Lovers Rock - Sade
  • Band Name: Sade
  • Record Label: Epic
  • Release Date: Nov 14, 2000
User Score
9.7 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 46 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 46 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 46
  3. Negative: 0 out of 46

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  1. JessS.
    Jul 8, 2002
    10
    her work is amazing and by your side is my all time favorite song! I love you SADE!!
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  2. RogerS.
    Aug 10, 2002
    10
    What else is there to say? She's Sade. And the music is perfect.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. LawrenceP
    Aug 1, 2004
    10
    Brings nothing new, but the music is still done very well. I think it's her best and one of the year's best.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  4. OzzieM.
    Jul 22, 2001
    9
    Excellent album. Fan since day one. I just wish she would have used the sax on some of the songs. Sexy, very sexy music.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  5. y.l.
    Aug 21, 2001
    10
    Awesome!!!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  6. DanaL.
    Aug 2, 2001
    10
    It is her in the flesh and I love it. It's going in my collection. She is SADE and no can take that from her. That voice is sheer elegance and style.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  7. RicardoC
    Jan 8, 2004
    10
    Um execelente CD/DVD musicas sensuais e contagiante, que soam em diversos ambientes, a meia luz ramantica como sempre, estou apaixonado
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  8. jennev
    Mar 3, 2004
    10
    voice ..harmony..feelings and emotions blend perfectly in this album.keeps me good company.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  9. PaulinaE
    Jun 5, 2004
    9
    i love sade she has a beautiful voice and she inspires me and i greatly admire her with respect i love her music.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  10. LouH
    Aug 31, 2004
    10
    Just Listen, once or twice, and you will be addicted for life
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  11. DanielleH
    Mar 8, 2005
    10
    It's Sade.....what more can I say. The woman is a walking musical note:)
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  12. WalterS.
    Jul 21, 2001
    10
    All good.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  13. HanaE.
    Aug 15, 2001
    10
    Amazing
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  14. KelleyG.
    Aug 18, 2001
    10
    Sade will always B Sade. Beautiful!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  15. TonyM.
    Sep 12, 2001
    9
    Sultry, soulful
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  16. [Anonymous]
    Feb 17, 2002
    7
    The songs here are not very definitive... most sound basically the same. Very nice, nevertheless.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  17. da
    Feb 7, 2002
    10
    Amazing...Simply passion, smothered in style and soul. A must have for any music lover.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  18. VivianS.
    Mar 12, 2002
    9
    im glad she's back, she has great talent and is obviously portrait in her album.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  19. EricH.
    Mar 1, 2002
    8
    Unfurls like one long dream with a forlorn diva crooning ballads of love and sorrow through a indistinct haze of late-night fog. You wake up with your heart aching, but not remember many details.
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  20. LawrenceJ.
    Sep 15, 2002
    10
    Sade is awesome--no other artist comes close to comparison. I love her!!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  21. UdiS
    Oct 26, 2005
    10
    One of Sade's most perfected albums. Her vocals are round and warm as usual, the production is clean, precise, well balanced and full of feel and emotions. Superb engineering work was done on the recording. It is one of my top ten albums for sure!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  22. ricardo
    Mar 31, 2005
    10
    Best female singer of 20th Century
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  23. RoderickR.
    Oct 11, 2001
    10
    It's wonderful to have her back.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  24. PrestonA.
    Nov 25, 2001
    10
    sade's soulful voice will rock you
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  25. JasonL.
    Oct 29, 2001
    10
    the "10" is only because thats the highest this chart goes.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  26. jamesc
    Dec 13, 2003
    10
    The definitive voice of an angel. Her music is timeless and like her beauty, matures gracefully. She is undoughtly a romantic and through her music, bring passion with every note
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  27. weiyiy
    Jun 19, 2003
    10
    so this is what pure love must sound like.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  28. EugeniaM
    Jan 23, 2004
    10
    I love it!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  29. rosag
    Jun 23, 2004
    10
    This album is so cool. All the songs are so cool and harmonious.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  30. PaulyS
    Aug 24, 2005
    10
    I have rediscovered this album and it means more to me now than before. I feeeeeeel it now!!!!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  31. LindaRosales
    Nov 22, 2001
    10
    Nobody will ever come close to this girl's passion. The best CD this year.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  32. Dmitry
    Nov 13, 2006
    10
    She is the one !
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  33. Nov 21, 2010
    10
    Sade represents modern soul music at its best. With Lovers Rock, they recapture most - if not all - of their inventive genius made legendary from their previous album, Love Deluxe. One of the decades best albums.
Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. One pretty song melts into the next; the result is an undifferentiated dreaminess. [11/17/2000, p.126]
  2. Never before has the singer infused more mainstream rock elements (prominent strummed guitars) into her music.
  3. The lushness of 1992's "Love Deluxe" has given way to an understatement so pronounced it's almost jarring; this LP sounds like it was recorded in zero gravity.