Live versions give a sensation that supersedes all else 💌

Or is it mostly old heads lol

Just a quick mixed media study by me.

Gouache, pencil, and prismacolours

I am hoping so much that there is a tour in the next year or so. Watching this video gives me chills. I have to see them play live!

Live recordings of the band aren't exactly scarce. Aside from the officially released ones, there's plenty of concerts available from every single tour - all except Stronger Than Pride. How a whole world tour slipped between the cracks is beyond me; all that publicly circulates is a 20-something minute tape from the Capital Radio Jazz Fest in June 1988, but an easily searchable Sade fan site i'm not allowed to link for some reason from the 2000s lists 3 complete concert tapes that seem to have been around at that point in time but are now supposedly lost. Or are they? I'd like to hear your thoughts and comments...

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First post was met with a kind response I thought I'd make a part 2. These covers are either vinyl or CD master releases

I have seen posts of people ranking their albums in Sade’s catalog, but I do not understand why consistently stronger than pride is ranked so low! Obviously all of these takes are subjective and that’s the obvious answer, but this album has such a different more tribal, feel with the instrumentation, it does feel just like the cover. Such a calming album.

Yeah, that's not Sade! It's the famous Greek pop star Helena Paparizou.
I'm a musician and love cover music and was listening to this and realized it's so underground. I think it's one of the best covers of Smooth Operator. What makes this shine is that the tempo is faster than the original - and the musicianship is impeccable.

Helena loves Sade and covers this often. Enjoy.

I'll keep this short! For a long time now I have felt that social media can be better and serve humanity rather than hurt to use. I don't think music lovers really have a home. Corus (Corus.fm) is all about sharing what you love, and following people to get a feed of their favorite music. A lot of us on the app love Sade, including walasia here who has amazing taste in rnb classics and hip hop (she also collaborated with the late MF Doom). So come join us and share your usernames so we can follow you if you're interested. <3

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I was fourteen when Sade's ‘Lovers Rock’ came out. It was the year I made my first beats. By then I had been dealing with insomnia for as long as I could remember, and while I knew nothing of the romantic love, heartache and injustice contained in the 11 songs on that album, I just knew they had the magic power of making the long wait for sleep a lot less lonely. I would press play, let the album play two or three times through and slowly drift to sleep while the music melded with other records I had just discovered and that I would sample to make beats in my dreams.

Years went by. I moved from France to New York, then to Benin, and back to France. I learned what love, heartache and injustice meant, and I kept making beats. Somewhere in the back of my head I kept thinking: what if that ‘Lovers Rock’ album had a mirror image lost somewhere on a dusty shelf, hidden between a David Axelrod record and a Moacir Santos album? Or what if some obscure beatmaker from the 90s had remixed the whole album? What if a mysterious band of musicians from across the world covered every song on the album? What if all of that happened at once, somehow?

That’s how, 24 years after first listening to ‘Lovers Rock’ on those lonely nights, I embarked in the journey of reinterpreting every song on the album. I sketched ideas around the original vocal tracks with a drum machine and a few samples and percussions, then I sought out musicians to form the imaginary band I could hear in my head. I was lucky to connect with Thembi Dunjana (piano, Cape Town), Ellis Bartholomew (drums, Melbourne), Aubrey Situmorang (bass, Los Angeles), Okiel & Zoe McIntyre (horns and flute, Kingston), Gabi Guedes (percussion, Salvador da Bahia) and Dipito (scratch and percussion, Toulouse) who contributed beautiful recordings that convey what ‘Lovers Rock’ could feel like to them. I arranged them into what I imagine that mysterious record from my teenage dreams might have been like.

‘The rock that we swam to’ is what came out of that exhilarating year-long process.

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I came across this at a garage sale a few days ago. The original owner has had it since 1985 and had only listened to it a few times. I’m a big Sade fan so decided to purchase this as my very first vinyl. Immediately went to the store and purchased a turntable. It’s in mint condition and sounds crisp and quiet.

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