Billboard Top 100 - 1999, #19 (also: 2000, #2) 
It's like the Reese's cup.
Rob Thomas has a heck of a voice, but Three Doors Down - oh, sorry. Matchbox Twenty - gets stale pretty quickly.
Carlos Santana plays a mean guitar, but Latin-influenced classic rock only gets you so far up the Pop charts.
Together? Unstoppable.
On the album Supernatural, Santana brought in a string of guest singers to make various songs in different styles. The album is an all-time great; it's biggest hit is pure gold (actually, triple-platinum).
Smooth almost defies genre - it's a rock song you can dance to. It's a ballad with power, but nothing like a power ballad. It's a handsome young crooner doing the singing, but the old Mexican dude with an electric guitar is the real star (well him and that girl in the video...)
It's also got that "big" sound, when "big" wasn't big anymore - lots of instruments - horns all over the place - crescendo on crescendo. All that sound would have fit better in the 80s. It just proves once again that great songs are timeless.
Rob Thomas has a heck of a voice, but Three Doors Down - oh, sorry. Matchbox Twenty - gets stale pretty quickly.
Carlos Santana plays a mean guitar, but Latin-influenced classic rock only gets you so far up the Pop charts.
Together? Unstoppable.
On the album Supernatural, Santana brought in a string of guest singers to make various songs in different styles. The album is an all-time great; it's biggest hit is pure gold (actually, triple-platinum).
Smooth almost defies genre - it's a rock song you can dance to. It's a ballad with power, but nothing like a power ballad. It's a handsome young crooner doing the singing, but the old Mexican dude with an electric guitar is the real star (well him and that girl in the video...)
It's also got that "big" sound, when "big" wasn't big anymore - lots of instruments - horns all over the place - crescendo on crescendo. All that sound would have fit better in the 80s. It just proves once again that great songs are timeless.
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