Santana's Greatest Hits

Santana | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Columbia
• ASIN: B00000252Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MiniDisc  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,227 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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 Cabó

10. Everybody's Everything

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Complete waste of money (allow me to explain), August 22, 2000

By 

andreas (Seattle) - See all my reviews

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

The reason I give this album 1 star is not the compilation of music, which clearly deserves an easy 5 stars. But did anyone care to mention that almost every song is cut off or shortened? This album is 33 minutes long! Black Magic Woman ends at the beginning of the solo, Evil Ways is drastically shortened, as well as everything else. I wish I had known this before I wasted 18 dollars on this album. If this album had been complete, I would have praised it for everything it's worth, but in this case, it's worth absolutely nothing. Go buy the albums instead. Buying this album is like downloading 3/4 of every song and burning it onto an album. So if soundclips are what you're looking for, you might as well check out the clips here -trust me- the album is not much better.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this album!, December 26, 2001

By 

William Garrett (Sunnyvale, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Santana's Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Don't buy this album. Sure, it does contain some of Santana's greatest hits-- and I do love Santana's music-- but it's not the group's best collection album. I urge you to buy "The Best of Santana" (1998) instead. It has all the classics this disc contains, plus additional great hits from the later 70s and early 80s, plus much better sound quality on all tracks.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Once an essential release, it is now despensible, December 18, 1999

By 

Brian O'Marra (Little Rock, AR USA) - See all my reviews

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

This release has been garnering five star ratings, but let's take a closer look at this package...

It only covers the period of prime Santana (3 albums). On that basis it should be an easy task to select the very best of that period. While it does have many terrific Santana classics (Evil Ways, Jingo, Black Magic Woman, Oye Como Va, Se A Cabo, Persuasion) it manages to overlook Soul Sacrifice, and No One To Depend On. Meaning you're still going to end up buying two more albums to get the missing tracks.

So you now own three CDs to cover the prime period of Santana.

Wait a minute...why not buy the three albums, get remastered sound quality, full-length versions of all of the songs (Black Magic Woman with Gypsy Queen), and have bonus tracks to boot. You then can also own such tracks as Incident at Neshabur and Toussaint L'Overture (also missing). These three remastered CDs come in a slipcase box for a very reasonable price.

The single edits (Jingo, Evil Ways, Black Magic Woman), the mid-80's sound quality, and omitted tracks, make this an item that you should pass on.