Days Are Forgotten

"Days Are Forgotten"
Single by Kasabian
from the album Velociraptor!
B-side	"Pistols at Dawn" "Switchblade Smiles" (Music video)
Released	12 August 2011
Genre	Blues rock [1]
Length	5:02 (album version) 4:05 (single version)
Label	RCA
Songwriter(s)	Sergio Pizzorno
Producer(s)	Dan the Automator
Kasabian singles chronology
"Vlad the Impaler" (2010) "Days Are Forgotten" (2011) "Re-Wired" (2011)
Velociraptor! track listing
"Let's Roll Just Like We Used To" "Days Are Forgotten" "Goodbye Kiss" "La Fée Verte" "Velociraptor" "Acid Turkish Bath (Shelter from the Storm)" "I Hear Voices" "Re-wired" "Man of Simple Pleasures" "Switchblade Smiles" "Neon Noon"

"Days Are Forgotten" is a song by British rock band Kasabian. The song serves as the lead single of the band's fourth studio album, Velociraptor! . The song was first released in Belgium on 12 August, and was later released in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2011 - where it debuted at number 28 on the UK Singles Chart.

Music video

The black-and-white video for the song features the band in an empty room playing animated instruments, drawn with white crayon pencil; singer Tom Meighan sings into a pencil-drawn microphone with a pencil-drawn cable. Throughout the video the music generates soundwaves, also pencil-drawn, which blow up a guitar amplifier and the instruments themselves. At the end of the video, all of the white pencil lines collapse into op art-like geometrical shapes, until the entire environment dissolves into a single line.

Remix

The Z-Trip Remix features the American rapper, entrepreneur and actor LL Cool J. This remix served as the official theme to WWE's TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view.

Track listing

UK iTunes EP

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Days Are Forgotten" (Single edit)	4:05
2.	"Days Are Forgotten" (Z-Trip Remix) (featuring LL Cool J)	4:57
3.	"Pistols at Dawn"	5:18
4.	"Switchblade Smiles" (Music Video)	4:16

Charts

Chart (2011)	Peak position
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders) [2]	10
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) [3]	45
Czech Republic Modern Rock (IFPI) [4]	10
Japan (Japan Hot 100) [5]	10
Scotland (OCC) [6]	30
UK Singles (OCC) [7]	28

Chart performance

The single made its first appearance on the UK Singles Chart on 15 September 2011, when it debuted at number twenty-eight. On its second week, the single fell fourteen places to number forty-two; before returning to the top 40 at number thirty-six on 2 October - following a price reduction on the UK iTunes store.

Release history

Country	Release date	Format
Australia [8]	12 August 2011	Digital download
Belgium [9]
France [10]
Germany [11]
New Zealand [12]
Canada [13]	9 September 2011
Ireland [14]
United Kingdom [15]
Spain [16]
Mexico [17]

Personnel

Kasabian

• Tom Meighan – lead vocals
• Sergio Pizzorno – guitars, synths, programming, backing vocals
• Chris Edwards – bass
• Ian Matthews – drums

Additional personnel

• Gary Alesbrook – trumpet
• Mat Coleman – trombone
• Andrew Kinsman – saxophone

Remix

• Z-Trip – remixing
• LL Cool J – rap vocals

References

1. "BBC - Music - Review of Kasabian - Velociraptor!". BBC. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
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4. "CZ - Radio - Top 20 Modern Rock - Days Are Forgotten - Kasabian" (in Czech). IFPI Czech Republic . Retrieved 21 June 2023.
5. "Chart Search Results - Japan Hot 100 Singles 2011-10-08". Billboard.biz . Retrieved 30 August 2012.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
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