"I'm Not the One" is a song by the American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 rock band The Cars

The Cars

The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band consisted of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson...

, from their fourth album, Shake It Up. It features Ric Ocasek

Ric Ocasek

Ric Ocasek is an American musician and music producer. He is best known as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band, The Cars....

 on lead vocals, with the whole group repeating "going round and round" throughout the song.

Overview

"I'm Not the One" first appeared in 1981 on Shake It Up. It was not a charting single at the time, but was nonetheless included on the band's 1985 Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits (The Cars album)

Greatest Hits is a six-time platinum-selling compilation album by the new wave band The Cars. It was released in October 1985 on Elektra Records.-Track listing:All songs written by Ric Ocasek.# "Just What I Needed" – 3:43...

album. The song was highly remixed on the Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits (The Cars album)

Greatest Hits is a six-time platinum-selling compilation album by the new wave band The Cars. It was released in October 1985 on Elektra Records.-Track listing:All songs written by Ric Ocasek.# "Just What I Needed" – 3:43...

album to, among other things, emphasize the drum track. It was then released as a single in 1986, following "Tonight She Comes

Tonight She Comes

"Tonight She Comes" is a 1985 song by The Cars, from their Greatest Hits album. It was released as a single in October 1985, reaching number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in January, 1986...

", also from the Greatest Hits album. "I'm Not the One" debuted on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Top 40 chart on March 8, 1986, and peaked at number 32.

Allmusic reviewer Donald A. Guarisco described "I'm Not the One" as one of Shake It Up "strongest and most memorable tunes", commenting that its sound still sounded fresh upon its 1986 re-release, five years after its first appearance on Shake It Up.

In 2005, the album, Substitution Mass Confusion: A Tribute to The Cars

Substitution Mass Confusion: A Tribute to The Cars

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, was released on Not Lame Recordings

Not Lame Recordings

Not Lame Recordings was a Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States based independent record label specializing in power pop releases. The company was started by Bruce Brodeen in November 1994 but it shut down per November 24, 2010. The reasons Brodeen mentioned were a career switch combined with...

, which included a cover of "I'm Not the One" by Gigolo Aunts

Gigolo Aunts

-Early history:The band was formed by middle school students Steve Hurley, Dave Gibbs, Phil Hurley and Paul Brouwer in 1981 in Potsdam, New York, originally known as Sniper...

.