First Glance

First Glance

Track Listings

1. Hot on the Wheels of Love

2. Get Ready for Love

3. Rock & Roll Is a Vicious Game

4. Right Down to It

5. Roller

6. Comin' Right Down on Top of Me

7. I'm Alive

8. Let Yourself Go

9. Silver Dollar

Tracks:

Get Ready for Love
Hot on the Wheels of Love
Rock N' Roll Is a Vicious Game
Right Down to It
Roller
Comin' Right Down on Top of Me
I'm Alive
Let Yourself Go
Silver Dollar
I Like to Rock
Say Hello
Tonite
Ladies Man
Before the Dawn
Babes in Arms
Better Do It Well
21st Century Schizoid Man

Album Description

Digitally remastered two-fer from the Canadian rockers featuring their first two albums for Capitol. Their reputation had been made with several albums for the independent Canadian label Aquarius, but the change of labels was the beginning of an international career First Glance was originally released in 1979 followed on year later by Harder...Faster. BGO. 2007.

Album Details

2007 Digitally Remastered Edition of the First Two Capitol Albums from Canadian Rockers April Wine Combined on to a Single CD. Their Reputation Had Been Made with Several Albums for the Independent Canadian Label Aquarius, but a Change of Labels Marked the Beginning of an International Career. Includes Newly Penned Sleeve Notes.

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A Great Re-introduction to USA fans.
Classic Canadian Rock
A snap shot in time.....
Not so great...
Rather mediocre... an ok album but you can do better

First Glance
April Wine
Manufacturer: Aquarius Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000006SI4
Release Date: 1992-12-03

Tracks:

Hot on the Wheels of Love
Get Ready for Love
Rock & Roll Is a Vicious Game
Right Down to It
Roller
Comin' Right Down on Top of Me
I'm Alive
Let Yourself Go
Silver Dollar

Album Description

Import edition of the Canadian hard rock act's 1978 album. Nine tracks including, 'Hot On The Wheels Of Love', 'Get Ready For Love' & 'Rock 'N' Roll Is A Vicious Game'.

Album Details

Rare 1979 Release from this Canadian Heavy Metal Outfit. Originally Pressed by Capitol, this Import Version Was Reissued by Aquarius in 1999. Features the Cuts "Hot on the Wheels of Love", "Get Ready for Love", "I'm Alive" and Six More.

Customer Reviews:

A Great Re-introduction to USA fans........2007-01-19

To most American hard rock fans, "First Glace" was April Wine's first album..and some USA fans still think it is. However the band had been together since the late 60's and some of their earlier Aquarius albums were released in the USA on Big Tree and London records. Despite "You Could Have Been A Lady" getting into the USA Top 40 in 1972, neither record company promoted their albums, even with many tracks that could have been huge AOR or Top 40 hits. (A lot of great Canadian bands like Trooper and Prism never got the promtion and breaks in the USA that they really deserved) Had they been on a record company that cared about them like Mercury did and toured the USA relentlessly, April Wine might have been as successful here in the mid 70's as BTO and Rush were.

Finally in 1978 April Wine hooked up with Capitol, which released "First Glance" here. The American version is a little different... It starts with "Get Ready For Love" instead of "Hot on the wheels of Love", and the cover uses the same band photograph and a simular cover design based on the Aquarius "Greatest Hits" album. Since hardly anyone in the USA knew what the band looked like, this was probably a smart idea. Capitol (after a few bum singles) gave the band a deserved USA Top 40 hit with "Roller" and the album went gold. This breakthrough album lead the way for the success of the "Harder...Faster" LP and especially the platinum selling "Nature of the Beast" LP.

I got a chance to see April Wine at Dallas (now sadly demolished) Bronco Bowl in 2000. The band put on a fine performance that night. Several members of the Dallas Stars hockey team showed up and a couple of members of Pantera were hanging out. A buddy who was there told me Dimebag (RIP) was greatly impressed with the Wine's tight version of "21st Century Schizoid Man".

