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10 songs that feel like Almost Grown

Matched to Almost Grown by Chuck Berry on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

The song you love
Almost Grown
Chuck Berry
safe 37/100 intensity 120 BPM
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Check the Rhime — A Tribe Called Quest moderate 96 BPM

A 94% feel-match — carries the same confident pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (39/100).

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The Way We Get By — Spoon moderate 126 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100). Same smooth texture.

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Award Tour — A Tribe Called Quest safe 95 BPM

Keeps the same confident pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (39/100). Measured 92% alike.

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If I Had a Hammer — Pete Seeger & Lee Hays safe 120 BPM

Measures 96% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (41/100). Same smooth texture.

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White Iverson — Post Malone moderate 126 BPM

A 96% feel-match — carries the same confident pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (42/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (126 BPM).

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Skateaway — Dire Straits safe 110 BPM

95% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (40/100). Same smooth texture.

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Man I Need — Olivia Dean moderate 110 BPM

Keeps the same confident pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (40/100). Measured 95% alike.

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Sandcastle Disco — Solange moderate 112 BPM

Measures 96% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (40/100). Same smooth texture.

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Wild Honey — U2 safe 125 BPM

A 95% feel-match — carries the same nostalgic pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (125 BPM).

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Rock Me Baby — B.B. King moderate 100 BPM

94% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (39/100). Same smooth texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Almost Grown” by Chuck Berry?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Check the Rhime” by A Tribe Called Quest, “The Way We Get By” by Spoon, “Award Tour” by A Tribe Called Quest — the top match scores 94% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

How intense is “Almost Grown”?

It measures 37/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 5/10, smooth texture, mild sudden shifts, and dynamic vocals. Tempo is 120 BPM.

How do you decide which songs are similar?

Every song in our catalog is measured on 8 dimensions — intensity, dynamic range, tempo, sudden changes, texture, predictability, vocal force and fine sound detail. Similarity is the distance between two songs across those measurements, so matches cross genres and eras. Shared mood tags break ties.

By the numbers: how this song compares

Computed from this song’s place among the 19,209 songs we’ve measured.

Where it sits in 19,000 songs

On our 19k-song scale this lands in the middle band — more energetic than 25% of songs, calmer than the other 75%. Its intensity reading of 37/100 comes from a dynamic range of 5/10, smooth texture, mild shifts, and dynamic vocals. It shares this stretch of the spectrum with thousands of other tracks, so the finer fingerprint below is what really separates it.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is an unusually steady, even volume: more extreme on that axis than 88% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on full chaos — sudden changes, huge quiet-to-loud swings, and relentless energy — the kind of track this one is the counterpoint to.

Feels almost identical to

Closest matches by feel across all 19,209 measured songs — not by genre or artist, by how they actually move.

What it’s good for

Sleep5/10
Focus9/10
Workout5/10
Dinner9/10
Party / hype4/10

Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.

1959 in context

The 96 songs we’ve measured from 1959 average a dynamic range of 5.9/10. At 5/10, this track is gentler and steadier than its year.

Mixes smoothly with

Within a few BPM and close in feel — they flow without a jarring transition.

The fingerprint

Intensity37
Dynamics44
Tempo44
Surprise25
Density0
Predictability0
Vocal force75
Trigger load13

The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.

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