Whirlpool (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Whirlpool


Artist = Meat Puppets
from Album = Forbidden Places
B-side =
Released = 1991
Format = promo single
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3 at 12:02
Label = London Records
Writer = Curt Kirkwood
Producer =
Last single = "Sam" (1991)
This single = "Whirlpool" (1991)
Next single = "Backwater" (1994)"Whirlpool" is a song by the Meat Puppets. It was the second promotional single released from their album "Forbidden Places". The single includes two previously unreleased cover songs: the Wanda Jackson cover "Funnel of Love" and the Led Zeppelin cover "Rock & Roll".

They Might Be Giants did a cover of this song on their EP Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas).

Track listing

(All songs by Curt Kirkwood unless otherwise noted)

# "Whirlpool" - 3:31
# "Funnel of Love" (C. McCoy/K. Westberry) - 3:41
# "Rock & Roll" (J.P. Jones/J. Bonham/J. Page/R. Plant) - 4:43