Bb major · Camelot 6B · 152 BPM
Stop the Rock
by Apollo 440
- 152
- BPM
- Bb major
- Key
- 6B
- Camelot
- 60
- Danceability
- 27
- Acousticness
Apollo 440 recorded "Stop the Rock" for their third studio album, Gettin' High on Your Own Supply, drawing inspiration from Status Quo's "Caroline". The lead vocal was handled by Ian Hoxley, formerly of Gaye Bykers on Acid, who also shared composing credit with Trevor Gray, Howard Gray and Noko.
The single came out on 16 August 1999 through Stealth Sonic, with Sony Music handling distribution. It spent six weeks on the UK singles chart and peaked at No. 10. In the United States it became the group's breakout single.
A music video accompanied the release. It followed four agents in a car who chased a dog across Los Angeles after its owner let it run loose. The owner was tasered, and after the dog had been all over the city it turned up at an Apollo 440 studio session. Hoxley looked the animal in the eye and growled, scaring it away, and the dog went back to its owner.
Stop the Rock runs at 152 BPM, the tempo of hard techno, punk and fast rock. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.58 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 395 ms. It is in Bb major, Camelot 6B, which shares its notes with G minor and mixes cleanly with Eb major and F major.
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