Song · Massive Attack
“Karmacoma” by Massive Attack
From the album Protection (1994)
“Karmacoma” by Massive Attack appears on 4 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2022 and 2026. It was first released in 1994 on the album Protection. Its best result is #100 on The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,379 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Massive Attack sent "Karmacoma" out on March 20, 1995 as the third and last single from Protection, their second album, with rap vocals from 3D and Tricky riding a loop lifted from Alka Yagnik's "Aaja Sajan Aaja". The melodic refrain comes from Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor, and there's Tuvan throat singing in the mix, the same sample The KLF used on "Dream Time in Lake Jackson", taken from the documentary Herders of Mongun Taiga. The band produced it with Nellee Hooper and mixed it with Hooper and Mark "Spike" Stent.
Jonathan Glazer made his first music video for it. The song had other lives, too: Tricky recut it as "Overcome" for his debut album, Maxinquaye, and Massive Attack made a version without him, "Fake the Aroma", for War Child's The Help Album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 100 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2022 | 413 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 809 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
| 2026 | 747 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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