1. "Surfing With The Alien" – 4:25
2. "Ice 9" – 3:59
3. "Crushing Day" – 5:14
4. "Always With Me, Always With You" – 3:22
5. "Satch Boogie" – 3:13
6. "Hill Of The Skull" – 1:48
7. "Circles" – 3:28
8. "Lords Of Karma" – 4:48
9. "Midnight" – 1:42
10. "Echo" – 5:37

 Oho....what do we have here?
An early instrumental rock album of the rock musician Joe Satriani,that is what we have...and a pretty good one too....at that..
Those of you stay away from Joe Satriani because you have the misconception that he is another one of your soulless shredder and his albums are just meaningless jams without a head or tail .....stay away from him no more,stay away no more.
You must understand that there are actual songs on here..not jams....Nice uptempo songs and ballads.Take the example of the title track almost the best song on here....amazingly lucid guitar work which never fails to grip you as a listener,crushing riffs......the same goes for Crushing Day too......another one of 'em......
Then we have the ballads......and these ballads have a lot of soul in them.Take Always with me,Always With you for example....a simple backbeat with a great lead guitar solo all the way through....
The album has a lot of atmosphere too all the way through..the mood changes are very nice...you are softly sliding into pleasant sleep by the lullaby metioned above when you get woken up by the abrupt start of Satch Boogie...(great name for the song,btw,nice one Satch!)......
Side 2 is even more riveting if that's possible..what with pieces  like Hill of the Skull  which succesfully interject a note of despair into the proceedings......very good stuff to listen to.....
Uhhhh,somebody told me that Satch got the guitar detuned for bass.....though i don't know what that means  having never held a electric guitar in my hands..(I have started learning the acoustic though..and getting on pretty fast if i may say so.....I need to practise more......rather than downloading free albums  from the net......)
A essential album......good addition to any collection, I would say.

                                                      Flying in a Blue Dream  B

1. "Flying in a Blue Dream" – 5:28
2. "The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing" – 5:05
3. "Can't Slow Down" – 4:46
4. "Headless" – 1:28
5. "Strange" – 4:55
6. "I Believe" – 5:50
7. "One Big Rush" – 3:20
8. "Big Bad Moon" – 5:13
9. "The Feeling" – 0:52
10. "The Phone Call" – 3:00
11. "Day at the Beach (New Rays from an Ancient Sun)" – 2:03
12. "Back to Shalla Ball" – 3:15
13. "Ride" – 4:58
14. "The Forgotten (Part One)" – 1:10
15. "The Forgotten (Part Two)" – 5:10
16. "The Bells of Lal (Part One)" – 1:19
17. "The Bells of Lal (Part Two)" – 4:08
18. "Into the Light" – 2:25

Uhhhh..what happened to Joe Satch?I mean i sure don't buy a Joe Satch to listen to The Phone Call or whatever....i buy his albums to listen to ditties like the title track...
Yes,ladies and gentlemen,Satch thought that people might like to listen to his voice so there are about 6.......yes,6!6! tracks here with him singing some nonsense........and all those tracks are a complete wash-out, you may take it from me...........maybe Big Bad Moon is good enough sometimes....nice enough riff..at least it doesn't bore you like Can't Slow Down or something.......
Now if we take the instrumentals...now.....what could be better?Take the mystical Potato Head Groove Thingy now......typical Satch harking back to the Surfing with the Alien and Not of this Earth Days....
All the rest of the instrumentals are good enough..there are goodish bit of those quiet ones when he lets the guitar do the talking........
If i might quote a well-known musician.....the advice i would give Satch would be to shut up and play his guitar..........otherwise he is pretty good........

So,if he had cut out all the vocal tracks this might be getting an A grade but as it is,there you are,you can't have everything.........