At the 1995 Grammy Awards, "Go" received a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance. The song peaked at number three on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number eight on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. "Go" was released as a single in 1993 with a previously unreleased B-side titled "Alone", of which an alternate version can also be found on the compilation album, Lost Dogs (2003). While the "Go" single was released commercially to international markets in 1993, the commercial single was not released in the United States until Jand was only available as a more expensive import version beforehand. This may be a clever joke on the chorus of the song "Please don't go on me," but the full lyrics of the song suggest it is of a much more serious nature. In Kim Neely's book Five Against One: The Pearl Jam Story, Abbruzzese quips that vocalist Eddie Vedder told him he wrote the lyrics for "Go" about his pickup truck. So on stage, I get into this mode where I'll start to think while I'm playing, "Okay, this sounds like the album, and I want to emulate that." But to really capture that feel of being in the moment, I have to be in contact with the emotion that's running through me RIGHT NOW. And I do have a problem recreating it live, because I wasn't thinking about it at all when we did it in the studio.
That solo on "Go" was probably the second of three or four takes. McCready threw the guitar on the ground at the end of the take, which can be heard on the recorded version. Guitarist Mike McCready played a yellow Telecaster on the song. Then, when he got behind the drums, everyone turned up real loud and it evolved into something else, a little more hard core. Dave played us the two main parts, that BAM-BAM-BAM groovy chordal riff bit and then the main ascending riff in more of an acoustic vein. That song went through a cool evolution that goes back to what we've been saying about creative input. Guitarist Stone Gossard added the siren-like guitar part. Stone asked what I was playing and started playing it, then Jeff started playing it, and Eddie started singing with it, and it turned into a song."
Abbruzzese said, "With "Go", I just happened to pick up the guitar at the right moment. He initially wrote the music for the song using an acoustic guitar. The main guitar riff for "Go" was written by drummer Dave Abbruzzese. "Go" was one of the songs the band produced during the first week of recording for Vs.
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