Radiohead - Karma Police
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Lyrics
Karma police, arrest this man
He talks in math
He buzzes like a fridge
He's like a detuned radio
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About this track
Karma Police is the second single from Radiohead’s 1997 album OK Computer. It is Radiohead’s most successful song worldwide, apart from Creep. The song is perhaps best recognized for its piano riff, which is similar to The Beatles’ Sexy Sadie, and for its dark bass line.Karma Police, like several other songs that would make up OK Computer, was debuted live in 1996, when the band briefly supported Alanis Morissette on an American tour. A live version of Karma Police, performed with a rhodes piano on The Late Show with David Letterman, is captured in the Radiohead documentary Meeting People Is Easy. Today the song is usually an audience singalong when performed at live concerts, often as an encore.
Radiohead members used to tell one another that they would call “the karma police” on them if they did something wrong. The joke was incorporated as the title of the song. Thom Yorke explained the idea of the lyrics to The Independent in 2006, saying, “It’s for someone who has to work for a large company. This is a song against bosses. Fuck the middle management!” He also said it was about those who are judgmental. The sound at the end of the song was created by Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien by “feeding sound through a digital delay machine”.
The song was covered in 2003 by Christopher O’Riley on his first Radiohead tribute album True Love Waits: Christopher O’Riley Plays Radiohead. The song has also been covered by Panic at the Disco, The Dresden Dolls and Tori Amos. The song is also covered on the album Radiodread by the Easy Star All-Stars, sung by Citizen Cope.
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Shouts
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binak wrote:
Mind-eater.
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firefytrshithed wrote:
ehhh..alot of people don't know dis, but uhhh.... I tink a dis song eeaavry time I go down to da gas bar... it helps get me tru... and I usualy make it all da way der... anywhas
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sili24 wrote:
no words...
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arashkh wrote:
every time I listen to this song I LOST MYSELF ! one of the greatest songs of all time!...
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djnonplus wrote:
my favorite to play on piano - love the outro "for a minute there...i lost myself!"
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Refuserdumb wrote:
cränker shit :D
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marianapr1 wrote:
me gusta mucho la versión de the dressden dolls, creo que hasta me gusta más
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fauxfind wrote:
derrik comedy for the win!
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unintended23 wrote:
beautiful
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High-Saphir wrote:
*****
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mastrogirls wrote:
karma police. . .arrest this man. . .he spoke to me. . .
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Venomous_Ivy wrote:
really sweet...
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Chocolate_Koya wrote:
mmm....karma police.......great,i cry)
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kumusikant wrote:
yes, i cry......
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akinbala wrote:
Listen to that :)
Liudesio Angelas
Viskas Is Naujo
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JND666 wrote:
Karma, karma que no panda el cunico!!!!!
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akinbala wrote:
http://www.last.fm/music/Andrius+Mamontovas/_/Viskas+Is+Naujo
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rullopaullada wrote:
yeah...when i was a kid!! simple loven it
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In_Limbo wrote:
awesome...
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pithaCZ wrote:
great...
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