TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Santana
Santana
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.6247
Santana Album Rankings
1
I'll say it straight out; this is a fantastic album.
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2
The San Francisco Bay Area rock scene of the late '60s was one that encouraged radical experimentation and discouraged the type of mindless conformity that's often plagued corporate rock.
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3
Carlos Santana was originally in his own wing of the Latin Rock Hall of Fame, neither playing Afro-Cuban with rock guitar, as didMalo, nor flavoring mainstream rock with percussion, as didChicago.
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4
The Best of Santanais a 16-track collection that greatly expands the scope of Santana's previous hits compilation,Greatest Hits.
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5
An unlikely yin and yang have possessed Carlos Santana throughout his career: Mystic and materialist, the guitarist has vacillated between playing to the heavens and playing to the gallery.
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6
Released in 1988,Viva Santana!is a generous 30-track overview of Santana's first 20 years of recording.
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7
This ten-song sampler presents the best of Santana, 1969-71, the period of its greatest popularity. The hits include "Black Magic Woman," "Evil Ways," "Everybody's Everything," and "Oye Como Va.
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8
There?s nothing a reviewer likes better than an album full of lyrics with big ideas.
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9
Why didn't they just call it Supernatural II and have done with it? [Dec 2002, p.
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10
Three years ago, everyone seemed startled when Carlos Santana went for the gold on ''Supernatural'': How could such a bastion of classic-rock integrity pander to the marketplace so shamelessly, albeit
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11
One of the greatest guitarists of all time is at the top of his form.
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12
These 14 tracks lean heavily on the earliest phase of Santana. Nine of them, in fact, were recorded prior to 1972, and just one postdates 1978.
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13
Carlos Santana once likened his penchant for exploring different musical genres to a mountain climber's obsession with mountains.
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14
Recorded in Japan in July 1973, this massive live album, originally on three LPs and now on two compact discs, was available outside the United States in 1974 but held back from domestic release unti
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15
The Street's the same in New York or Frisco. It leads to heaven or hell, maybe both, and what comes down around you depends on how you travel just as much as where you're coming from.
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16
There's still a lot of power to Santana, but it gets squandered pretty thoroughly on this album, as producer Val Garay shoehorns the band into a series of unflattering and ill-managed bids for mass-ma
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18
Santana signed to Polydor in 1991 after 22 years with Columbia Records.
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19
Carlos Santana has had problems with creative direction for the past few years.
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Picking out the best instrumentals from Carlos Santana's thirty-year recording career is a daunting task at best, and a fan can certainly find reasons to disagree with some of the choices made in thi
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48
The Best of Santana is a 16-track collection that greatly expands the scope of Santana's previous hits compilation, Greatest Hits.
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51
Black Magic Woman, the Santana title in Collectables Records' budget-priced Priceless Collection series, is, like other albums in the series, a reissue of an earlier budget album under a different ti
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