Classic Rock Canada: April Wine

Dont waste my money driving round in a car

Save my money for electric guitars

Disco musics just a social disease

If it dont rock me, then it aint gonna please me

All I wanna do is rock n roll

All I wanna do is rock and rock some more

Wanna rock, wanna rock"

April Wine has more top 40 songs that you can count on your fingers and toes combined. Over 35 years of music puts this group squarely in the classic rock category. The vocals of April Wine are sung by Myles Goodwyn originally from the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick. The band was formed in 1969 at neighboring Nova Scotia and enjoyed great success throughout the seventies and early eighty's.

You are probably wondering which songs or discs to get. Well there are a lot of albums by this artist so maybe a greatest hits disc would be a good start. The one that i have is great with 19 songs. It's Over 60 Minutes With April Wine The Hits.

1. Say Hello
2. Enough Is Enough
3. Just Between You and Me

Over 60 Minutes With April Wine The Greatest Hits

4. Roller
5. Love Has Remembered Me
6. This Could Be the Right One
7. Sign of the Gypsy Queen
8. What If We Fall in Love
9. Rock Myself to Sleep
10. Doin' It Right
11. Tell Me Why
12. Tonite Is a Wonderful Time to Fall in Love
13. I'm on Fire for You Baby
14. You Could Have Been a Lady
15. Rock 'N Roll Is a Vicious Game
16. Like a Lover, Like a Song
17. You Won't Dance With Me
18. Fast Train
19. I Wouldn't Want to Lose Your Love

Of course this disc only scratches the surface of hits April Wine had. Songs like Weeping Widow from Electric Jewels and Oowatanite from Stand Back aren't on there. Also albums like Harder ... Faster, The Nature Of The Beast, and Power Play are all excellent and should be bought separately. Luckily for those who can't afford to buy every disc ever made, there is the album Over 60 Minutes With April Wine All The Rockers.

1. Anything You Want, You Got It
2. I Like To Rock
3. Roller

Over 60 Minutes With April Wine All The Rockers

4. All Over Town
5. Hot On The Wheels Of Love
6. Tonite
7. Future Tense
8. 21st Century Schizoid Man
9. Crash And Burn
10. Oowatanite
11. Don't Push Me Around
12. Get Ready For Love
13. Tellin' Me Lies
14. Blood Money
15. Gimme Love
16. Weeping Widow
17. Victim For Your Love

Update: I went to my first April Wine show the other night. Myles Goodwyn seemed a little grouchy but maybe it was just one of those days. The quality of the show was good although the middle of the set was a bit slow. Overall it was a good sampling of April Wine's vast catalog. I was impressed with Goodwyn's guitar playing. I never realized he was doing most of the harder chords on a lot of the songs. The beginning of Just Between You and Me was magic. Brian Greenway was great on harmonica and guitar. They had Breen Laboeuf on bass guitar and he can actually sing pretty good when needed. First time I ever saw a fire bell mounted to a drum set for Oowatanite. Can't go wrong with April Wine if you want to hear some Canadian hits.