Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets (1995) DVDRip/DVD5 Artist: Steve Vai Country: USA Album: Alien Love Secrets Genre: Guitar Virtuoso, Rock, Heavy Metal Year Of Release: 1995 Quality:.avi DVD Video.
Alien Love Secrets is an EP by guitarist Steve Vai, released on March 21, 1995 through Relativity Records. The EP reached No. 125 on the U.S. Billboard 200[3] and remained on that chart for two weeks,[4] as well as reaching No. 72 on the Dutch albums chart.[5]
Alien Love Secrets | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
EP by | ||||
Released | March 21, 1995[1] | |||
Recorded | The Mothership Studio in Hollywood Hills | |||
Genre | Instrumental rock | |||
Length | 33:26[2] | |||
Label | Relativity | |||
Producer | Steve Vai | |||
Steve Vai chronology | ||||
|
![Alien Love Secrets Download Alien Love Secrets Download](http://www.akwavita.com.br/admin/produto/imgs/alien love steve vai peq.jpg)
Overview
Alien Love Secrets was written and recorded in less than six weeks as a stripped-down guitar, bass and drums record with minimal keyboards. According to Vai, he had wished to maintain a steady output of material following his 1993 album Sex & Religion, but the recording process for the 70+ minutes of his subsequent 1996 album Fire Garden was taking too long. The EP was therefore purposely released in anticipation of Fire Garden.[6] Stylistically Alien Love Secrets marks a return to the more familiar instrumental rock of Vai's 1990 album Passion and Warfare, following the highly mixed reception to Sex & Religion.[1]
Notable tracks include 'Bad Horsie', which was derived from a riff played by Vai during the final scenes of the 1986 film Crossroads; 'Juice' was featured on the soundtrack of the 1996 PlayStation video game Formula 1; 'Ya-Yo Gakk' is a call and response interplay with vocal recordings of Vai's young son Julian; 'Tender Surrender', one of Vai's most popular songs, bases itself around a familiar sound, structure and tempo as Jimi Hendrix's 'Villanova Junction Blues' from his 1999 live album Live at Woodstock, although written in a different key; and 'The Boy from Seattle', which is a tribute to Hendrix written by Vai.
Critical reception
Professional ratings | |
---|---|
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine at AllMusic gave Alien Love Secrets three stars out of five, calling it a 'moodier, more atmospheric collection' than Passion and Warfare. He also praised his 'fluid technique, which manages to never become completely mechanical.'[1]
Track listing
All music composed by Steve Vai.
No. | Title | Length |
---|---|---|
1. | 'Bad Horsie' | 5:51 |
2. | 'Juice' | 3:44 |
3. | 'Die to Live' | 3:53 |
4. | 'The Boy from Seattle' | 5:03 |
5. | 'Ya-Yo Gakk' | 2:52 |
6. | 'Kill the Guy with the Ball'
| 7:02 |
7. | 'Tender Surrender' | 5:01 |
Total length: | 33:26 |
Personnel
- Steve Vai – guitar, keyboard, Eventide H3000harmonizer, drumprogramming, bass, engineering, production
- Tommy Mars – organ (track 7)
- Deen Castronovo – drums (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7)
- Julian Vai – baby vocals (track 5)
- Sergio Buss – engineering assistance
- Bernie Grundman – mastering
- Pam Daney – production assistance
Chart performance
Year | Chart | Position |
---|---|---|
1995 | Dutch albums chart | 72[5] |
Billboard 200 | 125[3] |
References
- ^ abcdErlewine, Stephen Thomas. 'Alien Love Secrets - Steve Vai'. AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2014-12-10.
- ^Alien Love Secrets (CD release 'Rel 478586 2').
- ^ ab'Alien Love Secrets - Steve Vai | Awards'. AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2014-12-10.
- ^'Steve Vai - Chart history'. Billboard. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ^ ab'Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets (album)'. finnishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2014-12-10.
- ^Vai, Steve. 'Alien Love Secrets (1995)'. vai.com. Retrieved 2014-12-10.
External links
- Guitar Nine Records - In Review: Steve Vai 'Alien Love Secrets' at Guitar Nine Records
Fire Garden is the fourth studio album by guitarist Steve Vai, released on September 17, 1996 through Epic Records. The album reached No. 106 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for two weeks, as well as reaching the top 100 in three other countries.
![Alien Love Secrets Download Alien Love Secrets Download](https://image.bayimg.com/oamoaaabn.jpg)
Organisms of many species are specialized into male and female varieties, each known as a sex. Sexual reproduction involves the combining and mixing of genetic traits: specialized cells known as gametes combine to form offspring that inherit traits from each parent. The gametes produced by an organism define its sex: males produce small gametes (e.g. spermatozoa, or sperm, in animals; pollen in seed plants) while females produce large gametes (ova, or egg cells). Individual organisms which produce both male and female gametes are termed hermaphroditic. Gametes can be identical in form and function (known as isogamy), but, in many cases, an asymmetry has evolved such that two different types of gametes (heterogametes) exist (known as anisogamy).
Physical differences are often associated with the different sexes of an organism; these sexual dimorphisms can reflect the different reproductive pressures the sexes experience. For instance, mate choice and sexual selection can accelerate the evolution of physical differences between the sexes.
Among humans and other mammals, males typically carry an X and a Y chromosome (XY), whereas females typically carry two X chromosomes (XX), which are a part of the XY sex-determination system. Humans may also be intersex. Other animals have different sex-determination systems, such as the ZW system in birds, the X0 system in insects, and various environmental systems, for example in crustaceans. Fungi may also have more complex allelic mating systems, with sexes not accurately described as male, female, or hermaphroditic.
Steve VaiSteven Siro Vai (; born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, composer, singer, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, and played in Zappa's band from 1980 to 1983. He embarked on a solo career in 1983 and has released eight solo albums to date. He has recorded and toured with Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth, and Whitesnake, as well as recording with artists such as Public Image Ltd, Mary J. Blige, Spinal Tap, and Ozzy Osbourne. Additionally, Vai has toured with live-only acts G3, Zappa Plays Zappa, and the Experience Hendrix tour, as well as headlining international tours.Vai has been described as a 'highly individualistic player' and part of a generation of 'heavy rock and metal virtuosi who came to the fore in the 1980s'. He released his first solo album Flex-Able in 1984, while his most successful release, Passion and Warfare (1990), was described as 'the richest and best hard rock guitar-virtuoso album of the '80s'. He was voted the '10th Greatest Guitarist' by Guitar World magazine, and has sold over 15 million records.
Studio albums |
|
---|---|
Compilations |
|
Live & orchestral |
|
Videos |
|
Zappa | |
Alcatrazz | |
David Lee Roth | |
Public Image Ltd | |
Whitesnake |
This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by authors (here).
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.