Sound Loaded

1	She Bangs 4:41
2	Saint Tropez 4:48
3	Come to Me 4:33
4	Loaded 3:53
5	Nobody Wants to Be Lonely Original Version 5:05
6	Amor 3:27
7	Jezabel 3:49
8	The Touch 4:27
9	One Night Man 3:48
10	She Bangs Spanish Version 4:37
11	Are You in It for Love 4:06
12	Ven a Mí (Come to Me) 4:34
13	If You Ever Saw Her 3:49
14	Dame Más (Loaded) 3:53
15	Cambia la Piel 5:13

Barnes & Noble

The man who detonated the Latin Explosion of '99 returns with the scorching Sound Loaded, a 14-track continuation of his 35-million-selling English-language debut. With the same production team in place, including "Livin' la Vida Loca" authors Robi Draco Rosa and Desmond Child and producer Emilio Estefan Jr., the strapping Ricky once again gets hearts (and hormones) pumping the world around with his signature blend of Anglo and Latin pop flava. With hits from Santana, Jennifer Lopez, and Marc Anthony establishing the commercial viability of syncopated Spanglish sounds, Ricky need only replicate the intensity of his debut. And replicate he does. Sharp flamenco guitar quickly yields to the pounding, hyper-hetero surf-ska uproar of "She Bangs" (offered in both English and Spanish). To those still livin' la vida loca, it's a familiar and infectious sound, with a girl that "wear[s] me out like a pair of shoes" and "looks like a flower/but...stings like a bee." The title track follows suit with wild brass bedlam and hard-rocking vocal harmonies as Ricky "slip[s] into the funk like a sweet cologne." "Jezabel" likens itself to the slow burn of Marc Anthony's "I Need to Know" with its hard, rumbafied drum rumble and spiky violins, while "The Touch" is an epic ballad of the first order. Backed by sultry, swelling strings and horns on the torrid tropical sway of "Saint Tropez," he's every Latin lover fantasy realized in full. There's no sophomore slump in evidence here. Ricky Martin has once again brought all his love and fire, and it's Sound Loaded. Abraham Velez

Rolling Stone

The relentlessly likable and danceable Sound Loaded plunges listeners once again into Ricky's hothouse world, with its lush evocations of exotic climes, Spanglish salsa-club blowouts, and voodoo hussies. Arion Berger