Surfing With The Alien (track)
by Joe Satriani
Year: 1987
From the album Surfing With The Alien (track #1)
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Surfing With The Alien appears on the following album(s) by Joe Satriani:
- Surfing With The Alien (track #1) (this album) (1987)
- Live In San Francisco (track #24) (2001)
- Satriani Live! (track #17) (2006)
- Live In Paris: I Just Wanna Rock (track #20) (2010)
- The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology (track #1) (compilation) (2003)
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| ! | 10/21/2026 16:42 | Exist-en-ciel | 182,611 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/04/2026 11:21 | phmusic | 73,585 | 100/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2025 23:35 | mrmcrook | 13,148 | 78/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 4% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 81.5/100, a mean average of 83.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.0.
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Jasonconfused TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/26/2012 03:27 | #58932
Top notch rock guitar! Some really unique sounds by the master, Joe Satriani!
