Tag: Kim Mitchell

I have fond memories of this song in the 80s. I was at One For The Sun in Nashville enjoying our “beach” while a band played on a floating stage in the lake. It was a cool way to watch a band and when you got hot…you jumped in the water. I forgot what band was playing that day but between sets, we would play the radio and I heard this incredible bass sound coming out of the speakers from this song. Plus the guitar plays such a cool lick in the song.

That was in 1985 and let’s fast forward to 1995. The song stuck with me but I never did find out who was singing it. Remember…there was no internet or a quick way to find out. I went to Tower Records to buy a Badfinger CD and all of a sudden I thought of the song. I told the guy there… it was a song I wanted and it had the word “soda” in it. In a flash, he said Go For A Soda by a Canadian artist named Kim Mitchell. They had his greatest hits so I bought it. It was like finding a lost friend. He had a lot of great songs.

Kim Mitchell is probably best known as the singer of the Canadian band Max Webster in the 1970s and for his solo career after that. He has released 8 studio albums in all with his last coming in 2020. He has had several top 40 songs in Canada but Go For A Soda is his largest international hit. Max Webster released 6 studio albums with their last coming in 1981. All their albums went at least Gold in Canada and one reached Platinum. 

Kim Mitchell released this in 1984 off his Akimbo Alogo album. The song peaked at #86 on the US Billboard 100 and #22 in Canada. It also peaked at #1 on the Canadian Content Cancon chart. I remember it getting plenty of airplay in my region. It did hit #12 on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks.

MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) used this song as a theme song. The reason the song caught on with me is the bass guitar sound. I was playing bass at the time and loved the huge sound when it kicked in.

Welcome to early eighties videos! But I love it!

Go For A Soda

Might as well go for a soda…Nobody hurts and nobody cries
Might as well go for a soda…Nobody drowns and nobody dies

So we’re in one of our blue moods
You wanna have it your way and I want it mine
All this debating going ’round in our blue mood
Makes me thirst for love

Chorus:
Might as well go for a soda…Nobody hurts and nobody cries
Might as well go for a soda…Nobody drowns and nobody dies

Life seems to be a bomb inside your head
Well the bomb in my head is love
All this debating going ’round in our blue mood
Makes me thirsty for love

Chorus:
Might as well go for a soda…Nobody hurts and nobody cries
Might as well go for a soda…Nobody drowns and nobody dies
Might as well go for a soda…It’s better than slander
It’s better than lies
Might as well go for a soda…Nobody hurts and nobody cries