Ranking the Studio Albums: April Wine
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Join host Pete Pardo as he ranks the studio albums of Canada's hard rock veterans April Wine. #aprilwine
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1. Harder faster
2. First glance
3. Nature of the beast
4. Electric Jewels
5. Stand back
6. Power play
7. Forever for now
8. The whole world ‘s goin crazy
9. On record
10. Animal grace
11. Self titled
12. Haven’t listen to anything after their 84 break up
Oh you should. There are true gems in the later music. Try it out✌️⭐💫✨😍😍🙏⚡🎹👀✨
Amen, this list rocks
@@weilandiv8310 Thank you!
I like you list alot. Forever For Now is bottom for me.
Their longtime drummer Jerry Mercer is a friend of mine. I've even gigged with him a few times.
Great guy. Hell of a drummer.
I always thought that Jerry Mercer did not get the recognition he deserved.
Great drummer.. I thought he passed yrs ago?
@@fortunatoofamontillado1059 He's not active any more. He's about 81 or 82 now. He did have some health problems for a while but I think he's still hanging in there.
@@CraigLafferty as far as Canadian drummers go, he is the 2nd greatest of all time. #1 being of course, the late legend Neil Peart
@@rickleblanc8900 Of course! That is understood by the world!
1- Harder Faster (imho their Best)
2- Power Play
3- Debut (inc. Fast Train)
4- Stand Back
5- The Nature Of The Beast ('Wanna Rock' sounds like a Canadian Status Quo)
6- On Record
7- Animal Grace ('Sons Of The Pioneers' is a cool track. On this album they went full AOR)
8- Attitude (early 90s Sleazy Hard Rock)
9- Frigade (Solid 90s Hard Rock)
10- The Whole World's Going Crazy
11- Forever For Now (Child's Garden 🔥)
12- Walking Through Fire (This is 80s pop/Rock. 'Anejo' is a cool tune)
13- Electric Jewels
In the beginning of MTV, these guys were all over it. Back when M was for music. God I'm getting old.
I remember MTV would play a live version of 'Sign Of The Gypsy Queen' with the long guitar jam at the end. They must of had some Southern Rock influences as well.
Thank you very much for ranking the studio albums of April Wine.🎤🎸🎵🥁
Just Between You and Me was our wedding song. Totally underrated band. They still pull off a good show, Ive been fortunate enough to see them a handful of times in the last few years.
Saw them many many times in the 70's and 80's. They were amazingly unbeatable concerts back then !
Love these guys! Saw them open for Foreigner in 1978 and have been a fan every since!
Harder...Faster is one of my favourite albums of all time!
Definitley an all killer no filler rock record!
Thank you for shining light on April Wine’s catalog. My favorite band. Very underrated band worldwide. Harder Faster is my top favorite.
Roller is one of my favorites. They should have bin bigger in U.S, but Canada they were pretty big.
I LIKE TO ROCK
David Thompson: exactly! This song is perfect to me: great building up structure + and at the end a masterful blend of 3 riffs. My favorite for sure👌
Sign of the gypsy queen...Crash and burn....
Silver dollar 🤘🇬🇧🇬🇧
Brilliant band🇬🇧🇬🇧🇨🇦🇨🇦🤘
Great episode! Forever, For Now was originally supposed to be a Myles Goodwyn solo album, but at the last minute was changed to a band album, this the variety. I’ve done many an episode on this band, one of my favourite Canadian bands ever.
Harder...Faster, First Glance, and Nature of the Beast are my favorite April Wine albums, in that order. They always seemed like a band trying to figure out what they wanted to sound like. For me, that late '70s-early '80s period was the time when they hit it.
SwanShado., Same for me., in that order as well. Harder....Faster is my personal favorite, being the most cohesive, and solid album, followed with First Glance.
Thanks Pete I really enjoyed this. I love April Wine.
3. The Nature of the Beast
2. First Glance
1. Harder...Faster
I think your dogs wanted to get involved! They must have thought you were talking about April Whine
...love the dogs in the background. Keepin' it real & LIVE!
