I had never heard any of Mana's music before(I live in WI & there are no Spanish music stations here; I know, it's a bummer). I bought this CD after listening to Santana's latest. My favorite song on that CD is "Corazon Espinado" w/Fher on vocals. I figured I should expand my musical collection to include not just salsa, merengue, and hip hop. I put it in my car & wanted to take the long way home. It has been the best "let's see if this is any good" CD I've ever gotten. Since then I've gotten their "Mana Live" & "Donde Jugaran Los Niños?" They're all good, but I have to agree that this one is great. Add this to your collection a.s.a.p.. You don't even need to know Spanish. You'll enjoy it no matter what language you speak.

MANA MTV Unplugged sin duda sobrepaso muchas espectativas. Me parece que es un CD muy bien estructurado musicalmente. Las nuevas versiones de canciones ya conocidas como "Se me olvido otra vez" tienen un toque de naturalidad y juventud. Sin duda, la mejor cancion en este CD es ANA, en la cual Sergio Vallin demuestra su excelente abilidad con la guitarra. Con todo, MANA sigue consagrandose como el mejor grupo de rock en espa~nol. Sin embargo, habra que ver su proximo CD, el cual debe ser el mejor hasta la fecha. Espero que MANA siga progresando...y que no se quede estancado como otros grupos que no desean salir de la monotonia.... Como fan de MANA , este CD me gusta mucho. Pero tambien como fan, se que MANA necesita experimentar y hacer que su musica madure y crezca.

I'm listening to this disc as I write. I remember the first time I heard/saw it: wandering through a Sanborn's store in Mexico City -- I stopped cold and viewed the DVD on an instore TV for ten or fifteen minutes, absolutely captivated. Shortly thereafter, it was mine, as was the DVD (which adds a whole other dimension). I would put "Mana Unplugged" in my top twenty discs of all time. The group is the Mexican Beatles: writers of exquisite pop songs with heart, beautifully crafted, played with vigour and a little rock-n-roll swagger, and also a progressive political bent that comes through on songs like "Ana" and their terrific cover of Ruben Blades' "Desapariciones." The love songs, from "Vivir Sin Aire" to "El Muelle de San Blas" to "Rayando El Sol," are among the few that consistently bring tears to my eyes. And the playing has the attention to technique and subtlety that characterizes Latin music more than its North American or Western European equivalent. As an advantage for the non-Spanish speaker, the CD comes with translations of the lyrics of most of the songs. These lose some of the poetry, but at least let you know what's going on thematically. A magnificent, unmissable record.

I don't speak a lick of Spanish, but when my Spanish-fluent girlfriend wanted to introduce me to Spanish-language music, this CD was the first place she turned. All of the songs are quite listenable, the performance is fantastic, and the live setting adds quite a lot of energy to the mix. The music is fairly standard pop/rock, with lots of guitars, and a few horns. Except for the lyrics it sounds like anything you might hear on any radio station in the Midwest US. But the vocals and the energy really raise it above most Top 40. I still don't speak any Spanish, but I can sing every song on this album.

For those of you who can't get into Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez or any other "Latin Sensation" should give this CD a try. From the first moment I heard "Rayando El Sol" in a small bar in Ecuador, I became hooked. I haven't stopped listening to this CD. Their use of many instruments, like strings and horns, to the powerful vocals make it addictive. And this comes from someone who doesn't speak any Spanish.