Whirlwind (album)

Whirlwind

Studio album by Andrew Gold

Released

1980

Recorded

The Sound Factory, Los Angeles

Genre

Pop, pop rock

Length

37:42

Andrew Gold chronology

All This and Heaven Too
(1978)

Whirlwind
(1980)

…Since 1951
(1996)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]

Whirlwind is the fourth album by singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Andrew Gold. It was released in 1980 on Asylum Records. It is Gold's final major label album and last solo album of any kind for over a decade.

Reception

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."^[3]

AllMusic's James Chrispell 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."^[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Andrew Gold, except where noted.

No.	Title	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

Bonus Tracks (Rhino/Edsel CD release)
No.	Title	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

Personnel

Andrew Gold – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, organ, synthesizer, tambourine, percussion, background vocals
Mike Botts – drums
Bryan Garofalo – bass
Brock Walsh – background vocals
Rick Marotta – drums
Kenny Edwards – bass
Waddy Wachtel – guitar
Don Grolnick – piano

Production

Andrew Gold – producer
Greg Ladanyi, Jim Nipar – engineer

References

1 2 Chrispell, James. Whirlwind at AllMusic. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
↑ Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia Of Popular Music, Concise 3rd Edition, p. 538. Virgin Books, London. ISBN 1-85227-832-3
↑ Holden, Stephen. "Whirlwind", Rolling Stone, June 26, 1980, p. 80.

Andrew Gold

Studio albums

Andrew Gold (1975)
What's Wrong with This Picture? (1976)
All This and Heaven Too (1978)
An Interview with Andrew Gold [Promo-only interview & music LP] (1978)
Whirlwind (1980)
Home is Where the Heart Is (1991)
...Since 1951 (1996)
Halloween Howls (as Andrew Gold & Friends) (1996)
Greetings from Planet Love (as The Fraternal Order of the All) (1996)
Thank You for Being a Friend: The Best of Andrew Gold (1997)
Leftovers (1998)
Warm Breezes (1998)
The Spence Manor Suite (2000)
Intermission (2002)
Copy Cat (2008)

With Wax

Common Knowledge (1984)
Magnetic Heaven (1986)
American English (1987)
A Hundred Thousand in Fresh Notes (1989)
The Wax Files ('Best of' compilation) (1997)
Wax Bikini (Compilation of outtakes, demos, etc.) (2000)

Singles

"Of All the Little Girls" (UK release - recorded as duo of 'Villiers & Gold') (1968)
"Woke Up This Morning" (with the band 'Bryndle')(1970)
"Heartaches in Heartaches" (1975)
"That Is Why I Love You" (1975)
"Stay" (1976)
"Do Wah Diddy" (1976)
"One of Them Is Me" (1976)
"Lonely Boy" (1977)
"Go Back Home Again" (1977)
"How Can This Be Love" (1978)
"I'm on My Way" (1978)
"Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978)
"Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978)
"Kiss This One Goodbye" (1979)
"Stranded on the Edge" (1979)
"Nine to Five" (1979)

With Graham Gouldman as Wax

"Don't Break My Heart" (UK - Released under the band's initial name of World In Action) (1984)
"Don't Break My Heart" (UK - Re-released under the band's subsequent name of Common Knowledge) (1984)
"Victoria" (UK - Released under the band name of Common Knowledge) (1985)
"Right Between The Eyes" (1986)
"Ball & Chain" (1986)
"Shadows of Love" (1986)
"Systematic" (1986)
"Bridge to Your Heart" (1987)
"In Some Other World" (1987)
"American English" (1987)
"Anchors Aweigh" (1989)
"Wherever You Are" (1989)

Bryndle
Wax

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