Flex-Able Leftovers (album) explained

Flex-Able Leftovers
Type:	Album
Artist:	Steve Vai
Cover:	Flex-Able Leftovers (album).jpg
Released:	10 November 1998
Recorded:	1982–1998
Genre:	Rock
Length:	54:10
Prev Title:	Fire Garden
Prev Year:	1996
Next Title:	The Ultra Zone
Next Year:	1999

The Flex-Able Leftovers album, released on 10 November 1998, on Sony Records, contains five bonus tracks and is quite different from the original Flex-Able Leftovers EP. Unlike Steve Vai's other albums, which are mostly instrumental, almost all copies of Flex-Able Leftovers feature a Parental Advisory label, as a result of the song "Fuck Yourself" containing multiple profanities and sexual references. Other differences from the original version include the recording of live drums on "You Didn't Break It!" (The original used a drum machine) and the complete re-editing and mixing of the songs.

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Vai, except where noted.

1. "Fuck Yourself" (Listed as #?@! Yourself)^[1] (Bonus Ed. 1998) – 8:27
2. "So Happy" (Vai, Laurel Fishman) – 2:43
3. "Bledsoe Bluvd" – 4:22
4. "Natural Born Boy" (Bonus Ed. 1998) – 3:34
5. "Details at 10" – 5:58
6. "Massacre" (Bonus Ed. 1998) – 3:25
7. "Burnin' Down the Mountain" – 4:22
8. "Little Pieces of Seaweed" – 5:12 (Vai, Larry Kutcher)
9. "San Sebastian" (Bonus Ed. 1998) – 1:08
10. "The Beast of Love" (Joe Kearney) – 3:30
11. "You Didn't Break it" (Bob Harris, Suzannah Harris) (1998 Version, with Robin DiMaggio (Drums)) – 4:19
12. "The X-Equilibrium Dance" (Bonus Ed. 1998) – 5:10
13. "Chronic Insomnia" – 2:00

More Information on This Edition (Discogs)

Credits

Instrumental contributions

• Steve Vai – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, coral sitar, keyboards, electric piano, bass guitar, background vocals
• Mike Keneally – keyboards on "Fuck Yourself"
• Tommy Mars – vocals, violin, keyboards
• Stu Hamm – vocals, bass guitar
• Bob Harris – background vocals
• Joe Kearney – background vocals
• Alex Acerra - background vocals
• Larry Crane – piccolo xylophone, bell lyre, vibraphone
• Robin DiMaggio – drums
• Chris Frazier – drums
• Deen Castronovo – drums
• Pete Zeldman – percussion
• Suzannah Harris – background vocals
• Larry Kutcher - vocals and narration on "Little Pieces of Seaweed"

Technical contributions

• Eddy Schreyer - mastering
• Lill Vai – sound effects
• Joe Despagni – sound effects

References

1. Web site: Vai.com > Little Black Dots > Lyrics > Fuck Yourself . 2011-05-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110609144217/http://www.vai.com/LittleBlackDots/lyrics_fuckyourself.html . 2011-06-09 . dead .