Ultimate Santana | 
| Artist: Santana
Label: Arista
List Price: $18.97
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 189
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 706293
UPC: 886970629324
EAN: 0886970629324
ASIN: B000UOOT1W
Release Date: October 16, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Into The Night (featuring Chad Kroeger) - previously unreleased | | • | This Boy's Fire(feat. Jennifer Lopez and Baby Bash) - previously unreleased | | • | Smooth(w/Rob Thomas) - from Supernatural (released June 1999) | | • | Maria Maria(w/Product G&B) - from Supernatural (released June 1999) | | • | Oye Como Va- from Abraxas (released Sept. 1970) | | • | Black Magic Woman- from Abraxas (released Sept. 1970) | | • | Evil Ways- from Santana (released Aug. 1969) | | • | Corazon Espinado(w/Mana) - from Supernatural (released June 1999) | | • | Europa - from album Amigos (released March 1976) | | • | The Game of Love (w/Tina Turner) - previously unreleased | | • | Put Your Lights On(w/Everlast) - from Supernatural (released June 1999) | | • | Why Don't You & I(w/Alex Band of The Calling) - (single released internationally July 2003) | | • | Everybody's Everything- from Santana III (released Sept. 1971) | | • | Just Feel Better(w/Steven Tyler) - from All That I Am (released Nov. 2005) | | • | Samba Pa Ti- from Abraxas (released Sept. 1970) | | • | No One To Depend On - from Santana III (released Sept. 1971) | | • | The Game of Love(w/Michelle Branch) -from Shaman (released Oct. 2002) | | • | Interplanetary Party- previously unreleased |
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Album Description
2008 reissue housed in a deluxe cardboard slipcase. This single disc anthology brings the legendary guitarist's best recordings of his Arista Records era together with his greatest classics from the Columbia Records years on a single compact disc. Among the 18 tracks are the chart toppers 'Smooth', 'Maria Maria', 'Black Magic Woman', 'The Game Of Love' (with both Michelle Branch and Tina Turner), 'Oye Como Va' and many more. Sony/BMG.
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Primarily for Latter-Day Fans October 21, 2007
Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE)
25 out of 28 found this review helpful
Imagine if Capitol Records put out an ULTIMATE BEATLES collection, but didn't include anything from A HARD DAY'S NIGHT through SGT PEPPER. That's what ULTIMATE SANTANA feels like. There are six tracks from their classic first three albums: SANTANA (1969), ABRAXAS (1970) and SANTANA III (1971). Then (except for "Europa" from 1976's AMIGOS), none of the remaining tracks date back any further than 1999's SUPERNATURAL. In fact, more than half of the tracks on this collection come from Santana's "comeback" period when the band released three star-studded albums including SUPERNATURAL, SHAMAN (2002) and ALL THAT I AM (2005).
Longtime fans will be better served by 1998's single-disc THE BEST OF SANTANA or 2002's double-disc THE ESSENTIAL SANTANA. This latest collection is principally targeted for Santana's latter-day fans. There are flashes of brilliance with the big name cameos ("Smooth," for example, was a huge hit for a reason--it's a damn good song), but overall they pale in comparison to the band's seminal Seventies' work. If you're interested in Santana's work over the past decade (but don't want to purchase their last three albums), this does a nice job of catching you up.
Latin Guitar King December 20, 2007
BennyG (New york, NY United States)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
The love affair with Latin music in the United States and internationally has ebbed and flowed from the craze for Cuban Mambo in the 1940s and 50s to the widespread popularity of Latin tropical and pop acts today.
Santana, as a musician and arranger, is a pivotal figure in this history and he has been an ambassador to the world of Latin American musical culture. In the 1960s and 70s, Santana's pioneering guitar arrangements, rooted in the Latin American traditions that were flowering at the time (for a beautiful example of traditional Latin American guitar virtuosity, see: Puerto Plata: Mujer de Cabaret), brought Latin music into the pop mainstream. Santana's fusion of typical Latin American rhythms with edgy US rock inspired generations and helped begin the Latin rock movement (inspiring the likes of legendary Manu Chao: Clandestino).
Today Santana continues to work tirelessly to secure the place of Latin music in popular culture, collaborating with the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Steve Tyler (Aerosmith). Ironically (or perhaps mystically as Carlos would see it) while Santana in his youth broke with tradition by encouraging these musical fusions, his is now a voice of tradition within them.
