Beyond Appearances
Studio album by
Santana
ReleasedFebruary 1985
RecordedMarch 28–November 1, 1984
Studio
  • Record One (Los Angeles)
  • Plant Studios (Sausalito, California)
GenreRock
Length44:39
LabelColumbia
ProducerVal Garay
Santana chronology
Shangó
(1982) 		Beyond Appearances
(1985) 		Freedom
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Rolling Stone(unfavorable)[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

Beyond Appearances is the fourteenth studio album by Santana, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

The album took seven months to make, and involved a mostly different line-up from the previous one, Shangó (released in 1982): apart from Carlos Santana, singer Alex Ligertwood and percussionists Armando Peraza, Raul Rekow and Orestes Vilató were still with the band. This was singer Greg Walker's first album with Santana since Inner Secrets - he had left in 1979, and returned in 1983. As a result, the band had two vocalists at the time. It also was bassist Alphonso Johnson's first of two albums with the group, having joined in 1984; and the only one to feature Chester C. Thompson on drums and David Sancious on keyboards. It also was the first with Chester D. Thompson on keyboards; he would remain with the band until the 2000s. The album is notable for the presence of two Chester Thompsons on the same record with the same band.

Musically, it was firmly in the style of the 1980s, making much use of synthesizers and drum machines.

Beyond Appearances performed relatively poorly, reaching only fifty on the Billboard album chart; one of its tracks, "Say It Again", reached number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (though it performed better on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, reaching number fifteen).[4]

Track listing

Original vinyl release side one

  1. "Breaking Out" (Alphonso Johnson, Alex Ligertwood) – 4:30
  2. "Written in Sand" (Mitchell Froom, Jerry Stahl) – 3:49
  3. "How Long" (Robbie Patton) – 4:00
  4. "Brotherhood" (David Sancious, Carlos Santana, Chester D. Thompson) – 2:26
  5. "Spirit" (Johnson, Ligertwood, Raul Rekow) – 5:04

Original vinyl release side two

  1. "Say It Again" (Val Garay, Steve Goldstein, Anthony La Peau) – 3:27
  2. "Who Loves You" (Santana, Thompson, Orestes Vilato) – 4:06
  3. "I'm the One Who Loves You" (Curtis Mayfield) – 3:17
  4. "Touchdown Raiders" (Santana) – 3:08
  5. "Right Now" (Ligertwood, Santana) – 5:58

CD release

  1. "Breaking Out" (Johnson, Ligertwood) – 4:30
  2. "Written in Sand" (Mitchell Froom, Jerry Stahl) – 3:49
  3. "Brotherhood" (Sancious, Santana, Thompson) – 2:26
  4. "Spirit" (Johnson, Ligertwood, Rekow) – 5:04
  5. "Right Now" (Ligertwood, Santana) – 5:58
  6. "Who Loves You" (Santana, Thompson, Vilato) – 4:06
  7. "I'm the One Who Loves You" (Mayfield) – 3:17
  8. "Say It Again" (Garay, Goldstein, La Peau) – 3:27
  9. "Two Points of View" (Ligertwood, Santana) – 4:54
  10. "How Long" (Patton) – 4:00
  11. "Touchdown Raiders" (Santana) – 3:08

Personnel

Credits

Charts

References

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