Editing Gone Troppo (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1       = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score  = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web |last=Ruhlmann |first=William |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/gone-troppo-mw0000268053 |title=Gone Troppo – George Harrison: Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=10 March 2013 |archive-date=13 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313041527/http://www.allmusic.com/album/gone-troppo-mw0000268053 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev3       = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3Score  = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref>Colin Larkin, ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' (4th edn), ''Volume 4'', Oxford University Press (New York, NY, 2006; {{ISBN|0-19-531373-9}}), p. 158.</ref>
| rev5       = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
| rev5Score  = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="Harris/Mojo">John Harris, "Beware of Darkness", ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'', November 2011, p. 83.</ref>
| rev6       = ''The Music Box''
| rev6Score  = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="John Metzger/MB">John Metzger, [http://www.musicbox-online.com/gh-gone.html#axzz3AMts81es "George Harrison ''The Dark Horse Years'' (Part Four: ''Gone Troppo'')"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814173225/http://www.musicbox-online.com/gh-gone.html#axzz3AMts81es |date=14 August 2014 }}, ''The Music Box'', vol. 11 (5), May 2004 (retrieved 14 August 2014).</ref>
| rev8       = ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' (1983)
| rev8Score  = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="Pond/RS">{{cite magazine |last=Pond |first=Steve |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/gone-troppo-19830217 |title=Gone Troppo &#124; Album Reviews |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=17 February 1983 |access-date=10 March 2013 |archive-date=24 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324140000/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/gone-troppo-19830217 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev9       = ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' (2004)
| rev9Score  = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Muze">[http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=6666785&style=music&fulldesc=T "George Harrison – Gone Troppo CD Album" > "Product Description"], [[CD Universe]]/[[Muze]] (retrieved 21 December 2014).</ref>
| rev10      = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev10Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Aiken/Uncut">Kit Aiken, "All Those Years Ago: George Harrison ''The Dark Horse Years 1976–1992''", ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'', April 2004, p. 118.</ref>
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Among contemporary reviews, ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' said of ''Gone Troppo'': "Harrison's sunny lyricism shines brightest when least encumbered by self-consciousness, and here that equation yields a breezy, deceptively eclectic charmer."<ref name="BB review">[https://books.google.com/books?id=BSQEAAAAMBAJ&q=lyricism&pg=PT21 "Top Album Picks"], ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'', 20 November 1982, p. 64 (retrieved 15 July 2015).</ref>
''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine's reviewer wrote: "Because of his forays into the mystical, Harrison's penchant for whimsy often gets overlooked. But here the zany side gets no short shrift." The reviewer admired "lovelies" such as "[[Wake Up My Love]]" and "[[Dream Away (George Harrison song)|Dream Away]]", and described ''Gone Troppo'' as a "vinyl postcard" offering "flashes of brilliance".<ref name="People review">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20084106,00.html|magazine=People|title=Picks and Pans Review: ''Gone Troppo''|date=24 January 1983|access-date=18 December 2013|archive-date=27 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227052941/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20084106,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Less impressed, Steve Pond of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' said that, of late, Harrison had "made a much better movie financier than musician", and he found the album "So offhand and breezy as to be utterly insubstantial", with "Wake Up My Love" the only song of note.<ref name="Pond/RS" /> Writing for ''[[Musician (magazine)|Musician]]'', Roy Trakin considered that, in the wake of Lennon's assassination two years before, Harrison's "tortured honesty … dooms this record's attempt to heal those psychic wounds with calm, offhanded music". Trakin admired some of the guitar playing on the album but concluded: "It's too bad the public won't forget George Harrison was a Beatle. His musical output will undoubtedly suffer by comparison until we do."<ref>Roy Trakin, "George Harrison: ''Gone Troppo''", ''[[Musician (magazine)|Musician]]'', January 1983; available at [http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/george-harrison-igone-troppoi Rock's Backpages] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150720211116/http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/george-harrison-igone-troppoi |date=20 July 2015 }} (subscription required).</ref>

Reviewing more recently for [[AllMusic]], critic William Ruhlmann writes of ''Gone Troppo'': "Clearly, Harrison could no longer treat his musical career as a part-time stepchild to his interests in car racing and movie producing if he wanted to maintain it. As it turned out, he didn't; this was his last album for five years."<ref name="AllMusic" /> Writing in the 2004 edition of ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'', Mac Randall opined: "The dynamic, synth-driven 'Wake Up My Love' opens ''Gone Troppo'' and the spooky 'Circles' (yet another lost Beatles song) closes it, but there ain't much in between."<ref>Nathan Brackett & Christian Hoard (eds), ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide'' (4th edn), Simon & Schuster (New York, NY, 2004; {{ISBN|0-7432-0169-8}}), p. 368.</ref>

[[John Harris (critic)|John Harris]] of ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' likens ''Gone Troppo'' to Harrison's final album for [[EMI]]/[[Capitol Records|Capitol]], ''[[Extra Texture]]'' (1975), and dismisses it as "Another contract-finisher, this time with Warner Brothers, recorded super-quick, and issued with barely any promotion."<ref name="Harris/Mojo" /> ''Music Box'' editor John Metzger also holds it in low regard, writing: "''Gone Troppo'' was undoubtedly the worst of George Harrison's solo albums … A few tunes, such as That's the Way It Goes and Unknown Delight, might have worked better if given different arrangements, but as a whole, ''Gone Troppo'' was a largely forgettable and sometimes embarrassing affair that appealed only to complete-ists and fanatics."<ref name="John Metzger/MB" />

More impressed, [[Dave Thompson (author)|Dave Thompson]] wrote in ''[[Goldmine (magazine)|Goldmine]]'' magazine of its standing as the release that preceded Harrison's temporary retirement from music: "to accuse the album itself of hastening that demise is grossly unfair." While conceding that it was a far from essential Harrison album, Thompson considered it to be "no worse than much of [[Paul McCartney|[Paul] McCartney]]'s period output" and opined that "Dream Away" and "Circles" "stand alongside any number of Harrison's minor classics".<ref name="Thompson/Goldmine">Dave Thompson, "The Music of George Harrison: An album-by-album guide", ''[[Goldmine (magazine)|Goldmine]]'', 25 January 2002, p. 53.</ref>

Kit Aiken of ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' describes ''Gone Troppo'' as "a return to form of sorts" after ''Somewhere in England'' and a collection of "amiable, light-hearted music made by a bunch of mates with nothing to prove".<ref name="Aiken/Uncut" /> In another favourable 2004 assessment, for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', Parke Puterbaugh wrote: "''Gone Troppo'' might just be Harrison's most underrated album … [It] captures Harrison at his most relaxed and playful on songs such as the title track."<ref>Parke Puterbaugh, "By George", ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', 3 April 2004, p. 68.</ref>