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Hellbent on Compromise

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{{Infobox album

| name = Hellbent on Compromise

| type = Album

| artist = Edwyn Collins

| cover = Hellbent on Compromise.jpg

| alt =

| released = January 1990

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = Power Plant Studios, London

| genre = Rock

| length = 50:44

| label = Diablo

| producer = Edwyn Collins, Dave Anderson

| prev_title = Hope and Despair

| prev_year = 1989

| next_title = Gorgeous George

| next_year = 1994

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/hellbent-on-compromise-mw0000370810|title=Hellbent on Compromise - Edwyn Collins | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|website=AllMusic}}

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&q=Hellbent+on+Compromise+edwyn+collins+1990&pg=PA257|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|first=Colin|last=Larkin|date=May 27, 2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857125958|via=Google Books}}

}}

Hellbent on Compromise is an album by Scottish musician Edwyn Collins, released in 1990.{{Cite web|url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/edwyn-collins/|title=Edwyn Collins}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.atpfestival.com/artist/edwyncollins|title=Edwyn Collins|website=All Tomorrow's Parties}}{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4295387.stm|title=How Collins forged solo pop path|date=February 24, 2005|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}

Critical reception

The Rough Guide to Rock wrote that the album "lacked its predecessor's tight, dense production, and its atmospherics too often gave way to an unsatisfactory sparseness."{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fie47qSuTsoC&q=Hellbent+on+Compromise+edwyn+collins+1990&pg=PA1772|title=The Rough Guide to Rock|first=Rough|last=Guides (Firm)|date=June 12, 2003|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=9781858284576|via=Google Books}}

Track listing

All tracks composed by Edwyn Collins; except where indicated

  1. "Means to an End" (Collins, Paul Quinn) - 5:12
  2. "You Poor Deluded Fool" - 4:54
  3. "It Might as Well Be You" - 3:25
  4. "Take Care of Yourself" - 6:43
  5. "Graciously" - 3:44
  6. "Someone Else Besides" - 4:35
  7. "My Girl Has Gone" (Marv Tarplin, Ronald White, William Robinson, Warren "Pete" Moore) - 3:44
  8. "Now That It's Love" - 3:27
  9. "Everything and More" - 4:58
  10. "What's the Big Idea?" - 4:57
  11. "Time of the Preacher/Long Time Gone" (Collins/Willie Nelson) - 5:05

Personnel

  • Edwyn Collins – guitar, vocals
  • John "Segs" Jennings – bass
  • Chris Taylor – drums, percussion
  • David Anderson – keyboards, guitar
  • Colin MacKenzie – bass
  • Trevor McCarty – bass
  • Chucho Merchán – double bass
  • Martin Drover – trumpet
  • Zop Cormorant - drums
  • Jock Loveband - backing vocals on "What's the Big Idea?"
  • Tyrone Berkeley - backing vocals on "Time of the Preacher/Long Time Gone"
  • Simeon Jones - harmonica on "Time of the Preacher/Long Time Gone"
  • David Robinson - cello on "Time of the Preacher/Long Time Gone"
  • Alan Titherington, Kirsten Morrison - violin on "Time of the Preacher/Long Time Gone"

References

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Category:1990 albums

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