Everything's Different Now

The album was produced primarily by Rhett Davies.{{cite news |last1=Mackie |first1=John |title=Recordings |work=Vancouver Sun |date=17 Dec 1988 |page=D2}} "'J' for Jules" is about Mann's ex-boyfriend Jules Shear.{{cite news |last1=Goldstein |first1=Patrick |title=Pop Eye |work=Los Angeles Times |date=19 June 1988 |department=Calendar |page=90}} "The Other End (Of the Telescope)" was cowritten by Elvis Costello.{{cite news |last1=Lepage |first1=Mark |title='Til Tuesday, Everything's Different Now |work=The Gazette |date=26 Jan 1989 |location=Montreal |page=B5}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r20215}}

| rev2 = New Musical Express

| rev2Score = 7/10{{cite magazine|last=Dellar|first=Fred|date=18 March 1989|title=Long Play|magazine=New Musical Express|page=37}}

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The Boston Globe called Everything's Different Now "the most confessional album since Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love."{{cite news |last1=Morse |first1=Steve |title=Aimee Mann Deals with Lost Love Through New Songs |work=The Boston Globe |date=November 10, 1988 |department=Calendar |page=10}} USA Today deemed it "a touching meditation on the ebb and flow of love."{{cite news |last1=Milward |first1=John |title=Pop |work=USA Today |date=17 Nov 1988 |page=4D}} The Chicago Tribune labeled it a "little masterpiece of melancholy."{{cite news |last1=Heim |first1=Chris |title='Til Tuesday, Everything's Different Now |work=Chicago Tribune |date=18 Nov 1988 |department=Friday |page=92}} 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. "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

;'Til Tuesday

• Aimee Mann – vocals, bass and acoustic guitar
• Michael Hausman – drums, percussion and programming
• Robert Holmes – guitars and background vocals
• Michael Montes – keyboards

with:

• Haeryung Shin – violin
• Peter Abrams – French horn
• Marcus Miller – additional bass on "How Can You Give Up?" and "Long Gone (Buddy)"
• Elvis Costello – background vocals on "The Other End (Of the Telescope)"
• Tiger Okoshi – trumpet and horn arrangement on "How Can You Give Up?"
• Hal Crook – trombone on "How Can You Give Up?"
• Mike Denneen – additional keyboards on "How Can You Give Up?"

;Technical

• Bruce Lampcov, Mike Denneen, Rhett Davies, Rob Jaczko, Steve Rinkoff – engineer
• Neil Dorfsman, Rhett Davies, Rob Jaczko – mixing
• Lara Rossignol – photography

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