WE CAN'T DANCE

I think it is unfair to Genesis to rate this album so low as most of reviewers do here. i think most of the fans are not thinking straight here. I mean, we all know the Gabriel era-Genesis, we all love it and consider it the best era by Genesis. However, the Gabriel era-Genesis wasn´t the best because Gabriel was in it. It was the best because it was the first. The first 7 or 8 albums (From "From genesis to revelation" through "Wind & W") are the best because they were the first 8 albums by the band.

Demanding a superb Genesis after 17 years from it´s birth is ridiculous and obtuse by the critics and fans altogether. It´s like asking the Rolling stones to keep making fresh, original and inspired music in the XXI century at the age of what?, 65?.

People change, understand that. Musicians´ambitions are different with time as well as their musical interests. Genesis didn´t scape the rule that say "No musical band keep making their best after the 10th year or the 8th album". Name one single band that beat the rule. Metallica?, The stones?, Pink Floyd?, King Crimson?, The Beatles? (they were lucky to separate after 1970).

They became POP?, they may have. So what?, they did it good and kept making great songs alongside, like "Home by the sea", "Do the neurotic", "the brazilian", "dreaming while you sleep" and the main spot of criticism "Fading lights". I think "Duke" is a great album for it´s time.

Why is this a good album?. Remember wen the albums were not as lenghty as today?. The average was 43 minutes. This album is almost half an hour lenghtier than the 70´s average. There are Gentle Giant´s albums of 32 minutes, the same minutes this album is lenghtier to the old ones.

"Atom heart mother" is supposed to be a great album, 10 times better than "We can´t dance" right?. Have you noticed "atom heart mother suit" is a 12 minute or so of lenght?, full of nothing ¡¡¡¡...what would have happened if Pink Floyd had had to make a 70 minutes album in than chance?, would they have filled it with toilet and shower noises ?, they sure would have. it was evident the only thing they really put some brain into was on "heart mother suit" (which by the way, has about 6 minutes of horrendous noises at the middle).

Well, if this album was only 43 to 45 minutes long it would sure make a better inpression. You know what the difference is?, Technology ¡¡, CD formats, Commercialism, that is. Had they made a 45 minute long album containing no pure POP songs such as "never a time" and "hold on my heart", this would be an easily "very good" rated album.