Oh man I totally overlook this band, I’ve heard of them obviously but never dug in. I’m going to have to check this out!
What do you think..?
Love April Wine! Grew up listening to this band as a kid. So many great songs. First Glance my favorite album and the first album I bought from them . ❤️❤️❤️
I saw April Wine Live 2 years ago in St Charles Missouri. They were awesome!
Great band! I was wondering when you were going to sneak them in👍 "Tellin' me lies" rocks & rolls!
I was surprised when a couple years ago I discovered that "You Could Have Been A Lady" was a cover of a song by Hot Chocolate.
Cool.
Really good show. Kinda lost touch with these guys so I'm gonna go back and check them out again. Thanks!
I just bought their box set this week.
@@daveowens9849 i have it as well. It's awesome but there's some really great tracks that didn't make it... Shoulda been a bigger box set lol !
I actually love Walking Through Fire and Harder...Faster is an absolute monster.
1. Harder...Faster
2. Nature of the Beast
3. Power Play
4. Walking Through Fire
5. First Glance
Agreed! Harder Faster is hands down their best record!
1 Harder Faster, 2. Whole Worlds Goin Crazy. 3 First Glance 4. Nature of Beast. 5 Animal Grace
April Wine started a trend of local small town bands making it big in Canada. You should check out Chilliwack from the west coast. Successful top 40 radio band featuring Bill Henderson on vocals and Brian MacLeod on lead guitar.
headpins too
Much like Triumph they just never seemed to gain the popularity they deserved. Great live band also.
@Bace ya, took them quite a while to break big in the U.S. though. I always thought they deserved recognition everywhere else. Live, they kicked ass every time. So many memorable AW concerts over the years
Canadians tend to have a bit of an inferiority complex when it comes to our music..lol Everyone i know has some kind of story whereby they were on holidays playin the Wine and people ask hey is that new Foreigner etc.lol the thing that strikes me is the 70s to early 80s period of write tunes record and tour damn near year to year what a grind! Anyway tysm ! Your channel is helping get thru this damn pandemic!
Sometimes, an artist can be too good for their own good.
Brian Greenway did a few of the lead vocals. Before the Dawn is my favorite with him on lead.
Ranch Foot Yeh, great aggressive vocals with attitude!
The 1972 song "You Could Have Been A Lady" went to # 32 (Billboard Top 40) back in May of 1972!! It was renamed April Wine (self - titled instead of "On Record" & a different cover mostly in purple) but only went to # 205 (Bubbling Under The Top 200 Album Charts) in October of 1972 on Big Tree/Bell Records.
I love that Album forever now....me and Pete usually line up on ratings..the last song is amazing... I love the whole album can't believe he picked it last ... thanks for all the great reviews...lots of fans in Canada
Nice to see that u make videos on Canadian bands.....thanks
[ 1978 - 1981 ] I bowed out before and after that
1. Harder....Faster
2. First Glance
3. The Nature Of The Beast
Live at the El Mocambo, where they were opening for the Stones in 1977, is a pretty decent live album.
As is "Live" from '74.
@@ledzeplover58 that album is even better ! Kickass from beginning to end
I love the top 3 albums of your ranking, Pete. April Wine, Triumph, Y&T, Van Halen, Pat Travers and The Rods were my favourite North American bands late seventies, early eighties. Listened to them ALL the time.
PVD Guitars Same here! Great bands!
Another great, over-looked Underdog band is Shooting Star from KS. I used to hear them ALL the time on KOME Rock Radio in San Jose in the early 80s 😎
Im Rockguy Canada is in North America!!!!
Say Hello one of my favourite songs by anyone. Weeping Widow is another classic.
April Wine Sign of the Gypsy Queen & Just Between You & Me were my favorites in high school!❤ Canada's Pride.
Man me and my childhood girl skating at the roller rink, luved ...just between you & me....ahhhh your first romance....STILL SUCH A GREAT TUNE☺️🌠🔥
Great band from my home province of Nova Scotia ( the original line up anyway ), they definitely should have been bigger, a lot of great songs throughout their catalog. Electric Jewels, First Glance, Harder... Faster, are some of my favorites.
