Cuts Like a Knife

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Cuts Like a Knife
Cuts Like a Knife cover
Studio album by Bryan Adams
Released January 1983
Recorded 1982
Genre Rock
Length 38:53
Label A&M Records
Producer Bryan Adams, Bob Clearmountain
Professional reviews
Bryan Adams chronology
You Want It You Got It
(1981)		 Cuts Like a Knife
(1983)		 Reckless
(1984)

Cuts Like a Knife is the third solo album by Canadian musician Bryan Adams, released in 1983. It proved to be Adams' major and definitive breakthrough as it managed to crack the Top 10. Peaking at #8 on the album charts, the set gave Adams his first Top 10 single as well, with the ballad "Straight From the Heart". Other hit singles from the album included the hard-rocking title track, as well as the top-25 hit "This Time".

Another standout track on the album is "The Best Was Yet to Come," a tribute to a fellow British Columbian, the Playboy Playmate/actress Dorothy Stratten, who was slain by her estranged husband in a murder-suicide in 1980. The song was covered by Laura Branigan in 1990.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The Only One" (Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance) – 3:14
  2. "Take Me Back" (Adams, Vallance) – 4:49
  3. "This Time" (Adams, Vallance) – 3:18
  4. "Straight from the Heart" (Adams, Eric Kagna) – 3:30
  5. "Cuts Like a Knife" (Adams, Vallance) – 5:16
  6. "I'm Ready" (Adams, Vallance) – 3:58
  7. "What's It Gonna Be" (Adams, Vallance) – 3:39
  8. "Don't Leave Me Lonely" (Adams, Vallance, Eric Carr) – 3:09
  9. "Let Him Know" (Adams, Vallance) – 2:56
  10. "The Best Was Yet to Come" (Adams, Vallance) – 3:04

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