This compilation of 18 masterful songs, some of them never before released, ranging from the beginning of Santana's career until today, is fitting and deserving tribute to an artist who has contributed so much to the world of music. As one would expect with a Santana release, the cover artwork provides plenty for the eye to contemplate as the ear listens.
Guitar Legend October 16, 2007
Michael Kerner (Brooklyn, New York U.S.A.)
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
Undoubtingly, when it comes to great music these days, we really don't seem to hear anything good on the radio. Back in 1999, we were reminded of what great music was like to a whole new generation. When santana, returned to the airwaves with his smash collaborations comeback album, Supernatural, many listeners were introduced to a guitar legend who has thrived for over 4 decades of great music. Yet, there have been so many different hits collections that really have shown Santana in many ways, but there hasn't been one that shows the best of his recent comeback era. That answer has been called for on this new hits collection that reintroduces the old, and expands the anew.
The 2007 Ultimate Santana brings in his four decades of great rock music, blending Carlos Santana's blend of Rock that spans as a nice reintroduction to his greatest works. The collection mainly focuses in on his comeback period from 1999's Supernatural to today. The collection is all about his collaborations here, including some new recordings that continue to try to capture his spiritual light. The collection includes some of his classics like Evil Ways and Black Magic Woman from his first era, while his second era includes great collaborations including the smash Smooth with Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, Put You Light On with ex-rapper Everlast, and the upbeat and down to Earth The Game Of Love with Michelle Branch, and a never-before heard rendidition of that song with Tina Turner. The collection also brings in some new blood with collaborations with Jennifer Lopez on This Boy's Fire, and Chad Kroger from Nickelback on Into The Light, which are fair but not anything to rave over.
While the album does overlook Santana's 80's period, and a few great songs like I Feel For You with Michelle Branch, Ultimate Santana is a welcoming greatest hits album for new fans as well as those who just want the die hard hits. It works as a great hits package for your music collection, and I still enjoy listening to Carlos and his guitar soul, and that is Smooth.
Album Cover: A-
Songs: B 1/2-
Price: B
Remastering: B+
Overall: B
 Santana: Mix of Masterpieces&Mediocrity November 4, 2007
Amaranth (Northern California)
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
Carlos Santana has been in the news a lot lately,but unfortunately,not for his musical talent. His new "Ultimate Santana" is,sadly,coinciding with his personal crises. As a musician,Santana is rightly considered a Latin rock pioneer. He lit up the stages of the Monterey Pop Festival&Woodstock in the '60s. He made Latin rock mainstream. He performed alongside Jefferson Airplane,Jimi Hendrix,Janis Joplin&the Grateful Dead.
"Ultimate Santana" is a melange of masterpieces and mediocrity. There are classics from the '60s&'70s,including the ubiquitous "Oye como va","Black Magic Woman","Europa","Samba pa ti" and "Evil Ways." These show Santana at his psychedelic,trippin' best. He's a great instrumentalist,riffing on his guitar like a Latino Jimi Hendrix. One can hear his mysticism in his music.
Unfortunately,this collection has its share of clunkers as well,but not on account of Santana. Blame his special "musical guests." Over half the album consists of his '99-'02 "celebrity duet" period. There's the insufferable "Game of Love" with its "candy store" lyrics and the priceless "little bit of this,little bit of that",complete with TWO versions-the annoying,overplayed original with Michelle Branch as well as Tina Turner camping it up (what's love of music got to do with it,got to do with it?It's just a temporary emotion) Aerosmith's Steve Tyler has the hammy "Just feel better" (I don't) There's the equally awfully "Smooth" with the whiny Rob Thomas. The frosting on the cake,so to speak,are "previously unreleased" tracks that were better off in the vault...a generic R&B duet with J.Lo called "This Boy's Fire" that lacks a spark,and the atrocious "Into the Night" with Nickelback's Chad Kroeger. "Into the Night" pushes Santana to the sidelines,thanks to Kroeger's dominant vocalizing.
"Ultimate Santana",unfortunately,is ultimately disappointing.
Good--But Heavy on Recent Stuff October 19, 2007
R. Morris (Idaho Falls, ID USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The new 'greatest' by Santana sounds outstanding--crystal-clear and pulsing with energy and sound. The standards are on here, and they sound great. However, I do not think this collection represents the best of Santana. There is too much of his newer (collaborative) material, and while I enjoy the new songs, they are not as strong as his early music. While this is ultimately a satisfying album, I would not consider it the definitive collection of the Great Carlos Santana's works.
Four stars. Good, not great.
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