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10 songs that feel like Soon I Will Be Done (With the Troubles of the World)

Matched to Soon I Will Be Done (With the Troubles of the World) by Mahalia Jackson on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

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Soon I Will Be Done (With the Troubles of the World)
Mahalia Jackson
safe 29/100 intensity 72 BPM
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Perséphone — Igor Stravinsky safe 60 BPM

A 92% feel-match — carries the same spiritual pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (26/100).

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Forever Loving Jah — Bob Marley safe 76 BPM

87% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it sits a little calmer at 16/100. Same smooth texture.

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Universal Sound — Tyler Childers safe 72 BPM

Keeps the same spiritual pull — sits a little calmer at 15/100. Measured 86% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (72 BPM).

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Days Like This — Van Morrison safe 90 BPM

Measures 86% the same. It sits a little calmer at 17/100. Same smooth texture.

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The Wind — Cat Stevens safe 80 BPM

A 84% feel-match — carries the same spiritual pull and sits a little calmer at 12/100. Nearly the same tempo, too (80 BPM).

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Ode to Joy — Wilco safe 95 BPM

89% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it sits a little calmer at 21/100. Same smooth texture.

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May Ninth — Khruangbin safe 70 BPM

Keeps the same hopeful pull — sits a little calmer at 11/100. Measured 83% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (70 BPM).

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Sancta Maria — Enya safe 60 BPM

Measures 83% the same. It sits a little calmer at 10/100. Same smooth texture.

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Pax Deorum — Enya safe 60 BPM

A 83% feel-match — carries the same spiritual pull and sits a little calmer at 19/100.

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Wake Up Time — Tom Petty safe 72 BPM

91% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it sits a little calmer at 23/100. Same smooth texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Soon I Will Be Done (With the Troubles of the World)” by Mahalia Jackson?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Perséphone” by Igor Stravinsky, “Forever Loving Jah” by Bob Marley, “Universal Sound” by Tyler Childers — the top match scores 92% 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 “Soon I Will Be Done (With the Troubles of the World)”?

It measures 29/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 6/10, smooth texture, mild sudden shifts, and soft vocals. Tempo is 72 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

This sits near the calm end of everything we've measured — gentler than 81% of the 19,209 songs in the library. Its intensity reading of 29/100 comes from a dynamic range of 6/10, smooth texture, mild shifts, and soft vocals. Relatively few songs occupy this exact corner of the spectrum.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is a slow, unhurried pace: more extreme on that axis than 90% 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

Sleep7/10
Focus10/10
Workout1/10
Dinner8/10
Party / hype2/10

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

Mixes smoothly with

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

The fingerprint

Intensity29
Dynamics56
Tempo18
Surprise25
Density0
Predictability0
Vocal force25
Trigger load0

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

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