Go to Sleep | 
 enlarge | Artist: Radiohead
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music
List Price: $4.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 123657
Format: Single, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 724355295323
EAN: 0724355295323
ASIN: B0000AQOQO
Publication Date: 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Go to Sleep | | • | Gagging Order | | • | I Am a Wicked Child |
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Album Details
Includes 2 exclusive unreleased b-sides.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good songs, but there's a better place to find them. May 29, 2007
Christopher Martin
Radiohead recently released a new compilation of sorts with some of the Hail to the Thief era b-sides. It's called 2plus2is5 and it has all the songs off of both Go to Sleep 1 & 2 and There There. So really there's not much reason to buy all three of those for 15 each and spend 45 when you can just spend 15 once and get some remixes and live tracks.
Songs - 4/5 (you can tell why they were cut from the album. While nice, they have little flow to something else)
Album purchase 1/5 (But like I said there's good reason not to buy this, you can now get it for an affordable price.)
 Good stuff July 16, 2005
splitendsjustifythemeans (florida)
Radiohead has always split their b-sides by traditional and experimental. These songs are more traditional. Gagging Order is a pretty solo acoustic song about someone falling apart, but of course a pretty acoustic song wouldn't have fit on the album. I Am a Wicked Child sounds either like Radiohead trying to do down and dirty blues, or doing a parody of down and dirty blues. Either way, it's very listenable. True, these now appear on the Com Lag EP, but the songs are good anyway.
 buyer beware September 11, 2003
Kevin Howard (Pleasant Hill, CA USA)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you order this don't expect the import - what you will get is the domestic version of "Go to Sleep" that usually sells for $5.
The way a single should be done. September 11, 2003
James Williamson (My own little world.)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
First of all, contrary to popular belief, this is not an import-only release. This CD is currently available on Capitol records here in the states ... As for the music, this CD contains two of my favorite B-Sides the band has made so far. They're easily as good as Banana Co, Bishop's Robes, Fog, and Palo Alto. The only 2 they don't touch are Talk Show Host and Cuttooth. In layman's terms, they're freaking great.
Gagging Order: The guitar playing is magnificent, while Thom's voice sings in the "Pyramid Song" etherial tone. It's a terrific song that reminds me of Neil Young at his "Harvest"-era best.
I Am A Wicked Child: The rocker. This is the song that would've made the album a return to rock. The lyrics are some of my favorite. About the devil's son begging for pennance. It's matured a bit since it debuted in Webcast #2 two years ago, and is all the better for it. I love the Dylan-esque harmonica, too. Magnificent.
As for "Go To Sleep", you should know by now that this is one of the best songs the 'Head has ever made...
 Folk and blues and Radiohead????? September 4, 2003
K. Gray (Oneonta, NY United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm going to assume that if you're looking up this item that you are a Radiohead fan. So I'm also going to assume that you are familiar with the sonic changes in the band over the past ten years, the foray into electronica and such. You may also have noticed an occasional dip into blues, funk, and folk, in such songs as A Punchup at a Wedding, I Might Be Wrong, and this single, Go to Sleep. The b-sides on this album continue in this trend.Keep in mind that these are b-sides, and the recording quality is such. It's fuzzy, improperly mixed, and imbalanced ever so slightly in the left and right ears. But the music is beautiful. "Gagging Order" is Thom solo on an acoustic guitar, and the song has the slow somber feel of Radiohead's best ballads, with a slight folky touch. There's something particularly haunting about this track as Thom moans, "Move along / there's nothing left to see / just a body / nothing left to see," to a rolling, dirty guitar strum. Simply mystical. "I am a Wicked Child" is pure blues, with harmonica (!) and all. It sounds like the band woke up one morning and just started grooving on their instruments, and this song came out of it. It has the feel of an old Beatles cover of some bluesy song, and it's a good listen. I just wish I knew for sure who was on that harmonica. To all fans of the band, don't hesitate to pick this up.
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