Recording
Out on the Floor
Dobie Gray
- Released
- 1966
- On one list
- Northern Soul
- Updated
- 2026-08-31
Analysis
5 sections, no single moment the energy jumps to.
- Tempo
- 143.6 BPM
- holds throughout
- Key
- G major
- estimated from the pitch content
- Dynamic range
- 1.9 dB
- compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- Length
- 2:56
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintro0
- 0:11Apeakbar 7
- 1:46Bpeakbar 64
- 2:03Apeakbar 74
- 2:42Coutrobar 97
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · sung · one of 3 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:11
- Energy
- 90
- Brightness
- 65
- Density
- 74
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 3 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 1:35
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 74
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung
- Lasts
- 0:17
- Energy
- 97
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 99
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 3 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:39
- Energy
- 93
- Brightness
- 76
- Density
- 90
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · sung
- Lasts
- 0:14
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- outro
- the closing fall
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.
Ranked No. 1 in Northern Soul
A song about dancing all night that flopped in America and became a commandment in Lancashire. The Wigan anthem, and it sounds like it was written for the room it found.