Joe Satriani - Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology
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Artist: Joe SatrianiEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-11-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Surfing With The Alien
- Satch Boogie
- Always With Me, Always With You
- Crushing Day
- Flying In A Blue Dream
- The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing
- I Believe
- Big Bad Moon
- Friends
- The Extremist
- Summer Song
- Why
- Time Machine
- Cool #9
- Down, Down, Down
- The Crush Of Love
- Ceremony
- Crystal Planet
- Raspberry Jam Delta-V
- Love Thing
- Borg Sex
- Until We Say Goodbye
- Devil's Slide
- Clouds Race Across The Sky
- Starry Night
- Mind Storm
- Slick
- The Eight Steps
- Not Of This Earth
- Rubina
Music reviews of Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology
Music Review: You can't please everybody...
Rating: 4 Stars
...thus the sad tale that goes with any sort of anthology or "greatest hits" album. If you're looking to get into Joe for the first time, start here. The samples pulled from each of his studio albums is quite good and adequately represent each studio work. The older tracks are indeed remastered here. Joe is my favorite instrumentalist by far, and yet I have a couple of things to say about "Anthology" that are probably not too kind:
1) You're getting basically anything worth having from "Flying in a Blue Dream" (except for maybe "Bells of Lol"), so don't worry about buying it later. It's actually kind of a cheesy album.
2) I was a bit upset that "Circles" from the Surfing with the Alien album didn't make the cut. Joe always plays this one live, and it's one of the high-points of Surfing with the Alien. The other cuts represented from this album are all excellent.
3) The only cut from "Time Machine" is the title track, and yet it's a double-disc set (lots of live & weird studio experimental material). I would have liked to see "All Alone" on the anthology--which I think is Joe's best cut on Time Machine. "The Mighty Turtle Head" is also a great track that didn't make the cut.
4) Joe's 1995 self-titled release only got 2 cuts on Anthology -- "Cool #9" (one of Joe's favorite live openers) and "Down, Down, Down." I don't understand the presence of the latter on this compilation, when songs like "Home," "(You're) My World," and "If" get more radio air time and more attention in guitar magazines and the like. "Down, Down, Down" actually stands out on the 1995 release like a sore thumb; the rest of the album represents a rock-blues fusion thing. This is a very underrepresented album on Anthology.
5) Some great tracks were missing from "Extremist" like "Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness" and "Tears in the Rain." If you were to buy Extremist in addition to Anthology you won't feel robbed because of the overlap (same with Crystal Planet). Granted, few people ever say that "New Blues" is one of their favorite Joe tracks (it's one of my favorites), so you won't expect it in Anthology, but it is worth having, as is the whole album itself.
6) Engines of Creation got just the amount of attention it deserves (it's a weird step for Joe). "Until We Say Goodbye" is probably the only track worth having on the whole album, and it is represented here.
7) "Rubina" and "Not of this Earth" are the only two tracks that amount to anything from Joe's long-ago released "Not of this Earth" album. Good choice here (although I question why they're placed on the CD last).
8) Crystal Planet is almost over-represented, and I'm a bit sad that "House Full of Bullets" and "Up in the Sky" were not here over and against "Ceremony" and "Love Thing." "Raspberry Jam Delta-V" (a phrase used by fighter pilots to describe the effect of intense G-force on the body) and the title track are the high-points of the album, but you'd do yourself well to pick this one up on the side, even though it's somewhat overrepresented here. Again, you won't feel robbed by doing so, as I Crystal Planet, in my opinion, represents Joe's most mature work to date.
All in all, if you're an old Joe fan who wishes to convert cassette tapes to CD, start here. As I said before, you're getting what you need from Flying in a Blue Dream as well as Surfing with the Alien (except for "Circles"), and if one purchases Extremist and Crystal Planet in addition to Anthology you'll basically have everything you need to get up to speed.
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