The Flaming Lips w/ Stardeath & White Dwarfs – Borderline (Madonna Cover)

This pre-Dark Side collaboration between the FLips and Stardeath was featured on Covered, A Revolution in Sound, a tribute album in honor of Warner Brothers Records' first 50 years.  Both bands contributed their elements to this cover, which seems wildly disparate when compared with the poppy, very Eighties original. Wayne’s signature vocals, wild changes in dynamic and tone, and a bombastic distorted guitar breakdown on much of the track make it their own, almost unrecognizable as a Madonna tune. We’ll do a Vintage Vinyl post on their cover LP of Dark Side of the Moon in the near future, but until then enjoy their take on “Borderline” embedded below.