CD Charts
Welcome to The CD Charts, here you will find all the latest and top selling Music cds available to buy online. You can search and locate the best selling Music cd's and have them delivered to the door. We have a large selection of Music all with reviews.
Back to Home Page > Go back a page
Music : Santana III
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Rating: 
- One of the best
I bought the first Santana and Abraxis albums back in the early 1970s and although I was aware of the third album, I never picked up on it. Here all this time later, hearing all of it in its entirety, I rank it one of the best of all his albums. This album sounds more like a jam, there's a lot of energy. It's not entirely different from the earlier albums but more loose and with wonderful guitar solos and interesting percussion. It is a classic album: a little dated-sounding but I love listening to it.
Rating: - Word: A Poem Inspired by the Cover Art of this Incredible Album
Ahem....
It was a long day.
Things seemed so hard, so solid, so impenetrable.
My center got moved.
Nothing grooved.
Everything seemed gray.
I came home to an empty dwelling.
I needed some de-spelling to break the hypnosis that fell over my christlightlike gnosis.
Santa III seems to ignite the soul from dreams of alienation/seperation/devastation
moves everything back into place...
aligns every whole atom
with holy inner space ...
helps me see clearly the spirit behind the face...
breaks off the fragile case cover of a cosmic lover...
and as I penetrate the goddess womb and free the seed
of wisdom creation from the tomb of procrastination
I remember in a infinite instant
why I go through such things...such pains...
To remember Thy Source.
To remember my Eternal Force
which this musical collaboration drives in deep
and awakens me from original sleep
so my innocence can take down defenses
that surround my flesh tree
and free the inner beginner me.
Grateful blessings to you, Santana III
Peace & Blessings, cats...
john
Rating: - hold on, it's an energetic ride!
Santana's third album is pretty fantastic. Let me take that back- *consistently* fantastic. I really had no problem with any of the songs. I didn't think any of them were a few minutes overlong, and I certainly didn't think any of the tracks were filler-ish. After the album had ended, I felt like I had just gone through the biggest roller coaster ride of my life (and I'm afraid of roller coasters!)
Compared to Abraxas and Caravanserai, the latin percussion beats that made Santana so legendary and famous are *extremely* loud, heavy and nonstop on their third album. I wasn't expecting to hear an album with so much energy and a nonstop partying atmosphere but that's exactly what the album is. This is totally a hard rock/jam rock album with the volume turned up a few notches higher than usual. I wasn't bored at all. There's also a fairly frequent amount of vocal work, too. Always played with melody, and a feeling of total outdoor freedom. I can just picture myself dancing the night away to this wonderful music.
The guitar playing, the heavy amounts of percussion and latin rhythms, the sparkling production... this is one album all rock and roll fans must have in their collection!
Rating:
- Great album, but it ain't Abraxas - still, Carlos is unbeatable
Okay, this album rocks, and is my second-favorite of Santana's albums, behind the mighty Abraxas. But some of it kinda sucks, which is why I only give four stars, rather than five.
First the good news: No One to Depend On is a masterpiece. You know, take a bit of metal, a bit of blues, a bit of Latin, even a bit of the whacky psychedelia from the first album. Add the organ groove and Santana's signature guitar soloing away. What could be better, you ask? That bit in the bridge where they switch between English and Spanish. ("I ain't GOT no one - tengo anadie... that I can de-PEND on - tengo anadie..." is that not supremely cool?) This ain't a one-song album, though. I mean, how can a Santana fan NOT love the dramatic near-instrumental Touissant L'Overture? Santana's Santana on that song (it goes without saying he can outplay pretty much everyone), and there's those nonstop riffs he trades with Neil Schon and the polyrhythmic attack... yeah. Of course, Santana hasn't abandoned salsa, so if you liked Oye Como Va, you'll probably love Guajira. That sax solo's a nice touch, too. Jungle Strut is fusion mania, but in a good way. There's also Everybody's Everything, easily the funkiest thing Santana ever did, with a huge horn section - it's fun and catchy indeed, and Schon's wah-wah is killer, but the lyrics arie the usual pseudo-spiritual mumbo-jumbo that made up most of Santana's lyrics at that point. But come on, do you listen to Santana because you want to hear him babble about how the King and Queen of Soul are gonna come around or whatever the hell it is he's going on about this time? No. You listen to him because he's an unbeatable guitarist, plain and simple. Everything's Coming Our Way was a hit too, but I could've done without it - more of those dumb lyrics, and it sounds like Santana's doing The Byrds... nothing wrong with The Byrds, but it sounds out-of-place from Santana. The instrumentals Batuka, Taboo and Para Los Rumberos only confirm this one's status as #2. But the best of this is as good as (if not better than) the Abraxas classics, so you can't go wrong with this.
