April Wine : Harder ... Faster/The Nature of the Beast

DOUBLE SHOT

OF SOME

ROCKIN'

APRIL WINE

I LIKE TO ROCK !!!

 Harder ... Faster

 is the eighth

 studio album

 by Canadian

 Rock band

April Wine

 released in 1979.

 It was recorded at 

Le Studio, 

Morin-Heights, Quebec. 

The album is

 certified gold

 both in the United States

 and Canada 

by the Canadian 

Recording Industry Association

 and RIAA. 

The album spawned the 

moderately successful hits 

"I Like to Rock"

 and 

"Say Hello". 

King Crimson's 

1969 hit song, 

"21st Century Schizoid Man", 

is also on the album.

The track

 "I Like to Rock" 

is amongst one

 of the band's 

most popular songs 

and contains the riffs 

from Beatles' 

"Day Tripper" 

(1965) 

and 

The Rolling Stone's 

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" 

(1965).

 The popularity 

of these songs 

helped keep

 the album

 on Billboard’s 

200 Album charts

 for a span of

 40 weeks.

The Nature of the Beast 

is the ninth studio album

 by Canadian rock band

 April Wine

 released January 12th

 in 1981.

 The album was

 recorded at 

Le Manoir Studios, 

in the village of

 Shipton-on-Cherwell, 

in Oxfordshire,

 England 

following the band's 

1980 European tour. 

This album was 

April Wine's 

commercial peak,

 certified Platinum 

in the US 

and reaching #24 

on the

 Billboard 200

 album chart.

"Just Between You and Me" 

became

 April Wine's 

most successful single, 

reaching #21 

on the Billboard 

Hot 100 singles chart,

#11 on 

Billboard's 

Top Tracks chart, 

and #22

 on the 

Canadian RPM charts.

April Wine's version of

 the Lorence Hud song 

"Sign of the Gypsy Queen" 

also became a moderate hit, 

reaching #57 

on the 

Billboard Hot 100, 

#19 on the Top Tracks chart, 

and #40 

in Canada. 

Hud's original version 

of the song had also been

 a hit single in Canada

 in 1972

 (#16 RPM charts).

The first track on the album, 

"All Over Town"

 also received airplay 

on album-oriented rock

 radio stations,

 charting at #29 

on the

 Top Tracks chart.

TRACKLIST

I Like To Rock

Say Hello

Tonight

Ladies Man

Before The Dawn

Babes in Arms

Better Do It Well

21st Century Schizoid Man

All Over Town

Tellin' Me Lies

Sign Of The Gypsy Queen

Just Between You And Me

Wanna Rock

Caught In The Crossfire

Future Tense

Big City Girls

Crash And Burn

Bad Boys

One More Time

Cum Hear The Band [*]

Victim For Your Love [*]

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