I love this band! Terribly underrated here in the states. Their big run for the charts from '78-'81 marks one of the greatest three-album streaks ever.
01) First Glance
02) The Nature Of The Beast
03) Harder...Faster
04) Attitude
05) Stand Back
06) Walking Through Fire
07) Power Play
08) Electric Jewels
09) On Record
10) Animal Grace
11) Back To The Mansion
12) Roughly Speaking
13) Frigate
14) The Whole World's Goin' Crazy
15) Forever For Now
16) April Wine
This is one i have been waiting for
Nature of the Beast is my fav...love the band!
Haven't thought about this band in quite some time so thanks for the mental reboot. Never owned all of the catalogue but had some of the earlier albums and generally were your top 5. Maybe in a little different order but the grouping would be the same. Now time to listen again to the band. Thanks again, Pete...another great show.
The dogs stopped when you said hey! LOL! LOVE huskies... My favorite dog. ❤️❤️❤️
huskies and malamutes are so huge on RUclips.
across the pond you got Sherpa and Jamie you got Keyush and Jodie
milpar the Husky
Bonnie and Ron life with the waterworlves Tonka & Monroe down in Florida.
Definently gonna give a few of these a listen. I have the popular ones, but not the lesser known ones. Thanks, Pete. Any chance of a Tubes ranking?
Great choices pete keep up the good work brother
Love to see some more Canadian content
How about the Guess Who and BTO?
I cannot argue with your ranking Pete--first time I can say this. Good work sir!
Pete they did have huge hits in Canada. They were huge here through the 70's and into the 80's. I agree with your top 5, all great albums. First Glance is a classic. I'd rate Stand Back higher.
For me, my favorites would be: Electric Jewels, First Glance, Harder, Faster & Nature Of The Beast, honorable mention: Stand Back.
Love the Doc Savage t-shirt, Pete
Future Tense baby
They had a lot of talent ! No idea they had 16 albums
1. Electric Jewels , 2. April Wine , 3. Stand Back , 4. The Whole World's Going Crazy , 5. First Glance , 6. Harder Faster , 7. Nature of the Beast , 8. The Power play ? , Have had no exposure to their other albums . I thought that April Wine called it a day in 1982 . I used to own their second album with Could of ? Should of ? Been a Lady ( decent album ) , been years since I have heard it . Even though Pete mentioned the name the title of that album eludes me . Going to check out their other material . My favorite songs are Weeping Widow , Lady Run Lady Hide ( Which I believe is a song about man destoying nature ) , and Future Tense
Great vid! April Wine has always been one of those bands that my friends have never heard of since they were never real big. I discovered them years ago on a compilation cassette and I was hooked. Great rocking tunes.
Gotta say. Been an April Wine fan for almost 40 years. I can argue a spot or two, but you pretty much nailed it.
Man I cant say this enough but thank you for putting up so much rock and metal content nearly everyday
Good local band. Electric Jewels is my favorite. I saw Miles Goodwin last year in a local show at a small club. :)
My favorite April Wine is Harder Faster, it is a solid album, and I have been listening to it a lot lately. Great songs. But it is also my least favorite album I own by them too. Come to think of it it is the only thing I own by them. Maybe i shouldn't do a ranking the albums by April Wine, so never mind. I like to rock, say hello, twenty first century schizoid man all great songs.
This band means so much to me, because April Wine was my grandpa’s favourite band, and he has helped me through many tough times
doc savage..great t shirt and great film with ron ely who played tarzan!
Great show. Did you ever consider doing a show on Dutch rockers, Brainbox. I've only heard some of their tracks but from what I've heard it seems like it'd be up your alley and a good catalog to dive into
Pete, the Doc Savage shirt is amazing to see. That was quite a surprise
Good call Pete. Harder Faster LP I heard back in circa 85 and love it still. Very good band . Cheers man
I revisit April Wine almost daily. I have all 16 studio albums. Life long fan. 51 years n counting. Here's my top 5. No particular order per say, just too much good stuff. So, Electric Jewels, Nature of the Beast, Attitude, Stand Back and First Glance. Hard not to include albums like, On Record, Harder Faster, Power Play and Whole Worlds Goin Crazy.
