Everything's Different Now

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Everything's Different Now
Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now.jpg
Studio album by
Released1988
Studio
Genre Pop
Length39:43
Label Epic
Producer Rhett Davies, Bruce Lampcov
'Til Tuesday chronology
Welcome Home
(1986)
Everything's Different Now
(1988)
Coming Up Close: A Retrospective
(1996)

Everything's Different Now is the third and final studio album by the American band 'Til Tuesday, released in 1988. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Production

The album was produced primarily by Rhett Davies. [4] "'J' for Jules" is about Mann's ex-boyfriend Jules Shear. [5] [6] "The Other End (Of the Telescope)" was cowritten by Elvis Costello. [7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [8]
New Musical Express 7/10 [9]

The Boston Globe called Everything's Different Now "the most confessional album since Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love." [10] USA Today deemed it "a touching meditation on the ebb and flow of love." [6] The Chicago Tribune labeled it a "little masterpiece of melancholy." [11] The Los Angeles Times wrote that "Mann never comes off as a bitter whiner... What comes through in these gentle but not too genteel pop songs is a profound sense of, above all, disappointment." [1]

Track listing

  1. "Everything's Different Now" (Jules Shear, Matthew Sweet) – 3:56
  2. "Rip in Heaven" (Aimee Mann, Kit Hain) – 3:31
  3. "Why Must I" (Mann) – 3:42
  4. "'J' for Jules" (Mann) – 4:26
  5. "(Believed You Were) Lucky" (Mann, Shear) – 3:38
  6. "Limits to Love" (Mann) – 3:36
  7. "Long Gone (Buddy)" (Mann, Michael Hausman) – 4:34
  8. "The Other End (Of the Telescope)" (Mann, Declan MacManus) – 3:53
  9. "Crash and Burn" (Mann, Hain) – 4:46
  10. "How Can You Give Up?" (Mann, Hausman) – 3:38

Personnel

'Til Tuesday

with:

Technical

Charts

AlbumBillboard (United States)

YearChartPosition
1988The Billboard 200124

Singles – Billboard (United States)

YearSingleChartPosition
1988"(Believed You Were) Lucky"Modern Rock Tracks30
1989"(Believed You Were) Lucky"The Billboard Hot 10095

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