Phil Carter at AllMusic gave Flying in a Blue Dream 4.5 stars out of five, calling it "An hour-long disc filled with musical explorations and compositions that defy belief" and "unquestionably Joe Satriani at his absolute best." Satriani's first attempts at singing were highlighted and described as " extraordinary, but it fits extremely well with the music he creates".
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The most recent reissue was part of The Complete Studio Recordings, released on Apthrough Legacy Recordings this is a box set compilation containing remastered editions of every Satriani studio album from 1986 to 2013. The first was on through Epic Records and again on Jas part of the Original Album Classics box set. The track was later used as the menu music to the 1996 Sony PlayStation video game Formula 1, which also featured " Summer Song" from The Extremist (1992).įlying in a Blue Dream has been reissued several times. "Back to Shalla-Bal" refers to Shalla-Bal from the Marvel Comics universe it is the second reference Satriani has made to the Silver Surfer character, who was first featured on the cover art of Surfing with the Alien (1987). "One Big Rush" was featured in the 1989 film Say Anything. Music videos for the ballad "I Believe" and hard rocker "Big Bad Moon" were included on The Satch Tapes, which was first released on VHS cassette in 1993 and reissued on DVD on Novemit also includes excerpts from an MTV performance of "The Feeling". "The Bells of Lal (Part One)" was featured in the 1996 film Sling Blade, during the scene where Karl Childers ( Billy Bob Thornton) is sharpening a lawnmower blade to kill the menacing Doyle Hargraves ( Dwight Yoakam). "Day at the Beach (New Rays from an Ancient Sun)" and "The Forgotten (Part One)" are performed using a two-handed tapping technique. "Headless" is a remake of "The Headless Horseman" from Not of This Earth (1986), but with added distorted vocals and harmonica along with a 'squawky' guitar tone making chicken-like sounds. It also marks the first time he plays the Deering six-string banjo-style guitar-"The Feeling" is performed entirely using that instrument-and harmonica, the latter of which features prominently on "Headless", "Big Bad Moon" and "Ride".
"Can't Slow Down", "Strange", "I Believe", "Big Bad Moon", "The Phone Call" and "Ride" feature him singing for the first time, the most on any of his albums to date. The title track has endured as one of Satriani's best-known songs and is a mainstay at his concerts, as well as "The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing". " Comprising a varied and eclectic range of styles, the album contains more tracks (18) than any of his other albums Time Machine (1993) has 28 tracks as a double album. In a 2014 interview with MusicRadar, Satriani described the writing and recording process for Flying in a Blue Dream as "A very stressful time" and that "It was just so difficult and insane, but there was also this enormous amount of creativity.
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