# Circles guitar solo > The guitar solo on Circles by Joe Satriani (1987). From the album Surfing with the Alien. Ranked #580 of all time across 80 lists. Canonical URL: Joe Satriani, 1987, from *Surfing with the Alien*. Solo by *Joe Satriani*. A quiet intro erupts into one of the album's most aggressive, fluid solo passages. Circles by Joe Satriani is ranked #580 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Joe Satriani and the song was released in 1987. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #173 (Digital Dream Door). ## In our lists - [The Best Joe Satriani Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/joe-satriani-guitar-solos/) — #9 ## Sources - [Digital Dream Door: 250 Greatest Rock Guitar Solos](https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_guitarsolo.html) — #173 ### Who played the guitar solo on Circles? Joe Satriani played the solo on Joe Satriani's Circles (1987). ### Where does Circles rank among the greatest guitar solos? #580 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 1 of them. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)