With two studio albums under their belt since the release of 1994’s The Best of Sade, including last year’s Soldier Of Love, this week the English R&B band (reminder: Sade is more than a woman) released an expanded retrospective, The Ultimate Collection.

Featuring 29 tracks, The Ultimate Collection celebrates Sade’s nearly 30-year career together, beginning with singles from their 1984 debut, Diamond Life (released the following year here in the U.S.) and wrapping with four new tracks exclusive to the set. Making their debut are Jay-Z’s atmospheric, beat-grounded remix of “The Moon and The Sky” (from Soldier Of Love), two newly-penned originals (“Love Is Found” and “I Would Never Have Guessed”), plus the impetus for this post, a cover of Thin Lizzy’s “Still In Love With You,” a 1974 ballad from the typically heavy Irish rock band.

Think the silky Sade slipping into Thin Lizzy is a surprising overlapping of musical worlds? There’s at least one more smooth-meets-hard cover residing in that Venn diagram. Check out the Deftones’ grooving take on Sade’s “No Ordinary Love,” from the heavy-metal band’s recent Record Store Day exclusive Covers LP.

Currently on tour in the UK, Sade crosses the Atlantic in mid-June to begin a three-month schedule of dates with John Legend.

Purchase Sade – “Still In Love With You” (Thin Lizzy cover) via iTunes, Amazon MP3.