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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Santana's new album ROCKS!!!, 11 Nov 2005
Okay, so I'm excited about this one. I don't normally do the Rocks/Sux thing, but this album is so good that I just couldn't resist. "Supernatural" was, quite frankly, very suitably named, and "Shaman" followed with the same juju, but now here comes "All That I Am", an album infused with new life and new blood that will have you wishing you had bought those "How to Dance" DVDs after all. First single "I'm Feeling You" with Michelle Branch and The Wreckers sounds like a version of the Grammy winning "The Game of Love", but just look at the rest of the line-up. The two tracks that I immediately took to were "I Am Somebody" with Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas (he's been popping up everywhere recently), and "Cry Baby Cry" with Sean Paul and Joss Stone. But don't stop there - there's the excellent "Just Feel Better" with Steven Tyler of Aerosmith (not that I have to tell you that), "My Man" with Big Boi (Outkast) and the one and only Mary J. Blige, "Twisted" with Anthony Hamilton, "Brown Skin Girl" with AI runner-up Bo Bice, and there's more! Other tracks feature Kirk Hammett of Metallica and that funky Robert Randolph, and Los Lonely Boys. Thirteen great songs make for an album guaranteed to put the salsa in your step. Amanda Richards
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Third time unlucky, 16 May 2006
Supernatural is generally very good. I still enjoy playing Smooth (gets a good audience reaction too!).
Shamen has it's moments too, and I put it on regularly.
This album, on the other hand, being the third Santana album to follow the "get as many guests as possible to play/write/do all the work" method...is a huge let-down.
The songs might as well be ones the "guests" discarded from their own releases, or else have no place on a "Santana" album. His guitar playing definitely has no place on several of the cuts. "I Am Somebody" with will.i.am (WHO??!!!!!) is a case in point. Mediocre dance number, then Santana suddenly blasts out like he was improvising over a click track, with no idea what else was going on.
The number with Steven Tyler is just boring (although he sings well), and as for the song with Kirk Hammett...don't even go there.
There are a couple of throwaway salsa-ish tunes, which are not as good as the ones on the previous two CD's...you know what?
Just don't bother.
Santana is one of my favourite guitarists, but I won't be listening to this anymore. Get Supernatural by all means, and give Shamen a chance, but avoid this.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing supernatural about this one!, 31 Mar 2006
Put Carlos Santana, living legend rock guitarist, together with a whole host of the greatest singers and bands around today, and then leave it to the world's top producers to create the most boring, lifeless album I have ever heard. The songwriting is shockingly poor, and this cross-genre hotchpotch is less latin rock than an R&B album with Carlos playing the same boring licks over and over and over and over... One of my own idols, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler sings his heart out on an otherwise pathetic track which any highschool kid could have written! This is NOT Supernatural or Shamen, or anywhere near those great albums. Avoid like the plague unless you have been reared on manufactured pop and can't stomach anything more satisfying!
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