Go to Sleep

"Go to Sleep"
Single by Radiohead
from the album Hail to the Thief
B-side
  • "Gagging Order"
  • "I Am a Wicked Child"
Released 18 August 2003
Format
Recorded 2002
Genre Alternative rock
Length 3:21
Label
Songwriter(s) Radiohead
Producer(s)
Radiohead singles chronology
"There There"
(2003)		 "Go to Sleep"
(2003)		 "2 + 2 = 5"
(2003)
Music video
"Go to Sleep" on YouTube

"Go to Sleep" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released as the second single from their sixth studio album Hail to the Thief (2003) on 18 August 2003. It reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart and reached #39 on the Australian ARIA Charts.[1] "Go to Sleep" is composed in alternating bars of 4/4 and 6/4.[2] It features a processed "stuttering" guitar sound created by guitarist Jonny Greenwood.[3]

Music video

Directed by Alex Rutterford, the song's CGI-animated music video shows a full-blossom red rose swaying in the wind, and proceeds to show Yorke sitting on a park bench singing the song while around him men and women in business suits walk by rapidly. In the middle of the video, the buildings, in classical architecture style, spontaneously crumble into pieces and moments later reassemble themselves, only to have become modern in style. The shot returns to the rose shown in the beginning, which is now closed in a bud.

Track listings

UK versions

  • CD 1 CDR6613
  1. "Go to Sleep"
  2. "I Am Citizen Insane"
  3. "Fog (Again)" (Live)
  • CD 2 CDRS6613
  1. "Go to Sleep"
  2. "Gagging Order"
  3. "I Am a Wicked Child"
  • 12" 12R6613
  1. "Go to Sleep"
  2. "I Am Citizen Insane"
  3. "I Am a Wicked Child"

US Version

  1. "Go to Sleep"
  2. "Gagging Order"
  3. "I Am a Wicked Child"
  • 7" R-19218
  1. "Go to Sleep"
  2. "I Am Citizen Insane"

Canada Version

  • CD
  1. "Go to Sleep"
  2. "I Am Citizen Insane"
  3. "Fog (Again)" (Live)

Personnel

  • Thom Yorke - vocals, guitar
  • Jonny Greenwood - guitar, laptop, toy piano
  • Ed O'Brien - guitar, backing vocals
  • Colin Greenwood - bass
  • Philip Selway - drums

Charts

Chart (2003) Peak
position[1]
Canadian Singles Chart 2[4]
Italian Singles Chart 9[5]
Ireland Singles Chart 11[1]
Danish Singles Chart 11[1]
UK Singles Chart 12[1]
Finland Singles Chart 14[1]
Australian Singles Chart 39[1]
Dutch Singles Chart 55[6]
German Singles Chart 82[1]
French Singles Chart 87[1]
Swiss Singles Chart 90[1]
US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 32[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Radiohead - Go to Sleep - Music Charts". acharts.us. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  2. ↑ Osborn, Brad (2010). ""Beats that Commute: Algebraic and Kinesthetic Models for Math-Rock Grooves"". Gamut. 3: 57.
  3. ↑ Astley-Brown, Michael (22 February 2017). "Recreate Jonny Greenwood's randomised stutter effect with new Feral Glitch pedal". MusicRadar. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Hail to the Thief Charts and awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  5. ↑ "Radiohead - Go To Sleep". italiancharts.com. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  6. ↑ "Radiohead - Go to Sleep". dutchcharts.nl. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
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