Google!

  1. MAD ABOUT YOU lyrics – STING

    www.lyricsg.com/124095/sting/mad-about-you-lyrics – Cached

    MAD ABOUT YOU lyrics (Sting), youtube lyrics: A stone’s throw from Jerusalem / Whirling in an … analysis of mad about you sting sting mad about you wiki …

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  2. The Soul Cages – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_Cages – Cached

    The Soul Cages is the third full length studio album released by Sting. … It spawned four singles: “All This Time”, “Mad About You“, “Why Should I Cry For …

  3. All This Time (Sting song) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_This_Time_(Sting_song) – Cached

    “They Dance Alone” (1988), “All This Time” (1991), “Mad About You” …

  4. Hound Dog (song) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_Dog_(song) – Cached

    When the words change from “You ain’t nothin’ but a HOUND Dog,” she begins …

    Show more results from wikipedia.org

  5. SongMeanings | Lyrics | Sting – Mad About You

    www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/10443/ – Cached

    Lyrics for Mad About You as interpreted by Novartza … Sting : Fields of Gold Jeff Buckley : Lover, You Should’ve Come Over …. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias. Log in to reply. You must be logged in to post your comments. …

  6. Sting – Mad About You – Radio Paradise -Internet Radio – Rock …

    www.radioparadise.com/content.php?name=Music&file…song…

    Wikipedia Entry | Tour Schedule (Pollstar) … Different mood/tempo/style/etc. Eventually my expectations changed, I found the good in the album. …. Hehehe…..i’ve been watching the Mad About You TV DVDs lately….that’s funny to me …

  7. The Soul Cages: Information from Answers.com

    www.answers.com › Library › Entertainment & Arts – Cached

    Jan 22, 1991 – The Soul Cages Artist: Sting Rating: Release Date: January 17, 1991 Total Time: 48:10 Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Enhanced CD-ROM … such as the elegant waltz “Mad About You” and “All This Time,” a … Home of Wiki & Reference Answers, the world’s leading Q&A site Reference Answers …

  8. Muoio Per Te Tab – Sting – Guitar Chords

    www.yourchords.com/80518/Sting/Muoio-Per-Te-Tab/ – Cached

    You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. … song is the italian version of “Mad About You“, written by Sting and included in … sabbia Fmaj7 Gli avanzi di un asciutto mare Am Am/C Fmaj7 Dimmi quanto tempo, … the link to point directly to the intended article. Indexed at Wikipedia. …

  9. “All This Time” – Sting – meanspeed conjecture analysis of a song …

    meanspeed.com/…/all-this-time-sting-meanspeed-conjecture-analysis… – Cached

    May 20, 2008 – The Dave Matthews Band as explained in WIKIPEDIA.ORG – example of free in 1995, … sting-all-this-time-meanspeed-tempo-map …. The first single, ‘All This Time’, was deceptively poppy and ‘Mad About You‘ … …

  10. Sting: We´ve Been Waiting… All This Time. Beacon Theatre, New …

    vivalesbootlegs.blogspot.com/…/sting-weve-been-waiting-all-this-ti… – Cached

    02. Mad About You 03. Jeremiah Blues Part 1 04. Why Should I Cry For You … Personnel: Sting : Double Bass & lead vocals :: Dominic Miller : Acoustic ….. From Wikipedia: Bootlegging is often incorrectly referred to as piracy but …. O *Câmara* continua inoperante, mas há seis meses descolei um tempo vago para …

PROVE IT ALL NIGHT – bruce springsteen and the E Streeet band – speed breakdown WITH JIM DELUVA SUGGESTION! Free measurements, maps, links, videos, disposable bathroom posters!

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Sometimes one gets the odd knock on the door. I do not like door bells.

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Anyway, James Manning-san and I were deciding how to handle the requests for the 1978 live version of PROVE IT ALL NIGHT by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

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Ah. Talk about the good and the bad! We all (most of us) know Jimmy Deluva when he starts telling war stories from his backstage escapades from the late 1970s. One learns a lot – perhaps a little too much!

