Inner Secrets
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Inner Secrets
Inner Secrets is the tenth studio album by Santana. It was released in 1978 and marks the start of the phase of Santana's career where he moved away from the fusion of Latin, jazz, rock and blues that marked his previous records and began to move towards an album-oriented rock direction. As such, the album's quality is widely disputed among fans. "Stormy" and "One Chain (Don't Make No Prison)" were both hit singles. In the Netherlands "Well All Right" was released as a single and reached #22 in the top 40.-Wikipedia
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AllMusic
The singles kept the album on the charts longer than any Santana LP since 1971, but it was still a minor disappointment after Moonflower, and in retrospect seems like one of the band's more compromised efforts.
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Rolling Stone
March 9, 1983. The excessively competent Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, . . . have chopped and channeled the group into a slicked-down shadow of its former self, muting the fire of percussionists Pete Escovedo and Armando Peraza and wasting the rest of Santana’s talents on some awfully thin pop drivel.
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Jazz Music Archives
April 26, 2011. Not one of Santana’s most original album, not one of his worst either. Only really flawed by the heavily-slanted singing, this remains a good Santana album, just not an essential one.
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Elusive Disc
As one of the most enduring albums in their massive career catalog, Santana’s Inner Secrets included some significant album tracks too like the rocking masterpiece One Chain (Don’t Make No Prison) and the powerful medley of Traffic’s Dealer & Santana’s Spanish Rose.
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On The Record
SANTANA’S GUITAR SOLOS SOAR ON INNER SECRETS.
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Robert Christgau
It's sad when one of the few megagroups with a groove powerful enough to get it out of any jam resorts to hacks like Lambert and Potter for a hit.
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The Great Albums
Sure, this album might not sound at all like the Santana of Abraxas days, but if you enjoy good adult-contemporary-pop fare, you should like this disc all the same.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
With Coster out of the band, Santana comes up short on ideas and retreats to covers and should-have-been covers, dashing among late-70s pop music genres like disco, arena rock, and fusion as if he's desperate to catch whatever train is leaving the station and doesn't care where it might be going. (JA)
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George Starostin's Reviews
Good riffs, good solos, interesting vocal melodies, enough emotions. And to top it all, the first album cover that isn't at all pretentious - just a picture of the band over a grey background, 's all. Cool tools. Wanna know my opinion? I'm glad they finally took a break from the obligatory salsa and fusion stuff.
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