Sleeping on a Roller Coaster

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Sleeping on a Roller Coaster
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Released1992
Genre Power pop, rock
Label Matador
Producer Tommy Keene, Steve Carr
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Sleeping on a Roller Coaster is an EP by Tommy Keene, released on CD in 1992 by Matador Records [1] (catalog # OLE 039). This was his only release of new material between 1989's Based on Happy Times and 1996's Ten Years After .

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Tommy Keene

  1. "Love Is a Dangerous Thing" – 3:56
  2. "Driving into the Sun" – 3:29
  3. "Down, Down, Down" – 3:58
  4. "Alive" – 4:17
  5. "Waiting to Fly" – 5:13

Personnel

The band

Production

Additional credits

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References

  1. "Tommy Keene". AllMusic. Retrieved 2024-09-23.