Surfing with the Alien

1987 album by Joe Satriani
MusicAlbum album Q1755884
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Surfing with the Alien

Summary

Surfing with the Alien is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (803 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Surfing with the Alien's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Surfing with the Alien's genre is instrumental rock[4].
  • Surfing with the Alien was produced by Joe Satriani[5].
  • Surfing with the Alien was performed by Joe Satriani[6].
  • Surfing with the Alien's record label is recorded as Relativity Records[7].
  • Surfing with the Alien is part of Joe Satriani discography[8].
  • Surfing with the Alien is part of Joe Satriani's albums in chronological order[9].
  • Surfing with the Alien's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • Surfing with the Alien was distributed by music streaming[11].
  • Surfing with the Alien was released on 1987[12].
  • Surfing with the Alien's tracklist is recorded as Surfing with the Alien[13].
  • Surfing with the Alien's tracklist is recorded as Always With Me, Always With You[14].
  • Surfing with the Alien's tracklist is recorded as Satch Boogie[15].
  • Surfing with the Alien's tracklist is recorded as Circles[16].
  • Surfing with the Alien's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+2193'}[17].
  • Surfing with the Alien's form of creative work is recorded as studio album[18].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[19]

  • First release date: 1987-10-15[20]

  • Genre(s): hard rock, instrumental rock, progressive rock, rock[21]

  • Community tags: 80s, contemporary pop/rock, fusion, hard rock, instrumental rock, progressive rock, rock[22]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 309938f0-e46c-3f8c-bded-07a60a198dd2[23]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Surfing with the Alien was performed by Joe Satriani[6]. It was produced by Joe Satriani[5].

Publication

Surfing with the Alien was released on 1987[12]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Its genre is instrumental rock[4]. Part of include Joe Satriani discography[8], a Wikimedia artist discography[24] and Joe Satriani's albums in chronological order[9]. It was distributed by music streaming[11].

Why It Matters

Surfing with the Alien ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (803 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [19] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [20] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [21] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [22] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [23] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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