My Top 1000 Songs #1004: Suspicious Minds

To quote the Wonder Stuff: Never loved Elvis. That much should be evident from his absence from the first 1000 songs on this adventure. (Presley, that is. Plenty of Costello on the list.)

Don't get me wrong; I don't dislike Elvis. But I just don't have the same emotional connection with pre-Beatles artists as I do with what came later. Still, what a great song, right? The 1968 single, essentially his last hurrah, sounds more like an introduction to his schmalzy Vegas phase than it does his early, revolutionary rock & roll singles--almost like a great lost Neil Diamond track--but that's ok, 'cuz that's some hook you've got there, mister.

Live in Vegas:

Here's the original version, from earlier that year, by Mark James:

Pete Yorn cover:

Phish, live 1995:

Dread Zeppelin:

Fine Young Cannibals: