ARTIST: Christina Aguilera
TITLE: Back To Basics
LABEL: RCA
GENRE: Pop
BITRATE: 193kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 18min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-08-15
RIP DATE: 2006-08-02

Track List: CD #1/2

01. Intro (Back To Basics)          1:47
02. Makes Me Wanna Pray             4:10
03. Back In The Day                 4:13
04. Ain't No Other Man              3:48
05. Understand                      3:46
06. Slow Down Baby                  3:29
07. Oh Mother                       3:46
08. F.U.S.S.                        2:21
09. On Our Way                      3:36
10. Without You                     3:56
11. Still Dirrty                    3:46
12. Here To Stay                    3:19
13. Thank You (Dedication To        4:59
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Track List: CD #2/2

01. Enter The Circus                1:42
02. Welcome                         2:42
03. Candyman                        3:14
04. Nasty Naughty Boy               4:45
05. I Got Trouble                   3:44
06. Hurt                            4:03
07. Mercy On Me                     4:33
08. Save Me From Myself             3:13
09. The Right Man                   3:51

Release Notes:

Back to Basics, Christina Aguilera's first disc in four years, refines
and clarifies the--let's call it "sexy"--aura surrounding this platinum
firebrand. Now 26 and married, the best belter in a class that counts
Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears on its roll call has turned her
attention to love songs: the supercharged and ubiquitous first single
"Ain't No Other Man," for one, and the hushed stunner "Save Me from
Myself" for another. That doesn't mean she's foresworn being nasty,
though. Dive deep into this set, past the gorgeous crackle that frames
the old-school jazz-, blues-, and soul-inspired tracks on the first
disc, and you'll reach a playful and familiar raunch; "Candyman"
celebrates a "one-stop shop" who "makes the panties drop" to a
boogie-woogie beat, and "Nasty Naughty Boy" sends out a heated,
big-beated invitation to "sip on my champagne/Cause I'm gonna give you
a little taste/Of the sugar below my waist." Thoughtful listeners
should snap out of their fascination with Xtina's undiminished yet
newly un-tramp-like sexuality, though, because what they'll really want
to focus on throughout these 22 tracks is the honest-to-God artistry.
While the rock producer Linda Perry helps disc two pop in interesting
and unexpected ways (check the muffled blues number "I Got Trouble" and
"Mercy on Me," an obvious nod to Fiona Apple), DJ Premier, a mainstay
on Jay-Z and Nas projects, pipes a batch of aural high-fives into the
nostalgia-bitten first disc (the deep-down funk of "Back in the Day,"
the strut-strut early hip-hop sound of "Still Dirrty"). Their nudges
aside, though, Back to Basics is all Aguilera's baby--she
executive-produced, and she's found herself artistically. Nobody would
argue, in fact, if she swiveled around the chorus to "Ain't No Other
Man," written for her husband, and aimed it at herself: "You got soul,
you got class/You got style, you're badass."