Living in the Present Future

Living in the Present Future
Studio album by Eagle-Eye Cherry
Released 6 March 2000
Genre Rock
Label MCA Records
Producer Klas Åhlund , Eagle-Eye Cherry, The Dust Brothers, Adam Kviman, Rick Rubin
Eagle-Eye Cherry chronology
Desireless
(1997)Desireless1997		 Living In the Present Future
(2000)		 Sub Rosa
(2003)Sub Rosa2003
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(53/100)[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
BBC(average)[3]
Blender[1]
E! OnlineC[1]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[4]
People(mixed)[5]
PopMatters[1][6]

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.

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; also appeared on Santana's 1999 release, Supernatural.

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[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Critic reviews at Metacritic
  2. 1 2 Allmusic review
  3. ↑ BBC review
  4. ↑ Entertainment Weekly review
  5. ↑ People review
  6. ↑ PopMatters review
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