Songs Like Do I Wanna Know? by Arctic Monkeys
By Dan Cohen · Published 2026-09-05
The thing our columns notice about Do I Wanna Know? is what it never does. Across the whole track our sudden-changes reading is none — not mild, none. It stalks along at 85 BPM with intensity 44 and a dynamic range of 7, layered, with genuinely dynamic vocals. All that menace, and it never once lurches. Mood tags: intimate and transcendent.
Songs that hold the same groove without jumping
- Halo — Beyoncé. Intensity 40, dynamic range 8, 84 BPM, and also no sudden changes. Shares both mood tags.
- Teardrop — Massive Attack. Intensity 40, dynamic range 7, 70 BPM. Shares both tags.
- Bound 2 — Kanye West. Intensity 44, dynamic range 7, 82 BPM, no sudden changes — identical to the seed on all three headline figures.
- Africa — Toto. Intensity 44, dynamic range 7, 92 BPM, no sudden changes.
- Rhiannon — Fleetwood Mac. Intensity 48, dynamic range 6, 110 BPM.
- The Fixer — Pearl Jam. Intensity 44, dynamic range 6, 116 BPM.
- Kyoto — Phoebe Bridgers. Intensity 43, dynamic range 6, 139 BPM — far quicker, same measured weight.
Do I Wanna Know? opens Arctic Monkeys’ 2013 album AM. Figures are our own measurements, read from the public API at build time. The genre and era spread is a consequence of measuring sound rather than style — it is not a claim that these artists resemble each other in any other way. No lyrics are reproduced.