Alien Love Secrets

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Alien Love Secrets
Alien Love Secrets cover
EP by Steve Vai
Released March 21, 1995
Recorded 1994
Genre Instrumental Rock
Length 33:34
Label Epic
Producer(s) Steve Vai
Professional reviews
Steve Vai chronology
Sex and Religion
(1993)
Alien Love Secrets
(1995)
Fire Garden
(1996)


Alien Love Secrets is an EP made by Steve Vai in 1995. It was written as a stripped-down guitar, bass and drums record with minimal keyboards. Alien Love Secrets was released in the middle of the recording process of the 1996 album Fire Garden, as Vai wished to keep a steady output, and the 70 plus minutes of Fire Garden were taking too long to release at an acceptable interval after Sex and Religion. Notable tracks include "Bad Horsie" (derived from a riff Vai played in the movie Crossroads), "Ya-Yo Gakk", which is based around recordings of his young son's vocals, and "The Boy from Seattle" in which Vai performs in the style of Jimi Hendrix.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Bad Horsie" – 5:51
  2. "Juice" – 3:44
  3. "Die to Live" – 3:53
  4. "The Boy from Seattle" – 5:04
  5. "Ya-Yo Gakk" – 2:52
  6. "Kill the Guy With the Ball/The God Eaters" – 7:02
  7. "Tender Surrender" – 5:03