Flex-Able

Infobox Album |
Name = Flex-Able
Type = Album
Artist = Steve Vai


Released = January 1984
Recorded = April-November, 1983
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 55:04
Label = Epic Records
Producer = Steve Vai
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7vh1z85ajyvo link]
Last album =
This album = "Flex-Able"
(1984)
Next album = "Flex-Able Leftovers"
(1984)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = album


Lower caption = The 1984 original cover printed on the vinyl and initial UK CD versions.

"Flex-Able" is an album by Steve Vai. This was his first as a solo artist, and was created in Stucco Blue, a shed converted into a studio in Vai's old back garden. It is very different than many of his other albums, and is largely influenced by Frank Zappa. Thus, some people feel it is only an album for die-hard Vai fans. Flex-Able is not as based around massive guitar arrangements and shred moments as the rest of his output from the 1990s onwards, with the exception of 'Leftovers' which is a compilation of bonus tracks and remasters from his sessions at 'Stucco Blue'.

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Vai.
#"Little Green Men" – 5:39
#"Viv Woman" – 3:09
#"Lovers Are Crazy" – 5:39
#"Salamanders in the Sun" – 2:26
#"The Boy-Girl Song" – 4:02
#"The Attitude Song" – 3:23
#"Call it Sleep" – 5:09
#"Junkie" – 7:23
#"Bill's Private Parts" – 0:16
#"Next Stop Earth" – 0:34
#"There's Something Dead in Here" – 3:46

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"So Happy" – 2:44
#"Bledsoe Bluvd" – 4:22
#"Burnin' Down the Mountain" – 4:22
#"Chronic Insomnia" – 2:05