Sade - Soldier of Love

xp yeah, cf. also "bullet proof soul"
easily my favorite Sade album

dudes, this new song...on repeat!

"To Turn My Back On You" is my favorite Sade song of all-time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvV1IjFtZic

that BEAT, mmmmm

you know, i think i can probably live without the remix featuring maino :/

lol waht

haha wtf dude has really good taste in collaborators ... how many rappers got to guest on both Rakim & Sade tracks this year??

sade needs to do the next bond song imo

xp if only the same could be said about those he works with

This song was #7 on the "7 o'clock bomb 7" countdown on the local rap/r&b station last night. I was psyched/shocked.

mouth agape at how epic the video is! gun fingers, raised fist salutes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hak4dJkkIyY&feature=player_embedded

<3 <3 <3

anyone who doesn't feel sade deeply = dead2me tbh

better qual video at http://www.soulculture.co.uk/featuredbanner/sade-soldier-of-love-official-video/

holy fuck how does this song get legitimately better every time i listen to it

on first listen it was already a goddamn monster

that machine gun bass

New Sade album comin' out a week before Valentine's Day...we gonna get LAID.

didn't see the vid til now but S1W dances! yes!

streams of another three tracks... http://putmeonit.blogspot.com/2010/01/sade-in-another-time-moon-skin.html

Leaked. DLing now.

ok, i'm like ready to leave my wife in love with this song, but that video is terrible. like natural born killers meets spike lee steppin routines. still so stoked for the album

alex in m can u webmail me ...

I think I've gotten over my lol 00's anal-ness about not DLing leaks of my favorite artists, but this time I think I'll wait. This is something I'd like to hear in one go, on a sofa, and not piecemeal on my ipod in the metro.

i found this

Is that stephen Marley or finley quay on baby father?

did you not get my webmail, deej?

at any rate, this is a thing of wonder. less immediate and more subtle than the lead single, which led me to expect a very different beast but there are depths here that i will spend a long time absorbing.

i only rarely check that email address but i found a link anyway so

yeah this album is way darker than i expected

there's some pretty deep shit on this album. couldn't give the whole thing the attention it deserved but i blasted it in my car driving home for the second or third time and couldn't help noticing babydaddy for instance had some pretty real lyrics (par for the course really but nice to know she hasn't lost her touch)

bonus: lovers rock is on the playlist right after this much-too-short (and therefore perfect length) album and i keep going "oh damn soldier is over.... wait a minute, lovers rock is mad underrated, i'm gonna give this another listen too, again." ...damn! i'm listening to king of sorrow now... sade (and her band/producer/guitarplayer/lover) is/are really fucking quality, amirong?

jesus, lovers rock. and i was thinking soldier kinda blew it out of the water too when it was on before, which means soldiers pretty much bound to become another all-time-fave innit. i can't believe my 50 year old uncle hipped me to this band in the 80's, but i guess that speaks to her universal appeal doesn't it?

can i just say "Skin" is fucking incredible 10/10 all time shit

Got a link; will download tomorrow. Which other Sade albums does this remind you of?

"Slave Song" on Lovers Rock is a motherfucker. A motherfucker

yeah this album is way darker than i expected

not sure if you mean this in a good way or a bad way

(generally, fwiw, i like more brooding albums/songs, so i'm taking it in a good way)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDTeCt-d7BQ

<3

yeah, that's . . . great. much edgier lyrically than i remember sade. and the music is tougher and grittier, too.

can i just say "Skin" is fucking incredible 10/10 all time shit

― average gangsta rap from average gangstas (deej), Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah. early favorite for me.

hmmm

taking me some time to get into this

This is endearing. Apparently Sade told a radio DJ how much she loved Raekwon's stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxl7fvAEkAg

From a few days ago -- very informative, detailed story:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article7005060.ece

i <3 her

As we talk, she rolls her own cigarettes and blows the smoke up the chimney above the empty fireplace

awesome

Haha :)

kinda boring on first listen

u rong

I haven't successfully gotten into this other than the single, but it's nice that it's spurred me to listen to more older Sade.

Album really kinda just makes me want to listen to Lovers Rock :-/

u need to listen to "skin" again rev

i think i'd have been disappointed if this album had been immediate, that is not what sade DOES

deej is right about "skin" btw - also "the safest place" immediately afterwards is just lovely

yeah to be fair I remember being underwhelmed by lovers rock for quite a long time. But for the time being there seems to be a bit of a dull tunnel in the middle of the album, where the songs all kinda sound like light throwaway closers à la "It's Only Love That Gets You Through" from the last one.

This is pretty boring on first listen.

my teeth grit so badly every time i have to say that sade is not boring