A misguided and unfortunate attempt to sound like his mentor, Frank Zappa. "Your playing is phenomenal, but your tone sounds like an electric ham sandwich" -FZ
Key Track: Call It Sleep
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Viv Woman ~ β
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Lovers Are Crazy ~ β
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Salamanders in the Sun ~ β
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The Boy / Girl Song ~ β
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The Attitude Song ~ β
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Call It Sleep ~ β
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Junkie ~ β
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Bill's Private Parts ~ β
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Next Stop Earth ~ β
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There's Something Dead in Here ~ β
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This is an album that covers quite a bit of ground. We have poppy tunes in "The Boy Girl Song", a bit of guitar shredding in "Call It Sleep", some acoustic mellowness in "Burning Down The Mountain", there's even a little bit of rap & roll in "Little Green Men". It's not that this album didn't know what it wanted to be, it was just Vai displaying some musical integrity. He recorded this in his back yard studio and was bound by nobody but his own ... read more
| 1 | Little Green Men 5:39 | |
| 2 | Viv Woman 3:03 | |
| 3 | Lovers Are Crazy 5:39 | |
| 4 | Salamanders in the Sun 2:26 | |
| 5 | The Boy / Girl Song 4:00 | |
| 6 | The Attitude Song 3:22 | |
| 7 | Call It Sleep 5:09 | |
| 8 | Junkie 7:34 | |
| 9 | Bill's Private Parts 0:16 | |
| 10 | Next Stop Earth 0:35 | |
| 11 | There's Something Dead in Here 4:00 |