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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646803028
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: June 24, 1997
Sales Rank: 7439
Studio: Sony
Disc 1:- Liberty
- Erotic Nightmares
- The Animal
- Answers
- The Riddle
- Ballerina 12/24
- For the Love of God
- The Audience Is Listening
- I Would Love To
- Blue Powder
- Greasy Kid's Stuff
- Alien Water Kiss
- Sisters
- Love Secrets
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The second solo album from Steve Vai shows the guitarist coming into his own as a composer, matching his prodigious talent as a performer. The result is an entertaining mix. The hilarious 'Audience is Listening' complements more reflective pieces such as 'For the Love of God.' The high-powered 'Animal' and 'Greasy Kid's Stuff' are balanced by 'Blue Powder' and 'Alien Water Kiss.' Unlike most guitar-god solo recordings, Passion & Warfare avoids the sort of technical noodling that is uninteresting to everyone except other guitarists, opting instead for a collection of high-quality music that is full of compositional experimentation without ever getting out of control. --Genevieve Williams
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - MASTERPIECE BY WHICH ALL OTHERS ARE JUDGED
Simply put, the best instrumental rock guitar album of all time. There's nobody better than Steve.
Rating:  - pretty good
steve vai knows how to use a guitar and can do some pretty fancy things with one... but listening to the album i couldn't help but think to myself 'if only he could channel that awesomeness into a great song'. don't get me wrong, i enjoy this album and think it's great stuff, but it's more a showcase of what he can do on a guitar and not so much an attempt at amazing song writing. you could say that the album lacks soul. so while i will enjoy it when i listen to it, i have to be in the mood for it because it's not a song i'm listening to, it's technique.
something that kind of bugged me a bit in this album was the talking aspects of the songs. like, the most prominent example, in the song the audience is listening, the supposed premise is that an elementary school aged vai is going to play a composition for his class and his teacher is glowing with praise, but as he starts to play she says it's too loud and wild and bad mouths it... throughout the whole song. trying a bit too hard to capture that something else.
i think the deal with this guy is that he was a student of joe satriani, or they had some sort of relationship like that... and i'm sorry to say but he has a ways to go in comparison.
Rating: - A few great songs - but most are pointless wanking
"For the Love of God" is a nice piece of music. But most of this album is rubbish. Sorry, it's true. Generic rhythm tracks overlaid with endless, childish "dweedly dweedly dweedly". It's great musicianship, and there are some good ideas here which might have gone towards making better songs, but overall it's terrible music. Just because you *can* play it doesn't mean you should. As another reviewer wrote, this is why shred is dead. If you like this sort of thing, check out John Petrucci's solo album instead... it is light years ahead of this in compositional maturity.
Rating: - Dreamlike, artistic, and top-notch musicianship...yep, we got something here!
It took me a little while to "get" this album. There's something so surreal about "Passion and Warfare" that you just can't ignore it. The way it combines incredible instrumental work with the fact that the song were inspired by actual dreams of Steve Vai's is amazing. There is also an element of Frank Zappa's music in here. The connection Steve had to Zappa must have left an influence on the him and especially this album. Kind of reminds me of how I am with my guitar teacher: creative, artistically inclined and certainly out of the ordinary.
The short description of this album would be that it's one of the greatest guitar-focused albums of all time that features cool basswork and powerful drumming. Instead, I'll give a more detailed review so people can better grasp this album.
"Liberty" is appropriately named, as it gives the album a majestic opener. "Erotic Nightmares" provides fascinating guitar soloing. "The Animal" combines a funk-metal guitar riff with some outsanding shredding in the mixolydian scale (technical talk that some people might not understand, but that's OK). "For The Love of God" is an extremely beautiful guitar solo in B minor, one of the best solos of all time. I mean, I could just feel the passion behind each and every note of this six-minute power ballad. It's one of those songs that puts you in a very unusual, but still very comfortable mood.
"The Audience Is Listening" is a rare treat. The song througout is very funny, literally almost like a musical ... Read More
Rating: - God of guitars!!
This is absolutely fantastic,guitars and more guitars.Recently went and saw him.The guy loves his fans and I have the same for him-in a straight
way that is'.It's too bad he'does'nt write better compositions,there's
more flash and some times missing some good chemistry.But steve is still
the greatist and hopefully we'll see him in G3 once again!
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