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* BetterExportForYou: The initial Japanese release added "Bashi-Bazouk", the B-side of "Digging in the Dirt", to the end of the album as a bonus track. However, it turned out that the song was included without Gabriel's permission, resulting in the album being withdrawn and reissued without it.
* CreatorBreakdown: As mentioned on the main page, the album's content was influenced by the fallout of Gabriel's divorce from his first wife, his breakup with Rosanna Arquette, and his estrangement from his first daughter.
* CreatorCouple: According to Music/SineadOConnor, her collaborations with Gabriel on this album were made during an on-and-off romantic relationship between the two, which she would ultimately terminate due to her dissatisfaction with its lack of commitment. O'Connor would later write 1994's "Thank You for Hearing Me" as an expression of her feelings in the wake of that.
* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: Given that the entire album is more or less a darker take on ''So'', cases of this inevitably abound.
** "Steam" is overtly one to "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time", in that it's a throwback to '60s soul and '70s funk on an album otherwise defined by a mix of art pop and African folk music.
** "Kiss That Frog" also acts as a successor of sorts to ''So''[='s=] funkier pieces, with it being an upbeat love song with heavy use of phallic metaphors in the vein of "Sledgehammer".
** "Fourteen Black Paintings" can be considered one to "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)", with it being a mostly-instrumental mood piece tucked near the end of its respective album.
** This even extends to the music videos, with "Steam" and "Kiss That Frog" following up on the stop-motion driven videos for "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time" by making as much use of then-cutting-edge CGI animation technology as possible.
* FollowTheLeader: "Steam" was deliberately made in the style of "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time" to ride off of the continued success of those singles.
* SequelGap: Released six years after ''Music/{{So}}'', continuing the trend of each Peter Gabriel album taking longer to come out than the last. The trend would only get worse, with ''Up'' taking a full decade to come out after ''Us'', and ''I/O'' still being in production to this day.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Along with ''Music/{{So}}'', ''Us'' was chosen by famed audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab to receive an in-house remaster and reissue as part of the label's "Ultradisc II" line of 24-karat gold CD releases, under the catalog number UDCD 717. However, for reasons unknown, the plan fell through, and neither ''So'' nor ''Us'' were touched by the label.
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* CreatorBreakdown: As mentioned on the main page, the album's content was influenced by the fallout of Gabriel's divorce from his first wife, his breakup with Rosanna Arquette, and his estrangement from his first daughter.
* CreatorCouple: According to Music/SineadOConnor, her collaborations with Gabriel on this album were made during an on-and-off romantic relationship between the two, which she would ultimately terminate due to her dissatisfaction with its lack of commitment. O'Connor would later write 1994's "Thank You for Hearing Me" as an expression of her feelings in the wake of that.
* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: Given that the entire album is more or less a darker take on ''So'', cases of this inevitably abound.
** "Steam" is overtly one to "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time", in that it's a throwback to '60s soul and '70s funk on an album otherwise defined by a mix of art pop and African folk music.
** "Kiss That Frog" also acts as a successor of sorts to ''So''[='s=] funkier pieces, with it being an upbeat love song with heavy use of phallic metaphors in the vein of "Sledgehammer".
** "Fourteen Black Paintings" can be considered one to "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)", with it being a mostly-instrumental mood piece tucked near the end of its respective album.
** This even extends to the music videos, with "Steam" and "Kiss That Frog" following up on the stop-motion driven videos for "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time" by making as much use of then-cutting-edge CGI animation technology as possible.
* FollowTheLeader: "Steam" was deliberately made in the style of "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time" to ride off of the continued success of those singles.
* SequelGap: Released six years after ''Music/{{So}}'', continuing the trend of each Peter Gabriel album taking longer to come out than the last. The trend would only get worse, with ''Up'' taking a full decade to come out after ''Us'', and ''I/O'' still being in production to this day.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Along with ''Music/{{So}}'', ''Us'' was chosen by famed audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab to receive an in-house remaster and reissue as part of the label's "Ultradisc II" line of 24-karat gold CD releases, under the catalog number UDCD 717. However, for reasons unknown, the plan fell through, and neither ''So'' nor ''Us'' were touched by the label.
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