Album · Joe Satriani
Flying in a Blue Dream by Joe Satriani
Flying in a Blue Dream is an album by Joe Satriani, released in 1989. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 7 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Big Bad Moon”, on 5 lists with a best position of #242.
Flying in a Blue Dream, Joe Satriani's third studio album, landed on Relativity Records on October 30, 1989, and it's the guitar teacher who once schooled Steve Vai and Kirk Hammett stepping all the way into the spotlight. Fresh off a stint as lead guitarist on Mick Jagger's first solo tour, Satriani produced it himself, and the fretboard pyrotechnics come wrapped in hard rock muscle and honest-to-goodness tunes: "One Big Rush" charges, "Big Bad Moon" struts and "Back to Shallabal" soars.
Four tracks made Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, "I Believe" among them, and the album climbed to No. 23 on the Billboard 200 and hung around for 39 weeks. It went gold on January 25, 1990, and brought Satriani his third Grammy nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Flying in a Blue Dream on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Bad Moon | 5 | #242 | – | 1990–1998 | |
| 2 | One Big Rush | 1 | #589 | – | 1990 | |
| 3 | Back to Shallabal | 1 | #938 | – | 1990 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.