Episode 112: Genesis I Can't Dance . Year 1991. English Version.
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00:00:49 - Today we have the British rock group Genesis.
00:00:52 - Let's get on with the piano please.
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00:01:13 - And you know, I mean, first of all, we love, you know, we love doing it.
00:01:20 - It's really a kind of a privilege to be, you know, 51 years old and being able to go out just still to have a boy.
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00:01:38 - I think are useful just because of the fact that with what I try and do it's important to try and...
00:01:49 - Clappin and Paul Stanley.
00:01:51 - But piano was inconceivable, I mean, you can't, you can't have gotten by a piano or his guitar is much more accessible.
00:01:58 - I think I was very driven period, it was to compensate, to make myself feel more worthy.
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00:02:19 - Genesis a British rock group created in 1967 by Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Peter Gabriel and Anthony Phillips.
00:02:43 - After several lineup changes, and after spending three decades, in which they initially practiced
00:02:48 - Progressive Rock, we arrived in 1991, at the Disc Way Cant Dance with the trio formation, which is Phil Collins on vocals and drums, Tony Banks on keyboards, and Mike Rutherford on bass, guitar.
00:03:08 - The song has a simple, straightforward pop sound.
00:03:12 - Not unlike Wright said Fred's hit, I'm too sexy, this song is a blast to male brand advertising models.
00:03:19 - It's not about not being able to dance, Phil Collins told Rolling Stone magazine.
00:03:24 - It's about guys who look good aesthetically, but can't put a sentence together.
00:03:29 - Every verse is a piss on stage in a jeans commercial.
00:03:32 - Didn't dance.
00:03:33 - They didn't see the humor, and it killed the fun.
00:03:36 - When they started working on it, they decided to write spontaneously so as not to think too much.
00:03:47 - On the way we walk DVD, Tony Banks told the story of how this song was made into musicals.
00:03:53 - Mike had this basic riff that he played, and we turned it into a 16 bar riff.
00:03:58 - Then we started making it heavy, which he demanded right away, so Phil would play heavy drums and I'd add big chords and sounds.
00:04:06 - It was one of those bits that we felt would lead nowhere, it sounded fun but it wasn't really special.
00:04:11 - But there was a point where Mike was playing it and Phil was on the mic, so
00:04:15 - I wasn't playing drums.
00:04:17 - I started playing drums, and that gave it a whole different feel.
00:04:21 - It suddenly had a humorous edge to it, and Phil started singing in this kind of loud voice, giving it instant character.
00:04:28 - We knew if we worked or tried to elaborate on it anymore, we'd screw it up.
00:04:33 - When we left the song, we put some chords more, but we left it really simple.
00:04:38 - We left it in a few hours.
00:04:40 - It shows a certain direction that we could go for certain songs, which is totally opposite of what Genesis used to do in the past, which was overblow a thing, take an idea and make it massive.
00:04:50 - This was taking an idea, stripping it down and making it work.
00:04:58 - The We Can't Dance album was the group's last with Phil Collins, who left after recording his 1993 solo album, Both Sides.
00:05:08 - Tell us.
00:05:11 - Tony had this boom, she played on the keyboard.
00:05:14 - And I had a guitar riff.
00:05:16 - And what I do remember actually is that I remember playing it.
00:05:19 - I'm thinking, well that's really quite nice.
00:05:22 - But then I couldn't find it again.
00:05:23 - I had to go back and find the tape, recorded it.
00:05:26 - And listen over and over and over again to work it out.
00:05:29 - It's a simple riff but it's quite unusual the way it's actually put together.
00:05:32 - We couldn't quite find the way to do it.
00:05:34 - But we tried doing heavy fill that sort of played big drums, and that was a big cut.
00:05:38 - Nothing was really setting very good.
00:05:39 - And one time, I got this new keyboard, which was a sort of Roland thing, and it had a sort of preset drum sound thing on it.
00:05:46 - And I just started playing a lot of it, because it had a bass drum, and boom, boom, boom, like this.
00:05:49 - And then started playing these silly sounds on top of it.
00:05:51 - And the whole thing suddenly took on this completely different character.
00:05:54 - And we thought, well, this is really good.
00:05:55 - We can, we'll do it like that.
00:05:57 - And what we did was, actually after we'd written it, after about, we didn't do anything to it for like next month or two and then just said what we'll put that song down along with the guitar you know five minutes work you know we just that was our classic example of let's not do this anymore let's just record this right now you know and I remember the mic was doing the guitar part again and I was writing the lyrics in the corner on a chair until I finished you know and we went and did it and next day we had the song we thought that's great it's just so simple and just keep it really really simple a lot of humor and and and it works a great contrast to other things we've done in our career really.
00:07:00 - I can't dance, I can't talk
00:07:05 - Only thing about me is the way I walk
00:07:09 - I can't dance, I can't sing
00:07:14 - I'm just standing here selling everything
00:07:19 - I can't dance, I can't talk
00:07:24 - I can't dance, I can't talk
00:07:29 - Blue jeans sit on the beach Her dog's talkin' to me, but she's outta reach
00:07:41 - She's got a body Under that shirt
00:07:45 - But all she wants to do is rub my face in the dirt
00:07:50 - Cause I can't dance, I can't talk
00:07:54 - All I want to think about me is the way I walk
00:07:59 - I can't dance, I can't sing
00:08:03 - I'm just standing here selling
00:08:07 - Oh I'm checking everything is in place
00:08:12 - You never know who's looking on
00:08:20 - Young punk spillin' beer on my shoes
00:08:30 - That guy's talkin' to me, tryin' to steal my blues
00:08:35 - This smoke see-ho, smilin' through
00:08:39 - I never thought so much could happen
00:08:41 - Just it should be cool
00:08:43 - But I can dance, I can talk
00:08:48 - The only thing about me is the way that I walk
00:08:52 - I can dance, I can sing
00:08:57 - I'm just standing here, sitting
00:09:01 - Oh, I'm checking everything is in place
00:09:05 - You never know who's looking on
00:09:11 - The perfect body with a perfect face
00:09:18 - No, I can dance, I can talk
00:09:33 - The only thing about me is the way I walk
00:09:37 - No, I can dance, I can sing
00:09:42 - I'm just standing and setting everything
00:09:55 - I can't walk
00:10:04 - I can't dance
00:10:12 - But I can't dance
00:10:21 - But I can't sing