It could have been that Sade (collectively, the vocalist Sade Adu and her band) would have remained the darlings solely of the British underground rare-groove scene, but their sound proved irresistible to the mainstream, and the rest is history. Caught at the beginning of her career in 1985, Sade's cool vocals and exotic looks grabbed everyone's attention. But equally as important to Diamond Life's success was the velvet muscle of the band's accompaniment, a sinewy after hours groove, laden with minimalist funk. Eight of the nine tracks are self-penned. Straddling R&B and pop, this disc lays out the hooks and sultry allure that became Sade's soulful standard--intelligent and sexy at the same time. --Derek Rath
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Diamond Life
Sade Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000051XX7 Release Date: 2000-11-14 |
Tracks:
- Smooth Operator
- Your Love Is King
- Hang On To Your Love
- Frankies First Affair
- When Am I Going To Make A Living
- Cherry Pie
- Sally
- I Will Be Your Friend
- Why Can't We Live Together
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It could have been that Sade (collectively, the vocalist Sade Adu and her band) would have remained the darlings solely of the British underground rare-groove scene, but their sound proved irresistible to the mainstream, and the rest is history. Caught at the beginning of her career in 1985, Sade's cool vocals and exotic looks grabbed everyone's attention. But equally as important to Diamond Life's success was the velvet muscle of the band's accompaniment, a sinewy after hours groove, laden with minimalist funk. Eight of the nine tracks are self-penned. Straddling R&B and pop, this disc lays out the hooks and sultry allure that became Sade's soulful standard--intelligent and sexy at the same time. --Derek RathCustomer Reviews:
Sade fan forever-- rainy afternoons were made for this.......2007-04-09
In the mid 80's there was this fabulous radio program (on AM) that displayed an unsual repertoire of music ranging from jazz (Manhattan Transfer - Al Di Meola) to Klaus Schlutz !!.. anyway, I usually studied in this time and this was great music to have as a background.. then I hear Sade.. what a refreshing change of pace.. like hearing brazilian contemporary..yet this had its unique style.. not strident.. sensous.. appealing..the music to fall in love and be in love..
Much like Marisa Monte.. Sade will be style you will keep as your favorite
Diamonds are forever.......2007-03-28
One of the Greatest British Lounge Music Albums of All Time........2007-01-22
To say that Diamond Life was a ground breaker is putting it mildly at best. Sade was not just another beautiful face who worked as a model and fashion designer. She proved herself to be quite a talent with a sultry, smokey voice that matched her exotic English-Nigerian looks and a truly gifted songwriter who looked at human character and racism without being a boring poet and weighing down the talents of her bandmates.
"Smooth Operator," with Stuart Matthewman's unforgettable sax work has stood the test of over two decades as one of the most erotically thrilling pieces of smooth jazz to ever receive airplay on the globe, and it is a true classic from start to finish. In fact, it's Matthewman's sax that often steals the show from Ms. Adu, intentional or not. The intimate and beautiful "Your Love is King" is even better than its predecessor for several mood enhancing reasons I will not elaborate on, but it is a song I never push the skip button on. "Hang On to Your Love" has wonderful keyboards and great rhythm that is playful and sensual all at once, just as "Frankie's First Affair" is slow, contemplative, and winsome.
It is true that "When Am I Going to Make a Living" is a bit of a filler song, but "Cherry Pie" is a great slice of lamentative funk that reminds one slightly of revamped Philly soul. "Sally" reminds me of a Toni Morrison novel set to music, and "I Will Be Your Friend," while admittedly not the strongest track on Diamond Life, is a sweet song of comfort and compassion. I must admit, though, that the successful airplay of Sade's remake of "Why Can't We Live Together" is an absolute mystery to me. I never liked the song to begin with, and her version, while smoother and definitely full of honest emotional angst just never grabbed me in the right way. Now that I have had all these years to get used to it, though, I don't question it so much anymore and enjoy the track for its integrity.
