my "sade - 'by your side' " thread

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did i dream i posted such a thread? color me perplexed.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I think so, but it is a good song!

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

and there's a Neptunes remix.

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it was my friends wedding song.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

the beachwood sparks' cover version is a religious experience

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

okay i think i wrote about it on the 3 songs that define your personality thread.

i heard a remix of it but it wasn't very good. it was some obscure promo thing by some british dance dude in some famous british dance music troupe that never saw official release.

i like the BS version but it is nowhere as good as sade's.

Chris V., let me go c/p what i wrote om the other thread.

also, i have 2 possible leads for you, both are in the music video realm. send me your CV!

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(last part was not to Chris V. but somebody else... Ooh mystery!)

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I kiss you! Coming through now...

― mystery poster (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i am sometimes running low on hope and sometimes music sustains what little hope is left in the tank. unrelated to that: coming up with music for weddings is obviously a lot different than the clubs, radio shows, or for your friends with eclectic tastes... it's a real lesson in humility for the snob side of your personality. this song is hopeful, reassuring, and such a testimonial to selfless love that i played it twice during the wedding reception. i hope nobody noticed (but even if they did it's like, "oh okay here's that really great song again".)

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha. It is a great song, im a fan of most of Sade's music. Its good for the lovin.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It gives me such a unique feeling. I can't imagine anyone would've shot it down on the Name One Song Every ILXer loves threads. The Neptunes remix is gorgeous too.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been listening to this all morning now! It's much better than a godawful Cex CD (why? WHY????) that's going on Ebay this afternoon...

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the greatest songs ever recorded. It puts the "Sad" in "Sade." Why is she so sad???

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 24 October 2003 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it just me, or does Sade get more gorgeous as the years go by? Of all the Ladies of the Eighties, she looks better now than she did then, if that's possible.

It is a lovely song.

The Beachwood Sparks version is a cool cover selection, but it also reminds me of the scene in the Muppet Movie where Kermit is riding a bike around.

What's up, Stevie? No long, no speak.

(andy from lookout!)

― andy, Friday, 24 October 2003 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ladies of the Eighties" sounds like a Cole Porter song.

"By Your Side" is a great song. I don't find it particular sad, though.

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 25 October 2003 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Wistful, then. If you read the lyrics off the lyric-sheet it doesn't sound sad at all. But the way the song goes, it's almost like she's dead and singing to her lover from the afterlife (?? sort of "Long Black Veil"ish?)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 25 October 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like if "The Others" had a warm palette for its cinematography!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 25 October 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

has anybody here heard the ben watt / lazy dog remix of 'by your side'? It's truly epic. I don't listen to or buy much tasteful deep house anymore (it seems like it's just a quieter kick away from smooth jazz to me) but this one really does it for me.

― tylero, Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

that's the mix i was talking about upthread btw.

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 25 October 2003 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Another vote for the song. Yeah, wistful, exactly.

― David A. (Davant), Saturday, 25 October 2003 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i find it reassuring, the bridge confirms this.

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 25 October 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

although i suppose the idea of having to reassure someone that you'll be by their side sometimes implies that you are not by their side at the moment but will be soon, so wistful, yeah.

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 25 October 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I need to hear this song NOW

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 25 October 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i can sing it to you.

"and if you start to cry-ay-ay, i'll be there-- to dry your EYES"

(sound of feet furiously hitting pavement in escape)

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 25 October 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

oops, I think that you would like this song, you like D'Angelo after all.

― adaml (adaml), Sunday, 26 October 2003 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I've heard it before, but it's been awhile and I forgot how much I like it. Gotta remember to burn it off of my friend.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 26 October 2003 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"you're so much better than you know"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 26 October 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

this song absolutely broke my heart at a really difficult time in my life last year - i'll admit it was the Beachwood Sparks version, and maybe my intense relationship to that is why i don't like the Sade version quite as much... my dad, who had been seriously ill nearly all my life, and who i'd been Carer for since i was 14, passed away, and (a lot less seriously, of course) the girl who i thought was The One split up with me for reasons she wouldn't name, all in the same month. it was in a pretty deep trough that this song really hit me, and the way they sang "Did you think I'd leave your side, babe? / You know me better than that" seemed to plug directly into my feelings about the loss of my dad and the way we'd struggled for so many years, while the lines about "you're so much better than you know" seemed to verbalise the way i felt about this girl, who was so down upon herself...

and i guess i was really aching for someone to dry my eyes too...

jesus. that all reads as very very soppy...

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It (Sade version) was used on Eastenders several times, at particularly poignant moments. The music & vocal quality alone make the song sad. Have you heard The Clientele's Saturday? I find it has a similar effect.

― Jez (Jez), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently mick jagger uses this song to seduce his lady friends.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the neptunes remix of this is pretty amazing

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

so the cottonbelly remix of this track is totally my favorite song of the moment. a soft dancehall remix. so sultry!!!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

-- tylero (tyle...) (webmail), October 25th, 2003 11:54 AM. (link)

i want to hear this.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 06:14 (twenty years ago)

don't build up your expectations.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago)

wait...isn't the ben watt remix like 2 and a half years old?

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Is saed dead or alive

― Littleton Mc Pherson, Friday, 28 April 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.radcity.net/6241/1265983.jpg

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 28 April 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

this song is hopeful, reassuring, and such a testimonial to selfless love that i played it twice during the wedding reception. i hope nobody noticed (but even if they did it's like, "oh okay here's that really great song again".)
-- gygax! (gygax0...), October 24th, 2003 10:53 AM. (gygax!)

don't think we didn't notice

― jaxoncologist (jaxon), Friday, 28 April 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

the way she sings "I wouldn't do that", it destroys me every time

― guapism rules (The Reverend), Thursday, 11 March 2010 07:14 (fifteen years ago)

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