Go to Sleep

by

Radiohead

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Despite Radiohead being unwilling to make life easier for their fans by releasing a 5 song single EP with 4 B Sides instead of 2 x 3 Song Singles with 2 B sides each... this is an amazing single.

When you listen to Go To Sleep, Gagging Order and I am a Wicked Child back to back to back, you begin to hear the guitar based rock and roll albumn we were promised. If you're curious about what that apparently imaginary albumn might have sounded like, start here.

Gagging order is an incredibly beautiful song. It's the sort of "Secret Radiohead" only those who have all their singles know about. Think of Lozenge of Love or How I made My Millions. It's that good.

It's sort of a Big Star type make you cry softy... and I love it.

I am a wicked child is also excellent... though much more of a sing along type track. This is more along the lines of a Molasses or Bishop's Robes type... lyrical and melodic slow dance.

While both of these are excellent and easily albumn worthy for most bands, those fans of Radiohead singles will not be surprised.

The band seems to have a secret side which they reserve just for songs like these and which they leave aside of B Sides.

Those of us who bought the pyramid song and knives out singles (or any of their singles from previous albumns for that matter) will no doubt pick this up anyway, so I don't need to try to sell you on it.

For those of you who don't have all or any of these, I highly suggest you look into them. If you love Radiohead, but are basing your love for them on the albumns alone, you're missing out on a while different dimension to the band... and contrary to what you might think, these B-Sides are typically less experimental and more poppy than the albumn tracks. (I said Typically... there's no accounting for the experimental ambient brilliance of paperbag writer and where bluebirds fly )

Anyway, long story short. If you like radiohead, first make sure you have enough to eat, then pay your student loan, but after that, don't hesitate to buy this single.

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.)