Hellbent on Compromise
# Hellbent on Compromise

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Hellbent on Compromise is an album by Scottish musician Edwyn Collins, released in 1990.

## 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."

## Track listing

All tracks composed by Edwyn Collins; except where indicated

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