It's hard to fathom why they weren't more popular in the States. It wasn't for their lack of touring. I think to a great extent, it was their lack of radio airplay in the States. My favorite album is their third album Electric Jewels, from '73.
Your First Glance cover is our Greatest Hits cover in Canada. Thanx for that.
Saw this lot live in Southampton in 1981ish. Diamond head supported them and blew them away. They were so dreadfully dull and faceless.
Always love your rankings Pete.
The first April Wine I purchased was Power Play. I was 9 or 10 yrs old. Love that record. I did purchase the majority of their catalog after that. First Glance is my favorite also. I really dig the first two albums. They are really different but that is part of the beauty. Great video Pete.
Here trying to track down the songs of April Wine that was on my first HM tape ever(mix tape) given to me in -80(I was 5) by my older sister.. I can somewhat remember them, but they kinda fell short of the other bands ACDC and Saxon.. I listened to them instead, and kinda forgot the April Wine songs that just became "extras".. To me it just means the heart of metal.. My first metal steps as a 5 year old. That is also key to my metal today, I think, and also why I cannot let it go 42 years after.. 🤘 I must look further but thanks a lot!
such an under rated band. One of our Canadian best. When April Wine came to town, you knew it. 3 guitar attach with great memorable rockers and Goodwin's vocals, it was gonna be a good time. Seen them a few years ago, and wow just wow. Brian Greenway could of been a house hold name guitarist, had he been in a British or an American band. Go watch April Wine live from London on youtube and see what I mean
To everyone reading this (including Pete), check out another criminally underrated Canadian band called "The Tea Party". They've been around since 1990 and are beyond amazing. They are an INCREDIBLE trio. Their albums: Splendor Solis (1993), The Edges Of Twilight (1995), Transmission (1997), Triptych (1999), The Interzone Mantras (2001), and The Ocean At The End (2014). Thank me later.
They are from Windsor where I live, talented guys but far too depressing to listen to, kinda like Pink Floyd as I never heard a happy song from them and after a while I need a break from all the gloom ;)
I know I'm (very) late viewing this ranking, but watching it made me go back and listen some more. As someone who was only familiar with their late 70s/early 80s output, I'm digging the hell out of that debut.
How about ranking Praying Mantis, Samson and Tank?
"Nature of the Beast was the top album and
I had the tape of it,but of course I'd heard many
of their songs on the radio,great hard rock with a little
bit of power pop and all,great band."-🤔🎤🎸🎸🎹🥁📻🌐..
I always find myself reminded of another song/band when I hear stuff from the past...
Electric Jewels deserved to be in the top 3 imo. Definitely one of their heavier, rockier albums and also the late great Jim Clench's awesome bass playing and great vocals. An all around killer classic album
excellent band!!!
Still have my original pressing of Nature of the Beast which was my all time favorite. Picked up Power Play on cassette when it came out and thought it was pretty good. Recently discovered how good Harder Faster is and really enjoying it. I need to give First Glance a chance.
First glance in fantastic. Debit lp of the Five members
Good one PETE! April Wine. I first heard of them , when a friends older brother turned me onto HARDER FASTER!...i asked for it for Christmas 1979, along with Flirtin With Disaster. I soon found FIRST GLANCE and older albums. Then the next year NATURE OF THE BEAST came out, which was a huge hit in the US at the time. One of my favorite bands.
1) Harder Faster
2) First Glance
3) Nature of the Best
4)Frigate
5)Power Play
Forever For Now was supposed to be a Myles Goodwyn solo album. The record company wanted an April Wine album.
