We Can't Dance

Occupation

• Tony Banks - keyboards, vocals
• Phil Collins - vocals, drums, percussion
• Mike Rutherford - guitars, bass

We Can not Dance (English for "we can not dance " ) is the 14th studio album by British rock band Genesis. The published in November 1991, work is the last studio album of the group, which was recorded with vocalist Phil Collins, who five years later left the band and was replaced for the album Calling All Stations (1997) by Ray Wilson. Although Collins returned in 2006 back to Genesis, but without recording any new material.

Background

The album was recorded in November 1991 by Anthony Banks Ltd. / Philip Collins Ltd. / Michael Rutherford Ltd. / Hit And Run Music ( Publishing) Ltd.. published. The best rankings in the charts were number 1 in the UK and Germany and No. 4 in the USA. The album was produced by Genesis and Nick Davis. Remixed by Nick Davis was supported by Mark Robinson.

Over the years 1991 to 1993 six singles were released, all of which reached down to the last one finished in the top 25 on the charts in the UK and the USA. The album was in Germany 25 weeks at # 1 on the album charts. The album is still in front of the predecessor Invisible Touch with over 18 million copies sold worldwide, the overall most successful album of the group. With I Can not Dance and Hold on My Heart, it also contained the hit singles so far past the band's history.

Title list

All titles have been officially written by Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks and composed, the lyrics were written but demonstrably of individual members. These main authors of the songs are indicated on the right in parentheses.

DVD Extras (2007 Release)

Description of individual songs

• No Son of Mine: The narrative of a troubled father -son relationship piece, which was released as the first single before the album is not, as is often assumed, autobiographical nature. Collins built on the basis of the exclamation " No Son of Mine" a text from the subject, in which he merely put himself into the song in the sense of the narrator. Not only with the fans - Like Mama also this song despite its Extra-long to a worldwide hit.
• Driving the Last Spike: The text of the song describes the construction of railways in the early days of the railways in England from the perspective of workers who separated contributed their hard work, risking their lives and health of their families. In the song, a misfortune is, among other things described the construction of a railway tunnel, the rest of the text deals with the conditions under which the workers were employed, and their personal experiences.
• Dreaming While You Sleep: The song is about a hit and run after an accident and the subsequent remorse of the guilty. The quite diverse instrumented piece contains a drum machine, but also keyboards and guitars, later, the drum machine is in the " chorus " is replaced by real drums.
• Since I Lost You: This song wrote Collins for the late son of his friend Eric Clapton. His son Connor came on 20 March 1990 at the age of 4 years died. Collins himself played Clapton the song initially alone in front to get his consent for publication.
• Jesus He Knows Me is a snappy settlement with Christian TV evangelists, where hypocrisy and greed is accused.
• I Can not Dance, built around a guitar riff in an unusual way for Genesis, is engaged in the text mockingly with the world of advertising and the models, in the people's money thus earned, just to look good.

Working title of each song

During the production of each of the published songs wore a very different titles, which are documented in this table:

Tour

See also the main article: The Way We Walk

The We Can not Dance tour led the group through large arenas and stadiums in North America and Europe. The setlist of the concerts focused primarily on the album We Can not Dance, and the two also very popular predecessor, Genesis, and Invisible Touch. Material from the 70's was summarized in the Tour in a so-called Old Medley.

Charts

• Album: 11/1991: We Can not Dance ( D # 1 (25 weeks), UK # 1 (2 weeks ), U.S. # 4)

• Singles: 10/1991: No Son of Mine ( D # 3, UK # 6, U.S. # 12)
• 01 /1992: I Can not Dance ( D # 4, U.S. # 7, UK # 7)
• 04 /1992 Hold on My Heart ( U.S. # 12, UK # 16, D # 45)
• 07 /1992: Jesus He Knows Me ( D # 13, UK # 20, U.S. # 23)
• 11/1992: Tell Me Why (UK # 40, D # 51)
• 02/ 1993: Never a Time (U.S. # 21, D # 56)

Awards

• Grammy Award nomination: Best Performance by a Duo or Group - Pop ( "I Can not Dance" ) ( 1993)
• American Music Award Award: Favorite Group ( Pop / Rock ) ( We Can not Dance ) ( 1993)
• American Music Award nominations: favortite Album ( Contemporary ) ( We Can not Dance ), Favoritisierte group ( contemporary ) ( We Can not Dance ) ( 1993)