The afternoon began with Deluva looking at out tempo maps of both legal versions of Prove It All Night, one from the studio album DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, the other from the box-set ‘LIVE 1975-1985′. We had all 8 of these graphs lying on the floor, and who should give his patented PAINT IT BLACK door-knock? Jim Deluva (not real name – inside the industry – this is his Dallas/Ft Worth check-in name, ok?) looks at the graphs and starts one of his barrel roll laugh sessions. He laughed at the graphs for two minutes! “Hey, Spiron, manningsan – I’m not saying these are *wrong* – no man, they are fine.”

So I thought what could the problem be. What??? “So Jim, why are you laughing?” “Uh, like, guys, anyone who knows anyTHING about the Boss, or the Loss as those Losers down the Jersey Shore call him at the Stone Pony – just to be, like, cool. You ever see people working in D.C.? Ever? Look next time! They won’t look at the Capital, or the monuments, et al, because, hey, they are stupid! They think being a tourist is a bad thing. Lemme tell ya: I’ve been to every city and back: literally if you are a kind tourist and not a fake who tries to blend, you’ll get the best service.
Now about the song: that was Bruce’s one piece in 1978 where he began to travel with his univesal gym – he was getting buff, ok? Meanwhile, piano playing madman “professor” Roy Bittan was setting the new standard for pop piano music, after this album he put out a MONSTER, Making Movies, worth the Dire Straits. Roy was just on fire then. Fire I say! Now look at Bruce’s box set: he has Ry play a long drawn out background theme fitting of a Ken Burns movie as a backdrop to Bruce’s 20 minute THE RIVER story. On Prove it all night – the MOST genius thing Bruce ever had going – ok, one of the two – the other being Clarence Clemmons all over the Born To Run Album, with MOzart-esque bits in both Thunder-Road and Jungleland: ROY and Bruce trading licks on the 10 minute version of the 1978 Prove it all night, baby! Where’s that graph, my friend??!!”

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Bruce Springsteen - Prove It All Night - tempo map_NJ Free School_1

I was a little hurt.
So said, Jim and James and I went to YouTube – sure enough, the unreleased 1978 version. Readers, first, let me thank Jimmy Deluva for reminding me that I actually owned this tape in high school (taped from the King Biscuit Flower Hour – how old am I??!! Ouch). Moreover, it was burning. So James and I are all over that now.

For now though, as far as I KNOW, the only two legal versions of Prove It are those. Needless to say we looked for other tempo data about the song here before posting this set of graphs – the only ones that exist.

Bruce Springsteen - Prove It All Night lyrics

I've been working real hard, trying to get my hands clean,
Tonight we'll drive that dusty road from
Monroe to Angeline,
To buy you a gold ring and pretty dress of blue,
Baby just one kiss will get these things for you,
A kiss to seal our fate tonight,
A kiss to prove it all night.
(Chorus)
Prove it all night,
Girl there's nothing else that we can do,
Sp prove it all night, prove it all night,
And girl I'll prove it all night for you.


Everybody's got a hunger, a hunger they
can't resist,
There's so much that you want, you
deserve much more than this,
But if dreams came true, oh, wouldn't that
be nice,
But this ain't no dream we're living
through tonight,
Girl, you want it, you take it, you pay the price.

(Chorus)
Prove it all night, prove it all night girl and
call the bluff,
prove it all night, prove it all night and girl,
I prove it all night for your love.

Baby, tie your hair back in a long white bow,
Meet me in the fields out behind the dynamo,
You hear the voices telling you not to go,
They made their choices and they'll never know,
What it means to steal, to cheat, to lie,
What it's like to live and die.

(Chorus)
To prove it all night...

Lyrics | Bruce Springsteen lyrics - Prove It All Night lyrics
Bruce Springsteen - Prove It All NIght - tempo mapo_NJ Free School_1

Bruce Springsteen - Prove It All Night - tempo map_NJ Free School_1

THE LYRICS:
Bruce Springsteen – Prove It All Night lyrics | LyricsMode.com

JAMES MANNING-SAN
MARIANO CARLTON
BROOKLYN “JACKIE” MARONE
March 11, 2010
Meanspeed® Music-New Jersey Free School

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