Album of the day (#3704): Diamond Life by Sade

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  • Posted: 02/07/2021 21:00
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Today's album of the day

Diamond Life by Sade (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1984.
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Overall rank: 912
Average rating: 79/100 (from 264 votes).



Tracks:
1. Smooth Operator
2. Your Love Is King
3. Hang On To Your Love
4. Frankie's First Affair
5. When Am I Going To Make A Living
6. Cherry Pie
7. Sally
8. I Will Be Your Friend
9. Why Can't We Live Together

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Total classic
Still sounds smooth nearly 40 years later
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Perfect album.

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1. Smooth Operator
3. Hang On To Your Love
6. Cherry Pie
7. Sally
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  • Posted: 02/08/2021 00:09
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Personally, Love Deluxe is there masterpiece. But this an excellent album for the 80's.
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This is incredible, and if not for Love Deluxe, would be easily my fave Sade album. But they are both 1. Incredible and 2. very different.

for the last 10 yuears or so whenever I drop something on the ground or accidently run into a wall or table and there is someone else around i will always without fail sing "Smooth operator" just those 2 words and boy is it clever and hilarious and charming every. single. fucking. time.
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The first four albums are all basically perfect, though I probably consider the first two - this and Promise - to be my absolute favourites. In the last five years or so, I've probably listened to Sade's music as regularly as anyone's, to the point that she is/they are near the top of any list of acts I consider the greatest off all-time. They just had such a distinctive sound that was both unmistakably of its time but also peculiarly timeless, something smooth and controlled and considered but still earthy and passionate and nakedly honest, steeped in American R'n'B and jazz but still distinctly British, songwriting that used flecks of recognisable specificity to present its universal messages in technicolour, and massive hook after massive hook. Obviously, without Sade's smokey voice the whole thing falls down, but they were always so much more than simply a vehicle for a great singer. If I had one minor criticism of this album, it would be the sequencing: Side A is bulletproof (up to and including my personal favourite, the quietly powerful 'When Am I Going to Make a Living'), whereas Side B sees a small but noticeable drop-off in song quality ('Cherry Pie' is an interesting if predictable detour; 'Sally' is a nice slice of lounge pop, but doesn't hit the heights of the singles; 'Why Can't We Live Together', which I love, feels like a sketch of a song, an exploratory jam that was never finished, for better or worse). It's a very minor criticism of an album I adore.
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Unbelievable that this is now nearly 40 years old. A lovely album and my favourite one by Sade
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Masterpiece of an album carried by one of the greatest voices of all time and Paul Denman who's high up there on my list for greatest bass players (who I think's working on a project with members of Bauhaus and the pop group right now which I'm lightly intrigued by). About a decade and a half ago you used to be able to catch him smoking joints behind the wheel of his tour van in front of LA diy venues waiting for his son to finish playing his pop punk sets. Funniest shit ever tbh.
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Skinny wrote:
The first four albums are all basically perfect, though I probably consider the first two - this and Promise - to be my absolute favourites. In the last five years or so, I've probably listened to Sade's music as regularly as anyone's, to the point that she is/they are near the top of any list of acts I consider the greatest off all-time. They just had such a distinctive sound that was both unmistakably of its time but also peculiarly timeless, something smooth and controlled and considered but still earthy and passionate and nakedly honest, steeped in American R'n'B and jazz but still distinctly British, songwriting that used flecks of recognisable specificity to present its universal messages in technicolour, and massive hook after massive hook. Obviously, without Sade's smokey voice the whole thing falls down, but they were always so much more than simply a vehicle for a great singer. If I had one minor criticism of this album, it would be the sequencing: Side A is bulletproof (up to and including my personal favourite, the quietly powerful 'When Am I Going to Make a Living'), whereas Side B sees a small but noticeable drop-off in song quality ('Cherry Pie' is an interesting if predictable detour; 'Sally' is a nice slice of lounge pop, but doesn't hit the heights of the singles; 'Why Can't We Live Together', which I love, feels like a sketch of a song, an exploratory jam that was never finished, for better or worse). It's a very minor criticism of an album I adore.

Yes there was that jazz-pop trend in the 80's (I'm thinking of Matt Bianco), fresh and tightened like many sounds of this decade. And in the following decade, we had acid jazz...
Anyways, I totally agree with you about the drop-off in quality on side B. The sequencing is better on Promise.
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