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10 songs that feel like Throwing It All Away

Matched to Throwing It All Away by Genesis on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

Throwing It All Away
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Throwing It All Away
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safe 17/100 intensity 88 BPM
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Dance Me to the End of Love — Leonard Cohen safe 88 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same melancholy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (17/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (88 BPM).

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Dunno — Mac Miller safe 88 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (17/100). Same smooth texture.

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Thugz Mansion — 2Pac safe 88 BPM

Keeps the same melancholy pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (17/100). Measured 99% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (88 BPM).

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Present Tense — Radiohead safe 90 BPM

Measures 99% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (17/100). Same smooth texture.

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Day Is Done — Nick Drake safe 90 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same melancholy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (17/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (90 BPM).

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Still Crazy After All These Years — Paul Simon safe 90 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (17/100). Same smooth texture.

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The Greatest — Cat Power safe 90 BPM

Keeps the same melancholy pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (17/100). Measured 99% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (90 BPM).

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It's All in the Movies — Merle Haggard safe 90 BPM

Measures 99% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (17/100). Same smooth texture.

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Homeward Bound — Simon and Garfunkel safe 90 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same melancholy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (17/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (90 BPM).

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Joe Hill — Phil Ochs safe 90 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (17/100). Same smooth texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Throwing It All Away” by Genesis?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Dance Me to the End of Love” by Leonard Cohen, “Dunno” by Mac Miller, “Thugz Mansion” by 2Pac — the top match scores 99% 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 “Throwing It All Away”?

It measures 17/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 4/10, smooth texture, no sudden shifts, and soft vocals. Tempo is 88 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 93% of the 19,209 songs in the library. Its intensity reading of 17/100 comes from a dynamic range of 4/10, smooth texture, no sudden 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 an unusually steady, even volume: more extreme on that axis than 97% 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

Sleep9/10
Focus10/10
Workout0/10
Dinner7/10
Party / hype1/10

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

1986 in context

The 223 songs we’ve measured from 1986 average a dynamic range of 6.6/10. At 4/10, 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

Intensity17
Dynamics33
Tempo27
Surprise0
Density0
Predictability0
Vocal force25
Trigger load0

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

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