Although credited to all members of Pearl Jam, it was primarily written by vocalist Eddie Vedder.

The song peaked at number 12 on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and became the band's fourth top-10 single in New Zealand.

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.

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.

Outside the United States, "Not for You" reached the top 40 in the UK and peaked at number 29 on the Australian Singles Chart.

"Not for You" was first performed live at the band's March 7, 1994, concert in Denver, Colorado at the Paramount Theatre.

[7] The song was performed on Saturday Night Live - without the explicit lyrics - in April 1994, almost eight months before the release of Vitalogy.

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.

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