Label: Atlantic Records (US), 7 82344-2
Style: Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Godalming, Surrey, England
Time: 71:36
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 480 Mb
Charts:
UK #1, AUS #8, AUT #1, GER #1, IT #5, NL #1, NOR #1, NZ #5, SWE #4, US
#4. UK & Germany: 5x Platinum; New Zealand & US: 4x Platinum;
Australia: 2x Platinum; Sweden, Austria & Netherlands: Platinum.
1991
became an important year for Genesis. The band met again in spring to
record a new album. The hype around Phil Collins' solo album …But
Seriously and the accompanying world tour was slowly ebbing off. Mike
& The Mechanics as well as Tony Banks hurried to release their
albums that spring, and things grew hectic in Peter Gabriel's corner,
too.
We Can't Dance was released on 11th November 1991 (12th in North
America) and became the most successful Genesis album so far. It topped
the German album charts in 1991 and 1992 for 24 weeks and sold close to
three million copies in Germany alone. Sales numbers in the tens of
millions, a stadium tour, lots of hit singles and entertainingly funny
promo videos - yes, Genesis were a big marketing machine in the early
90s, sponsored by Volkswagen. Behind the facade of a couple of
musicians out of reach who had found the key to making it very big there
is a varied album that was to become their last studio record with Phil
Collins.
We Can't Dance contains way over 70 minutes of music. Long
since has the CD as the new medium broken through the time constraints
of the LP, though that is not always for the better. We Can't Dance has
its lengths, but it mainly has its longer songs. Yet again do Genesis
challenge their audience that is increasingly interested in their pop
songs. Besides the CD there was also a double LP version.
The album
was produced by Nick Davis who had previously also worked on Tony Banks'
album Still. Nick Davis brought a breath of fresh air into the
production. The sound of Invisible Touch had become a thing of the past.
The band also broke new ground in the artwork. While the covers of
previous album had been occasionally called boring, We Can't Dance was
illustrated by water-colour paintings, and once again there is no show
of the band on the cover.
(genesis-news.com/c-Genesis-We-Cant-Dance-CD-review-s267.html)
01. No Son Of Mine (06:39)
02. Jesus He Knows Me (04:16)
03. Driving The Last Spike (10:08)
04. I Can't Dance (04:01)
05. Never A Time (03:50)
06. Dreaming While You Sleep (07:16)
07. Tell Me Why (04:58)
08. Living Forever (05:41)
09. Hold On My Heart (04:38)
10. Way Of The World (05:38)
11. Since I Lost You (04:09)
12. Fading Lights (10:16)
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