DAY BY DAY: APRIL WINE - WALKING THROUGH FIRE

Tue Jun 20 2023

April Wine's 12th album, Walking Through Fire

Made to fulfill a contractual obligation to the record label
Features Miles Goodwin and Brian Greenway from the band augmented by three Montreal based session musicians
Opens with a song called 'Rock Myself to Sleep'
'Rock Myself to Sleep' was also released that year by Starship on their album 'Need Deep in the Hoopla'
Second song is called 'Wanted Dead or Alive', an AOR ballad
'Wanted Dead or Alive' is better than the Bon Jovi song of the same name
Third song is called 'BEG FOR YOUR LOVE', written by Canadian songwriter Eddie Schwartz. It's not good
Fourth song is called 'Love Has Remembered Me', a super corny ballad in very 80's
'Annejo' is a five-minute song with some heavy guitar but not...
'Open Soul Surgery' was originally released by Jim Valance's band Prism
'You Don't Have to Act That Way' is a weird, quiet, loud, quiet, loud kind of song and it doesn't work

April Wine were a decent band with some great songs, but a lot of their material was uninspired and derivative
Their third album Electric Jewels was really strong, where the band flexed their muscles
The next album Stand Back had some bad songs, but also a couple of their best songs
They hit their stride with album number 9, The Nature of the Beast in 1981
They had a few more great songs in the 80s like Waiting on a Movie
After they called it a day, they were forced to make one more album which had one good song at the end called Wait Anymore