Karma Police
"Karma Police" is a song by English alternative rock band Radiohead from their 1997 third studio album OK Computer. The song's title and lyrics derive from an in-joke among the band, referring to the Hindu theory of cause and effect, known as karma.
"Karma Police" was released as the second single from OK Computer, and became a commercial success, charting at number eight on the UK Singles Chart and number fourteen on the US Hot Modern Rock Tracks. Critical reception to the single was also favourable.
In 2008 the song was featured on the Radiohead: The Best Of collection.
Background and recording
"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 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.
Composition and lyrics
"Karma Police" is in a 4/4 time signature and played in standard tuning. The first half of the song is in the key of E minor, and would feature a Neapolitan chord (F). The second half (starting with the line "For a minute there") is in B minor.Acoustic guitar and piano are the most prominent instruments in the song, and the chord progression owes an audible debt to The Beatles song "Sexy Sadie".
Karma Police (surveillance program)
Karma Police is a British Internet metadata collection program. It was formed to create profiles on every visible Internet user's browsing habits. Information about the program was revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The report provided by Snowden states that the program was conceived in 2007 and has been in operation since 2009 or earlier.
Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) who launched the program referred to it as the "world’s biggest" data-mining operation on the Internet. Karma Police extracts information from intercontinental data cables that terminate in Cornwall, England. These cables contain 25% of all global Internet traffic. The metadata contains a record of usernames, passwords, and websites an individual visits.
The program apparently operates with no government oversight. By 2009, according to GCHQ's own documents, Karma Police had received and stored more than 1.1 trillion web browsing sessions. In 2010, the program was allegedly collecting over 30 billion records each day. The volume by 2012, according to other GCHQ documents, had reached 50 billion each day.
Podcasts:
Karma Police
ALBUMS
- Atom Sounds Compilation, Volume 1 released: 2004
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by Now That's What I Call Music!
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by Christopher O'riley
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by Panic! At The Disco
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by Various Artists
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by CITIZEN COPE
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by Radiohead
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by Brown Derbies
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by Flunk
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by John Vanderslice
Karma Police
by: Now That's What I Call Music!Karma police, arrest this man
He talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge
He's like a detuned radio
Karma police, arrest this girl
Her Hitler hairdo is
Making me feel ill
And we have crashed her party
This is what you get
This is what you get
This is what you get when you mess with us
Karma Police
I've given all I can
It's not enough
I've given all I can
But we're still on the payroll
This is what you get
This is what you get
This is what you get when you mess with us
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
For for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
For for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
Phew, for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
In the early version, the first verse went:
Karma police arrest this girl
She stares at me
As if she owns the world and
We have crashed her party
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