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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0886970886420
Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Manufacturer: Sbme Special Mkts.
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sbme Special Mkts.
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Sales Rank: 32482
Studio: Sbme Special Mkts.
Disc 1:- Bad Horsie
- Juice
- Die to Live
- The Boy from Seattle
- Ya-Yo Gakk
- Kill the Guy with the Ball/The God Eaters
- Tender Surrender
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This specially priced, seven-track mini-album could have been titled the 'Many Moods of Stevie Vai' given its stylistic sweep. 'Bad Horsie' is a widescreen, effects-laden monster, 'Juice' is a high-speed boogie, 'The Boy from Seattle' verges on Metheny territory and 'Tender Surrender' oozes with subtlety and taste. All this, plus a thrashing rocker that football coaches can motivate the troops with: 'Kill the Guy with the Ball.' --Jeff Bateman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of his best ever
To my mind, "Alien Love Secrets" is among the best works Steve ever released. Definitely his best instrumental work. The DVD is also worth every penny.
Rating:  - a good record by Steve Vai
This album contains two true gems 'The boys from Seattle' (which sounds very hendrixian - and in a beautiful way, without being pompous, this is one of the finest songs i have heard for a while, a sort of breath of fresh air into the current mediocrity of the music scene, had Jimi written this one, it would have been considered as one of his better songs) and 'tender surrender'; i'm less a fanatic of the heavy distorted stuff - though 'Die to Live' is very pleasant - of the rest of the record but i must admit there is an excellent guitar playing throughout the album, and this goes beyond just being a shred player, there is a lot a subtlety and work throughout (the progressive complex metal piece Kill the guy with the ball/The god eaters which ends with subtle harmonics); i don't regret my purchase, the thing that the record is short is not a problem for me, quality is always over quantity.
Rating: - Only 7 Tracks, But Great Variety And Great Songs!
This album is a bit short, and VERY sweet. I also own Fire Garden, which I really like, and The Ultra Zone, which can be a bit strange at times, but that is just Vai's eccentric style. I would say that there is strangeness on this album too; the track Ya-Yo Gakk. Aside from that and a somewhat schizophrenic track Kill The Guy With The Ball/The God Eaters, it is quality musicianship and several different styles of it. Very enjoyable music from a very talented man.
Rating: - Some Genius, Some OK
One thing that I love about Steve Vai is that he rarely resorts to making a song out of drums, a repeating bass line, and a guitar solo a la Yngwie Malmsteen, but keeps the melody through his songs. He has just the right amount of solo in his music, which is shown in this CD.
Alien Love Secrets has three AMAZING songs, Bad Horsie, Juice, and Tender Surrender. Tender Surrender perfectly builds tension and lets it all go in a second, perfectly. The Boy from Seattle and Kill the Guy with the Ball are both solid songs also.
Die to Live random at times, and I didn't much care for it. Ya-Yo Gakk is funny the first time you hear it, but gets annoying thereafter.
I would recommend this CD. It certainly has some 1st class music on it, and my three favorite Steve Vai songs.
Rating: - One of Vai's Very Best Releases!
The only down-side of this CD is that it's short. Even so, it's easily a 5 star CD and it features some of Vai's very finest studio guitar work. Song by song:
Bad Horsie: this is a drop-tuned monster of a nightmarish tune: picture yourself riding a locomotive as though it were a steam-belching, fire-breathing steed, and that's kind of what you get here... shrieking, insane guitar, wah-pedal galore, slide guitar, whammy bar, blazing solos, etc.... on his "Live at Astoria" DVD, vai introduces this song with, "Welcome to the heavy metal portion of the evening..." which was pretty accurate: this is a HEAVY tune.
Juice: shorter, often compared to Eric Johnson's "Cliffs of Dover" because it has a similar joyous and bouncy vibe about it; but whereas Johnson plays stuff I had previously thought too beautiful to achieve with a pentatonic scale, Vai is more like "Cliffs of Dover" ON STEROIDS: no particular scale adhered to, just some fo the VERY BEST GUITAR SOLOING I've ever herad from Steve Vai, or anybody for that matter... he does that tap/hammer stuff where both hands are moving all over, and yet keep in mind: this is all done over the top of a bouncy, joyous theme. This is just a GREAT song. Amazing!
Die to Live: this is also short, and for me, is an exercise in nuance and tone: I have the music for this CD and I can almost play this song... I can't play it anything like Vai, though, because he plays with just exactly the right dynamics in every situation with ... Read More
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