Marathon
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Marathon
Marathon is the eleventh studio album by Santana. This marked the beginning of the group's commercial slide, in spite of having the Top 40 hit "You Know That I Love You". Alex Ligertwood, who would sing with the group throughout the 1980s, joined the group for this album.-Wikipedia
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AllMusic
. . . the album was notable for consisting entirely of band-written material, although those songs were in the established R&B/rock style evolved on albums like Amigos, Festival, and Inner Secrets.
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Jazz Music Archives
April 26, 2011. Not really essential, this album is the first one chronologically I wouldn’t recommend unless an unconditional Santana fan.
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Rezensator.de
Marathon is a weird album. Santana somehow seem undecided, which has a negative effect on the quality of the songs. Maybe you wanted to consciously force a change and get away from the Latin corner.
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Debaser
The album of that year (1979), which concretizes this turning point, is "Marathon", a record where in any case several new features appear: The singer Alex Ligertwood makes his voice and the sound becomes definitely more rock , harder ... but also unexpectedly melodic.
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Robert Christgau
In their selfless pursuit of universality they've signed on a second Eddie Money graduate and replaced Greg Walker, their finest vocalist, with a Scot named Alexander J. Ligertwood, who proves his internationalism by aping that eternal foreigner Lou Gramm.
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The Great Albums
This disc continues the mainstream pop/rock stylings of Inner Secrets but eschews cover songs entirely in favor of eleven band originals.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
I'm not sure what to make of this - if you turn your brain off you might find it good background music, but it's still a total sell-out. Everything's an original this time, although Carlos wasn't involved in writing a couple of tunes. (JA)
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George Starostin's Reviews
. . . nobody will ever need this album. And perhaps a good reason is that the backing band - and the New Santana Band is just that, Carlos with a backing band - is so limp and lifeless on here. No good songwriting plus lifeless playing . . . .
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