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"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 extended remix entitled the "Sex Mix". This was later released on the Genesis Archive 2: 1976-1992 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' "In the Air Tonight" and from another track from We Can't Dance, "No Son of Mine", on the introduction.

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Added by Brodie Bruce 1 year ago on 10 May 2007 07:20