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Joe Satriani - The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology Audio CD

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Joe Satriani Band: Joe Satriani
Title: The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology
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Release Date: 2004-01-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Surfing With the Alien 2: Satch Boogie 3: Always With Me, Always With You 4: Crushing Day 5: Flying in a Blue Dream 6: Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing 7: I Believe 8: Big Bad Moon 9: Friends 10: Extremist 11: Summer Song 12: Why 13: Time Machine 14: Cool #9 15: Down, Down, Down 16: Crush of Love 17: Ceremony 18: Crystal Planet 19: Raspberry Jam Delta-V 20: Love Thing 21: Borg Sex 22: Until We Say Goodbye 23: Devil's Slide 24: Clouds Race Across the Sky 25: Starry Night 26: Mind Storm 27: Slick [#] 28: Eight Steps 29: Not of This Earth 30: Rubina

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That said, I believe that Satriani is not for everyone. I want to thank the folks who have posted reviews on this album because they were the ones who led me to buy it, renew my interest in Joe Satriani and made the last few days that I have spent listening to it a lot of fun. I say this because I think that you not only have to play guitar but made some attempt to compose music on the guitar in order to fully appreciate why Satriani is so talented. I think this is the reason why his music remains inaccessible to a lot of people. They just don't get what the big deal is.

I first listened to Satriani when I started playing guitar in my early 20s. I knew that he was good but did not really understand why other than he could play really fast and sometimes catchy music. I did not love the music but I liked him well enough for those reasons. At some point, after I had worn my copy of the Extremist out, I stopped listening to him.

Now, in my late 30s, I have stopped playing guitar as much but, when I listen to the music, I appreciate him for entirely different reasons.

I admire how he comes up with so many different original melodies time and time again. I admire how he tries to surprise the listener with the notes he chooses in those melodies -- thereby staying away from musical cliches. I admire how he tries to generate different kinds of sound out of his guitar in different ways and how he can run through a number of different techniques in a single passage without any effort. I admire his courage for being so quirky and unique not only in the type of music he creates but also his song titles and the brand he has created for himself.

It is so easy to take your guitar and play riffs in the same type of way over and over and never grow. It is so difficult to compose so many original, four/five/six minute instrumental songs on the guitar that keeps the listener not only interested but so irreversibly hooked that he cannot help but come back for more.

And, indeed, I came back for more ("Is There Love In Space?" and "Super Colossal") and ended up liking those albums even better. Hats off to Joe Satriani. Great stuff.
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Not to be missed
If you are new to Satriani, then this album is a great place to start. There isn't a song on this Anthology that isn't good. I love this album and listen to it all of the time. I plan on buying any new disc Joe releases. .


Terrific
Excellent CD . . has all the best numbers from this guitar maestro . . . Highly recommended.


Great (but not quite exhaustive) Representation of Joe
However, 2 CDs is just about right and he really picks a great collection here. Satch has accomplished so much in his career that fitting the highlights on a single disc would be impossible. I think most of us could fill up a 3rd CD with songs we think should've been on here, but there probably aren't too many complaints with what did make the cut here.

One of the top reviews here kinda bashes Flying in a Blue Dream (the album, not the song) a bit. . . good grief, I could listen to that CD day and night! In fact, I'd say somebody new to Satch should get this and Flying in a Blue Dream. . . then move on from there if they're truly hooked.
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This CD Rocks!! Wish to give this a billion stars.
I love most of these songs. Wow, The Electric Joe Satriani is such a great cd and it ROCKS! I play this every day, I recently can't get enough of Joe Satriani, Wow this guy can play guitar like CRAZY!! It is also my favorite cd due to instrumental. Here are the list of songs on this cd that would be my favorites.
1. Surfing With The Alien-10/10
2. Satch Boogie-10/10
3. Crushing Day-7/10
4. Flying In A Blue Dream-8/10
5. The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing-10/10
6. Big Bad Moon-10/10
7. Friends-10/10
8. The Extremist-10/10
9. Summer Song-9/10
10. Why-11/10---My favorite Joe
11. Cool 9-10/10
DISK2
1. The Crush of Love-4/10
2. Crystal Planet-8/10
3. Rasberry Delta-10/10
4. Not of this Earth-9/10

It would be even more rocking if this cd would include War and Ice 9. But overall this cd is great of a guitar legend, buy this album!.


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