I Can't Dance

I Can't Dance is the fourth track from the Genesis album We Can't Dance and was the second single from the album (No Son of Mine being the first). The song peaked at #7 in both the US and the UK Singles Chart.

The video to this song is a humorous one, creating the "I Can't Dance dance" (a series of stiff, stylized motions) and illustrating the artifice and fake glamour of television advertisements. Phil Collins himself said that the video was designed to make fun of the models in jeans commercials, and each verse refers to the things that the models in these commercials do. Speaking about the models, he specifically said, "...they can't dance."

The single's B-side, On the Shoreline, was included on the boxed set , released in 2000.

On the band's 2007 , the song has been included as an encore, along with The Carpet Crawlers.

Release

Single releases contained an extended remix entitled the "Sex Mix". This was later released on the box set retitled as the "12" Mix". The remixers were brothers Howard Gray and Trevor Gray of Apollo 440.

The B-side, On the Shoreline, was also included on Genesis Archive 2: 1976-1992. The song samples the guitar of Phil Collins's In the Air Tonight and from No Son of Mine (another track from We Can't Dance) on the introduction.

References

Fielder, Hugh (2000). Genesis Archive #2: 1976—1992 [CD liner notes]. Gelring Ltd.
McMahan, Scott (January 1998). The Genesis Discography (PDF). Retrieved on 2006-05-12.

External Links

Music Video at VH1 Classic

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Genesis is an English rock band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis is among the top 30 highest-selling recording artists of all time.^[1] In 1988 the band won a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video.
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We Can't Dance is the fourteenth studio album by Genesis, recorded and released in 1991. It was their last studio album featuring vocalist/drummer Phil Collins, who would leave Genesis amicably in 1996 before returning for 2007's .
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Surrey

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Status Ceremonial & Non-metropolitan county
Origin Historic
Region South East England
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Released October 31, 1991
Format CD
Recorded The Farm, Surrey
Genre Rock
Length 5:46 (radio edit)
6:39 (album version)
Label Atlantic, Virgin
Producer(s) Genesis
Peak chart positions

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B-side(s) Way of the World
Released 1992
Format CD, 7", 12"
Recorded The Farm, Surrey
Genre Pop rock
Length 4:38
Label Atlantic
Producer(s) Genesis, Nick Davis
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Released November 11, 1991
Recorded March - September 1991
Genre Progressive Rock
Length 10:08
Label Charisma/Virgin (UK), Atlantic Records (US)
Writer(s) Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford
Producer(s)
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Motto
"In God We Trust" (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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