Not About Us Explained

Not About Us
Cover:	Notaboutus.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	Genesis
Album:	Calling All Stations
Released:	23 February 1998
Recorded:	1997
Genre:	Alternative rock
Length:	4:38 (album version) 4:04 (Radio edit)
Label:	Virgin
Producer:	Nick Davis, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford
Chronology:	Genesis
Prev Title:	Shipwrecked
Prev Year:	1997
Next Title:	The Carpet Crawlers 1999
Next Year:	1999

"Not About Us" is the third and final single from Genesis' 15th album Calling All Stations. It reached No. 66 in UK^[1] and No. 81 in Germany.^[2] It was the last single to feature vocalist Ray Wilson.

Music video

A music video for the single was made.

Track listing

• Not About Us CD1

1. "Not About Us" (radio edit) – 4:04
2. "Anything Now" (Non-Album Track) – 6:58
3. "Sign Your Life Away" (Non-Album Track) – 4:44
4. "Run Out of Time" (Non-Album Track) – 6:07

• Total length: 21:53
• Not About Us CD2

1. "Not About Us" – 4:38
2. "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" (acoustic)
3. "Follow You Follow Me" (acoustic)
4. "Not About Us" (acoustic)

Personnel

• Tony Banks

keyboards, guitar (acoustic tracks on CD2)

• Mike Rutherford

guitar, bass

• Ray Wilson

vocalsAdditional personnel:

• Nir Z

drums

• Nick D'Virgilio

drums on "Sign Your Life Away"

• Anthony Drennan

guitar (acoustic tracks on CD2)

Notes and References

1. https://archive.today/20121217202309/http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/genesis/ Genesis UK chart history
2. Web site: Chartverfolgung / Genesis / Single . Music Line . . Germany . de . 9 November 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130723145712/http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Genesis/8604/single . 23 July 2013 . dead .