Diamond nights and ruby lights: your favorite SADE album

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 deluxe
stronger than pride
lovers rock
promise
soldier of love
diamond life

stronger than pride
love deluxe
diamond life
promise
lovers rock
soldier of love

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.

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.

^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/

IT'S ABOUT FAITH

IT'S ABOUT TRUST

i love sade so much.

"Maureen" has been my discovery.

Love Deluxe is such a darkly gorgeous album. Easily my favorite.

this one breaks my heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzgC6jSwWhc

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

After a week of Sade revision my current rankings would be

Love Deluxe
Stronger Than Pride
Diamond Life
Promise
Soldier Of Love
Lovers Rock (this is the only one I've not fully connected with)

love deluxe and stronger than pride are def the top two

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.

Heh -- I'm working on something now.

Suffice it to say that Promise is their best but STP has proven the most sonically influential.

Love Deluxe will always be my #1 because that's the tour I saw her on. Digable Planets opened.

It’s the clear #1

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.

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.

My ranking -- good times come and they go.

Another double, Alfred: you ranked “Turn My Back On You” twice. Is it a feature or a bug?

Nah, it's editing.

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.

god "Maureen" is incredible, wtf

YUP

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

"Cherry Pie" y'all

here is where i remind everyone that you can play “cherry pie” at 45 and mix it with house and 2-step

also: it is sade’s birthday

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

lol oops I thought it was still Sade's birthday and didn't realize it was 2 months ago

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, October 12, 2021 1:34 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

I really like this raw house edit of “couldn’t love you more”, by Florian Kupfer I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLNV6Pmv5t0

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