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April Wine - Animal Grace Audio CD

A fair review of the April Wine "Animal Grace" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all April Wine reviews here, or go back to the April Wine tabs.

April Wine Band: April Wine
Title: Animal Grace
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Release Date: 1995-11-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: This Could Be the Right One 2: Sons of the Pioneers 3: Without Your Love 4: Rock Tonite 5: Hard Rock Kid 6: Money Talks 7: Gimme That Thing Called Love 8: Too Hot to Handle 9: Last Time I'll Ever Sing the Blues

Dated, but still excellent
It's also one of my favorite April Wine albums. It's hard to believe, but 1984's Animal Grace is the eleventh studio album from Canadian rockers April Wine.

Animal Grace has an unmistakable 80's sound and production quality, but that may be why I like it so much. It's got great melodies, catchy hooks, and plenty of synth action (I know that's frowned on these days, but I love it). The songs range from the emotional ("This Could Be the Right One", "Without Your Love") to upbeat party rockers ("Money Talks") to the just plain odd (but still rockin') "Sons of the Pioneers". April Wine's take on the Sharp Edges song "Hard Rock Kid" is another of Animal Grace's highlights. It's just an all around great 80's rock album from a band that really shone during that decade.

Animal Grace does sound a bit dated now, but it's still well worth checking out if you're a fan of the mid 80's melodic rock sound. If you're a fan of Triumph, Axe, Rail, Styx, and Foreigner, you'll definitely want to hear this album.


I enjoy this recording.
First things first - this release is different from NATURE OF THE BEAST and HARDER. . FASTER. It for some reason was a bit neglected by April Wine fans, but I happen to like this album a LOT - maybe my tastes are just a little different from the other fans of the Canadian rockers.

Myles Goodwyn is an exceptional guitarist and singer. He is the guy responsible for most of the song writing and other creative forces within the group - kind of like Rainbow with Ritchie Blackmore at the controls - ditto for David Coverdale being the lone staple in Whitesnake.

This CD begins with "This Could Be The Right One" - a nice rocker you can drive your car too. Cool chorus on this one. "Sons Of The Pioneers" follows - another cool melodic rocker that had an accompanying video. The other melodic rockers are "Without Your Love" and "Too Hot To Handle".

"Hard Rock Kid" is up there with the first track as my favorites on the CD. It's not a fast song, but it's very reminiscent of the chorus on Foreigner's "Juke Box Hero". It's one of the more memorable songs here that sounds like it'd be a great one live.

There's no power ballads on this release, but April Wine has recorded some wonderful ones over the years (remember "Just Between You And Me" from NATURE OF THE BEAST?). "Last Time I'll Ever Sing The Blues" is a slow song, but not a love song. ANIMAL GRACE is your basic rock album.

Since amazon. com does not have much of a description of this CD on here, here's a rundown of the songs:

1 This Could Be the Right One
2 Sons of the Pioneers
3 Without Your Love
4 Rock Tonite
5 Hard Rock Kid
6 Money Talks
7 Gimme That Thing Called Love
8 Too Hot to Handle
9 Last Time I'll Ever Sing the Blues

It is out-of-print and hard to find in the USA so grab it if you see it cheap.


As good as nature of the beast
I think it holds its own with Nature of the Beast. This is my favorite April Wine album. There are more good songs on this one. Had to write this review because the other guy onlt gave it a 2 star rating. Mine is really 4. 5.


Could Have Been A ... Three
This one has one decent ballad in its first track "This Could Be The Right One" which is sappy enough and cynical enough not to be a complete waste. Three stars, I mean, of course. . . an ok song, overall. But for me this is an album of "Gimme That Thing Called Love" - that's a great hard-rock song with catchy tune, great drive and it definitely goes to my hit list. Rock on! As for the main question on your mind - do I buy this piece of silicon or not. . c'mon tell me man! I am counting on ya!! I beg you. . . well probably the answer is no. This is too generic. I am not saying it's not a good listen. . . it's getting a B from me but you can build a tower of Babel from B-records issued just in the last 24 hours and then had left some enough to give everybody in China coasters for their teacups. Life is too short to listen to all B-records out there so my advice is this - buy tracks 1 and 7 somewhere (iTunes, Napster or . . . ) and move on.


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