Preoccupations | Juan's Basement Live 

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Better than Shame?

@@tonystanley69 yes

When I saw Preoccupations in London last year I was in the smoking area by the entrance, smoking before the gig and all over a sudden this guy with long blonde hair walked past me pointing at me and shouting "Sick shirt dude!" took me a few seconds to realise it was the drummer from the band complimenting me on my 'This Heat-Deceit' shirt I wore. Easily their biggest hidden influence on the band though. Ended up meeting the whole band afterwards and getting my albums signed which was cool. So that's my awesome story about the band, your comment reminded me of this moment.

@@PEGGLORE I feel like This Heat can't be too hidden of an influence. Listen to March of Progress off of Viet Cong. Now listen to Horizontal Hold by This Heat.

@@mugenjump Well yh, I mean hidden in the way that not that many ppl know who This Heat are, so they can get away with it ppl thinking they came up with the things that are copying This Heat. March of Progress has loads of dif This Heat moments in it, yes. I'm actually seeing This Heat tomorrow. final ever London show, 2 hour 45 minutes long, it is, should be special. Just about to phone the venue now to ask about when the doors open and things.

@@PEGGLORE sick! have fun!

@@mugenjump March of Progress is much closer to Paper Hats

I know right way better

idk the cassette is pretty awesome

Good to see you hear lie

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Preoccupied

Thus the live recording of Dark Entries on the Cassette album. While very few could truly emulate Peter Murphy's voice (David Bowie perhaps), the band nailed the rest of it, and doing it live. Love it, and maybe it's this similarity in sound that keeps me so interested in Preoccupations music. It's got a Bauhaus vibe, but yet is still very different and refreshing, as I mentioned in my previous comments on this killer video.

Paulson glad someone else saw that haha. Great recovery though, Danny rules 👍

wait what am i missing

@Jarno K the guitarist/danny accidentally starts playing the opening notes to Disarray (14:42)

Marlboro, no filter

@@miztawafflz lmao

Touring will wreck anyone's voice eventually.

Too much reverb on em I think

blasphemy

He just sounds fucking exhausted.

Must be from all the touring lol

Think he's just a very rough vocalist live. Mostly in a good way imo, but it doesn't sound much like the vocals on the albums.

this one's rough cause we're listening to him lose his voice

He always sings like this live.

I can understand your frustration but it's a different environment to sing in when there's so much sound topping the vocals than with a studio session with a close up isolated microphone makes it sound easy and crisper.

But that's not what I mean. I mean specifically his vocal style. He accentuates completely different, he screams, he swallows many words, and so on. I neither expect him to sound like on the albums nor do I wish for that. I want him to sound "live" and raw, as opposed to the albums. I just wish he wouldn't completely throw the original vocal performance out the window and thereby also changing the feel of the songs quite a lot. It's most evident in live performances of "Continental Shelf". This song has very sensitive vocals (albeit loud and aggressive at times) and they carry the song in a specific way. Live he just screams almost monotonously, depriving the song of its emotional harmonies. Just my two cents of course.

Mattski Messy Marvin YOU'RE JUST AWFUL