If you haven't gotten to know Sade very well yet, I can't recommend a better place to start than with the album that began it all. After all, that's how a lot of us got started. This is a 5 star album because it's 90% perfection, and the other 10% doesn't exactly suck. If you add this disc to your cd collection, Diamond Life will make you all the richer by far.
My favorite CD of 1985!.......2007-01-08
Try to get the original 1984 version, the last one SUCKS!.......2006-07-13
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Diamond Life
Sade Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000261G Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Smooth Operator
- Your Love Is King
- Hang On To Your Love
- Frankies First Affair
- When Am I Going To Make A Living
- Cherry Pie
- Sally
- I Will Be Your Friend
- Why Can't We Live Together
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It could have been that Sade (collectively, the vocalist Sade Adu and her band) would have remained the darlings solely of the British underground rare-groove scene, but their sound proved irresistible to the mainstream, and the rest is history. Caught at the beginning of her career in 1985, Sade's cool vocals and exotic looks grabbed everyone's attention. But equally as important to Diamond Life's success was the velvet muscle of the band's accompaniment, a sinewy after hours groove, laden with minimalist funk. Eight of the nine tracks are self-penned. Straddling R&B and pop, this disc lays out the hooks and sultry allure that became Sade's soulful standard--intelligent and sexy at the same time. --Derek RathCustomer Reviews:
Sade fan forever-- rainy afternoons were made for this.......2007-04-09
In the mid 80's there was this fabulous radio program (on AM) that displayed an unsual repertoire of music ranging from jazz (Manhattan Transfer - Al Di Meola) to Klaus Schlutz !!.. anyway, I usually studied in this time and this was great music to have as a background.. then I hear Sade.. what a refreshing change of pace.. like hearing brazilian contemporary..yet this had its unique style.. not strident.. sensous.. appealing..the music to fall in love and be in love..
Much like Marisa Monte.. Sade will be style you will keep as your favorite
Diamonds are forever.......2007-03-28
One of the Greatest British Lounge Music Albums of All Time........2007-01-22
To say that Diamond Life was a ground breaker is putting it mildly at best. Sade was not just another beautiful face who worked as a model and fashion designer. She proved herself to be quite a talent with a sultry, smokey voice that matched her exotic English-Nigerian looks and a truly gifted songwriter who looked at human character and racism without being a boring poet and weighing down the talents of her bandmates.
"Smooth Operator," with Stuart Matthewman's unforgettable sax work has stood the test of over two decades as one of the most erotically thrilling pieces of smooth jazz to ever receive airplay on the globe, and it is a true classic from start to finish. In fact, it's Matthewman's sax that often steals the show from Ms. Adu, intentional or not. The intimate and beautiful "Your Love is King" is even better than its predecessor for several mood enhancing reasons I will not elaborate on, but it is a song I never push the skip button on. "Hang On to Your Love" has wonderful keyboards and great rhythm that is playful and sensual all at once, just as "Frankie's First Affair" is slow, contemplative, and winsome.
It is true that "When Am I Going to Make a Living" is a bit of a filler song, but "Cherry Pie" is a great slice of lamentative funk that reminds one slightly of revamped Philly soul. "Sally" reminds me of a Toni Morrison novel set to music, and "I Will Be Your Friend," while admittedly not the strongest track on Diamond Life, is a sweet song of comfort and compassion. I must admit, though, that the successful airplay of Sade's remake of "Why Can't We Live Together" is an absolute mystery to me. I never liked the song to begin with, and her version, while smoother and definitely full of honest emotional angst just never grabbed me in the right way. Now that I have had all these years to get used to it, though, I don't question it so much anymore and enjoy the track for its integrity.
If you haven't gotten to know Sade very well yet, I can't recommend a better place to start than with the album that began it all. After all, that's how a lot of us got started. This is a 5 star album because it's 90% perfection, and the other 10% doesn't exactly suck. If you add this disc to your cd collection, Diamond Life will make you all the richer by far.