Yep that's true. It was a decent album but not quite April Wine great
1. S/T. Very different, psychedelic/rock/folk/hard rock etc
2. Stand Back.
After that, I can't choose - each one will differ by the day; Harder Faster, Nature Of The Beast, Electric Jewels....
Love the 1974 Live album. Awesome.
Just Between You And Me was a regular staple of early MTV. Good times. You still catch classics like Roller and Sign Of The Gypsy Queen on rock radio now and then.
April Wine one of my all time faves. Saw them open for Foreigner and April Wine killed!!! Agreed, good catalog.
Top 3:
3. First Glance
2. Attitude
1. Nature Of The Beast
Nature Of The Beast was created like Heart's Dog & Butterfly. On vinyl as you said, Side 1 Rocked, Side 2, Laid Back. Thanks for doing this one Pete :-)
Though I own the whole catalog I kept second (and third, and fourth) guessing my list, so I scrapped it and decided to just enjoy yours. Great band. Also, I think we all love it when your dogs give their opinion. :)
Thanks, Pete!
Not sure if I asked before (I don't like to repeat myself), but any chance of a Sammy Hagar ranking?
Been a fan for 40 years. Here's my top 5...
#1 Nature of the Beast
#2 Power play
#3 First Glance
#4 Harder...Faster
#5 Electric Jewels
Great job. Thanks so much. My top 3:
Electric Jewels; On the Record (released in USA as April Wine); Stand Back
A band that should have been more recognized outside of Canada. Many of their songs are still played daily here in Canada right along side of all the heavy hitters...cheers from Vancouver
Huge fan. Tragically Hip next?
Mine fall in about the same order except I have Stand Back much higher. Oowatanite, Victim for Your Live are rockers and Tonight is a Wonderful Time to Fall in Love got considerable airplay. It has a hooky riff and Myles Goodwin’s vocals are excellent.
I live in Nova Scotia , Myles Goodwinn is still playing live.Still massive radio play in Canada. Although they arent included here, check out their live stuff 🍻🇨🇦
April Wine fans should definitely check out the Canadian film "High Life" (2009)...April Wine comes up as a theme throughout, and they're featured heavily on the soundtrack, excellent crime movie. One of my favorite AW tunes is "Say Hello".
My favorite album by April Wine is The Whole World's Goin' Crazy and my favorite songs are Wings of Love & the Hot Chocolate cover, You Could've Been a Lady.
have you ever done the rate the albums CSN and csny together..I was rolling through the playlist going back a few years when I don't remember seeing?? that'd be a good one with Jack or Jeff
I’ve seen April Wine 3 times! They were a kick ass awesome and their drummer Jerry Mercer is one hell of a drummer
I think I spot Saxon's 'Solid Ball Of Rock' on the shelf to the left (my left) of Pete's head. : D
I am so stoked as I have ordered my first SoT shirt, went with the blue as I have so many black ones. Also have navigated trough the company's web site and found many original and cool t's designs.This is not an Ad , LOL I'm just a fan. Cheers!
The Nature of The Beast, Harder Faster, Stand Back, The Whole World is Going Crazy.
Man, I had forgotten all about "This Could Be The Right One". That chorus has such a great hook! Had to add it my Spotify playlist for work. My customers in the Tulsa Post Offices really get treated to some great music...even if they don't like it.
I consider myself a fan of April Wine I’m familiar with lots of their songs but realized I know very few of their actual albums. Nature of the Beast was the one I remember the most. I remember as a kid the album cover always intrigued me. I saw them live back in the early 90s, they were awesome.
Great list Pete. Just so you know. Forever for Now was intended to be his solo album in fact. And he just got the band to finish it. . A different selection of influential songs . Cheers. I like that FIRST GLANCE is number one . Great
Love your dogs in the background adding their own commentary
CLASS BAND. My top 5. Nr 1 Electric Jewels. Nr 2 Stand Back. Nr 3 Harder Faster. Nr 4 First Glance. Nr 5 The nature of the beast.
J'ai découvert April Wine avec l'excellent album Power Play en 1982...Il reste mon album préféré jusqu'a aujourd'hui.