Santana 
Variations: Carlos Santana*, Santana.
The best album credited to Santana is Abraxas which is ranked number 481 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 3,600.
Santana is ranked number 202 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 10,341.
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- Benny Rietveld
- Michael Shrieve
- See also:
- Abraxas Pool
- Stomu Yamashta's Go
- Michael Shrieve & Steve Roach
- Jonas Hellborg With Buckethead And Michael Shrieve
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Santana best albums
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 08/18/2025 15:25 | steve397 | 52 | 80/100 |
| ! | 07/27/2025 11:24 |  doombringer | 185 | 85/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2025 15:50 | Invader666 | 337 | 71/100 |
| ! | 05/28/2025 08:33 | pago82 | 1,357 | 67/100 |
| ! | 01/09/2025 17:58 | Johnnyo | 3,101 | 74/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 2% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 81.1/100, a mean average of 80.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.7/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 13.9.
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Santana , in my book, is up there with Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, Page and King. One of the best rock guitarists of all time.
Jboy56 01/17/2022 11:51 | #279538
Oye Como Va, that is enough.
Jboy56 01/17/2022 11:50 | #279537
Oy Como VA, that is enough for 100 points :)
jeremy9 09/11/2019 15:44 | #242471
I lake the recent albums
Without question, one of the all-time great guitarists. The quintessential Latin band of the late 60's, early 70's. Essential album: Abraxas. Self-titled album is also excellent. I thought Supernatural was overrated.
Fischman 12/16/2018 02:10 | #227215
Very creative and expressive guitarist, but his music is even further enhanced by his creative and effective employment of Afro-Caribbean percussion as well.
Love Santana's Abraxas! Started listening to it as an early teen when it came out. And it is still a top pick of mine.
Recording artists (including the producers and engineers) were learning to play with multi-track recording in this era.
Check out the 1st track on side A. "Singing Winds and Crying Beasts" but PUT ON HEADPHONES, lay back and close your eyes. Check out if the music passes back and forth through your head. It's very groovy!
Enjoy!
Man I was so dumb. Or I was so young that I did enjoy Smooth from 99 that I didn't have the massive care for music that I do now. Decided to listen to Borboletta and so far it is incredible. Might have to get through a good chunk of his discog during the summertime.
Pretty underrated on BEA. The Best Guitarist ever IMO
junodog4 03/14/2015 19:04 | #136768
Brilliant guitar player. Two vital and two decent albums in the 70s. One slightly misdirected 90s comeback that made tonnes of money. A bunch of easily overlooked other stuff.
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