You're in luck: http://turbocity.blogspot.com/2007/09/best-of-remixessade.html
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
As much as I love Sade I don't understand how a live album could be worth having. I've been to one of her shows (at Madison Square Garden) and it was mindblowing, but aside from a conga flourish or two, the music itself seemed exactly the same as on record..
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
OTM. Live DVDs on the other hand...
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
the live DVDs are very nice. smoke some herb, watch it with your lady. the bomb.
― pipecock, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
god, 'no ordinary love' is so fucking beautiful.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 31 August 2008 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
YOUR LOVE IS KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
― dell, Sunday, 31 August 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
was she really a junkie?
― dell, Sunday, 31 August 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
!!! surely not !!!
― I know, right?, Sunday, 31 August 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
no, i was reading some brit music magazine years ago and they more than hinted at her being into that shit
but maybe the british music press does that with any given random artist as easily as the rest of us sneeze when presented with a cotton swab tickling our nose hairs
― dell, Sunday, 31 August 2008 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
nice
― I know, right?, Sunday, 31 August 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I know, right?
― dell, Sunday, 31 August 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
...
― I know, right?, Sunday, 31 August 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
God you really hate it when people do that, don't you, I know, right?
― Bimble, Sunday, 31 August 2008 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Sade is too excellent to go on.
― Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Also she is way too beautiful to believe.
― Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
ABBOTT BE SPEAKING THE TRUTH YO
I know I've made an ass out of myself here before, but Sade is the most attractive woman to have ever made music, ever. Why isn't she my wife? She's the creme de la creme.
― Sacriligiously Dead (Bimble), Sunday, 24 May 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
bought this guy yesterday at flea market:
http://www.discogs.com/Sade-Couldnt-Love-You-More/release/105842
― when an old mousketeer leaves the crease (donna rouge), Sunday, 24 May 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/11/24/PH2009112403079.jpg
FEB 8th. Stoked.
― lyrically launched salvo on a plethora of esteemed artist (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
dope cover imo
― lyrically launched salvo on a plethora of esteemed artist (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:02 (fourteen years ago) link
wooooahhhhhhhhh
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess this deserves its own thread, huh?
― i and iiiijjjj (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Sade - Soldier of Love
― i and iiiijjjj (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:18 (fourteen years ago) link
HOLY SHIT
― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 30 November 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
LOVE SADE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvcNtoHwd6Y
this is one of the best sade things ever
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 19 February 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
that whole live dvd, jeez
― saaberonixx (baaderonixx), Friday, 19 February 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm i dunno titchy, that youtube sounds pretty cheap
― average dump from average gangsters (deej), Saturday, 20 February 2010 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
actually best live cut is of 'smooth operator' -- crazy-ass coda
RT @ToureX: People are like afraid to say Sade's album is blah bc she's such an icon and so beloved. But it is. 9:57 AM Feb 19th from TweetDeck
I haven't heard the new one but I thought I'd post this just to show that some folks don't like the new one (or at least one person!)
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 February 2010 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it's just that one guy.
btw the best (and perhaps only good) sade remix is Tattoo (House Mix) (i think that's what it's actually called on the 12" vinyl, though on youtube it's "deep house vocal mix))
― messiahwannabe, Sunday, 21 February 2010 06:50 (fourteen years ago) link
nah tb perfecttly honest, I still haven't been won over by this album. Haven't given up on it though
― saaberonixx (baaderonixx), Sunday, 21 February 2010 09:58 (fourteen years ago) link
xp multiple ppl on this thread have expressed similar sentiments
― soft serve space age blap (The Reverend), Sunday, 21 February 2010 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i think ppl were expecting a more uptempo jamming joint & instead its pretty ballad-heavy.
― average dump from average gangsters (deej), Sunday, 21 February 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I expected better programmed drum machines.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 February 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
no idea what you dudes are talking about with this drum machine shit
― average dump from average gangsters (deej), Sunday, 21 February 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure that they're machines but they are quantized all to shit & it's a drag - I dig the record but it's not even in the same league as "lovers rock"
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Sunday, 21 February 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont ever remember their drums ever being anything but super-tight & borderline robotic tbh -- like its part of the style
― average dump from average gangsters (deej), Sunday, 21 February 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
"borderline robotic"? can't really agree man. you can play real tight and still sound engaged, and for that matter you can quantize here and there without having the numbing effect that solider of love's production has. sade's always had a great band, but they've been much, much better served by the production than they are here. not unique to this record obv but since it's by an artist whose records have always felt live, you notice
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Sunday, 21 February 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
yes borderline robotic! theyve never really been about letting the rhythms swing. i mean, arent the drums on 'turn my back on you' super-quantized too? i dont get any sense of change between this & their older stuff at all really.
