Friday, April 18, 2008

It's No Ordinary Love for Urbandub...

Just about an hour ago, a few officemates came over to chill for a bit before heading home. I asked them if it was cool if I review the bootleg recording of our set at Bela Bar last Wednesday. The last song we played in the bootleg recording was our cover version of Sade's Smooth Operator. I just love our version of the song, especially the Santana-esque jam we do at the end.

Then I remembered another Sade cover that another band did that was totally kick ass. Good cover songs are made because the original song was so awesome. And as a band injects their style into it, the song is taken to a whole different direction.

A local band, called Urbandub, did just that with Sade's song called "No Ordinary Love". The injected the heavy riffs akin to Urbandub's style and managed to retain the smooth groove and exciting eerieness of the original. Below is a bootleg video of Urbandub covering the song along with its prose.



No Ordinary Love
Original by Sade
Covered by Urbandub


Gave you more than I could give
I gave you love
I gave you all that I have inside
And you took my love
You took my love
Didn't I tell you
What I believe
Did somebody say that
A love like that won't last
Didn't I give you
All that I've got to give baby

I gave you all the love I got
I gave you more than I could give
I gave you love
I gave you all that I have inside
And you took my love
You took my love

I keep crying
I keep trying for you
There's nothing like you and I baby

This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love
This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love

When you came my way
You brightened every day
With your sweet smile

Didn't I tell you
What I believe
Did somebody say that
A love like that won't last
Didn't I give you
All that I've got to give baby

This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love
This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love

I keep crying
I keep trying for you
There's nothing like you and I baby

This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love
This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love

Keep trying for you
Keep crying for you
Keep flying for you
Keep flying I'm falling

I'm falling

Keep trying for you
Keep crying for you
Keep flying for you
Keep flying for you I'm falling
I'm falling

Below is a live version of the original song. I decided to put this in the post because the original is so good in its own right. Sade's singer's voice just gives me goosebumps all the time.



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