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| Released | 1980 | |||
| Recorded | The Sound Factory (Los Angeles, California); Record One (Sherman Oaks, California) | |||
| Genre | Pop, pop rock | |||
| Length | 37:42 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Producer | Andrew Gold | |||
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Whirlwind is the fourth album by singer-songwriter Andrew Gold, released in 1980 on Asylum Records. [1] It is Gold's final major label album and last solo album of any kind for over a decade.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
Rolling Stone's Stephen Holden called Whirlwind "a well-crafted album of imitation rock by a pop sentimentalist unconvincingly crying tough." Concluding "the record merely reaffirms Andrew Gold's skill as a meticulous pop interior designer recycling Sixties guitar hooks into blandly tasteful studio settings." [4] Reviewers of Billboard noticed that this album was more rocking then two previous works. [5]
AllMusic's James Chrispell retrospectively noted "[t]he hits were not forthcoming" and the "album came and went in nearly the blink of an eye, and not much else was heard from Andrew Gold's once-promising solo career." [2]
All songs written by Andrew Gold, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Kiss This One Goodbye" | 4:03 | |
| 2. | "Whirlwind" | 4:16 | |
| 3. | "Sooner or Later" | 3:32 | |
| 4. | "Leave Her Alone" | 3:31 | |
| 5. | "Little Company" | 4:17 | |
| 6. | "Brand New Face" | 4:45 | |
| 7. | "Nine to Five" | 4:04 | |
| 8. | "Stranded on the Edge" | Gold, Mark Goldenberg | 4:06 |
| 9. | "Make Up Your Mind" | 5:08 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Gambler" | Kenny Edwards | 3:51 |
| 2. | "Endless Flight" (live at the Gator Bowl, Jacksonville, FL, 1978) | 5:17 | |
| 3. | "The 'In' Crowd" | Billy Page | 6:00 |
| 4. | "Traffic Jam" | Gold, Bryan Garofalo, Mike Botts | 1:27 |
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