― average dump from average gangsters (deej), Sunday, 21 February 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
im using the wrong terms -- swing isnt what i mean -- but the precision of the drums doesnt sound like some new thing to me. at all
― average dump from average gangsters (deej), Sunday, 21 February 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
they don't swing, but they do sound more like they're listening to each other, which is what over-quantizing a track takes away - most of this record you don't get the feeling you're listening to a band, whereas on love deluxe you feel like no matter how many punches & overdubs there are the unit is playing together - which this doesn't sound like, to me
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Sunday, 21 February 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i see what you guys are sayin - i mean, love deluxe, iirc, had a bigger impact on me right off the block than this one. it's quite possible that several of her earlier albums are better than this one. BUT, i liked it a lot the first time i heard it, i have yet to EVER turn it off mid-album (which i'm very very prone to do to almost anything else) even after many many playthroughs, and something tells me it's gonna keep growing on me. lord knows lovers rock was a grower, in the best way possible - i'm kinda only just now realizing how awesome that one is cause i only gave it, like, 5 chances back when it came out. don't know what the hell i was thinking then back then, not loving LR to death!?!?! anyway i suspect this one will hold it's place proudly among the cannon of sade albums, some of which are inevitably better than others, but all of which are unquestionably awesome.
re:quantitization: i think none of the core members of sade (the band) are drummers - thus their growing use of drum machines over the years. therefore, the drums are almost by definition very highly quantized - and as a guy who messes with drum machines and software a lot, i suspect they program, not input by hand, their drum patterns... so almost by definition they're 100% quantized, period, and perhaps have been since love deluxe. any looseness you hear is from the musicians playing around the beat, not the drums themselves. i think this one's just pretty slick, not too lose, lots of takes to get everything perfectly perfect... hell it's their first album in like 10 years and its FUCKING SADE so i think they were really trying to get everything sounding polished...
...what am i trying to say? basically i think their drum machines have always been quantized, it's not any different here from their last 3 albums. and i suspect this album sounds more polished cause they WANTED it to sound more polished, perhaps as a turn-around from the looseness and simpleness of lover's rock...
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Lyrics to Baby Father :We were waiting for the busNo-one much around but usThen I see this young boy cut a look at meI’m stunnedIn a dazeHe had the whole street set ablazeIt’s only love they sayMakes you feel this way
She liked his eyes she wanted moreThe baby gonna have your smile for sureHe saw a lovely girlSmelling sweet and soapy like fresh airShe saw him looking acted like she didn’t careThat’s how we knewAnd so love grew a flowerA flower that is you
this kills me...
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
is she saying "Your daddy knows you're a fling"? If so, it's a devastating lyric.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
this album really hit for me when the lyrics sunk in - inc, yes, "your daddy knows you're a fling"
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Bimble.
He just knew, didn't he?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
listening to sweetback right now (ie. sade without sade singing) it's like love deluxe, except with someone else on vox...
...obviously. definitely very nice. and not completely unlike portishead as well. which is not a bad thing... like if portishead was more Adult Contemporary? no, wait, it's like this: it's like if this incredibly talented backup band was just dicking around, recording the tripout album they always wanted to do while the diva was disappearing to jamaica and port au prince for years at a time...
wow, nice rapper chick on "au natural" too... who is that?
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
bahamadia.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:10 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkthis album really hit for me when the lyrics sunk in - inc, yes, "your daddy knows you're a fling"
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:24 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i asked upthread & its apparently "flame." the 'fling' lyric would be devestating if it made any sense w/ the rest of the lyrics but there are no references to him ditching or whatever, they talk about the kid being a flower-product of 'love' not 1nitestand
― average dump from average gangsters (deej), Thursday, 25 February 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
oh def
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
what's the category above 'classic'
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
i always considered that like the blueprint, or the prototype... or maybe like the "pocket translator" level. like, right then: welcome to day one. this is where you sort out the standard definition. have a great time.
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
xp iconic
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link
happy 65th
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 23:20 (three months ago) link