Song · Joe Satriani
“Big Bad Moon” by Joe Satriani
From the album Flying in a Blue Dream (1989)
“Big Bad Moon” by Joe Satriani appears on 5 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1990 and 1998. It was first released in 1989 on the album Flying in a Blue Dream. Its best result is #242 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #794 hard rock song of all time.
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"Big Bad Moon" comes from Flying in a Blue Dream, the third album guitarist Joe Satriani released through Relativity on October 30, 1989, and on this one the six-string man steps up to the microphone too. Satriani wrote the words and the music, sings it and plays the bass, with Jeff Campitelli on drums, and he produced it with John Cuniberti, who also engineered.
It was one of four singles from the album to reach Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, climbing to No. 17, level with "One Big Rush". The album around it became one of his most popular, reaching 23 on the Billboard 200, going gold in January 1990 and picking up a 1991 Grammy nod for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 242 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 707 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 755 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 734 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 792 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
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