Track Listing

1. Surfing With The Alien
2. Ice 9
3. Crushing Day
4. Always With Me Always With You
5. Satch Boogie
6. Hill Of The Skull
7. Circles
8. Lords Of Karma
9. Midnight
10. Echo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25637 in Music
• Released on: 2000-01-10
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

a masterpiece from a legendary rocker
surfing with the alien is joe satriani's best selling album and one of his greatest albums, i like every song here except always with me always with you that song is week and but my favorites are surfing with the alien, ice 9, circles, lords of karma, satch boogie, crushing day, and echo. this album is fantastic 80s rock music and is highly recommended.

What a ride!!
His first, and to many arguably his best. This is my second copy of it, after playing the first one till it was ruined. This started a whole genre of funk metal shredders, and has some truly innovative songs that have stood the test of time. You will never get tired of this CD.

Amazing from start to finish
Joe satriani is no doubt an amazing guitar player. On Surfing with the Alien, he clearly shows that he can shred with the best of them but he also displays an incredible compositional talent and creativity. Blazing rockers like Crushing Day and the title track allow Satriani do show off his incredible talents, as almost every brilliant guitar trick in the book is used as he creates whirling flurries of notes that consistently stun the listener. There are groovy, bluesy tracks such as Satch Boogie and Ice 9 which are fun, brilliantly structured and endlessly listenable. He also shows diversity by writing beautiful and soulful songs such as Always With Me, Always With You and Echo. His playing here is so lyrical that it is clear that he absolutely doesn't need to sing, and his guitar communicates emotionally with the listener in a brilliant way. He experiments a bit on songs like Lords of Karma, which uses sitar to give off a strange Indian kind of vibe. Circles begins with a quiet, jazzy section before exploding into a hard rock section with some stunning solo work and Midnight is a suberb exercise in acoustic guitar finger tapping. The album's variety and creativity make it such an enjoyable and unique album.
Surfing with the alien is often seen as Satriani's best work. His guitar playing was never more lyrical and technically impressive, displayed by the themes and solos in every song. His compositional diversity was never wider either. All this adds up to make Surfing an enthralling listen, and one that anyone who likes guitar-orientated music at all should own. It will blow you away just like it did to just about everyone who first heard it back in 1987.