Sade: Classic or Dud?

diamond life and promise were dollar bin staples a few years ago, super easy to find great copies for cheap. don't know if that's still the case. i've never seen anything from tld onward in a bin. used cds on the other hand are plentiful iirc.

what i would personally kill for otoh is a complete set of remixes on vinyl.

this sade at live aid vid is probably humanity reaching a peak it'll never regain?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwDjJP_l5AY

you can still find lots of their records in used bins cheap yes, and they sound great. tough to think of another act less in need of a remastering job.

i actually just got used copies of diamond life and stronger than pride back in June! I'd never heard stronger than pride before and i just love how vaporous the record is

Paradise and Siempre Hay Esperanza are two of my absolute favourites

murgatroid otm
maybe setting aside a week or two for a nonstop sade listening party isn't a bad idea

two things in life will never change: 1) the sun will always be hot and 2) sade will always rule.

and yes, stronger than than pride is probably the most overlooked sade album. after love deluxe (which will never be topped by anyone), pride has always been my #2 pick, easily.

also, here's an old podcast of non-album sade material for your throwback thursday.

have you got a tracklisting for that?

you can still find lots of their records in used bins cheap yes, and they sound great. tough to think of another act less in need of a remastering job.

― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, September 2, 2020 9:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yes, found promise in my mother-in-law's record collection recently, sounds amazing

can't think of many other things in life that match the dollar to pure joy ratio of buying an 80s sade lp secondhand

you too can be in the presence of a goddess for $1

have you got a tracklisting for that?

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, September 3, 2020 12:41 PM

fuck! i'm sorry, mixcloud has really gone overboard with the efforts to not get copyright dinged. the tracklist used to be there. i didn't write it down anywhere else, so hang tight, i'm gonna dig through discogs info and see if i can get it compiled again.

Haha lol ok thanks. Am listening now. Love the vinyl crackles :)

here's the tracklist for that mix and where the tunes first appeared:

1. Love Affair With Life (Your Love is King b-side)
2. Smooth Operator/Red Eye (Smooth Operator 12")
3. Should I Love You (Hang on to Your Love b-side)
4. Wired (Is it a Crime? b-side)
5. Love Is Stronger Than Pride [Mad Professor Remix] (Feel No Pain b-side)
6. Super Bien Total [Extended Mix] (Paradise b-side)
7. Spirit (Smooth Operator b-side)
8. Keep Hanging On [Live] (Paradise b-side)
9. Make Some Room (Nothing Can Come Between Us b-side)
10. Room 55 (Kiss of Life b-side)

enjoy.

all credit due to my homie tREBLEFREE for putting that mix together. it was just an idea i had; he did all of the actual work. check him out on mixcloud for monthly r+b mixes that will feed your soul: https://www.mixcloud.com/treblefree

Awesome! Thank you!

Birthday wishes to Sade Adu who turns 62 years young today pic.twitter.com/aAPz1NuVl3

— Barney Hurley (@barneyhurley1) January 16, 2021

62 today!

there was a really good video essay recently on the trash theory youtube channel that got into some specifics about the early years of the band that i didn't know about.

anyway, that's fine i'm just on my sunday evening bullshit and wanted any reason to post a general appreciation of the thin lizzy cover that came out to entice folks to buy that ultimate collection set. i bought just the track on itunes lol. crazy to think that was a decade ago. nothing revelatory and still absolutely magic. big sigh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW8HHw8kpfM

no expectations for a next record at this point, but it's silly to deny my desire in wanting to see that happen. which it probably won't. but gee whizz, if it did!

they are supposed to be have been working on a new album for a bit now actually

indeed, but i won't hold my breath — in a nice way.

same feelings i have about people like andre3000, maxwell, and erykah badu releasing new records. "be nice if it happens."

with sade though the obstacle has usually just been them all being ready to work on a new album, so i'm not too worried now that it's in progress

https://www.nts.live/shows/test-pressing/episodes/test-pression-w-andrew-hale-9th-june-2018

Andrew Hale (from the band) was on Test Pressing's radio show at the weekend for a Sade special. They only seem to have recorded the first hour but I went into the chatroom and asked what was happening with a new Sade album and near the end of the show he confirmed it is being actively worked on.

― boxedjoy, Monday, 11 June 2018 14:14 (three years ago)

big sigh.

― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Sunday, November 14, 2021 7:39 PM (yesterday)

lol they've always taken forever? it's going to happen unless one of them keels over and even then it will probably happen. like planting tulip bulbs.

i want it to happen and i'm willing to wait.

sigh.

all those early records are an endless horizon i just keep going back to them over and over, constant rotation

i don't think i'll ever tire of them

we watched the video for "sweetest taboo" again over the weekend - it's aged very well imo.

agree those records do just seem to age better and better. so very, very classic.

if anybody wants that b-sides collection upthread as a download, lmk.

and yes re:the visuals with the band. just, everything, like i said: so very, very classic.

truly wonderful band.

xps just watched

when she gets up from the windowsill at 1:56 and starts dancing whaaaaaaat

life promise pride love is an essential dvd imo

https://www.discogs.com/master/204977-Sade-Life-Promise-Pride-Love

Thanks for getting me to watch her videos, few of which I had ever seen. Great and timeless indeed ('Turn My Back on You' and 'When Am I Gonna Make a Living' could have come out today).

sade on horseback is magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfzmVUrZplw

Love that Thin Lizzy cover, thanks for posting

I don’t have anything to add on Sade, except that I once saw a mean tweet from Tracy Thorne about “Soldier of Love”, and it has basically made me dislike TT forever since

Tracey's a big fan though

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2018/03/queen-quiet-storm-tracey-thorn-return-sade

I love Sade's singing more and more as time goes by. And I already loved it a lot.

— Tracey Thorn (@tracey_thorn) January 9, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx_BZ5VfyWQ

I didn't appreciate her nearly enough when Diamond Life came out (it got overplayed at our record store), but her records have aged remarkably well. In addition to a fantastic voice and amazing presence, she's just cool as hell. A star.

sade on horseback is magic

(Swoon)

this was posted a few days ago. sad news but also makes me hopeful that something new will show up eventually.

https://scontent.fslc3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/295694383_597681398390594_5659744349417744772_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=1kueaRPbKAkAX-mMQns&_nc_ht=scontent.fslc3-2.fna&oh=00_AT93KaQfdFnmHvnyx73XUn3lMf9B3aL1igjsy4EhVr_QSg&oe=62E8127F

i found stronger than pride in the glove compartment of my boyfriends car a few weeks ago while we were driving around with the windows down. so good and tbh i've never felt cooler.

rest well mp☮️🕉

thank you for sharing that news, map and big co-sign on stronger than pride. that one's probably aged the best of her catalogue by this point. "turn my back on you" is such a standout no matter where or when i hear it.

great music to listen to with a person you love

Lovers Rock and Love Deluxe have really been doing it for me the past years but I am now enjoying Stronger Than Pride

does "no ordinary love" ever lose its power

Just relistened and nope, still great. The stereo panning on the palm-muted electric guitar under Sade's silken vocals is such a great textural touch.

They continue to be one of the few artists my dad and his friends love that I also love. Their production makes them tower way above the rest.

"All About Our Love" is a song i dream about sweetly slow dancing to my spouse 10-20-30 years down the line.

^That's one of my favorites, too. In fact, all of 'Lovers Rock' is sublime.

who programmed the drums on Lovers Rock and Love Deluxe?