xp wha u no like? savage
"ugh" in this context = "i'm totally overwhelmed"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
u crazy kids with ur ambiguous gruntings
there 2 x 12"s of vin sol & matrixxman edits for you to luxuriate in fyi, this year's and last
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
Listening to the 2012 live album right now. Saw her on the Love Deluxe tour in 1992. Fantastic, and this disc is amazing.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
so how would the last fit in this ranking? Never managed to really get into it?OTOH, it tokk me 5-6 years to really warm up to Lovers Rock - just below Deluxe for me, these days.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 29 September 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
i got way into soldier of love last year. think the sequencing is a bit off but otherwise it's a+. besides my ranking of sade records shifts every few months
prob at this point:love deluxestronger than pridelovers rockpromisesoldier of lovediamond life
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 29 September 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
stronger than pridelove deluxediamond lifepromiselovers rocksoldier of love
― bobby shmorbius (The Reverend), Monday, 29 September 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Missed this poll, would have automatically voted Diamond Life, but just heard it for the first time in years and it doesn't hold up at all for me. I think I'd probably go with Love Deluxe now, though I never heard Soldier Of Love. Feel a big Sade kick coming on.
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
If you listen to all the Sade albums in chronological sequence there's a strong sense that each of the first five albums is more deeply-felt and personal and throbbing with emotion than the last - the songs sound positively light-hearted on Diamond Life, whereas by Love Deluxe and Lovers Rock everything's drowning in feeling.
― Tim F, Monday, 13 March 2017 11:30 (seven years ago) link
^I may try and do that as I only know the debut and assorted singles after that.re: "drowning in feeling", Superpitcher feels it, too: http://www.whosampled.com/sample/479623/Superpitcher-Snow-Blind-Sade-Immigrant/
― willem, Monday, 13 March 2017 12:41 (seven years ago) link
IT'S ABOUT FAITH
IT'S ABOUT TRUST
― marcos, Monday, 13 March 2017 13:44 (seven years ago) link
i love sade so much.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 13 March 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
"Maureen" has been my discovery.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 March 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
Love Deluxe is such a darkly gorgeous album. Easily my favorite.
― Austin, Monday, 13 March 2017 14:17 (seven years ago) link
this one breaks my heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzgC6jSwWhc
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Monday, 13 March 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link
I suspect these guys are ruthlessly efficient and only work on the few numbers that make the album but I would love to hear an expanded "Deluxe Love Deluxe" with demos, odds and ends
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 13 March 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
After a week of Sade revision my current rankings would be
Love Deluxe Stronger Than PrideDiamond Life PromiseSoldier Of LoveLovers Rock (this is the only one I've not fully connected with)
― kitchen person, Sunday, 3 February 2019 04:59 (five years ago) link
love deluxe and stronger than pride are def the top two
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 February 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
Agree those are the top two but Lovers Rock is the one I've been going too recently. It's Only Love That Gets You Through rules all.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Sunday, 3 February 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
Heh -- I'm working on something now.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 February 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
Suffice it to say that Promise is their best but STP has proven the most sonically influential.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 February 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
Love Deluxe will always be my #1 because that's the tour I saw her on. Digable Planets opened.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 3 February 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
It’s the clear #1
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 3 February 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
Love Deluxe has been my number one for a while, but I can feel Stronger Than Pride catching it up. One thing I'm finding is that there's really not much between Promise and Diamond Life for me these days.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
I feel like if you think the answer to this poll is easy or clear then maybe you need to spend more time listening to Sade.
― Tim F, Sunday, 3 February 2019 23:16 (five years ago) link
My ranking -- good times come and they go.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2019 03:30 (five years ago) link
Another double, Alfred: you ranked “Turn My Back On You” twice. Is it a feature or a bug?
― breastcrawl, Monday, 4 February 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
Nah, it's editing.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
I got another song in, though.
MOP By Your Side remix is kind of genius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwAcM8BiBck
Stronger Than Pride destroying my world album-wise rn. Chills down the spine @ Haunt Me.
― J. Sam, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:32 (five years ago) link
god "Maureen" is incredible, wtf
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 02:47 (two years ago) link
YUP
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 02:48 (two years ago) link
I wish I had a time machine so I could throw “All About Our Love” onto mixtapes I made for any of relationships I was in circa 2000-2005. Slinky jam.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 03:13 (two years ago) link
The run from Promise through Lover's Rock is basically unimpeachable.
The first and final albums are great too, but the only ones where I don't think "this is definitely the best Sade album" while they're playing.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 08:17 (two years ago) link
hot take: besides love deluxe —which is in my all time top ten, maybe even top five— stronger than pride is far and away their best album.
secondary hot take: diamond life is their worst album.
tertiary hot take: solider of love is better than diamond life by about two or three astronomical units.
bonus track: diamond life is overrated as hell.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
your tertiary take and bonus track are remixes of your secondary take. in any case i can't agree but i respect the strong opinion.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
okay now I am obsessed with “I Couldn’t Love You More”, I want to build a home inside of these two piano chords and live there forever
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 12:34 (two years ago) link
"Cherry Pie" y'all
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 16 January 2022 17:00 (two years ago) link
here is where i remind everyone that you can play “cherry pie” at 45 and mix it with house and 2-step
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 16 January 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
also: it is sade’s birthday
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 16 January 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw83833/Sade
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=88533
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lolu8ug9lC1qkvtqmo1_500.jpg
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 10 March 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
lol oops I thought it was still Sade's birthday and didn't realize it was 2 months ago
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 10 March 2022 20:46 (two years ago) link
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, October 12, 2021 1:34 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 10 March 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link
I really like this raw house edit of “couldn’t love you more”, by Florian Kupfer I thinkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLNV6Pmv5t0
― brimstead, Thursday, 10 March 2022 23:00 (two years ago) link
once a year or so i go looking for sade remixes again, didn't know about that one - sounds pretty good
"by your side" had a few good ones, i really like this moodymann take on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXObiJodpY
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 10 March 2022 23:39 (two years ago) link