We Can't Dance - Genesis

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 10 19:22

"Hold On My Heart" is a 1992 single by rock band Genesis. It was released as the third single from their 1991 album We Can't Dance. The song proved to be very successful in both the UK and the U.S. reaching number 16 on the official UK Top 75 singes chart and number 12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The music video shows the band playing at an empty night club.

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 10 19:21

"Dreaming While You Sleep" is a song by the pop rock band Genesis. It is the sixth track on their album We Can't Dance, their last with Phil Collins. The lyrics of the song were written by bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford. They are about someone who was driving on a rainy night and was falling asleep, and ran over a woman that was crossing the street because he couldn't see her. The driver didn't stop to see what he had done, and after the notice was heard on the radio and appeared on TV, the thought of what he had done began haunting him. "Dreaming While You Sleep" was performed live during the 1992 "The Way We Walk" tour. A live version of the song can be found on the second disc of the boxed set Genesis Archive 2: 1976-1992. The performance was recorded in early November 1992, at...Read more

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 10 19:20

"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. 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 commercials. 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 Genesis Archive 2: 1976-1992, released in 2000. Single releases contained an exten...Read more

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 10 19:17

"Driving The Last Spike" is the third track on the Genesis album We Can't Dance. The song is about the railroad workers of the 1800s, many of whom died making Britain's railways. The song narrates the thoughts and feelings of an unnamed railroad worker in the form of a soliloquy or internal monologue. The title is a phrase meaning the completion of a major railroad project - placing the 'last spike' is often a momentous occasion.

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 10 19:16

"Jesus He Knows Me" is the second track from Genesis album We Can't Dance. The song is a protest against televangelism, released in a period when several televangelists such as Robert Tilton were under investigation for promising financial success to their listeners, provided they sent money to them. The video features Phil Collins as an unscrupulous televangelist who lives like a millionaire thanks to donations from his followers. The satirical/comedic video also features fellow band members Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford as fellow evangelists. As a footnote, Collins's character in this video bears some resemblance to his role of Phil Mayhew, a low-brow con artist eventually dabbling in televangelism from the 1985 Miami Vice episode, Phil the Shill. Some versions of the single in...Read more

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 10 19:13

"No Son of Mine" is the first single by the British rock group Genesis from their 1991 album We Can't Dance, which reached #6 in the UK and #12 in the US.

The song's lyrics tell the story of a boy who runs away from home, and -- after some reconsideration -- attempts to return, only to be rebuked by his father. The video for this song was particularly dreary, illustrating the scene in black and white.

The radio edit fades out the song's extended outro about a minute earlier; however, the music video uses the unedited album version regardless.

The single included the 8th track from We Can't Dance, "Living Forever", as the B-side.

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 10 19:12

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 to concentrate on his solo career. We Can't Dance was Genesis' first studio album in five years, following the international success of Invisible Touch in 1986. We Can't Dance reached #1 in the UK and #4 in the US, selling several million copies (including 4 million in the US alone). The album also spawned several hit singles, including "No Son of Mine" , "Hold on My Heart", "I Can't Dance" and "Jesus He Knows Me", the latter two supported by humorous videos. Following the release of the album, Genesis would spend the majority of 1992 on the road, promoting We Can't Dance on a popul...Read more