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Back To Basics on CD by Christina Aguilera
Back To Basics on CD by Christina Aguilera
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"Very cool !"
5 stars"

Review by Steph on 26th October, 2009

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This CD pack is a great buy =) both CDs have amazing songs, Christina Aguilera has a brilliant voice ! The sound quality is amazing and her songs all unique. I love the booklet aswell, very cool layout.

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Christina Aguilera seemed intent on constantly reinventing herself over the course of her first several albums, and it's hard not to be impressed by her leaps from teen-pop sensation (1999 self-titled debut) to raunchy, sexually precocious R&B singer (2002's STRIPPED) to blues and jazz-steeped diva on 2006's BACK TO BASICS. With its smoky torch songs, occasional big-band arrangements, and allusions to seminal divas like Billie Holiday and Etta James, the ambitious double disc casts Aguilera in the soft, romantic light of vintage soul crooners.

Yet BACK TO BASICS is undeniably modern. In fact, the first disc, assisted by the hand of the always-stellar trackmaster DJ Premiere, thumps alongside any club bangers of the early 2000s. Aguilera's dirty-girl persona is still present here, but she's dressed up and fitted into better songs and productions. The nostalgia-hued vibe of the second disc--with the singer playing the breathy chanteuse--provides a perfect complement to the first, so that the album as a whole reveals an artist of increasing range, skill, and creative maturity.

What the critics say…

Rolling Stone (p.96) - "The spirit of old-school jazz, blues and soul inhabits the set….Aguilera succeeds in balancing references to jazzbos and soul singers…with over-the-top kitsch."
Entertainment Weekly (p.136) - "[The] rugged dance tracks, mixing electronic beats with honking brass and other '70s soul samples, are perfectly suited to Aguilera's powerhouse belting." -- Grade: B+
Q (p.120) - Ranked #48 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006" -- "[P]roducers DJ Premier and Mark Ronson helped Aguilera realise the mix of saucy soul and roaring gospel she envisaged."
Uncut (p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he second disc is the more interesting….It's psychedelically strange and outrageously entertaining."

Track Listing:

Disc 1:
  1. Intro ( Back To Basics)
  2. Makes Me Wanna Pray
  3. Back In The Day
  4. Ain't No Other Man
  5. Understand
  6. Slow Down Baby
  7. Oh Mother
  8. F.U.S.S
  9. On Our Way
  10. Without You
  11. Still Dirty
  12. Here To Stay
  13. Thank You (Dedication To Fans)
  14. Enter The Circus
  15. Welcome
  16. Candyman
  17. Nasty Naughty Boy
  18. I Got Trouble
  19. Hurt
  20. Mercy On Me
  21. Save Me From Myself
  22. Right Man, The
  23. Back To Basics
Release date NZ
April 11th, 2008
Label
RCA Records (USA)
Number of Discs
1
Original Release Year
2006
UPC
828768963425
Product ID
1526606

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