Classic Canadian Rock.......2006-11-22

Following the release of `Forever, For Now', April Wine fans were wondering in just what direction Myles and the boys would jerk them with the next album. Never fear, the band returned with the rock'n'roll classic `First Glance', their "hardest" album since `Electric Jewels', and had one more surprise - a fifth member. Brian Greenway, an accomplished guitarist, harmonica player, singer, and songwriter in his own right, was thrown into the mix (pardon the pun) about halfway through the making of the album. The addition of Greenway meant a few of things - first, and most importantly, it allowed Myles to play keyboards during live shows while still retaining a thick two-guitar sound (or even better an immensely fat sound when Myles picked up his own Les Paul). Second, it allowed the band to record songs they could actually reproduce on stage. Third, it added another voice for background, and occasionally lead vocals. And to top it off, Greenway even added a few songs of his own on later albums.

Goodwyn's decision that this was going to be a purely rock album is evident from the opening guitar riffs. Curiously, the vinyl version (which I bought the day it was released in 1978) opens with "Hot On The Wheels Of Love" rather than "Get Ready For Love", which opens the CD version I purchased in later years. After years of listening to the vinyl version, I could never get used to starting the CD with "Get Ready...". I always thought that "Hot On..." was a great opening track. The third track is "Rock'n'Roll Is a Vicious Game" which was one of the first two singles from the album (the other being "Let Yourself Go", which didn't go anywhere). The first single was well-received in Canada, but not in the US, and the dismal showing of the second single contibuted greatly to the fact that the album quickly began slipping from the charts. Ironically, the centre-point of the album, which is, of course, "Roller" was never considered for release as a single until an FM in Michigan began playing it. The song's popularity skyrocketed, and "Roller" went on to be the second-biggest single in April Wine's history, remaining in the Billboard Top 30 for 11 weeks. The strength of "Roller" propelled the album to gold status in the US, another first for the band, and the album itself remained in the Billboard album charts for several weeks.

While April Wine has always been great in concert (I know, because I've seen them in every venue from a bar to a stadium), it was the heavier guitar-oriented `First Glance' and the subsequent three records that pushed April Wine into the forefront as one of the truly great arena guitar-rock bands of the late 70's and early 80's.

A snap shot in time............2006-03-25

Brining back memories of a fire bird, warm Busch Beer and Jensen 6X9's. If you can't attribute memories like that to this album then it really isn't that great. Like most music from the late 70's to late 80's: if you didn't grow up during those times the music isn't so great nor meaningful. I love this album along with Nature, Harder Faster and Power Play.

Not so great..........2005-12-21

I think this is a pretty boring album. The music is samey, generic, and dull. By the time this record came out in 1978, April Wine were pumping out hits faster than the assembly line in a factory! They sound like they're just trying to churn out as many hit singles as possible, without giving much thought to the individual songs themselves. Their attempts to write catchy hooks and arena rock choruses sound forced. There aren't any particularly original or interesting songwriting ideas expressed here, the whole thing just seems redundant compared to their other albums. As far as I can see, I'd say that they didn't really have anything to say when they made this......they were just churning out filler to keep the royalties coming in. I really don't recomend this cd to anybody. It represents the "Dark Ages" in April Wine history. Definately not their best......not by a long shot.

Rather mediocre... an ok album but you can do better.......2005-01-12

I mean you can really do better with your money than buy this album. Except for a couple of tracks which you can get on almost any AW compilation there is really nothing here to listen to. The rest of the songs are pretty derivative and extremely similar to the rest of the arena-rock manufactured by megatons at the time of the album's release. "Roller" is an ok rocker but again it's not a real hit from my point of view. There is no song here that leaves me enthralled and begging for more. First two tracks are universally considered the highlights but I wouldn't give them more than a B- in my report card.

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First Glance
April Wine
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008ETOH
Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Unacceptable

William Walton: A Centenary Celebration

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000062TCQ
Release Date: 2002-03-26

Tracks:

'Spitfire': Prelude And Fugue (Opening) - Sir Neville Marriner
Troilus And Cressida: Act I: 'Morning And Evening I Have Felt Your Glance...' - Richard Hickox
Improvisations On An Impormptu Of Benjamin Britten: II. Vivo - London Philharmonic Orchestra
String Quartet In A Minor: I. Allegro (Opening) - Gabrieli String Quartet
A Song For The Lord Mayor's Table: VI. Rhyme - Jill Gomez
The Wise Virgins, Suite From Ballet: 5. Sheep May Safely Graze (Opening) - London Philharmonic Orchestra
Anaon In Love: VI. To Couple Is A Custom - Carlos Bonell
Concerto For Violin And Orchestra: I. Andante Tranquillo (Conclusion) - Lydia Mordkovitch
Symphony No.I: II. Presto, Con Malizia (Opening) - London Philharmonic Orchestra
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The Twelve (Conclusion) - Westminster Singers
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Crown Imperial: Coronation March, 1937 (Opening) - Sir David Willcocks
The Bear: 'Madam, I Have The Honour Of Presenting Myself...' - Della Jones
Missa Brevis: Agnus Dei; Gloria (Opening) - Paul Spicer
Concerto For Viola And Orchestra: III. Allegro Moderato (Opening) - Nobuko Imai
Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario: VIII. Epilogue (Conclusion) - Christopher Plummer
Sonata For Violin And Piano: II. Variazioni: Var. VII; Coda - Kenneth Sillito
Belshazzar's Feast: 'Then Sing Aloud To God' (To End) - Bach Choir

