When I read people slagging off a genius tune then I have to give it a 10.

 sfoster66 wrote:
 
You didn't hear this song until you were in your twenties?!? The 1980s?!?!?

How do you say, "Late to the party," in Spanish?

Ide konobar... Milinko, evo iza nas.

 sfoster66 wrote:
I must be bulimic  - 60+ and still loving it!

 dflee wrote:
 
By the time you're 50 something and have heard it played ad nauseum for 30 plus years you will come to regret this public display of naivete...

I just can't...

 ick wrote:
 
I find your aesthetic sensibilities  confusing.

I'm 15 again and loving it.

 ick wrote:
 

Interesting ... just heard the same combinaton
deadmaus then this ... time to shuffle the deck,
Bill

Still sounds sweet as the first time in 1970 ish..  

                                     

Oh.. sweet memories..

I'll be honest, I would rather hear the Deadmau5 that was just played previously again than this.  PSDing now.

(Landed on Alpha Yaya Diallo.  Yay!)

still enjoying this, but need to hear John Prine today - praying

 kcar wrote:
 
How about Venezuelan-native Oscar De Leon's version? That's pretty good too.

Carlos Kind Enlightned

Hot Hot Hot

kcar wrote:


 

 maboleth wrote:
 

Opa bato :)  

Still don't get tired of hearing this. Good tunes keep coming from RP!!

lässig

Bought it when it was new.  Played it a lot. Still like!

 coloradojohn wrote:
 

Tito's version of Oye Como Va: 

Tito Puente: "Oye Como Va"


Also great: Tito Puente: "Ran Kan Kan"

Now that I have a standing desk, I can salsa while I listen to this at work!

Eno kumova... Milinko!

 Skydog wrote: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUxFTSJwgKs

 oldsaxon wrote: 
Puro Gringo,ese!  this karljonasson dude just doesnt have it in his blood

 Oye Como Va! 

Still nice to hear after all these years. Makes me turn it up a little...:-)

My favorite album cover

OH YEAH; never get tired of this one. The great Tito Puente! He jammed with Carlos at least one of the times I saw him... SIZZLING...

 AndreW1979 wrote: 
notes from the soundtrack of that film, but I don't remember hearing it
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Oye Como Va
Written by Tito Puente
Performed by Santana
Published by Full Keel Music Co. (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

Outside it's powder snow, gray sky, wicked cold... But I got a bellyful of posole, a bowl of home-grown Golden Goat, & this on RP; dig!

33 1 votes lol wow   SUCKO BARFO  

 AndreW1979 wrote:  
Dosequis wrote: 
Kick Buttowski, I think.  You watch Disney?

 AndreW1979 wrote:  
Dosequis wrote: 
Sacrilege

 karljonasson wrote: 
Half the fun of coming to RP is to read the idiotic shit that some people have to say

 AndreW1979 wrote: 
Is that a cartoon?

 karljonasson wrote: 
I missed the release of karljonasson's greatest hits, sorry.

I keep associating this tune with the Big Lebowski..

 .... love it so for me this gets 9

 hagz21 wrote: 
So does Dirk Diggler!

 karljonasson wrote: 
Yeah i guess you don't like Radiohead either.

carlos may have  " borrowed" from Olatunge, but he did a great job of it......

A solid 8 + 1 bonus point for the wickedgood album art.

Yahtzee. 

 karljonasson wrote: 
Well, there's always Chilliwack/April Wine/Triumph/Pat Travers/Trooper/Saga/Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

No noodling or repetition in that crowd, eh?

Great… more of Carlos' endless noodling with that nasty, thin guitar tone over the same boring Latin beat for way too long without anything interesting happening. Never got the appeal.

This entire album was incredible.  Truly a classic that hasn't aged at all as Hispanic culture is more relevant than ever.

primal rhythm song forever and yes
i hear it 

Saw Tito Puente's son's band at a concert and Tito the younger thanked Carlos Santana for enabling him to attend college thanks to the royalties on this timeless gem.

Oye como va is thankfully a standard (never played too much, imho), but I need to comment on the splendid visuals RP provides: that Abraxas cover is trippy cool/weird 70's and the water color or marker portrait of Santana is right on funny, thank you!

wait, ohmygod, Spirit follows! Mmmmmmm 

Pachanga loves this song!

Covered this tune in my first rock & roll band in 1972.  I played bass and sang lead, phonetically, as I didn't know a word of Spanish.  I have no idea if I was even close.

This one still rocks the house!

Do you see what happens Larry?

die guten alten  stücke,  yeah 

Yeah, great, but I've heard it about 6,327 times in my life.  Tito Puente never had it better. 

 BalesBub wrote: 
+1

The stereo percussion is just, well just groovy! 

I used to live in Albuquerque, and this song got played around 8 times a day. You could literally change stations to get away from it only to hear it on another station at the same exact time. I abstain from voting because, through no fault of Bill's, overplay has ruined it for me. That doesn't happen that often to me.

Also, there was a mayor of Albuquerque a while back named Jim Baca. Guess I know what he's doing in his retirement....

 jimbaca wrote:

Any chance you could never play Santana ever again?

 TimeWaster wrote: 
Now that was funny!

I don't care if it's been played a million times. It's a GREAT song! Woooo!

I can't believe I used to like this shit.

I liked this album when I was in high school in the latter half of the 70's. One year I arranged this tune as a drum cadence for the drumline to play as we led the band into the stadium before the football game. The whole thing took on a cool hip vibe. I found out recently that the drumline continued to play it for several years after I left and the entire student body just ate it up!

