WE CAN'T DANCE

Come on people, don't you like excellent progressive pop? That's how I call it! "We Can't Dance" was my introduction to GENESIS when I was fifteen, ten years ago. Since then I remember the lyrics of every song and know every sound of this album. I don't think "We Can't Dance" deserves severe castigation -- the members of GENESIS just decided to create a masterpiece of pop! But they were not able to get away from their past, and at least two tracks on this album still smack of progressive rock -- "Driving The Last Spike" and "Fading Lights". Besides, the lyrics on "We Can't Dance" are probably the best among those in all the previous GENESIS albums. These songs are actually very meaningful and some address important philosophical questions. "No Son Of Mine" is an emotional appeal by a man who was cast away by his father. "Jesus He Knows Me" still cracks me as one of the cleverest attacks at pseudo-religion. "Driving The Last Spike" is beyong comparison -- if you listen to it seriously I would not be surpirsed to see you moved. "Dreaming While You Sleep" deals with a terrible situation everyone can get in -- a man kills a woman while driving, but nobody witnessed it and he continued to drive thinking that "the miles will somehow put it right". The story worthy of Dostoyevsky ... But my favourite is "Fading Lights" -- GENESIS' variant of PINK FLOYD's "Time". Certainly, "We can't dance" is not a masterpiece of progressive rock, but it is a masterpiece of progressive pop -- for this four stars only.