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Released
  
29 May 1989

Artist
  
Edwyn Collins

Label
  
Demon Records

Length
  
55:35

Release date
  
29 May 1989

Genre
  
Rock music

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Recorded
  
February–April 1989; Whitehouse Studios, Cologne

Hope and Despair (1989)
  
Hellbent on Compromise (1990)

Producers
  
Phil Thornalley, Tom Dokoupil

Similar
  
Edwyn Collins albums, Rock music albums

Coffee table song


Hope and Despair is an album by Scottish musician Edwyn Collins. It was released in 1989.

Contents

Hope and despair


Track listing

All tracks composed by Edwyn Collins; except where indicated

  1. "Coffee Table Song" – 4:51
  2. "50 Shades of Blue" – 3:55
  3. "You're Better Than You Know" – 4:12
  4. "Pushing It to the Back of My Mind" – 3:47
  5. "If Ever You're Ready" – 4:21
  6. "Darling, They Want It All" – 3:42
  7. "The Wheels of Love" – 4:54
  8. "The Beginning of the End" – 3:57
  9. "The Measure of a Man" (Dennis Bovell) – 3:38
  10. "Testing Time" – 3:51
  11. "Let Me Put My Arms Around You" – 4:06
  12. "The Wide Eyed Child in Me" – 2:51
  13. "Ghost of a Chance" – 4:08
  14. "Hope and Despair" – 3:22

Personnel

  • Edwyn Collins – guitar, vocals
  • Dennis Bovell – bass
  • David Ruffy – drums
  • Bernard Clarke – keyboards
  • Roddy Frame- guitar
  • Steven Skinner - guitar

    • Songs

    1Coffee Table Song4:52
    250 Shades of Blue3:55
    3You're Better Than You Know4:13

    References

    Hope and Despair Wikipedia
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