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The Flaming Lips Cover Elvis Presley

Here's one from the vault. Back in '02, Coyne & Co. covered Elvis's comeback #1 "Suspicious Minds" being for the benefit of the BBC, and it's inexplicably made its way to YouTube five years on. No complaints here, though; whereas Presley's spin was an upper-fueled declaration, the Lips take the lyrics at face, acknowledging and mourning under a steady drizzle of Flaming confetti. And better than the Fine Young Cannibals version!

This tune was Phish live staple, too; Fishman used to run around shirtless in his cape and usually appended a vacuum solo. God how we want those brain cells back.

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