Go to Sleep
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| "Go to Sleep" | ||
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| Single by Radiohead | ||
| from the album Hail to the Thief | ||
| Released | 18 August 2003 | |
| Format | CD, 12" | |
| Recorded | 2002 | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 3:21 | |
| Label | Parlophone | |
| Producer(s) | Nigel Godrich, Radiohead | |
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| Radiohead singles chronology | ||
| "There There" (2003) |
"Go to Sleep" (2003) |
"2 + 2 = 5" (2003) |
| Hail to the Thief track listing | ||
| "Backdrifts" (Honeymoon is Over.) (4) |
"Go to Sleep" (Little Man being Erased.) (5) |
"Where I End and You Begin" (The Sky is Falling in.) (6) |
"Go To Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.)" is a song by Radiohead and was released as the second single from their sixth album Hail to the Thief in 2003 (see 2003 in British music). The song is notable for its initial time signature, which is 20/16 (4-4-3-3-3-3). The alternate title for the song as listed on the track listing for the album is Little Man being Erased.
The guitar-work at the end of this track was achieved by Jonny Greenwood playing a sequence of random notes on his guitar that were being processed through a digital patch for software called Max/MSP, which is musical software frequently used by electronica or experimental artists. Some believe that even though this is a random process, what you hear on record sounds slightly more structured and therefore may have been edited in the production process. However, Greenwood has played this song live using the same patch on many occasions, most notably on Later...With Jools Holland where the patch seemed to generate a more frantic and random rendition of the unique solo.
A similar solo to that heard in live versions of "Go to Sleep" was played by Adrian Belew on the 1980 Talking Heads song "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)," though it was generated through different technology. Radiohead have cited the album Remain in Light on which the song appears as a major inspiration on their work in general.
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[edit] Track listings
[edit] UK Versions
- CD one CDR6613, 12" 12R6613
- "Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.)"
- "Gagging Order"
- "I am a Wicked Child"
- CD two CDRS6613
- "Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.)"
- "I am Citizen Insane"
- "Fog (Again)" (Live)
[edit] US Version
- CD 52953 released 3 September 2003 by Capitol Records
- "Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.)"
- "Gagging Order"
- "I am a Wicked Child"
[edit] Cover images
 CD one |
 CD two |
 12" |
[edit] Music video
Directed by Alex Rutterford, it's completely done in CGI. It shows Thom Yorke sitting in a park bench singing the song while all around him men and women in business suits walk rapidly by. In the middle of the video, the buildings (with a classical architecture style) spontaneously crumble into pieces and moments later reassemble themselves, only they have become modern in style.
