Customer Reviews
Sade - Diamond Life - By: Mr. G. J. Walker, 09 Apr 2010 
What can I say - a great, classic album - bought it to replace won out vinyl!
Gold, aural gold - By: M. Hill, 18 Mar 2010 Iconic album, huge selling album worthy of it's acclaim. A rare yet modest talent much love by her fans, I am happy to be one of them. This has to be her best album as it came from nowhere but Lovers Rock hits the spot too! Enjoy
Missing Tracks !! ?? - By: Richard H, 11 Dec 2008 When When When are we gonna get a re-packaged - 24/bit re-mastered verison of this gem. To include also the two additional tracks that were on the original cassette tape release ! !! ... SNAKE BITE & LOVE AFFAIR WITH LIFE..
Timeless...Diamond Life...Loverboy - By: Nadine Sookwa, 20 Apr 2006 
I have been listening to Sade's music since I was 12, & after 13 years, I still love it. Diamond Life is groovy, nostalgic & this is music you'd want to unwind to & to getin the mood for a slow session. Hits such as Smooth Operator, Hang On To Your Love, Your Love Is King are as timeless as Sade is. There are also some new ones that are growing onto me such as Cherry Pie & Frankie's First Affair. Sally reminds me a bit of Jezebel - notin the beat, butin the story of the song. This album is worth more than 5 stars, but I was a bit disappointed with the product that I received from Amazon because the lyrics were not included - & I felt that the product deserved 4 stars because of this.
Not just for Eighties Dinner Parties - By: not_a_real_folkie, 27 Jan 2005 Sade suffered from the same lazy pigeon-holing that plagued Dire Straits' "Brothersin Arms" & countless other albums over the years. The cliche was that you put Dire on to demonstrate your new, shiny compact disc player, & you put Sade's "Diamond Life" on to show your dinner-party guests how sophisticated, yet contemporary you were.
Playing this remastered CD just over 20 years on from the album's first release, the quality of the band's playing & the soulin the vocals comes as quite a surprise. None of these tracks are bad. Some are exceptional. "Hang on to your love" ploughs a muscular groove that is marvellously tight. "Smooth Operator" either celebrates or lampoons the yuppie male of the eighties, concluding ultimately ambiguously. "Your love is King" is allegedly about something very intimate, but I couldn't possibly comment... judge for yourself! The other tracks never really let upin terms of sheer class.
The remaster is goodin terms of quality, although the original CD certainly wasn't awful. The only minor complaint - & true of so many remastered CDs - why no extra B-side-type tracks, such as the excellent "Spirit" that I remember from the "Smooth Operator" single?
Sade's next album ("Promise") was resolutely uncommercial, & pushed the soulful vibe even further. Meanwhile, however, forget the smoothie dinner-party jibes, this has got more soul than a coachload of today's chart hopefuls.
