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Audio is Stereo Dolby Digital, there is no 5.1 option. We donвЂ™t get all the videos for some reason вЂ“ again Diamond Life is hard done by, with Smooth Operator and Your Love is King missing. The DVD in the deluxe edition is a straight run of videos. The brand new recordings include a cover of Thin LizzyвЂ™s IвЂ™m Still in Love with You which turns out to be inspired вЂ“ unlike the Jay Z remix of The Moon and the Sky which feels a bit tacked on вЂ“ an unnecessary attempt to persuade people that Sade are still вЂrelevantвЂ™.

Since that Best of compilation in 1994, Sade have released just two studio albums вЂ“ a work rate that only Kate Bush would be impressed with.В However both are excellent and Lovers Rock from 2000 donates five of itвЂ™s tracks and we get three from last yearвЂ™s superb Soldier of Love. The Sweetest Taboo, Never as Good as the First Time, Love is Stronger than Pride, Paradise, No Ordinary Love, and Feel No Pain are all superb.В That said, most of this ground was covered in 1994вЂ™s Best of Sade. Sade had an incredibly strong run of singles through the second half of the 80s and into the вЂ™90s. With most hits collections over 2CDs as you move through the compilation, you often start to not recognise tracks and the quality starts to waiver, but remarkably, neither happens here. Considering we get more generous selections from later albums (six from 1992вЂ™s Love Deluxe) one wonders whether Sade herself feels this work вЂ“ despite being a massive seller, and kick-starting her career вЂ“ doesnвЂ™t really stand up well to the warmth and sophistication of later releases. There is no room for what was the second single Why CanвЂ™t We Live Together? or any album tracks such as the likeable FrankieвЂ™s First Affair. The track listing is more or less in order of release and so we start at the beginning, but surprisingly, we only get three tracks вЂ“ Your Love is King, Smooth Operator and Hang on to Your Love вЂ“ from 1984вЂ™s Diamond Life. In deluxe form (reviewed here) it comes with a bonus DVD with most of the promo videos.

This week sees the release of The Ultimate Collection, a 2CD career retrospective of 27 songs, including three new tracks. In the 27 years since Diamond Life was released every album bar one, has reached the US Billboard 200 top ten and Sade have won four Grammy Awards вЂ“ the most recent being earlier on this year for 2010вЂ™s Solder of Love.

Sade (the band) could easily have fallen prey to this scenario because they ticked both of those boxes вЂ“ initial success in the US and an image seemingly locked into an era of Yuppies, wine bars and city life.Д«ut Sade Adu, the singer and her band are survivors. A-ha, Pet Shop Boys, Paul Young, Crowded House and even Kylie Minogue all graced the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 once or twice (normally very early in their careers) and then quickly returned to relative obscurity, the American dream quickly turning into a bit of a nightmare. Bands looking for a long, steady relationship with the US record-buying public, ended up with a one-night-stand. The USA in particular, during the 1980s, was a land of false hope for many artists from all over the world. Liberty, Medazzaland, Pop Trash вЂ“ all albums by the group that died a lonely death while Grunge, Britpop and the Spice Girls вЂ“ in that order вЂ“ dominated the pop landscape. Once the вЂ™80s were over the public at large were вЂ“ with the exception of 1993вЂ™s вЂWedding AlbumвЂ™ вЂ“В just not interested. Artists who were very successful in that decade often became victims of their own success and ended up trapped forever with an image they might have not wanted in the first place.Дuran Duran are a good example.

Sade the ultimate collection download zip