We Can't Dance

7.6	Rating (30 ratings)
8.8	Amazon rating

Add to favorites

Edit page

Buy at Amazon

Performed by

Genesis

Lists

46 votes

Listal's 100 Albums To Listen Before You Die (173 items)
list by Ryan P.

Published 11 years, 4 months ago

22 comments

32 votes

Favorite Album Covers (1116 items)
list by Agent Kermit D. Fonz

Published 8 years, 11 months ago

5 comments

32 votes

My 90's CD Rank (74 items)
list by Villiana

Published 10 years, 10 months ago

6 comments

32 votes

When I was 31... music diary, May/Jun 2014 (30 items)
list by Villiana

Published 10 years ago

3 comments

22 votes

Songs That Made Me Cry (36 items)
list by Dino Jones

Published 8 years, 2 months ago

3 comments

View all We Can't Dance lists (12 more)

We Can't Dance Videos

Genesis - Hold On My Heart

115 Views, 3 votes

Added 9 years ago

Genesis - No Son Of Mine

108 Views, 3 votes

Added 9 years ago

Genesis - Tell Me Why

107 Views, 3 votes

Added 9 years ago

View all We Can't Dance videos (2 more)

Pictures

2 votes

1 vote

View all We Can't Dance pictures (5 more)

Description: We Can't Dance is the fourteenth studio album by the band Genesis, released on 11 November 1991 through Atlantic (United States) and Virgin (Europe). It was released as a single album on CD and cassette, and as a double album on vinyl. The album reached No.1 in the UK, where it remained on the charts for 61 weeks. It was the band's final studio album featuring vocalist/drummer Phil Collins, who would leave Genesis in 1996 to focus on his solo work. We Can't Dance was Genesis' first studio album in five years, following the international success of Invisible Touch in 1986. The album reached No.1 in the UK and No.4 in the US, s We Can't Dance is the fourteenth studio album by the band Genesis, released on 11 November 1991 through Atlantic (United States) and Virgin (Europe). It was released as a single album on CD and cassette, and as a double album on vinyl. The album reached No.1 in the UK, where it remained on the charts for 61 weeks. It was the band's final studio album featuring vocalist/drummer Phil Collins, who would leave Genesis in 1996 to focus on his solo work.

We Can't Dance was Genesis' first studio album in five years, following the international success of Invisible Touch in 1986. The album reached No.1 in the UK and No.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. Two songs were cut from the album, because "there wasn't enough room on the record." These two songs are "On the Shoreline", and "Hearts on Fire". Both songs were released as B-sides.
Contrary to popular belief, "Since I Lost You" is not about a broken relationship. The lyrics were written by Phil Collins for friend Eric Clapton. On 20 March 1991, Clapton's four-year-old son Conor died after falling from the 53rd-story window of his mother's friend's New York City apartment, landing on the roof of an adjacent four-story building. Collins played it to him before putting it on the album to get his approval.
Most of the songs were created/written by improvisation at Genesis' Fisher Lane Farm ("The Farm") studio.
Following the release of the album Genesis spent 13 weeks on the road playing 55 concerts between May and July 1992, with a 15 date UK tour in October/November.[2] The popular worldwide tour sold out arenas and stadiums (where they mostly played on the US leg of the tour). This proved to be Collins' last tour with Genesis until the band reunited in 2007.
During the recording of We Can't Dance a 40 minute documentary called No Admittance was produced and broadcast on the Disney Channel. It has since been included in the bonus DVD released in 2007.
The album was re-released as a SACD/DVD double disc set (including new 5.1 and Stereo mixes) in October 2007.

Before We Can't Dance was released, all songs had working titles. Below is a list of the original song working titles and finalised song titles (in parentheses):
"Elephantus" ("No Son of Mine") – 6:39
"Do the New One" ("Jesus He Knows Me") – 4:16
"Irish" ("Driving the Last Spike") – 10:08
"Blue Jeans", "Heavy A Flat" ("I Can't Dance") – 4:01
"B. B. Hit", "Still Throwing It All Away" ("Never a Time") – 3:50
"Rolling Toms" ("Dreaming While You Sleep") – 7:16
"Rickenbacker" ("Tell Me Why") – 4:58
"Hip Hop Brushes" ("Living Forever") – 5:41
"Burt Bacharach" ("Hold on My Heart") – 4:37
"Spaghetti West" ("Way of the World") – 5:39
"Song for Conor" ("Since I Lost You") – 4:09
"Nile" ("Fading Lights") – 10:17 ... (more)

Manufacturer: Atlantic/Virgin
Release date: 11 November 1991
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0077778633020 UPC: 077778633020

Tags: Genesis (1), 1991 (1)

My tags:

Add tags

Update feed

amongus added this to wanted list 6 months, 3 weeks ago

dysfunctional_excess added this to owned list 1 year, 1 month ago

Fernando Leonel Alba rated this 5/10 2 years ago

Nero rated this 10/10 3 years, 2 months ago

napier rated this 9/10 3 years, 9 months ago

Seinfeld rated this 4/10 3 years, 9 months ago

Gauntlet voted for an image 4 years, 7 months ago

Gauntlet rated this 8/10 4 years, 9 months ago

CD Smiles rated this 8/10 4 years, 9 months ago

CD Smiles added this to a list 4 years, 9 months ago

Albums Heard in 2019 (274 music items)

"July 21st Year: 1991 Genre: Pop Rock / Soft Rock Way of the World"

Dino Jones rated this 10/10 5 years, 9 months ago

Dj Levels added this to a list 6 years, 8 months ago

Music...mp3 vinyl cd cassettes collection (1013 music items)

Aldenvdk rated this 3/10 6 years, 10 months ago

Aldenvdk added this to a list 6 years, 11 months ago

Albums Listened to in 2017 (443 music items)

"June 15th Year: 1991 Genre: Pop Rock "

Agent Kermit D. Fonz added this to a list 7 years ago

Favorite Songs of All Time: 1990-1991 (160 music items)

""No Son of Mine" Runner up: "I Can't Dance" "

Agent Kermit D. Fonz added this to a list 7 years, 2 months ago

My Favorite Albums: 1991 (35 music items)

Dino Jones added this to a list 8 years, 2 months ago

Songs That Made Me Cry (36 music items)

""Fading Lights" brought me to tears by the power of the lyrics and music. It was a really reflective piece of music written by Tony Banks that made me think back on the end of my high school years and how that part of my life was beginning to fade away. The instrumental section years later would move me to tears in a way due to finding out that Tony envisioned it as a life progressing through the music which was represented in other pieces he's written, (such as a piece featured later here on th"

Listened to
Condition
Added date
Private notes Only visible to you
or cancel