Coma (EP)

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"Coma"
Coma by Max Sharam.jpg
Single by Max Sharam
from the album A Million Year Girl
Released24 October 1994 [1]
Format
Length3:35
Label EastWest
Songwriter(s) Max Sharam
Producer(s) Daniel Denholm
Max Sharam singles chronology
"Coma"
(1994)
"Be Firm"
(1995)
Max Sharam albums chronology
I'm Occupied
(1984)
Coma
(1994)
A Million Year Girl
(1995)

"Coma" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Max Sharam. In 1992, she performed the song on New Faces, which lead to an extended play being released in October 1994 [1] and as the lead single from her debut studio album A Million Year Girl (1995). The song peaked at number 14 in Australia.

Contents

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1995, the song was nominated for three awards; ARIA Award for Single for the Year, Song for the Year and Breakthrough Artist - single.

Reception

Anthony Horan said "A five track EP, it's a remarkable piece of work that sounds quite unlike anything else you'll hear this year. While the title track, courtesy of a very radio-friendly mix, has just been added to the playlists of chart-fodder radio stations after a large amount of play on Triple J, there's a lot more to Max than meets the eye. The EP's brief journey takes in everything from twisted jazz-pop to searing acoustic emotion to very, very strange and rather wonderful operatic experimentation." [2]

Track listings

Extended play (4509976752)

  1. "Coma (A Million Year Girl)" – 3:46
  2. "Hunting Ground" – 4:33
  3. "U Cradle Me" – 3:46
  4. "Is It Ok...?" – 2:59
  5. "Crash Landing" – 4:24

CD single (4509993912)

  1. "Coma (A Million Year Girl)" – 3:46
  2. "U Cradle Me" – 3:46
  3. "Crash Landing" – 4:24

Charts

Chart (1994–1995)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [3] 14

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References

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