Sade: The Best Of Sade (2LP) [EPIC]

Why you'll love it

The best-selling Sade record in our shops, and no wonder: every single from Diamond Life through Love Deluxe in one cool, unhurried sitting. You also get "Jezebel," "Like a Tattoo," "Pearls" and the Philadelphia soundtrack gem "Please Send Me Someone to Love."

This edition

• 2LP set, 16 tracks over four sides
• The singles in their original 7-inch edits, plus Sade's own remixes of "Never as Good as the First Time" and "Cherish the Day"
• Cover portrait of Sade Adu by Albert Watson

About the album

Say this for Sade Adu and her longtime band: they've never exactly overburdened the marketplace.

Sade's catalogue numbers just six full-length LPs in 40 years, each one of them a soulful study in poise and class. The Best Of Sade arrived in 1994 and compiles the singles from the first four albums (from 1984's classic Diamond Life to 1992's Love Deluxe) while throwing such worthy deep cuts as "Jezebel," "Like a Tattoo" and "Pearls" and Sade's Philadelphia soundtrack contribution "Please Send Me Someone to Love" into the mix, too, just to round things out. It's a terrific overview of Sade's singular sound and stands to this day as proof that no one out there has ever quite managed to match the cool-as-a-cucumber thing that Adu and Co. have been doing so effortlessly for four decades.

"The timeless sound and class always exhibited makes Sade Adu and her band a no-brainer for an appealing compilation."
Jason Elias, AllMusic

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Tracklist

Listen

On Epic (cat# 88875180591), a reissue of the 1994 collection.