Everyone knows a little bit about the Tango. Whether your knowledge of tango is limited to the dance scenes in True Lies (which is rather pathetic, really), or your interest was spurred by the mini tango revival that occurred after Astor Piazzolla's death in 1992, or you've been dancing the tango all your life, you'll learn a lot from this Rough Guide. The "unofficial official" dance of Argentina, the tango gets its distinctive sound from the bandonéon, or portable accordian. It's a sleazy sound befitting a music that, for all its classical airs these days, came to popularity in the ports and brothels of Buenos Aires, sporting lyrics as shocking, for their time, as any warning-stickered CD on the shelves today. This disc gives you a healthy collection of twenty tangos -- featuring Piazzolla, Anibal Troilo, Carlos Gardel, Adriana Varela and many others -- and, as is standard for Rough Guide CD, a distillation of historical background and contextual information that will allow you to properly appreciate them. For best results, you'll probably want to add dimmed lights and a dance partner with whom you are -- or would like to be -- intimately acquainted...