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Released
  
6 March 2000

Living In the Present Future (2000)
  
Sub Rosa (2003)

Release date
  
6 March 2000

Label
  
MCA Records

Artist
  
Eagle-Eye Cherry

Genre
  
Rock music

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Producers
  
Klas Åhlund, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Rick Rubin

Nominations
  
Grammis Award for Pop/Rock of the Year - Male

Similar
  
Desireless, Sub Rosa, Live and Kicking, Can't Get Enough, Home Before Dark

Living in the Present Future is the second studio album by Swedish rock singer-songwriter Eagle-Eye Cherry. It was released in 2000. In the three-year gap between 1997's "Desireless" and this release, he left Epic subsidiary Work and came to MCA, wherein he worked with such producers as The Dust Brothers, John Kurzweg, and Rick Rubin.

Contents

Eagle eye cherry been here once before


Track listing

  • All Songs Written By Eagle-Eye Cherry. Co-writers credited as noted.
    1. "Been Here Once Before" – 3:48 (Cherry, Klas Ahlund)
    2. "Are You Still Having Fun?" – 3:11
    3. "One Good Reason" – 3:26 (Cherry, Christopher Watkins)
    4. "Promises Made" – 3:36 (Cherry, Watkins)
    5. "Burning Up" – 5:02
    6. "Together" – 5:30 (Cherry, Torrell)
    7. "Long Way Around" featuring Neneh Cherry – 3:28 (Cherry, Watkins)
    8. "Lonely Days (Miles Away)" – 3:59
    9. "First to Fall" – 3:57
    10. "Miss Fortune" – 3:47
    11. "She Didn't Believe" – 3:41 (Cherry, Watkins)
    12. "Shades of Gray" – 3:22 (Cherry, Watkins, Eric Schermerhorn)
    13. "Wishing It Was" – 4:17 (Cherry, John King, Mike Simpson, M. Nishita) - bonus track not on European version

    2001 rerelease

    On 30 October 2001 the album was rereleased with the title "Present/Future". The new version replaced three new tracks, and with some tracks reordered.

    Rerelease track listing

  • All Songs Written By Eagle-Eye Cherry. Co-writers credited as noted.
    1. "Been Here Once Before" – 3:48 (Cherry, Klas Ahlund)
    2. "Are You Still Having Fun?" – 3:11
    3. "One Good Reason" – 3:26 (Cherry, Christopher Watkins)
    4. "Promises Made" – 3:36 (Cherry, Watkins)
    5. "Feels So Right" – 4:20 (Cherry, Watkins, Mattias Torrell)
    6. "Crashing Down" – 5:21 (Cherry, Watkins)
    7. "Long Way Around" featuring Neneh Cherry – 3:28 (Cherry, Watkins)
    8. "Lonely Days (Miles Away)" – 3:59
    9. "Together" – 5:30 (Cherry, Torrell)
    10. "Burning Up" – 5:02
    11. "Shades of Gray" – 3:22 (Cherry, Watkins, Eric Schermerhorn)
    12. "Never Let You Down" – 5:45
    13. "Wishing It Was" – 4:17 (Cherry, John King, Mike Simpson, M. Nishita)

    Personnel

  • Eagle-Eye Cherry: Vocals, Keyboards, Piano
  • Mats Asplen: Fender Rhodes Electric Piano, Organ, Moog Synthesizer
  • Patrick Warren: Chamberlin
  • Klas Åhlund, Eric Schermerhorn, Mattias Torrell, Christopher Watkins: Acoustic & Electric Guitars
  • Olav Gustaffson: Pedal Steel
  • Spencer Campbell, Peter Fors, Benny Rietveld: Bass
  • Jim Bogios, Rodney Holmes, Magnus Persson: Drums
  • Dominic Keyes, Karl Perazzo, Raul Rekow: Percussion
  • Per "Texas" Johansson: Sax
  • Goran Kajfes: Trumpet
  • John Kurzweg: additional guitar

    • Songs

    1Been Here Once Before3:32
    2Are You Still Having Fun?3:07
    3One Good Reason3:27

    References

    Living in the Present Future Wikipedia
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