Blogcritics Comments on Music Review: Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien (20th Anniversary Edition)

Comment by John C Comedy on Music Review: Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien (20th Anniversary Edition)

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:19:47 EDT

Thanks for the review Josh! I'm definitely ordering it. He turned out a great guitarist in Kirk Hammett as well :)

Comment by Tom Johnson on Music Review: Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien (20th Anniversary Edition)

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 17:32:17 EDT

Very excited to get my hands on this one. Hopefully UPS will actually get my address right* this week and it'll be on my doorstep when I get home. I was going to do my usual weekly writeup in the Breakdown about this one (and only this release) but I'm running late and your review is so thorough and good I don't know that there's much need. You were too fast and too awesome, Josh. *The post office recently changed our zip code and UPS doesn't like it. One would think they'd update their zip code list regularly and frequently but apparently not.

Comment by Mark Saleski on Music Review: Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien (20th Anniversary Edition)

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:14:48 EDT

i've never actually set foot in an fye...but there happens to be one up the street from where i work. of course, i usually go to my local independent cd shop.

Comment by Josh on Music Review: Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien (20th Anniversary Edition)

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:11:45 EDT

Mark, order it from Amazon. Stay away from the box stores! My life is at least 20% better since I stopped shopping at freakin' Best Buy. Glen, this is the version of the album to get and for my money it's still Joe's best album. There are many, many great songs to be found on his other records but this is truly an album, and a special one at that. For the record, I'm not anti-Beck. Satriani is flashy and plays a lot of notes but does so in a melodic manner and in the context of an actual song.

Comment by Mark Saleski on Music Review: Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien (20th Anniversary Edition)

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 21:37:55 EDT

i keep tellin' josh that he needs to hear both Wired and the more recent Guitar Shop

Comment by Glen Boyd on Music Review: Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien (20th Anniversary Edition)

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 21:33:05 EDT

Not a huge fan here (he was always a little too flashy for me -- I was always more of a Jeff Beck guy when it comes to this type of stuff). But this sounds like the one to get. No FYE for me though (throwing up the sign of the cross there). -Glen

Comment by Mark Saleski on Music Review: Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien (20th Anniversary Edition)

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:58:28 EDT

me too! i might even walk into one of those gawd-awful fye places tomorrow. it's all your fault hathaway!!!

Comment by Chris Beaumont on Music Review: Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien (20th Anniversary Edition)

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:43:21 EDT

need to get my hands on this.