Not About Us

"Not About Us"
Single by Genesis
from the album ...Calling All Stations...
Released	March 1998
Format	CD single
Recorded	1997
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	4:38 (album version) 4:04 (Radio edit)
Label	Virgin
Writer(s)	Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Ray Wilson
Producer	Nick Davis, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford
Genesis singles chronology
"Shipwrecked" (1997) "Not About Us" (1998) "The Carpet Crawlers 1999" (1999)

"Not About Us" is the third and final single from Genesis' fifteenth album ...Calling All Stations.... It reached #66 in UK^[1] and #81 in Germany.^[2] It was the last single to feature Ray Wilson.

Music video

A music video for the single was made. It did not include Nir Zidkyahu because he had left Genesis due to other projects. Banks and Rutherford were without the instruments of mass destruction described in the lyrics.

Track listing

• Not About Us CD1

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

• Total length: 21:53

• Not About Us CD2

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

Personnel

• Tony Banks: keyboards
• Mike Rutherford: guitar, bass
• Ray Wilson: vocals
• Nir Z: drums

References