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, released in 1989. It was the band's first album to feature new member

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on keyboards. The album was produced by

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. Guest musicians included

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. ''Now and Again'' was certified Platinum in Canada and is the band's most commercially successful album to date. The album contained one of the band's biggest hit singles, "All the Things I Wasn't". ''Now and Again'' was the 13th best-selling

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album in Canada of 1989. In ''

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'' magazine's 2000 reader poll of the Best Canadian Albums of All Time, ''Now and Again'' ranked in 27th place. For the singles "What Was Going Through My Head" and "Do You Want To Tell Me", the b-sides were songs recorded on CBC Radio program '' Brave New Waves''. One was an acoustic version of the song "Backward Town", and the other was a cover of

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Track listing

All songs composed by Chris Hooper, Kevin Kane, Tom Hooper, and Vincent Jones except tracks 4, 5 & 10, composed by Chris Hooper, Kevin Kane, Tom Hooper. # "All the Things I Wasn't" – 2:17 # "What Was Going Through My Head" – 2:47 # "Do You Want to Tell Me?" – 3:34 # "The Most" – 3:52 # "I'm Gone" – 4:08 # "Blind" – 4:21 # "Stay" – 3:49 # "I Can Tell" – 3:39 # "Not the Way It Is" – 2:52 # "Hiding" – 4:27 # "The Time is Here" – 3:03 # "...But I Guess We'll Never Know" – 3:30

References

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