Rating: - Transcendent
I never get tired of this album. The band is as tight as can be and they sound like they are loving every second of it. Santana plays from the bottom of his toes -- every note is earned. After listening to this, if you aren't grinning like an idiot, you must not like music.
- One of the bestI bought the first Santana and Abraxis albums back in the early 1970s and although I was aware of the third album, I never picked up on it. Here all this time later, hearing all of it in its entirety, I rank it one of the best of all his albums. This album sounds more like a jam, there's a lot of energy. It's not entirely different from the earlier albums but more loose and with wonderful guitar solos and interesting percussion. It is a classic album: a little dated-sounding but I love listening to it.
Rating:
- Word: A Poem Inspired by the Cover Art of this Incredible AlbumAhem....
It was a long day.
Things seemed so hard, so solid, so impenetrable.
My center got moved.
Nothing grooved.
Everything seemed gray.
I came home to an empty dwelling.
I needed some de-spelling to break the hypnosis that fell over my christlightlike gnosis.
Santa III seems to ignite the soul from dreams of alienation/seperation/devastation
moves everything back into place...
aligns every whole atom
with holy inner space ...
helps me see clearly the spirit behind the face...
breaks off the fragile case cover of a cosmic lover...
and as I penetrate the goddess womb and free the seed
of wisdom creation from the tomb of procrastination
I remember in a infinite instant
why I go through such things...such pains...
To remember Thy Source.
To remember my Eternal Force
which this musical collaboration drives in deep
and awakens me from original sleep
so my innocence can take down defenses
that surround my flesh tree
and free the inner beginner me.
Grateful blessings to you, Santana III
Peace & Blessings, cats...
john
Rating:
- hold on, it's an energetic ride!Santana's third album is pretty fantastic. Let me take that back- *consistently* fantastic. I really had no problem with any of the songs. I didn't think any of them were a few minutes overlong, and I certainly didn't think any of the tracks were filler-ish. After the album had ended, I felt like I had just gone through the biggest roller coaster ride of my life (and I'm afraid of roller coasters!)
Compared to Abraxas and Caravanserai, the latin percussion beats that made Santana so legendary and famous are *extremely* loud, heavy and nonstop on their third album. I wasn't expecting to hear an album with so much energy and a nonstop partying atmosphere but that's exactly what the album is. This is totally a hard rock/jam rock album with the volume turned up a few notches higher than usual. I wasn't bored at all. There's also a fairly frequent amount of vocal work, too. Always played with melody, and a feeling of total outdoor freedom. I can just picture myself dancing the night away to this wonderful music.
The guitar playing, the heavy amounts of percussion and latin rhythms, the sparkling production... this is one album all rock and roll fans must have in their collection!
Rating:
- Great album, but it ain't Abraxas - still, Carlos is unbeatableOkay, this album rocks, and is my second-favorite of Santana's albums, behind the mighty Abraxas. But some of it kinda sucks, which is why I only give four stars, rather than five.
First the good news: No One to Depend On is a masterpiece. You know, take a bit of metal, a bit of blues, a bit of Latin, even a bit of the whacky psychedelia from the first album. Add the organ groove and Santana's signature guitar soloing away. What could be better, you ask? That bit in the bridge where they switch between English and Spanish. ("I ain't GOT no one - tengo anadie... that I can de-PEND on - tengo anadie..." is that not supremely cool?) This ain't a one-song album, though. I mean, how can a Santana fan NOT love the dramatic near-instrumental Touissant L'Overture? Santana's Santana on that song (it goes without saying he can outplay pretty much everyone), and there's those nonstop riffs he trades with Neil Schon and the polyrhythmic attack... yeah. Of course, Santana hasn't abandoned salsa, so if you liked Oye Como Va, you'll probably love Guajira. That sax solo's a nice touch, too. Jungle Strut is fusion mania, but in a good way. There's also Everybody's Everything, easily the funkiest thing Santana ever did, with a huge horn section - it's fun and catchy indeed, and Schon's wah-wah is killer, but the lyrics arie the usual pseudo-spiritual mumbo-jumbo that made up most of Santana's lyrics at that point. But come on, do you listen to Santana because you want to hear him babble about how the King and Queen of Soul are gonna come around or whatever the hell it is he's going on about this time? No. You listen to him because he's an unbeatable guitarist, plain and simple. Everything's Coming Our Way was a hit too, but I could've done without it - more of those dumb lyrics, and it sounds like Santana's doing The Byrds... nothing wrong with The Byrds, but it sounds out-of-place from Santana. The instrumentals Batuka, Taboo and Para Los Rumberos only confirm this one's status as #2. But the best of this is as good as (if not better than) the Abraxas classics, so you can't go wrong with this.
Rating:
- TranscendentI never get tired of this album. The band is as tight as can be and they sound like they are loving every second of it. Santana plays from the bottom of his toes -- every note is earned. After listening to this, if you aren't grinning like an idiot, you must not like music.