Santana's Greatest Hits: Santana: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Evil Ways

2. Jingo

3. Hope You're Feeling Better

4. Samba Pa Ti

5. Persuasion

6. Black Magic Woman

7. Oye Como Va

8. Everything's Coming Our Way

9. Se A Cabo

10. Everybody's Everything

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If you only want the essentials, this is the package to get. Greatest Hits is an early collection, dating back to 1974, and it does a good job of skimming the cream from the band's classic 1969-71 period, which yielded the first three albums, Santana, Abraxas, and Santana III. It also avoids the great, sprawling mass of ephemera and second-line material that pads Santana's later catalog: The peaks after '71 are far more thinly spread--and are seldom as lofty. On the other hand, if you're an enthusiast, you might want to take a step up to the grander Best of Santana or Viva Santana collections, each of which covers more ground. --Gavin McNett

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Original Title: Santana s Greatest Hits. Format: CD. Artist: Santana. Language: English. Genre: Rock. Track Listing: Disk 1. 1. Evil Ways. 2. Jingo. 3. Hope You re Feeling Better. 4. Samba Pa Ti. 5. Persuasion. 6. Black Magic Woman. 7. Oye Como Va. 8. Everything s Coming Our Way. 9. Se a Cab. 10. Everybody s Everything.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Typical Early CD Version Of A Vinyl LP, May 18 2004

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Santana's Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

The original Columbia LP came out in 1974 and, with the advent of the CD age, the suits at Colombia naturally thought that the buying public, in order to satisfy their curiosity about the new format, would rush out to purchase equally-skimpy CDs. And they were right. At least until faced with competition from the likes of Rhino, Ace of London, Bear Family, Eric Records, etc.

Within a few short years, however, we were able to get 20- to 30-track CDs and with substantial liner notes to provide background information on the artist or artists concerned, as well as each track included, such as discography.

Goodbye 10- 12-tracks CDs, or so we thought. Such wimpy offerings should have been retired years ago, and to expect anyone to pay the amount being asked when, for about $3.00 more you can get a multi-track compilation of most, if not all, of Santana's hits - well, maybe they should be trying to sell the Brooklyn bridge.

Having said that, since it originally came out in 1974, it more or less fills the bill insofar as their greatest hits were TO THAT POINT. And it provides some of the B-sides as well. beginning with their first, late in 1969, when Jingo reached # 56 b/w Persuasion. Next up was Evil Ways, a # 9 early in 1970, but the album omitted its flipside, Waiting.

Their best hit until Smooth in 1999 [which was their only # 1] came next when the cover of the Fleetwood Mac album cut, Black Magic Woman, topped out at # 4 in December 1970 b/w Hope You're Feeling Better, followed by Oye Como Va early in 1971 which reached # 13 b/w Samba Pa Ti. That fall, Everbody's Everything hit the # 12 slot b/w Guajira.

So far so good. But whoever put this album together originally under the title "greatest hits" decided to throw in tracks 8 and 9, which were NOT among their greatest hits [they weren't even hits in that sense of the word], instead of including either the missing B-sides mentioned or, perhaps, No One To Depend On, which made it to # 36 in April 1972. Of course, from that point on they would add another 14 hit singles up to, and including, the afore-mentioned Smooth which, incidentally, spent 12 weeks at # 1.

As other reviewers point out, avoid this - force them to either give it away at rock bottom prices or simply withdraw it from circulation. No R&R Hall of Fame inductee [1998] should have this kind of junk still circulating.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad, April 23 2004

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"musicryn121884" (Yosemite, CA) - See all my reviews

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This isn't a bad album at all, has their three biggest hits "Oye Como Va", "Black Magic Woman" and "Evil Ways", so if you are looking to find those songs all in one tidy setting this is the place.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The early years were the best years, Mar 29 2004

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Lorenzo (Deepest South Florida) - See all my reviews

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Lots of Johnny-come-lately fans won't like or even recognize some of the tracks on this album. Too bad, youngsters. These tracks were the best of the best back when Santana was just coming up and getting known; just after the Santana Blues period (you kiddies wouldn't know about that, would you?). Yeah, the band is famous now, and everybody has jumped on the Santana bandwagon, but for people who were around and listening to Santana back in the late 1960s & early 1970s, this is great stuff.

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1.0 out of 5 stars I Wouldn't Go Here
This hits collection is a cheap,skimpy set that draws ONLY
from the first Santana trilogy.Sure "Oye Como Ve","Evil Ways"
and "Balck Magic... Read more

Published on Nov 10 2003 by Andre' S Grindle

2.0 out of 5 stars Clipped
verions of some of the songs make this a lousy buy. But I'm not what you'd call a huge Santana fan anyway. Read more

Published on Jun 23 2002 by Ronald Battista