Cool music transcends!

 golden_chicken wrote: 
It's not that this is a BAD song but it's one of those FM songs I feel like I've heard way too many times.
What saves it for me is the usage in the Coen's movies (it was in Big Lebowski too).

"I didn't ask for Santana Abraxas, I didn't listen to Santana Abraxas, I didn't do anything!"

My fave Santana track - still sounds good after all these years!

bluh

Santana by ~oazen2008
©2008-2010 ~oazen2008

Santana

Come on Sanata... Tune it!

Still sounding so cool.

I guess there is no accounting for taste.  The Specials' "Message to You Rudy" before this was "good for my ears" , this just annoys me and I don't think I could give an adequate explanation why.

This is a classic ... for the time capsule ... yeah! ("bueno pa' gozá, mulata!")

 Stingray wrote:  

Jimmy = Jimi?

Gracias señor BillG

¡¡¡Viva Santana y México!!! RP too! :-D

...only Jimmy can compete!

 AdyMiles wrote:
 
Yeah, right. The troll who called "wolf".

Anyone see "A Serious Man" ?
I'll never hear this song again without thinking of that movie by the Coen brothers. Hilarious!

Personal taste...this one does nothing for me...however, one of the funniest comment threads I have read on RP...for that reason, Carlos can stay...now I have to clean up the coffee from my desk that I spilled from laughing so hard.  Thanks RP listeners...even if I disagree with you sometimes, you people are a fun bunch.

Love this lp.  Now, where is that image of Will Ferrel playing the cow bell?  It would match the beat perfectly. 

Nausea

Why can't Santana just leave RP?

 AdyMiles wrote: 

So, why'd you bother coming back? Next time, stay gone.

Bought the vinyl just for the cover recently, disc was totally played out. Still fine for a summers evening wine chill out. Blowing a hooley and cold here right now , roll on june!

AdyMiles is trite boring shite, please, please, please, leave RP, and DO NOT return.  THANK YOU!!

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
News update!

Ady Miles comes back to complain about Santana saying; "this song is one of the reasons i left RP".  But he came back to complain after he left RP. . . thus negating his leaving. Ady then fell into a weird comment feedback loop and (hopefully) self combusted. 

 

 AdyMiles wrote: 
Meanwhile the streets of our fair city are filled with protesters. We go now to our roving reporter Earl Canonbear to find out what's going on."Earl, what's happening out there?" "Well Stu, there are thousands of people in the streets, and these numbers are being replicated in other cities across the land, so there could be millions of people out marching today." "This protest has nothing to do with the war or health care reform, is that correct Earl?" "That's true, surprisingly, these people are protesting the Santana song 'Oye Como Va.'" "I see many signs that say 'No Mas', I also see many signs with pictures of a line crossing out the band's name." "I talked to protest organizer Ady Miles to find out why the uproar." "Well Earl, this song is just so predictable and boring, it has to be silenced before it encroaches on the eardrums of innocent victims everywhere." "But Mr. Miles aren't you promoting censorship?" "No....Huh?" "Mr. Miles, haven't you heard of the mute button or the off button?" What's your point?" "Well, what about all the people who enjoy this song?" "Your questions have become predictable and annoying, this interview is over." "Well, there you have it Stu, ...back to you"

Bad enough to cause a bowel movement

 sporkster wrote: 
I DENY IT'S A GREAT SONG AND SO DO MILLIONS OF OTHERS

I've no idea how anyone could give it a 8, 9 or 10

Dancing Banana Time!!! :D

 nimesay wrote: 
I think I know who's the lame here... and not good old Carlos

SHA-ZAM....

 nimesay wrote: 
Even the lame stations play great songs once in a while. But then, they play all those dam commercials! And they don't play all the other gems that RP plays.

Hi, Bill & Rebecca!  How did you know I wanted to hear oye como va for my birthday?  You're always in my head!  You play everything I want to hear!  Thank you, and I love you guys!  Thank you for always making my day with your fantastic sounds.  Music is an infinite learning experience, and the best gift ever.  Tammy aka gotchocolat

When I hear this, I always want to go watch The Big Lebowski.  Fantastic use of music in a scene.

 nimesay wrote: 
geee nimesay, what is it you're trying to say here? you don't fully appreciate this song?    Perhaps more icons would help.  hahaha
I think I sometimes like it when someone doesn't like a song so much (even if I do) because the response is so much more interesting.

 rmh3 wrote: 

Just hit 1 twice...

Gracias, El Rey del Timbales, Tito Puente!

 lawman wrote:  and a flash to Walter Dude and Donnie eating In n Out Burgers in the wind because guy smashed out the windshield of what was left of Dude's ride. a sound 8!

nimesay wrote:
Those of us who don't live in LA appreciate a bit'o'sun now and again, man.  8.

OH NO Como Va!!!

This is exactly what I hope to avoid by listening to RP.  Why Bill? Why??

Oh!  I could turn on any lame station here in LA and find this.  AAAAAAAAGH!!

                     

I got the air bongos going OFF!

Damnit, where is 11?

Yeeehaaa, Summer is on it's way, short skirts, rum on the rocks, lazy days, crazy nights! Thanks RP 

 sporkster wrote: 

The only song you could make that statement about and be 100% true would be Zep's "Stairway to Heaven".  When I was in my late teens/early twenties every jackass with even the slightest ability on the guitar would invariably play that song at some point.  Generally, it was in the quad of whatever local community college I might have been attending.

However, I digress.  This whole album from start to finish kicked major ass then and now.

 sporkster wrote: 
Come on man, Bill hasn't played this in over 6 weeks. 

Not denying it's a great song, but the sheer overplayed-ness of it is starting to wear on me.  I feel like I hear this song everywhere I go!