Surfing With The Alien (studio album) by Joe Satriani
Top albums of 1987 (
Price
eBay
Condition: Good
eBay
Condition: New
Joe Satriani bestography
Surfing With The Alien is ranked as the best album by Joe Satriani.
Upcoming concerts
Listen to Surfing With The Alien on YouTube
Surfing With The Alien track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
1
Surfing With The Alien rankings
Latest 20 charts that this album appears in:
Patman360
jeremy9
TheDude85
MW19704U
Glitterboiii
zags7000
RockyRaccoonYou can include this album in your own chart from the My Charts page!
Surfing With The Alien collection
Showing latest 20 members who have this album in their collection | Show all 66 members
Surfing With The Alien ratings
where:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.
Showing latest 5 ratings for this album. | Show all 131 ratings for this album.
| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
50/100  | 12/10/2023 17:49 | VVNVR | | 71/100 |
60/100 | 10/29/2023 19:20 |  Sandrof1969 | | 68/100 |
75/100 | 10/07/2023 22:00 | Adhura | | 78/100 |
75/100 | 08/13/2023 02:23 | dhbarrett | | 65/100 |
75/100 | 07/12/2023 19:44 | kriss2012 | | 68/100 |
Rating metrics:
Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 16% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 73.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.4.
Please log in or register if you want to be able to leave a rating
Surfing With The Alien favourites
Showing all 13 members who have added this album as a favourite
Surfing With The Alien comments
Showing all 6 comments |
Most Helpful First | Newest First | Maximum Rated First |
Longest Comments First
(Only showing comments with -2 votes or higher. You can alter this threshold from your profile page. Manage Profile)
Fischman 01/02/2019 03:07
Not just a walking shredder, but also a solid composer capable of creating meaningful melody. This album sits atop the more one dimensional examples of the shred generation.
To me this is brilliant but i love to listen to extended guitar solos and jamming. Satriani has an amazing command of the guitar he always sounds so in control like a jedi master with his craft. Special album from a special player. Possibly the greatest technical guitar player ever.
RoundTheBend 04/29/2016 23:54
Obviously lacks songwriting. A one off song is probably tolerable of someone wanking on the guitar like this, but a whole album is torture.
Yes great guitar tone and technique, but that's like only 20-30% of what makes a good album... so that means he's 20-30% awesome in my book.
junodog4 07/19/2013 17:44
My brother in-law was a Joe Satch fan-boy. He loved all the 'guitar gods' (Steve Vai, Jeff Beck, Eric Johnson, Steve Lukather). He tried so hard to get me to appreciate this album. Don't get me wrong - amazing technical skill. But I don't see the emotion, the storytelling, the atmosphere. I just hear doodling. Some might call it wanking.
Was there a lawsuit with the album cover? I'll be listening to this album soon.
Jasonconfused 11/20/2012 22:05
Oh yea! Satriani baby! Such a diverse player. Doesn't get as much credit as he deserves. At least not from the shred/virtuoso fanboys.
Please log in or register if you want to be able to add a comment
Your feedback for Surfing With The Alien
A lot of hard work happens in the background to keep BEA running, and it's especially difficult to do this when we can't pay our hosting fees :(
We work very hard to ensure our site is as fast (and FREE!) as possible, and we respect your privacy.