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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Sade - No Ordinary Love (glamour slideshow)




"No Ordinary Love" was featured prominently in the 1993 film Indecent Proposal, though it was not included on the film's soundtrack album.

Serbian rock band Night Shift covered the song on their Undercovers album in 2002.

Trip hop band Endless Blue covered the song on their self titled debut album in 2004.

The band Deftones covered this song with Jonah Matranga for the band's 2005 B-side collection B-Sides & Rarities. This cover has generally been extremely well received by critics and fans of Sade and Deftones.

Pinoy rock band Urbandub also did a cover of this song, which was included on the EMI Music Philippines 2005 compilation Full Volume - The Best of Pinoy Alternative.

The song was also covered instrumentally by trumpeter Chris Botti on his 2004 album When I Fall in Love.

Vesta Williams covered the song on her 2007 album "Distant Lover"

The Civil Wars cover it live in their album Live at Eddie's Attic available on their website as a free Internet download.

Richard Marx covered the song as "Ordinary Love" on his 2008 album titled Sundown.

"No Ordinary Love" appeared in the second season episode "Jack Gets in the Game", when Kenneth Parcell tried to seduce Tracy Jordan's wife, Angie Jordan.

Rappers The Jacka and Lee Majors heavily sampled the song in "No Ordinary Drug" from their 2010 album The Gobots 2: D-Boy Era

"No Ordinary Love" is often considered Sade's signature song, alongside 1988's "Paradise" and 1985's "Smooth Operator."

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