My favorite CD of 1985!.......2007-01-08
Try to get the original 1984 version, the last one SUCKS!.......2006-07-13
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Enclosure Two: Harry Partch
Manufacturer: INNOVA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000004AF9 Release Date: 2000-12-06 |
Tracks:
- I am Harry Partch - Harry Partch
- By the Rivers of Babylon - Harry Partch
- Texts and Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 1 - A Dream - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 2 - An Encounter in the Field - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 3 - On Hearing the Flute - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 4 - The Intruder - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 5 - I am a Peach Tree - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 6 - With a Man of Leisure - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 7 - A Midnight Farewell - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 8 - Before the Cask of Wine - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 9 - On the Ship of Spicewood - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 10 - By the Great Wall - Harry Partch
- The Use of English in Serious Music - Harry Partch
- Barstow - Eight Hitch-Hiker's Inscriptions. . . - Harry Partch
- San Francisco - Newsboy Cries - Harry Partch
- Life is too precious to spend it with important people - Harry Partch
- U. S. Highball - A Musical Account of Slim's Transcontinental Hobo Trip - Harry Partch
- While my Heart Keeps Beating Time - Harry Partch
- San Francisco II - Harry Partch
Tracks:
- I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds - Harry Partch
- Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake: 1 - Isobel - Harry Partch
- Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake: 2 - Annah the Allmaziful - Harry Partch
- Dark Brother - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 1 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 2 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 3 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 4 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 5 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 6 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 7 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 8 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 9 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 10 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 11 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 12 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 13 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 14 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 15 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 16 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 17 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 18 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 19 - Harry Partch
Tracks:
- June 11, 1935 - Santa Rosa, California - H. PARTCH
- June 12 - Federal Shelter, Stockton - H. PARTCH
- June 13 - H. PARTCH
- June 14 - H. PARTCH
- June 16 - Huntington Ranch, San Joaquin - H. PARTCH
- June 17 - H. PARTCH
- July 4 - H. PARTCH
- July 14 - H. PARTCH
- July 16 - H. PARTCH
- July 19 - H. PARTCH
- July 20 - Heading north, between Sacramento and Redding (Later incorporated into The Wind) - H. PARTCH
- July 24 - Federal Shelter, Portland - H. PARTCH
- July 25 - Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington - H. PARTCH
- July 27 - H. PARTCH
- July 29 - H. PARTCH
- July 30 - H. PARTCH
- August 7 - Between Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, Oregon - H. PARTCH
- August 15 - H. PARTCH
- October 22 - Nearing Monterey (reworked in 1943 as The Letter) - H. PARTCH
- October 24 - Leaving Big Sur - H. PARTCH
- October 25 - Near Slate's Hot Springs (Now the Esalen Institute) - H. PARTCH
- October 26 - H. PARTCH
- October 27 - H. PARTCH
- October 28 - H. PARTCH
- October 29 - H. PARTCH
- October 30 - Big Creek - H. PARTCH
- November 12 - Santa Barbara - H. PARTCH
- November 14 - H. PARTCH
- November 15 - Leaving Santa Barbara - H. PARTCH
- November 16 - Ojai - H. PARTCH
- November 17 - H. PARTCH
- November 23 - Los Angeles - H. PARTCH
- November 28 - H. PARTCH
- December 4 - H. PARTCH
- December, 1935 - H. PARTCH
- Feburary 1, 1936 - San Bernardino - H. PARTCH
Tracks:
- Yankee Doodle Birds - H. PARTCH
- Y.D. Fantasy - On the Words of an Early American Tune - H. PARTCH
- O Frabjous Day! - H. PARTCH
- You are charged with being guilty. Are you drunk or not drunk? - H. PARTCH
- Ring Around the Moon - A Dance Fantasm for Here - H. PARTCH
- Bless This Home - H. PARTCH
- Harrys Wake - H. PARTCH
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Enclosure 2, all four cds, is curated as a sprawling notebook filled with sounds and speech instead of sketches and words. Of any Partch recording extant, it gives the best picture of the man--as the curmudgeonly, extremely innovative misanthrope that he was, as the composer who was impossibly unlike anyone else before or since. The essence of Partch's music reflects the history of the world--from his particular perspective--the imaginings of ancient Greece to the influence of Chinese musical melodrama, all propelled by homemade instruments based on a 43-tone scale named things like the "Kithara" and the "Boo." These recordings also give the best sense of his philosophy of language in music. Lamenting the whole time how text in music had become detached from the language of everyday life, Partch ran music alongside newsboys' cries and hobos' diaries, following the forms, cadence, and dynamics of speech, rather than the other way around. From his juvenilia (a wonderful song he wrote at 18) to a 45-minute segment of his wake in 1974, the first steps towards exploring Partch's sparkling works fully are made here. --Robin Edgerton
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Life After Love
Low vs Diamond Manufacturer: Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000M5B3SG Release Date: 2007-02-12 |
Album Details
Produced by Mark Williams (Bloc Party, Nine Black Alps).
