Sade - Soldier of Love

This is endearing. Apparently Sade told a radio DJ how much she loved Raekwon's stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxl7fvAEkAg

From a few days ago -- very informative, detailed story:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article7005060.ece

i <3 her

As we talk, she rolls her own cigarettes and blows the smoke up the chimney above the empty fireplace

awesome

Haha :)

kinda boring on first listen

u rong

I haven't successfully gotten into this other than the single, but it's nice that it's spurred me to listen to more older Sade.

Album really kinda just makes me want to listen to Lovers Rock :-/

u need to listen to "skin" again rev

i think i'd have been disappointed if this album had been immediate, that is not what sade DOES

deej is right about "skin" btw - also "the safest place" immediately afterwards is just lovely

yeah to be fair I remember being underwhelmed by lovers rock for quite a long time. But for the time being there seems to be a bit of a dull tunnel in the middle of the album, where the songs all kinda sound like light throwaway closers à la "It's Only Love That Gets You Through" from the last one.

This is pretty boring on first listen.

my teeth grit so badly every time i have to say that sade is not boring

I like Sade and I think this is boring. Usually there's a lot more tension to her stuff.

can't say every song has stuck with me but i've only listened to it twice properly, holding off on judgment for now - already what has stuck with me is amazing though

im curious if you guys who dont like it dig her more ballad-y stuff on her older albums

Saying it's boring is boring. Explanation, please?

I mean, did you expect a club banger thrown in there?

well she was working with fatboi...

im curious if you guys who dont like it dig her more ballad-y stuff on her older albums

― average gangsta rap from average gangstas (deej), Sunday, February 7, 2010 3:06 PM Bookmark

yes, and the ballads here don't really live up to them

spinspun: I've only listened to it twice, sorry if I don't have all my close readings prepared

nothing boring about, say, 'moon and the sky' imo

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxhkdw7l5S1qz6g6ao1_500.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/arts/music/07sade.html

this album is working well for me at the moment

lolz, this photo is from 2001, i woulda guessed 1985

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/02/07/arts/07sade4/07sade4-popup.jpg

Saying it's boring is boring. Explanation, please?

The album is boring?

i'd say low-key but not boring. a lot of the songs that i ignored at first are starting to seep in. basically there's only one or two at this point that i'm not really digging.

what's the verdict on Babyfather so far?

i dont understand the lyric tbh -- 'your daddy knows you're a fling'?

"Babyfather" is the one song I kind of actively dislike at this point.

i like it musically, i just dont get the lyrics

It's "flame," not "fling."

I doubt I will ever feel an urge to listen to anything but "Soldier of Love" itself.

british accents are weird.

surprised you think SoL is the best track andy k

Yeah, I thought it was "fling" until I read the booklet.

I fell instantly for "SoL" and love the longer album version (those panning probes!) even more. Maybe my second or third favorite song of theirs.

on GMA right now

An earlier version of a picture caption with this article misstated the date the picture was taken. The photograph featuring Sade with her band members, Paul Denman, Andrew Hale and Stuart Matthewman, was taken in the 1980s, not in 2001.

I was gonna say: those suspenders are totally Culture Club.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200/drp100/p176/p17627beprm.jpg

(1996, so, yeah)

just getting acquainted w/this (I'm a sade stan) but so far I'd say that "soldier of love" is one of her best-ever tracks

Saw her do it on Letterman last night. Not bad

TMI

HA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeSADY4poAU

I was just about to post that Letterman performance. Was so so great.

Expect the smooth sounds of Sade to overtake the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 album chart next week, as industry sources project the group's new effort "Soldier of Love" could sell between 375,000 to 400,000 by week's end on Feb. 14.

Billboard Reviews Sade's New Album, 'Soldier Of Love'

It will be the act's second No. 1 album -- its first came way back in 1986 with "Promise." "Soldier of Love" is the first studio effort from the band -- led by vocalist Sade Adu -- since "Lovers Rock" was released in 2000. That set debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 370,000 sold in its first week.

Since its release, "Lovers Rock" has sold 3.9 million in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. The new album's title track recently became Sade's eighth top 10 hit on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart -- its first since "Kiss of Life" reached No. 9 in 1993.

wow! i'm surprised. that's great, tho.

that's pretty weird. Album doesnt strike me as no. 1 material