“The Nature Of The Beast” is the ninth studio album by Canadian rock band April Wine, released 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, selling over one million copies in the US and reaching #24 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
April Wine (like any good wine) got better with age, and the Canadians' brightest moment only arrived over a decade into their career with 1981's “The Nature of the Beast”. Opener "All Over Town" lurches into action on a lopsided riff before finding its awesome groove, a groove they seldom abandon through and to the end of the disc. All-around frontman Myles Goodwyn is in top form, leading the band through some of their most aggressive material ever ("Bad Boys," "Crash and Burn"), as well as through the band's career-defining power ballad "Just Between You and Me" (which became April Wine's most successful single).
" While "Caught in the Crossfire" and "Future Tense" suffer from some cheesy sci-fi lyrics, melodic hard rockers such as "Big City Girls," "One More Time," and their version of the Lorence Hud song "Sign of the Gypsy Queen" also became a moderate hit.
Side A
A1. All Over Town (3:00)
A2. Tellin' Me Lies (2:59)
A3. Sign of the Gypsy Queen (4:16)
A4. Just Between You and Me (3:54)
A5. Wanna Rock (2:06)
A6. Caught in the Crossfire (3:33)
Side B
B1. Future Tense (4:07)
B2. Big City Girls (3:42)
B3. Crash and Burn (2:31)
B4. Bad Boys (3:10)
B5. One More Time (3:55)
Release: 1981
Label: Capitol Records
Genre: Hard Rock
Format: LP
Catalog# 1A 062-86296
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