I Can't Dance

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“I Can't Dance”
“I Can't Dance” cover
Single by Genesis
from the album We Can't Dance
B-side "On the Shoreline"
Released July 1992
Format CD maxi
7" single
12" maxi
Recorded The Farm, Surrey; March 1991 — September 1991
Genre Progressive Rock
Length 4:01
Label Atlantic (US)
Virgin
Writer(s) Tony Banks
Phil Collins
Mike Rutherford
Producer Genesis
Nick Davis
Genesis singles chronology
"No Son of Mine"
(1991)		 "I Can't Dance"
(1992)		 "Hold on My Heart"
(1992)
We Can't Dance track listing
Driving The Last Spike
(Track 3)		 I Can't Dance
(Track 4)		 Never a Time

"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."[citation needed] "Weird Al" Yankovic also created a separate version of the video in which he appears alongside the band. Mismatched lighting suggests his shots were separate from the others.

The single's B-side, On the Shoreline, was included on the boxed set Genesis Archive 2: 1976-1992, released in 2000.

On the band's 2007 Turn It On Again: The Tour, the song has been included as an encore, albeit transposed down a key to account for the deepening of Phil Collins' voice over the years..

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[edit] Release

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 features a sample of guitarist Mike Rutherford's guitar playing that was captured by keyboard player Tony Banks during a jam session. The peculiar sound (Called "elephantus" by the band) was also used in the song "No Son of Mine" (another track from We Can't Dance).

[edit] Track listings

CD maxi - Europe
  1. "I Can't Dance" (4:02)
  2. "On the Shoreline" (4:47)
  3. "In Too Deep" (live) (5:28)
  4. "That's All" (live) (4:54)
CD maxi - US
  1. "I Can't Dance" (LP version) (4:00)
  2. "On the Shoreline" (4:45)
  3. "In Too Deep" (live) (5:28)
  4. "That's All" (live) (4:54)
  5. "I Can't Dance" (sex mix) (6:59)
7" single
  1. "I Can't Dance" (4:01)
  2. "On the Shoreline" (4:46)
12" maxi
  1. "I Can't Dance" (4:02)
  2. "On the Shoreline" (4:47)
  3. "I Can't Dance" (sex mix) (6:59)

[edit] Charts

Chart (1992)[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 7
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks 2
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 7
Austrian Singles Chart 2
French Singles Chart 9
German Singles Chart 4
Irish Singles Chart 7
Swedish Singles Chart 13
Swiss Singles Chart 8
UK Singles Chart 7

[edit] External links

[edit] 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.
  1. ^ "", in various Singles Chart Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  2. ^ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  3. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  4. ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  5. ^ Billboard Billboard.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)