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Holy Warhol Maos! China's Carsick Cars Cover the Velvets' "Sunday Morning"

By Gustavo Turner, Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 2:20PM
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Meet the Carsick Cars
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This morning you woke up and we bet you didn't think "You know what my life needs right now? An underground Chinese band doing a live cover of the Velvet Underground's 'Sunday Morning'!"

Let's pretend you thought that and, magically, the godess of music (Euterpe or something Greek like that) delivered the following, and everything was suddenly alright:

The band is called Carsick Cars, they are currently touring the US as part of some kind of cultural exchange scheme, and we guess the State Department is hoping they will help bring down the last remnants of Chinese Communism in the same way Lou Reed and Frank Zappa freed the Czech and David Hasselhoff tore down the Berlin Wall.

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Warhol, once again, proven visionary
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Hey Axl--this is what Chinese Democracy might really sound like!

Here's some more Carsick Cars:

Download Carsick Cars' "Panda"

And, yes, they have a MySpace page.

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Carsick Cars, China, Chinese Rock, Cover, Gustavo Turner, Sunday Morning, Velvet Underground
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phil says:

The Velvet Underground's greatness derives from originality, something the Carsick Cars lacks.

Posted On: Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 4:35PM
Scott says:

Carsick Cars are amazing, and so are the other two bands on the tour. Neither of you have a clue about music. Go cover a Taylor Swift show!

Posted On: Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 5:53PM
TonyT says:

i agree with scott. they sound really good to me, but as long as they don't fulfill our cultural stereotypes of what Chinese musicians should be playing they will always attract snide put-downs from disappointed orientalists. probably a good thing that the band doesn't seem to care what they think.

Posted On: Sunday, Nov. 22 2009 @ 11:21PM
veronica says:

weren't the phils of the world bitching about how unoriginal VU was back in the 1960s?

Posted On: Monday, Nov. 23 2009 @ 12:43AM

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