Abraxas (studio album) by Santana
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Top 20 albums of 1970 (Santana bestography
Abraxas is ranked as the best album by Santana.
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Abraxas track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 08/30/2024 15:05 | Svelte8 | | 73/100 |
90/100 | 08/30/2024 06:32 | morphee | | 84/100 |
75/100 | 07/22/2024 22:28 | Ben | | 91/100 |
90/100 | 06/27/2024 17:53 | BonQ | | 84/100 |
90/100 | 06/11/2024 20:57 | thepardunk | | 71/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.9/100, a mean average of 80.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.
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The superb playing pushes very good songs to excellent! 9.5/10!
A much more focused and consistent release across the board with all tracks being of some quality which leads to a cohesive listen. Despite this, there are only 2 songs I would consider to be outstanding and the rest are enjoyable but not something that would draw me back to this release. With that being said, the lead guitar from Santana is absolutely brilliant on here as it completely transforms tracks and is by far the best thing about this release. The percussion is thoroughly enjoyable as well with the opening track being a personal highlight of this for me. Overall, a demonstration of high quality guitar playing that is lead by two fantastic tracks and it makes for a short but enjoyable listen.
Great record
I enjoyed it more than his first album, but I think his music is just not for me. I have to say that Black Magic Woman and Oye Como Va are catchy.
IlMala 02/03/2022 15:48
498 in overall chart? what did Santana do to be so undervalued; this, and at least other 5 albums of his dischography, i considerate at least closed to be masterpieces.
Jboy56 11/25/2021 20:48
One of my most listened album, cohesive and artistically rewarding experience.
Full of great songs
2 blockbusters plus some great music
planetneutral 01/03/2021 22:07
Overall, I prefer my Santana live, but this is mostly smoldering. Even the slowdown is top-shelf.
seb7 12/19/2020 21:57
Turns out that after going through two crates three times each, I still happened to miss this album and My Aim is True. I am an idiot. A happy idiot, but still an idiot.
Edit: IT WAS FUCKING SANTANA SANTANA IN AN ABRAXAS SLEEVE THIS IS SO FUUNNNYYY
llibnanoon 08/28/2020 19:50
I did not think I would get into this, but I did. Rating (79.44)
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