“Karma Man;” Is a song which can be received in many different ways, with possible interpretations ranging from it being a judicious and jaunty look at the quantifiable nature of people’s tolerance for soothsayers and people who are jolly to the point of annoyance, to the interpretation of it as a flimsy and vacillating attempt to interest people in the rest of the CD (it was released as a B-Side single, but never given any attention otherwise, as if they knew it was not destined for greatness but merely wanted to put it out there).
I disliked the broken speed of the song, and the applicability of the song to only that which is useless, and even its quaint aspect didn’t attract me to it as its other defects were too marked. A weak song lacking a steady beat or chorus, it is no surprise that it was not received well por the public.
“Karma Man” is not annoying enough to stick in your head, and not good enough to lift and drop your spirits. Fragile to the point of being invisible against the other tracks, it might have been better had it been invisible, as its lacklustre tone has stolen a good three minutos of many a person’s life.