No Son of Mine

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"No Son of Mine"
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Single by Genesis
from the album We Can't Dance
B-side "Living Forever"
Released 21 October 1991 (1991-10-21)[1]
Studio The Farm (Surrey, England)
Length
  • 4:41 (radio edit)
  • 6:41 (album version)
  • 5:44 (new edit – 1999)
Label
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s) Phil Collins
Producer(s)
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"Throwing It All Away"
(1987)		 "No Son of Mine"
(1991)		 "I Can't Dance"
(1991)

"No Son of Mine" is a song by British rock group Genesis, released as the lead single from their 14th album, We Can't Dance (1991). The song reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (the band's first not to enter the top 10 since 1984's "Taking It All Too Hard"). It was also a top-10 hit in several European countries and peaked atop Canada's RPM Top Singles chart for five weeks.

Lyrics and music

The song's lyrics tell the story of a boy who runs away from his abusive home, and—after some reconsideration—attempts to return, only to be rejected by his father. In interviews, Phil Collins has said that the lyrics are deliberately vague as to whether the narrator or his mother is the victim of the abuse.

The song has a distinctive sound heard during the intro and before the second verse. Referred to by the band as "elephantus", the sound was created by Tony Banks recording Mike Rutherford's guitar with a sampler and then playing three notes on the bottom register of the keyboard, greatly lowering the pitch. The working title of "No Son of Mine" was "Elephantus".[2] The sound is also featured in the opening of the "I Can't Dance" single B-side "On the Shoreline". A similar sound is heard in former Genesis member Peter Gabriel's song "I Grieve", which was released a few years later, on the soundtrack to City of Angels.

The single included the eighth track from We Can't Dance, "Living Forever", as the B-side. The radio edit fades out the song's extended outro a minute in advance and deletes part of the second chorus. The music video makes use of the complete album version.

Music video

The video for this song is melancholic, illustrating the scene in sepia tone. The video depicts what is discussed in the song, which is a conversation between a son and his father. During the last chorus, snowflakes begin appearing flying around the house; eventually, at the end, the scene pulls out to reveal that the scenes of confrontation have taken place in a snow globe that the son is holding. It was done by FYI (director Jim Yukich and producer Paul Flattery).

Live performances

A live version appears on the albums The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts, and Live Over Europe 2007, as well as on their DVDs The Way We Walk - Live in Concert and When in Rome 2007.

Track listings

7-inch and cassette single[3][4]

  1. "No Son of Mine"
  2. "Living Forever"

12-inch and CD single[5][6]

  1. "No Son of Mine"
  2. "Living Forever"
  3. "Invisible Touch" (live)

Personnel

Charts

References

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  7. ↑ "Australian-charts.com – Genesis – No Son of Mine". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
  8. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Genesis – No Son of Mine" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
  9. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Genesis – No Son of Mine" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  10. ↑ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 1696." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
  11. ↑ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 2045." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
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  15. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Genesis – No Son of Mine" (in French). Les classement single.
  16. ↑ "Musicline.de – Genesis Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.
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  18. ↑ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – No Son of Mine". Irish Singles Chart.
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  20. ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 47, 1991" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40
  21. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Genesis – No Son of Mine" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  22. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Genesis – No Son of Mine". Top 40 Singles.
  23. ↑ "Norwegiancharts.com – Genesis – No Son of Mine". VG-lista.
  24. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – Genesis – No Son of Mine". Singles Top 100.
  25. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Genesis – No Son of Mine". Swiss Singles Chart.
  26. ↑ "Archive Chart: 19911109" UK Singles Chart.
  27. ↑ "Genesis – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Genesis.
  28. ↑ "Genesis – Chart history" Billboard Adult Contemporary for Genesis.
  29. ↑ "Genesis – Chart history" Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs for Genesis.
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  31. ↑ * Zimbabwe. Kimberley, C. Zimbabwe: singles chart book. Harare: C. Kimberley, 2000
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