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Track Listing
1. Best Years of Our Lives
2. Hard Times For Lovers
3. This Time
4. Everything's Gonna Be Fine
5. Hooked on the Memory of You
6. Take Care of Me
7. Baby Can I Hold You
8. Carmelita's Eyes
9. Courtin' Disaster
10. If I Couldn't See You Again
11. Long Hard Climb
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Neil Diamond (vocals); Dean Parks, Steve Lukather (guitar); Jerry Hey, Larry Williams, Gary Grant, Daniel Higgins, Bill Reichenbach (horns); David Foster, David Paich, Michael Omartian, Robbie Buchanan (keyboards); Reinie Press, Mike Brignardello (bass); Paul Liem, Tris Imboden, Carlos Vega (drums).
This mixed bag of Neil Diamond songs includes regretful ballads like "This Time," optimistic love songs like "Everything's Gonna Be Fine," and late-1980s rockers like "Take Care of Me." Though '80s production values dominate, Diamond is in fine voice and songwriting form throughout, classily nodding to newcomer Tracy Chapman in particular on "Baby Can I Hold You." While there are occasional flashes of the songwriter's early-'70s fire on songs like the title track, the subject matter here mostly centers on old memories and the pain of loss.
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