No Ordinary Love

"No Ordinary Love"
File:Sade - No Ordinary Love.jpg
Single by Sade
from the album Love Deluxe
B-side	"Paradise"
Released	8 October 1992 (UK) 7 November 1992 (US)
Format	CD single 7" single 12" maxi single
Recorded	1992
Genre	Soul downtempo trip hop rock
Length	7:19
Label	Epic
Writer(s)	Sade Adu Stuart Matthewman
Producer(s)	Sade Mike Pela
Sade singles chronology
"Haunt Me" (1989) "No Ordinary Love" (1992) "Feel No Pain" (1992)

"No Ordinary Love" is a song by English band Sade, released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Love Deluxe (1992). Released in late-1992 on Epic Records, it peaked at number 26 in the UK when originally released in October 1992, but reached number 14 when it was re-released in June 1993. Sade is dressed as a mermaid and a bride in the music video. "No Ordinary Love" is considered Sade's signature song, alongside 1984's "Smooth Operator" and 1988's "Paradise."

Awards

Sade won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1994.

In popular culture

Media

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

"No Ordinary Love" appeared in the second season episode of NBC's 30 Rock, "Jack Gets in the Game", when Kenneth Parcell tried to seduce Tracy Jordan's wife, Angie Jordan.

This song was used in British English version of TV Series Galaxy World of Alisa in episode Flameful Babies of Blook Sun.

Cover versions

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

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. Vocalist Chino Moreno often cites Sade as one of his favorite artists.

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.

Marcia Hines covered the song on her 2007 album "Life"

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.

A cover of "No Ordinary Love" is featured as the tenth and final track of Dallas Green's and Alecia Moore's You+Me debut album, "rose ave.".

Joanna Marie covered the song in English & Spanish as "ordinary Love" "Amor Ordinario" on her album "Simply Irresistible" 1999 Kariang Music.

Liam Frost released a solo cover on his 2014 The Wild Places EP.

Walden and Havana Brown released a dance version as a single in 2015.

Track listings and formats

UK CD single

1. "No Ordinary Love" – 5:21
2. "Paradise" (Remix) – 5:40
3. "No Ordinary Love" (Album Version) – 7:19

UK 7-inch single

• Side A:

1. "No Ordinary Love" – 5:21

• Side B:

1. "Paradise" (Remix) – 5:40

UK 12-inch maxi single

• Side A:

1. "No Ordinary Love" (Album Version) – 7:19

• Side B:

1. "Paradise" (Remix) – 5:40
2. "Paradise" (Drums and Sade) – 5:40

U.S. CD single

1. "No Ordinary Love" – 5:21
2. "Paradise" (Remix) – 5:40

Charts

Chart (1992)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA Singles Chart)	95
Dutch Top 40	19
French Singles Chart	20
German Singles Chart	43
Swedish Singles Chart	33
Swiss Singles Chart	23
Chart (1993)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA Singles Chart)	21
UK Singles Chart	14
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	28
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	9
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	14

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics