Not for You

Not for You
"Not for You"
Single by Pearl Jam
from the album Vitalogy
B-side "Out of My Mind" (live)
Released March 21, 1995
Format CD single, Cassette, Vinyl
Recorded January–February 1994 at Bad Animals Studio, Seattle, Washington
Genre Grunge
Length 5:52
Label Epic
Writer(s) Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder
Producer Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam singles chronology
"Spin the Black Circle"
(1994)
"Not for You"
(1995)
"Immortality"
(1995)
Vitalogy track listing
"Spin the Black Circle"
(Track 2)
"Not for You"
(Track 3)
"Tremor Christ"
(Track 4)

"Not for You" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam, released on March 21, 1995 as the second single from the band's third studio album, Vitalogy (1994). Although credited to all members of Pearl Jam, it was primarily written by vocalist Eddie Vedder. The song peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song was included on Pearl Jam's 2004 greatest hits album, rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003).

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Origin and recording

Guitarist Mike McCready on "Not for You":

Tom Petty sent me this amazing 12-string Rickenbacker, and "Not for You" was the first time I used it. It was like a Christmas present. One day it just showed up at my door. I called him up and thanked him. But it's a cool song—an Eddie song.[1]

Lyrics

Vocalist Eddie Vedder about "Not for You":

I believe...that there is something sacred about youth, and the song is about how youth is being sold and exploited. I think I felt like I had become part of that too. Maybe that's why sometimes I have a hard time with the TV end of music and much of the media and the magazines. When I pick up a magazine, I just count how many pages of ads before the first article starts. You go one, two...up to fifteen to twenty or more. And then in the back you have phone sex ads. So I've pretty much had it. I don't want to be the traveling medicine show where we go out and do the song and dance and someone else drops the back of the wagon and starts selling crap. I don't want our music to sell anything—or anyone else use it. There are a lot of middlemen, somewhere between the band and the audience. I know you need some people to help facilitate things for the live show, and I'm not saying that I don't appreciate these people but...In the last ten or fifteen years, there have been a lot of changes in music, and somehow the percentages being charged [by the concert industry] got out of hand. We also don't want to be part of all the marketing tools or whatever, but believe me, we have been. [That happened] on the first album and that's probably why we are where we are now, but it was hell and I feel awful about it and I'm not going to do it anymore.[2]

In another interview, Vedder stated:

These attitudes out there...that it's the industry's music... And it's not. It's mine. And it's yours. Whoever's listening to it. It's mine and it's yours. And everybody in between, they're the distributors. I think that something like a music channel can be very powerful. Sometimes they think they're the ones who decide what's heard. I think that's a dangerous situation. And, I think, what's more dangerous is that they think it belongs to them. That's probably what "Not for You" is about.[3]

Release and reception

"Not for You" was released as a single in 1995 with a previously unreleased B-side titled "Out of My Mind". The song peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 38 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Outside the United States, the single was released commercially in Australia, Austria, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. "Not for You" reached the top 40 in the UK and peaked at number 29 on the Australian Singles Chart. "Not for You" reached the top 30 in Ireland and was a top ten success in New Zealand.

Live performances

"Not for You" was first performed live at the band's March 7, 1994 concert in Denver, Colorado at the Paramount Theatre.[4] The song was performed on Saturday Night Live in April 1994, almost eight months before the release of Vitalogy. Live performances of "Not for You" can be found on the Hype! soundtrack, various official bootlegs, the Live at the Gorge 05/06 box set, and the live album Live at Lollapalooza 2007. A performance of the song is also included on the DVD Touring Band 2000. The version of the song on the Hype! soundtrack was recorded live on Pearl Jam's 1995 Self-Pollution satellite radio broadcast, a four-and-a-half hour long pirate broadcast out of Seattle which was available to any radio stations that wanted to carry it.[5]

Track listing

All songs written by Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder.

  1. "Not for You" – 5:51
  2. "Out of My Mind" (live) – 4:41
    • Improv recorded live on April 2, 1994 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.

Chart positions

Chart (1995) Position
New Zealand Singles Chart[6] 10
US Mainstream Rock Tracks[7] 12
Irish Singles Chart[8] 26
Australian Singles Chart[9] 29
UK Singles Chart[10] 34
US Modern Rock Tracks[7] 38

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