Sade....so wonderful, so overlooked.....

 woodchuk wrote: 
...agreed - not enough o's in smooth

 bluecshells wrote: 
so very true!!!

Ah c,mon...it's Friday afternoon...play some R n R.

Save Sade for Sunday night.

 bushrat wrote: 
When I played a song from this album (via youtube) for the wife, she thought I was nuts or had abandoned all taste.  By the end of the song she was bobbing her head with a bit of a smile.  I have to say that I've really liked what I've heard from this album so far.

If you like this, check out her 2000 album, Lovers Rock. Much overlooked but full of beautiful songs, sang with more passion than in much of her other work.

sade's stuff from the eighties just didn't work for me

this on the otherhand is lovely 

 Huey wrote: 
Yup, more please!

Sade is silk!

Sade never disappoints. 

I saw her performing live at Ahoy Rotterdam, The Netherlands, earlier this year.
It was a breathtaking experience. That concert entered my personal 'concert top 5' straight away.
Incredible show, great mix of music (what a voice!, great band too), lightning and projections. Sade took the audience on a silky smooth dreamlike trip from the very first second of the show, until the very last one. It was simply awesome...

 jagdriver wrote: 
I appreciate the limitation of her range.
If a piano, guitar or any other instrument had unlimited notes on it, it would be very limited in it's scope of use and it's meaning both to the player and to the listener. It couldn't be mastered and therefore couldn't be effective to produce anything of real musical substance. The limitation of an instrument's range and it's tone, timbre etc are what make it recognizable, familiar and by that same limit accessible to the listener. Boundaries and limits inspire us to be creative and to explore around us. Boundaries are healthy and beneficial in all areas of life.
Though her voice may be limited it is haunting, elegant, effective and able to take me to places no other voice can.
Strange isn't it?

p.s. a quarter octave is only 3 notes. Maybe revise your assesment? :)

Apart from loving that album cover, I have to say that this is one of Sade's darker works. I guess that's why I love it.  It's a different facet of her music that goes much more introspective and less mainstream than what she's done in the past.  Plus, it inspires me to write, and any music that can jump(start) my muse is okay in my book.

A true Goddess. 

The full package.....what a voice!

I bought this over the weekend, on the strength of this song, and the unusually spiky title track, both of which have been played on RP. IMO those are the only two distinctive tracks on the CD, the rest being typical smoothy but bland Sade (and one about "daddy's love" being seriously toe-curlingly schmaltzy and mawkish). I think RP's picked the best tracks from the CD, and IMO the rest is a little disappointing unless you're a Sade fan.

Very Nice.....how can you not love Sade?

 newwavegurly wrote: 
Yes..liking it alot thanks. 7.

 woodchuk wrote:  so true...

Sexy Sade. . . 

sexy and sooooo smooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooth..  I love Sade's elegance.  Sometimes you need to be reminded that the world is more than the usual philistines and boors...

Wow, I don't know that I ever recall Sade being played on RP while I was listening before. Nice to hear her silky, smooth voice in the mix.

ahhhhh
Sade

 ianmoff wrote: 

Her music is ageless anyway.  I had to look to see if it this is old Sade or new Sade.

Either way, it doesn't matter.  It's infinitely relaxing and pleasing. One of the few artists where the track/song simply doesn't matter to me, the artist just puts me in a magic place regardless.