I confess I am now at least getting a good laugh out of this ludicrous thread
Apart from drawing attention to what I think is a clear pastiche, the aim of my first post is to start a thread in which the other members could post artworks from non-Genesis artists that they think is based from that of Genesis or Genesis-related artists. That's why I haven't included among the Other Bands or Random sections.
I also want the other members of the forum to upload album covers that are based on/copied from the artwork from any album by Genesis or Genesis-related artists.
At the time of the promotion of We Can't Dance, they expressed, specially Collins, in several interviews the opinion that good music came from good songs and gifted artists, regardless of the rhythm, fad respectability or the pundits' opinions.
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(00:25 Onwards).
Remember that Collins did not have a good opinion of rap, without forgetting that about 12 years before he said that he liked punk against the critics' consensus.
They did not actually said that their album's title was a pun on that of Madge, but this can be gathered.
I thought they were lampooning all the dance music of that era; I ddin't even know Madonna did an album of that title (the line comes from the song Vogue, anyway). By Simon I presume you mean Simon Collins?
It was indeed a lampooning towards all the dance music scene (the criticism was not directed to the whole genre but to the dance music that was hollow).
They simply made up a world-play from the title of a remix album by Madonna from 1987 (You Can Dance) as a kind of answer or mockery (We Can't Dance).
Regarding Madge's album: its cover is quite known (maybe her most famous cover: dressed as an Andalusian, peroxided, red background and white letters, quite used as a poster), it featured the song 'Spotlight' (the only original one instead of a reworking), 'Vogue' is from her 1990 album I'm Breathless and there is also an issue with the cover of another album by Madge.
By the way, what is obvious is that the We Can't Dance title is a lampooning nod to that of Madonna's album You Can Dance. Remember that Madge is (or was in his teen years) Simon's favourite singer.
Vaya Con Dios' self-titled first album only shows singer Dani Klein and bassist Dirk Schoufs on the cover, whereas on the third one Time Flies it is only Dani (Schoufs already dead for a year). Neither album has the guitarist Jean-Michel Gielen on the cover, unlike on the second one Night Owls, featuring all the band members. After the release of Time Flies, Gielen left Vaya Con Dios, henceforth becoming a project of Dani