The Best of Sade | 
 enlarge | Artist: Sade
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 9902
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 074646668627
EAN: 0074646668627
ASIN: B000002AV5
Release Date: November 8, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Your Love Is King | | • | Hang on to Your Love | | • | Smooth Operator - Sade, Sade | | • | Jezebel | | • | The Sweetest Taboo - Sade, Sade | | • | Is It a Crime | | • | Never as Good as the First Time | | • | Love Is Stronger Than Pride | | • | Paradise | | • | Nothing Can Come Between Us | | • | No Ordinary Love | | • | Like a Tattoo | | • | Kiss of Life | | • | Please Send Me Someone to Love - Sade, Mayfield, Percy | | • | Cherish the Day - Sade, Matthewman, Stuart | | • | Pearls |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
With her exotic beauty and steamy voice, Sade couldn't help but be a star. Taking the more sensuous elements of island beats, smooth jazz, and R&B, Sade scored major hits with the continental feel of "Smooth Operator" and the sultry stylization of "Your Love Is King." Her voice was often criticized for being thin, yet she made it work to her advantage with songs like the haunting "Jezebel," on which her delivery added the vulnerability necessary to the song. Sade sounded best when she stuck to the lower register, and there is nothing thin about her dynamic handling of her torch song "Is It a Crime." "The Sweetest Taboo" was one of her last great moments before years of mediocrity, chronicled here by the lifeless "Stronger Than Pride" and the limp "Nothing Can Come Between Us." "No Ordinary Love" was a return to form with the smoky richness back in her vocals and the urban/island feel of her first release. Best of Sade goes right up to her hit "Pearls," which, remixed, became a dance floor hit. The nicest surprise here is "Please Send Me Someone to Love," with Sade proving that although her range may be limited vocally, she doesn't suffer the same fate artistically. --Steve Gdula
Album Description
1999 reissue of this best-selling title in 48 page digi-book packaging featuring many unpublished photos and a careeranalysis written by some of today's finest music critics. The CD contains all 16 of the tracks from the orginal release, including 'Smooth Operator', 'The Sweetest Taboo', 'Love Is Stronger Than Pride' and 'Paradise'.
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| Customer Reviews:
"Your Love Is King" May 30, 2008
teflonjedi (Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
While in grad school in Kingston, in the early 1990s, I listened to this album repeatedly. I found the album to still have all its charm...no bad notes anywhere. I moved away from this album, all those years ago, in search of new music, settling into my Collective Soul, Tori Amos, and Sarah McLachlan groove of the later 1990s. So, now the album is back in my rotation, and it's as welcome as before. Particular standout tracks: "Your Love is King", "Smooth Operator", "The Sweetest Taboo", "Never as Good as the First Time", and "No Ordinary Love".
 The Marchioness de Sade May 26, 2007
El Lagarto (Ambler, PA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There was a time in the mid-`90s when this CD was in permanent rotation at any watering hole sophisticated and snoochy enough to charge $15 for a drink. It's not hard to understand why; Best of Sade exudes a hip, laid-back smooth jazz sensibility without ever being the least bit intrusive. It's the soundtrack to your cool life, but you don't need to listen to it. On those occasions when you take a break from scanning the scenery for tonight's talent, it's agreeably toe-tappable.
As musical wallpaper for yuppies it's unbeatable, however, it doesn't withstand much deconstruction. To begin with, Sade Adu is more exotic than beautiful, and her voice is very, very limited. It has a buttery texture, but almost no range. There is some excitement in her lower register, which is where she generates the most feeling. Overall, Sade resembles Linda Ronstadt in that she makes the most of a range that extends all the way from A to B. Her pop sensibility is right on time, as in Smooth Operator, but when she attempts to dig down into something real and vivid, as in Jezebel, the results are awkward and embarrassing.
Hey kids! Sade is also the name of the group! Keyboards, guitar & sax, and bass. (Perhaps the drum sounds are made by the sax?) These guys have the presence of narcoleptic L.A. session men. (Just give me the chart, man.) Which brings up the real genius of the CD, and the glue that holds it together. Robin Millar, producer. Millar uses everything, including Sade herself, as raw material, arranging, rearranging, fading in and out, sweetening, mixing, remixing. The individual musicians are completely unimportant, their relationships and dynamics meaningless. Every note is a digital file that Millar fashions to his will. This is what accounts for the incredibly smooth, homogenized overall vibe.
If you doubt this, try Track 14, Please Send Me Someone To Love. This has the sparsest arrangement and the most minimal instrumentation on the CD. Sade's limitations as a singer are glaring here, it's painful; the song has as much emotion as a dishwasher repair manual. Without Millar's brilliantly crafted palace of sound around her, The Marchioness de Sade is just another odd-looking chirp from abroad.
The Best of Sade, indeed February 27, 2007
Robert Norman (Hanover, NH USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I decided to purchase the CD, I had a mild interest in Sade after hearing her classic hits like Smooth Operator and No Ordinary Love. I knew nothing of her, with the exception of a few of her songs. My motivation for buying this album consisted of the facts that it was cheap and she was strongly recommended to me by a friend. Thus, I figured I might as well buy the album, because if it was bad I wouldn't have wasted much money on it at all.
After listening to the entire album, I have become an unmitigated Sade lover. Helen Folasade Adu, better known as Sade Adu, easily became my favorite singer after this album. Her undeniably sultriness and the sensuality that emanates from her songs give her a unique singing presence. Let's not forget her incredible voice that breathes life into the aforementioned qualities. I like almost every song on this album and I was never a Sade fan. The album has its strong points like the smooth opening song "Your Love is King"; the bounciness and appeal of "Smooth Operator"; the seriousness of "Jezebel" and "Pearls"; the beauty of "Kiss of Life"; the sensual nature of "No Ordinary Love"; the playfulness yet longing of "The Sweetest Taboo"; and the heartfelt emotion of songs like "Is It A Crime", "Love Is Stronger than Pride", and the undeniable hit "Cherish the Day".
I bought this album looking for a few songs, only to have most of them resonate with me. Some of the less popular songs may even resonate with you and or enamor you more so then her most popular songs. My personal favorites besides those that most already love are "Love is Stronger than Pride", which I liked after first hearing it and still do now, and "Is it a Crime", which grew on me. Sade's soulful, graceful elegance is definitely discernable through out the album.
If it isn't conspicuous by now, I definitely recommend this CD.
The Best Of SADE!!! January 21, 2007
Jerry Anderson (Yankton, SD)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Some critics in the past have said that SADE is an overhyped/overrated singer! This CD proves otherwise in my opinion! This is a great collection of her music. The quality of this CD is great and more then enjoyable to listen to. If your looking for a compilation of her stuff, this is one you would want to add to your collection.
That sexy 4 head...................... November 25, 2006
The Specialist (Parts Unknown)
This is the only Sade album you'll ever need. Great from beginning to end.
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