He said: "It's for someone who has to work for a large company. Yorke explained that the song was about stress and "having people looking at you in that certain way". The title lyric originates from an inside joke the members of Radiohead would threaten to call the " karma police" if someone did something bad. Just us in the studio, and a forerunner of a lot of things to come, good and bad." Lyrics Godrich said: "It was the first time we did anything like that.
Īfter Yorke told the producer, Nigel Godrich that he was not happy with the ending, the pair reconstructed it with loops and samples, a technique they developed on later Radiohead albums. In the final minute, Ed O'Brien distorts his guitar by driving a delay effect to self-oscillation, then lowering the delay rate, creating a "melting" effect. Yorke's voice is put through a reverb effect and a sliding melodic figure serves as a counterpoint to his vocals. After this section cycles through twice, the song switches into a second section which is based around the line "For a minute there, I lost myself". The verse begins with the line "Karma police", and the chorus begins with the line "This is what you'll get".
The song progresses from the intro into a mid-tempo section which alternates between a verse and a chorus. Acoustic guitar and piano are the most prominent instruments. In 2021, Rolling Stone placed "Karma Police" at position 279 on its ranking of the 500 greatest songs of all time.Ĥ time signature and played in standard tuning. The music video, directed by Jonathan Glazer, sees singer Thom Yorke in the back of a car pursuing a man. It was included on Radiohead: The Best Of (2008). In the US, it peaked at number 14 on the US Alternative Songs chart. It reached number one in Iceland and number eight on the UK Singles Chart. " Karma Police" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on 25 August 1997, as the second single from their third studio album, OK Computer (1997).
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