Love Deluxe

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Love Deluxe
Studio album by Sade
Released 20 October 1992
Recorded Studio Condulmer, Venice; Ridge Farm, Surrey; The Hit Factory, London; Image Recording, Los Angeles
Genre Soul, R&B, downtempo, trip hop, quiet storm
Length 45:07
Label Epic
Producer Sade Adu, Mike Pela
Sade chronology

Stronger Than Pride
(1988)		 Love Deluxe
(1992)		 Lovers Rock
(2000)
Singles from Love Deluxe
  1. "No Ordinary Love"
    Released: 8 October 1992
  2. "Feel No Pain"
    Released: 28 November 1992
  3. "Kiss of Life"
    Released: 12 April 1993
  4. "Cherish the Day"
    Released: 31 July 1993
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau B–[2]
Entertainment Weekly B[3]
NME (7/10) link
The Rolling Stone Album Guide [4]

Love Deluxe is the fourth studio album by the English group Sade. It was released in the United Kingdom on 20 October 1992 and in the United States on 11 November 1992 by Epic Records.

Critical reception

In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau said that half of the album cannot qualify with Sade's most memorable songs and particularly panned the lyric about a Somalian woman who "hurts like brand-new shoes" on the song "Pearls".[2] Amy Linden of Entertainment Weekly said that the album "surges with emotion, but the mostly lush ambient music on Love Deluxe is low on the oomph meter."[3] In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Ron Wynn wrote that it "marked a return to the detached cool jazz backing and even icier vocals that made her debut album a sensation" with an "urbane sound."[1]

Track listing

  1. "No Ordinary Love" (Sade Adu, Stuart Matthewman) – 7:20
  2. "Feel No Pain" (Adu, Hale, Matthewman) – 5:08
  3. "I Couldn't Love You More" (Adu, Hale, Matthewman, Paul S. Denman) – 3:49
  4. "Like a Tattoo" (Adu, Hale, Matthewman) – 3:38
  5. "Kiss of Life" (Adu, Hale, Matthewman, Denman) – 5:50
  6. "Cherish the Day" (Adu, Hale, Matthewman) – 5:34
  7. "Pearls" (Adu, Hale) – 4:34
  8. "Bullet Proof Soul" (Adu, Hale, Matthewman) – 5:26
  9. "Mermaid" (Adu, Hale, Matthewman, Denman) – 4:23

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1992/1993) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[5] 13
Austrian Albums Chart[5] 11
Dutch Albums Chart[5] 47
German Albums Chart[6] 14
Hungarian Albums Chart[7] 38
Swedish Albums Chart[5] 7
Swiss Albums Chart[5] 6
UK Albums Chart[8] 10
U.S. Billboard 200[1] 3
U.S. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[1] 2

Certifications

Country Certification
Australia Platinum[9]
Canada Platinum[10]
France Platinum[11]
Germany Gold[12]
Netherlands Gold[13]
Sweden Gold[14]
Switzerland Gold[15]
United Kingdom Gold[16]
United States 4× platinum[17]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Allmusic review
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Christgau, Robert (November 23, 1993). "Turkey Shoot". The Village Voice (New York). Retrieved July 5, 2013. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 EW review
  4. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 712. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Sade – Love Deluxe". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 May 2008. 
  6. ↑ "Musicline.de – Chartverfolgung – Sade – Love Deluxe". Media Control (in German). PhonoNet GmbH. Retrieved 10 October 2008. 
  7. ↑ "Top 40 album- és válogatáslemez-lista – 1993. 24. hét". Mahasz (in Hungarian). Retrieved 30 May 2008. 
  8. ↑ "Chart Stats – Sade – Love Deluxe". The Official Charts Company. Chart Stats. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2008. 
  9. ↑ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2011 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. 2011. Retrieved 08 March 2012. 
  10. ↑ "CRIA: Search Certification Database". Canadian Recording Industry Association. 18 March 1993. Retrieved 31 May 2008. 
  11. ↑ "Les Certifications (Albums) du SNEP". Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (in French). InfoDisc. Retrieved 7 February 2009.  Note: The reader must select "SADE".
  12. ↑ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank ('Love+Deluxe')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 31 May 2008. 
  13. ↑ "Goud/Platina". NVPI (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 15 August 2012. 
  14. ↑ "IFPI Sweden – Guld & Platina – År 1987–1998". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (in Swedish). 10 November 1993. Retrieved 27 July 2009. 
  15. ↑ "Swiss Certifications – Awards 1992". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Hung Medien. Retrieved 31 May 2008. 
  16. ↑ "BPI Certified Awards". British Phonographic Industry. 1 June 1993. Retrieved 26 June 2010. 
  17. ↑ "RIAA – Gold & Platinum". Recording Industry Association of America. 9 November 1994. Retrieved 31 May 2008. 
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