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Country's Got Heart
Various Artists Manufacturer: Time Life ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000J4MUU0 |
Product Description
2 CDs, 32 Tracks.
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The String Quartet Tribute to Faith Hill
Manufacturer: Vitamin Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000168AC8 Release Date: 2004-04-20 |
Tracks:
- Cry
- The Way You Love Me
- This Kiss
- Breathe
- It Matters To Me
- Piece Of My Heart
- There Will Come A Day
- But I Will
- Let Me Let Go
- In My Life (Original Composition)
Product Description
1. Cry
2. The Way You Love Me
3. This Kiss
4. Breathe
5. It Matters To Me
6. Piece Of My Heart
7. There Will Come A Day
8. But I Will
9. Let Me Let Go
10. In My Life (Original Composition)
Format: CD
Customer Reviews:
Great for romantic dinner with hubby!.......2005-08-09
Jess
It's alright, good for relaxing.......2004-08-26
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Life In The Diamond Lane
Two Or More Manufacturer: Star Song Communications ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00070FI14 |
Product Description
TRACK LISTING: ------- 1. He's There -- 2. Heaven Is Calling Your Name -- 3. You Are My Love (My Lord) -- 4. If I Could -- 5. Let Your Will Decide -- 6. What Would You Say -- 7. Hero -- 8. Keep On Walkin' -- 9. There Is A Kingdom -- 10. Our Father -------
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The Singers and Songwriters Collection: The 1960's
Manufacturer: Time Life Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0008JFN0A |
Product Description
Unforgettable songs from the decade when young performers and writers began to transform Pop music by addressing social and political issues as well as age-old concerns like relationships. A splendid new collection, digitally remastered. Highlights: Judy Collins: Both Sides Now * The Mamas & The Papas: California Dreamin' * Van Morrison: Brown Eyed Girl * The Byrds: Turn! Turn! Turn! * The Band: The Weight
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Life After Love
Low vs Diamond Manufacturer: Marrakesh Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000RWIUL2 |
Product Description
(1) Life After Love, (2) Stay Awake, (3) This Is Your Life, (4) I'll Be Produced by Mark Williams (Bloc Party, Nine Black Alps).
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The Spirit of Christmas
Manufacturer: Time Life Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000BN7A4A |
Product Description
50 of your favorite Christmas Songs on 2 CDs by Time Life Music!Christian Music:
- Dorothy Moore - Greatest Hits
- Eccentric Soul, Vol. 1: The Capsoul Label
- Excursions, Remixes & Rare Grooves
- F Action 37.5 [Explicit Lyrics]
- F Action 37 [Explicit Lyrics]
- Fairy Tales
- Feel No Fret/Shine [Original recording remastered] [Import]
- Fiyo at the Fillmore, Vol. 1 [Live]
- For Life
- Fourever [Box set]
Christian Music
The Wind in the Willows [Original recording remastered] [Import]
Four Golden Tenors of the Past
Music Review: 83 West Records Presents The Collection
Kalam el-Nas [IMPORT] [Import]
In Step [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]
Manifesto [Original recording remastered]
Mexican Gangster [Explicit Lyrics]