Customer Reviews:

Unacceptable.......2003-09-17

This disc is unacceptable unless you like tracks that are incomplete. It is one thing to have excerpts and another to end the track only 10 measures from the actual ending of the piece! Buy a disc with reasonably complete pieces instead. I am not even "filing" this with my other classical CDs. (It will be filed somewhere else.)

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First Glance
Emily Jensen
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000MYZ2RA

Product Description

8 tracks including Refuge (Instrumental)

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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 14 & 15

Manufacturer: Melodiya
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000023ZS8
Release Date: 1998-01-01

Average customer rating:

Wow!!!! Who is this guy?
First Glance is a hell of a first album.

First Glance
Garret Swayne
Manufacturer: Starcrest
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000K4MD
Release Date: 1999-04-02

Tracks:

E-mail Female
Mr Next-Best-Thing
Leave A Little Light On
Gotta Feelin'
Carry On
Do Roses Come in Blue
Baby Put On Your Lingerie
Tell Me
Better Think Twice About Jenny
If I Had Known
There Is A Moment (Be My Love)

Album Description

Combining elements of Folk, Rock, Americana and the Blues, singer/songwriter Garret Swayne's breakthrough album FIRST GLANCE contains 11 original songs--all of them unique, well crafted and well produced. They run the gamut from deeply wrought ballads of inner revelation, to slammin' dance tunes, to hilarious homespun tales of love and courtship in the cyber-age. It's Country like you've never heard it before--intelligent lyrics, sophisticated melodies, more complex themes like you seldom hear coming out of Nashville.

Customer Reviews:

Wow!!!! Who is this guy?.......2003-12-27

I heard about this CD from a friend and took a chance and purchased it. I'm normally into Rock music but I am very pleasantly surprised. Like the other reviewer, I find this above the standard Country/Western fare. Without a doubt, the song "Email Female" is my favorite though every song on this CD is a winner. Garret Swayne definitely deserves more attention with this fantastic CD.

First Glance is a hell of a first album........2003-01-25

This is my second copy of "First Glance", which should tell you a lot about how I feel about this guy's work. (My first copy was taken by my wife who now keeps it in her car.) A friend put me onto "Email Female", which captured the whole cyber-dating thing so perfectly (and I hear there's now a very funny Flash animation circulating the Internet). I pretty much took a chance on the CD which is often a risky proposition. To my welcome surprise this was an excellent album. I'm not usually that much into the country/western thing, but this is more than a cut above than your typical Nashville fare. Clever songs with a lot of heart, and solid production. I definitely thought it was worth the investment and more.

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Real

Manufacturer: M.y.O. Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CADWI0
Release Date: 2002-11-12

Average customer rating:

This CD is Awesome
great jazz
Great album

At First Glance
Woody Beckner , and Jeff Smith
Manufacturer: Woody Beckner / Jeff Smith
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00005MCW9
Release Date: 2001-06-16

Tracks:

Mellow Out
Changes Within A Change
Just Wiggle It
Bart Street
Helene's Song
At First Glance
Sunday George
Scenic Route

Customer Reviews:

This CD is Awesome.......2005-10-17

At First Glance, is a great cd. Beckner and Smith have compiled a beautiful and well-rounded jazz cd that you will want to listen to over and over. Smith's sound combined with Beckner's guitar playing will make you want to come back for more.

great jazz.......2003-11-16

this cd is a definitely cd to add to your collection. jeff and woody play beautifully over every song! i recommend this cd to everyone!!

Great album.......2002-12-24

It is great! Smith and Beckner put together a wonderful collection of songs here.