Songoftheday 6/27/18 - You see the face on the TV screen coming at you every Sunday, see that face on the billboard that man is me...
from the album We Can't Dance (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #23 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9
Today's song of the day comes from the progressive rock band turned pop hitmakers Genesis, whose 1991 album We Can't Dance (as of now the last studio set with Phil Collins on board) had already spun off a trio of hits with "No Son Of Mine", "Hold On My Heart", and the top ten "I Can't Dance". (Also, album track "Driving The Last Spike" went to #25 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart.) The fourth single from the record would be the uptempo dig at religion, "Jesus He Knows Me". Aimed at the trend of TV evangelists who are banking on their flock, the track is a fun yet truthful look at the sorryful state of faith that continues today. It's my favorite video of theirs, not just because of the message but in that it features all three of them - Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks - pretty equally...
"Jesus He Knows Me" became the fourth top-40 pop hit in America from We Can't Dance in September of 1992. The song climbed to #24 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart, and made it to #27 on their Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format list. Internationally, the single peaked at #10 in Canada, and reached the top-40 in Germany (#13), The Netherlands (#18), Belgium (#18), the UK (#20), Ireland (#22), Austria (#26), France (#27), New Zealand (#35), and Sweden (#38).
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The original extended cut of the video for MTV's premiere had Collins' doing his best holy roller impression...
And finally, live touring around the record in 1992...
and finally, in concert in England in 2011...
Up tomorrow: Canadian rocker is questionably speechless.
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