| Days Are Forgotten | |
| Cover: | DaysAreForgotten.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Kasabian |
| Album: | Velociraptor! |
| Released: | 12 August 2011 |
| Genre: | Blues rock[1] |
| Length: | 5:02 (album version) 4:05 (single version) |
| Label: | RCA |
| Producer: | Dan the Automator |
| Prev Title: | Vlad the Impaler |
| Prev Year: | 2010 |
| Next Title: | Re-Wired |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
"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.
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.
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.
| Chart (2011) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Czech Republic Modern Rock (IFPI)[2] | 10 |
| Japan (Japan Hot 100)[3] | 10 |
| Poland (ZPAV)[4] | 12 |
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.
| Country | Release date | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Australia[5] | 12 August 2011 | Digital download |
| Belgium[6] | ||
| France[7] | ||
| Germany[8] | ||
| New Zealand[9] | ||
| Canada[10] | 9 September 2011 | |
| Ireland[11] | ||
| United Kingdom[12] | ||
| Spain[13] | ||
| Mexico[14] |