SantanaBest Santana Albums Ranked
7.4
Avg Score
21
Opinions
22
Albums
7
Reviewers
Summary from 21 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Santana's catalog across 22 albums from 21 opinions, with an overall average of 7.4/10. The top-rated Santana album is Abraxas (1970) with a 9.2/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Caravanserai and Santana. The discography on Wavelength spans 1969 to 2021. Oye Como Va ranks as the highest-rated Santana song on Wavelength with a 9.3/10 average.
Abraxas
“The legendary guitarist and band search for and discover a sound they can truly call their own”
Caravanserai
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we look back at Santana’s transitional fourth album, a transcendental convergence of rock, psych, and Afro-Cuban styles that absolutely rips.”
The Woodstock Experience: Santana
“If it had all been sun-shine and clockwork, with a tidy profit on the morning after, no one would have said another word. Instead, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, held August 15th to 17th, 1969, near Bethel, New York — a refugee-camp experience officially declared a state disaster area on the second day — […]”
Santana
“Santana’s 1969 debut album followed close on the heels of the sextet’s coming-out party at the Woodstock Festival, where the multiethnic, single-minded San Francisco band nearly stole the show from the likes of the Grateful Dead and Sly and the Family Stone. Santana was a nonstop thirty-seven-minute rhythmic onslaught: Hand percussionists Mike Carabello and Chepito […]”
Milagro
“After releasing his first twenty-six recordings on CBS/Sony, Carlos Santana begins a new phase of his career with Milagro, one of the finest sessions he’s done. The album reaffirms Santana’s position as the standard-bearer for fusion music. Santana is the most successful practitioner of fusion because he understands the style not as a souped-up rock-jazz […]”
Spirits Dancing In the Flesh
“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. Though rarely willing to craft something devoid of artistic qualities, Santana is also mindful of being a pop star. Reconciling these two facets of his personality […]”
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