 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(December 2012) |
| "Coma" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Pendulum | |
| from the album 3 Knocks | |
| Released | July 1997 |
| Genre | Ambient house |
| Songwriter(s) | DJ Noel, DJ Julian |
| Producer(s) | Pendulum |
"Coma" is the third single by Australian ambient house band Pendulum. The single was released in July 1997 and peaked at #46 on the ARIA Singles Chart spending just 2 weeks on the Chart. [1] It was later included on the album 3 Knocks and Triple J Hottest 100, 1997, where it ranked #32. It was the final single release from the band as they split in early 1998.
Ambient house is a subgenre of house music that first emerged in the late 1980s, combining elements of acid house and ambient music. Tracks in the ambient house genre typically feature four-on-the-floor beat patterns, synth pads, and vocal samples integrated in a style classed as "atmospheric".
Pendulum was an ambient house band active from 1994–1997. The group formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1994.
3 Knocks is the only studio album by Australian ambient band, Pendulum. The album was released in 1997, and consisted of two discs. The first disc, called Well Being, contained new material, while the second disc, Exploitation, contained songs released in earlier years. Not long after the album was released, the band split up.
- The song contains the lyrics "Hug me till you drug me honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma", taken from the novel Brave New World .
- The song also contains the sound of a doorbell; presumably a soundbyte from the movie A Clockwork Orange (film) , specifically the doorbell at Mr. Frank Alexander's house.
- The start of the song contains the sample "Ever since I was born I've been trained to serve you", a line from the 1988 movie Coming to America
- The track also contains sounds from the movie Natural Born Killers.
Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State of genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to make a utopian society that goes challenged only by a single outsider. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with Island (1962), his final novel.
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.
Coming to America is a 1988 American romantic comedy film directed by John Landis and based on a story originally created by Eddie Murphy, who also starred in the lead role. The film also co-stars Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley, and John Amos. The film was released in the United States on June 29, 1988. Eddie Murphy plays Akeem Joffer, the crown prince of the fictional African nation of Zamunda, who comes to the United States in the hopes of finding a woman he can marry.
