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10 songs that feel like The Daily Mail

Matched to The Daily Mail by Radiohead 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
The Daily Mail
Radiohead
moderate 51/100 intensity 85 BPM
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We Almost Lost Detroit — Gil Scott-Heron intense 95 BPM

A 95% feel-match — carries the same heavy pull and runs a little hotter at 60/100.

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Undoing a Luciferian Towers — Godspeed You Black Emperor moderate 90 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (55/100). Same layered texture.

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Zeitgeist — The Smashing Pumpkins intense 120 BPM

Keeps the same heavy pull — runs a little hotter at 64/100. Measured 85% alike.

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Koyaanisqatsi — Philip Glass intense 80 BPM

Measures 88% the same. It runs a little hotter at 60/100. Same layered texture.

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Megalomania — Black Sabbath intense 80 BPM

A 87% feel-match — carries the same heavy pull and runs a little hotter at 60/100. Nearly the same tempo, too (80 BPM).

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The Lemon Song — Led Zeppelin intense 90 BPM

87% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it runs a little hotter at 61/100. Same layered texture.

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Machine Gun — Portishead intense 95 BPM

Keeps the same heavy pull — runs a little hotter at 60/100. Measured 86% alike.

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Needle in the Hay — Elliott Smith intense 85 BPM

Measures 91% the same. It runs a little hotter at 60/100. Same layered texture.

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Age of Reason — Black Sabbath intense 82 BPM

A 86% feel-match — carries the same heavy pull and runs a little hotter at 60/100. Nearly the same tempo, too (82 BPM).

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Dirty Women — Black Sabbath intense 105 BPM

86% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it runs a little hotter at 62/100. Same layered texture.

…and if you want it calmer

Same feeling, measured gentler — for when The Daily Mail is more than you want right now.

The Man in Black by Johnny Cash
The Man in Black — Johnny Cash safe 88 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but nothing in it lurches or startles. Intensity 32/100, down from 51. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Goodbye Weekend by Mac DeMarco
Goodbye Weekend — Mac DeMarco safe 85 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 4 where the original climbs to 7, so it lands at 16/100 — the pull without the edge. Nearly the same tempo, too.

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The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton — The Mountain Goats safe 80 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while its dynamic range stays a gentler 3 where the original climbs to 7. Reads 14/100. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Glass Eyes by Radiohead
Glass Eyes — Radiohead safe 75 BPM

Holds the same feel while its dynamic range stays a gentler 4 where the original climbs to 7. 16/100, versus the original's 51. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Lull by Radiohead
Lull — Radiohead safe 90 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but its dynamic range stays a gentler 4 where the original climbs to 7. Intensity 23/100, down from 51. Nearly the same tempo, too.

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You Said Something — PJ Harvey safe 72 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 4 where the original climbs to 7, so it lands at 15/100 — the pull without the edge.

Sæglópur by Sigur Rós
Sæglópur — Sigur Rós safe 90 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while its dynamic range stays a gentler 4 where the original climbs to 7. Reads 31/100. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Both Sides, Now by Joni Mitchell
Both Sides, Now — Joni Mitchell safe 82 BPM

Holds the same feel while nothing in it lurches or startles. 27/100, versus the original's 51. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “The Daily Mail” by Radiohead?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “We Almost Lost Detroit” by Gil Scott-Heron, “Undoing a Luciferian Towers” by Godspeed You Black Emperor, “Zeitgeist” by The Smashing Pumpkins — the top match scores 95% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

What songs are like “The Daily Mail” but calmer?

“The Man in Black” by Johnny Cash, “Goodbye Weekend” by Mac DeMarco, “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton” by The Mountain Goats keep a similar feel while measuring gentler — lower dynamic swing, fewer sudden shifts, or a calmer overall level.

How intense is “The Daily Mail”?

It measures 51/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 7/10, layered texture, moderate sudden shifts, and spoken word. Tempo is 85 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 66% of songs, calmer than the other 34%. Its intensity reading of 51/100 comes from a dynamic range of 7/10, layered texture, moderate shifts, and spoken word. 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 a slow, unhurried pace: more extreme on that axis than 77% 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

Sleep0/10
Focus4/10
Workout3/10
Dinner7/10
Party / hype4/10

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

2011 in context

The 372 songs we’ve measured from 2011 average a dynamic range of 6.4/10. At 7/10, this track is louder and more dynamic than its year.

Mixes smoothly with

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

The fingerprint

Intensity51
Dynamics67
Tempo25
Surprise50
Density33
Predictability50
Vocal force40
Trigger load25

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

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