Coma (EP)

"Coma"
Single by Max Sharam
from the album A Million Year Girl
Released24 October 1994 (1994-10-24)[1]
Length3:35
LabelEastWest
Songwriter(s)Max Sharam
Producer(s)Daniel Denholm
Max Sharam singles chronology
"Coma"
(1994) 		"Be Firm"
(1995)
Max Sharam EPs chronology
I'm Occupied
(1984) 		Coma
(1994) 		The Gods Envy
(2015)

"Coma" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Max Sharam. In 1992, she performed the song on Australian talent show New Faces, which led to an extended play album 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. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1995, the song was nominated for three awards: Single of the Year, Song of the Year and Breakthrough Artist – Single.[2]

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."[3]

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 (1995) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[4] 14

References

  1. ^ a b "New Release Summary – Product Available from: 24/10/94 (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 245)". Retrieved 19 September 2016 – via Imgur.
  2. ^ "1995 ARIA Awards Winners". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  3. ^ "An Aquatic Interview with Max Sharam". Ariel. 1994. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Max Sharam – Coma". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 6 January 2019.