- Audio CD (17 May 1990)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Relativity
- ASIN: B000003BVM
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 540,024 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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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
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Guitar magic,
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This review is from: Passion And Warfare (Audio CD)
The first point to be made here is that this is an instrumental album of guitar music, some acoustic but predominantly electric. If you don't like this form of music, then you are unlikely to find much here to praise. If however you do like this form of music, chances are you already own it. If you are unsure as to whether this is the music for you, welcome, you couldn't have found a better introduction.Passion And Warfare is often referred to as Steve Vai's finest album. This is largely because of the lack of vocals on the album to interfere with the fantastic display of musicianship on display. However, Passion And Warfare is the most 'Rock' orientated of his albums and so immediately more accessable. It features a strong mix of pumped up rockers such as Erotic Nightmares and The Animal, and more gentle ballads such as the Vai signature tune For The Love Of God. There is a nice variation in his playing styles throughout and a welcome dose of humour is present making the listening experience more of an enjoyable one and not such a musicianly one, which is where many instrumental albums do fall flat. Steve Vai is an incredible guitarist, one of the best in fact. This is never in dispute. What sets him above many of his contemporaries is his personality that shines through into his music. Passion And Warfare has this in spades and benefits from it greatly. Each of the tracks on this album is outstanding, and together they form a truly great album worthy of its high praise.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The one that changed everything,
By Musicman "waggstar" (Truro, Cornwall, U.K.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Passion And Warfare (Audio CD)
There was never anything quite like this - before or since. Even the great man himself has never matched this masterpiece. The greatest instrumental guitar album ever, by some way too.
Absolutely crammed with ideas, technique, feel, style and melody, and of course stamped with Steves' trademark eccentricity and humour. It sounds like every guitarist who has ever lived has turned up at the studio to play six notes each. There's never a dull moment, and there certainly isn't a weak track. If you were an alien who had just landed on this planet and wanted to know what a guitar is for and what it does, this is all you'd need.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
By far and away the best album of Vai's.,
By the great amphibian "Ruthenphelphs" (Hampshire, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Passion And Warfare (Audio CD)
I have most of Steve Vai's albums and I only really got listening to Vai a few months ago, and listened to him all the time for about a month. In fact I listened to his albums whilst doing a time consuming painting and I think that it proved to be good background music for this task, seeing as it is very mentally stimulating. Passion and Warfare is the most interesting of Vai's albums because it is the least messy, and one thing that I find to be greatly in its favour is that it's instrumental. When listening to the final track I think that Vai must be one of Aphex Twin's only contemporaries. Combine this with the fact that Vai is one of the most technically skilled guitarists imaginable and you have a perfect album. Don't you? No; because although Vai is one of the most technically skilled, he isn't the greatest artist. His artwork is better in this album than in any of his others though, but he clearly lacks the ability of being able to sound consistently beautiful; an ability that guitarists like Tony Macalpine always has and Vinnie Moore usually has. This album manages to largely be consistenly beautiful though, whereas most of his albums are a mess, (and not a purposeful 'mess' like the extraordinary complexity and beauty of Planet X or Aphex Twin), in the worst sense of the word. This album though is really nice and also stunning in terms of musicianship. I have the tab book for this album and Steve writes quite a few pages of philosophical though about the album, and clearly a lot of feeling went into making the album. It is undoubtedly Vai's tour-de-force to date, (and it is probably the reason that Vai has managed to stay on the top of the well-known guitarists list despite releasing so many subsequent albums with many many weak songs in them next to the occasional amazing songs).
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