Viet Cong - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) 

"You got time for one more?" "Yeah!" ...Plays 15 minute long song.

It's been 5 years and this is still the freshest, most exciting (yet poignant) thing out there. It seems I'm seeing 40 something years of my favorite bands flashing right before my eyes in one group! Amazing!!!

Amazing! I can only imagine how a KEXP performance from Women would've been, such a shame they never had the chance!

They remind me of Gang of Four, especially on Bunker Buster, and that's a very good thing.

was lucky enough to play a show with these guys back in january - their last ever show as Viet Cong. fuck they shred hard

I keep coming back to this KEXP, Cheryl and the Preoccupation boys are a match made in heaven

It should be on everyone's bucket list to see Death live

Wow! Love this band. post-punk guitar meets krautrock rhythm. Passionate vocals too. Thank you for this.

As a gear nerd, I can't help falling in love with that blue Jaguar!

Okay, I'll own up, I'm the listener that looked it up... "Where does the expression ‘by the skin of my teeth’ come from? After Shakespeare, a prolific coiner of new words, the King James translation of the Bible has been the biggest source of phrases in English. ‘By the skin of one’s teeth’ is one of them. Meaning ‘narrowly’ or ‘barely’, and referring usually to a narrow escape from disaster, the phrase comes from the Book of Job, in which Job is subjected to horrible trials by Satan, to be relieved finally by God. The precise phrase Job uses is slightly different: ‘My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth’ (19:20). Exactly what ‘the skin of one’s teeth’ might be is not entirely clear, and there have been many theories put forward. The most plausible explanation is that it refers to the thin porcelain exterior of the tooth (rather than the gums). In other words, Job escaped with his teeth, but just barely. Job is comparing the narrow margin of his escape with the shallow ‘skin’ or porcelain of a tooth: the equivalent, in fact, of a ‘hair’s breadth’." Source: blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/11/popular-idioms-explained/

I saw them live and felt the best song-surprisingly-, was unconscious melody.

Wish they played "Continental Shelf"

Dudes rock

Their album is so interesting. all songs are well connected together. the experience is worth it. i wanna see them live as soon as possible !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saw them live in Vienna on a hot summer night in a tiny venue. They had to stop after 45min as no one could stand the heat anymore- best 45min ever, sweat dripping out of every pore not only because of the heat but because of the energy spend speeding along to those tunes! Amazing. Included a nice chat with the band outside afterwards. Wish they‘d still perform & tour!

So glad they played Bunker Buster.. My favorite song from the album!

still one of the best KEXP performances

listen with headphones- LOUD. absolutely mind-blowing. or maybe that was my eardrums..

Jesus that was some intense shit right there.

I loved Women and love Viet Cong/Preoccupations. For some reason I think they could do a killer collaboration with Spencer Krug of Sunset Rubdown or John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees.

dannys playing on bunker here is probably the highlight of this set

Seeing these guys not too long ago in Fredericton in a small pub was extravagant. They definitely have an amazing atmosphere live, a few times i forgot what life even was or that i had a body. Definitely was an amazing experience overall! I had known them under this name but never knew they had changed to Preoccupations and was definitely super surprised finding out who it was i was really getting to see.

When the drummer first started, it seemed like the video was sped up. Crazy tempo. Singers voice reminds me a little of Screaming Trees guy.

Full Performance (Full Performance)

you gotta see them live. It's something else, i'm telling you

I absolutely love his voice! I think KEXP should put a link to the band's official page in the description of the videos.

Double precision pickups on the bass??

Excellent performance, and I love how much the host so sincerely appreciates the band. Great energy on both sides!

My god I only listened to the self titled album like 5/6 times, finding it INCREDIBLE but THIS here it's UNBELIEVABLY GOOD. PREOCCUPATIONS is good but this was FIRE.

You know, on the first two I thought they started off kilt, and then DESTROYED!!!! Such goodness all around. Joy Division Forever!!

i swear to god cheryl waters makes the best interviews

Drummers tshirt - Budenell Social Club, best venue in Leeds!

I love this perforrmance, I really wanted to see Continental Shelf and Death is so much longer, but regardless, amazing job.

Jeden z najlepszych mini-koncertów w KEXP !!!! Szacun, odjechałem ... :-)

Mission of Burma. And Sonic Youth. And Interpol. AND JUST FREAKING AWESOME

Love this video. I've listened to it about 20 times so far. I like the sound of this recording better than the album versions.

Glad I found this band. They sound pretty fucking good.

Ugh Death is such a good song

I love this show: three of their best songs with Matt's voice at it's best and an album quality mix.

Fantastic band... awesome album guys cheers from Brasil!!!

More songs from them, please! I've watched this one 50 times since it was put up.

This Heat Viet Cong

They are unbelievably tight

That bass tone. For real.

These songs are ridiculously complex.

I want to see them live so badly. Hoping and praying they'll be in Michigan sometime soon 💕

i've watched this whole thing about 6 times since i found it a few days ago. holy shit this band kicks ass live, i know they just spent a whole year touring but i hope they do it again after they've chilled out for a bit and recorded some shit

0:25 oh the irony

They were going so hard on that last song that the drummers hat fell off from the sheer force they were exhibiting. Amazing. Definitely checking this band out

I like the Sampler used as Synth keyboard

This what real original Goth music sounded like in the 80's.

i love the brudenell social club

The mix in this set is better than the album

kinda sucks how viet cong had to change their band name to preoccupations because some people were offended by the band's name.

SO INTENSE ! LOVE THIS BAND !

The mix is so fucking good.

Kevin Suggs - nice job. Viet Cong - excellent.

I was going to go out and do stufff... but realized this was all I needed for the night.. in solitude with VC

Death=finisher of the year

Didn't knew the band, what a pleasant surprise!

Big up the drummer wearing a Brudenell tee!

This lead singer doesn't look a thing like Ian Curtis- and yet this band is sooooo amazing- looking forward to their new material as Preoccupations!

The way they just start like that is so fucking cool

the leadsinger is the bassist. It all makes sense now

fuck yes, all the best to pat, rip chris, etc., glad they've carried on

"second hand industry" as though the first time lyrics make sense having seen them putting on a musical smorgasbord of skill, as the set progresses they ramp it up with "muted lips on japanese ships" and "deflated amplifiers" electric razors, how soon after did they become #preoccupations for again, skill, now with focus, and i'd say drive but i don't know that they utilize that feature other than as stated in the interview "everything's turning inside out" "we'll never get home" - the lyricism which can be difficult to pick against the raucous tunes would make a beautiful play, a sequel to #wherethewildthingsare plus one and closer in detail than the one by the similar author about monsters in closets

Dear goodness. This is wonderful.

when the lead singer talks he sounds just like coop in wet hot american summer

Reminds me of Magazine, Television, John Cale, Doors, with influences of the cult UK plunderphonics band, the Perrinormal.

I can't decide which one I like the most!

That’s an interesting bass pickup configuration you have there

wow this is so ridiculously fucking good

Pretty intense winter weather in Calgary eh? Come to Winnipeg.

I supppose KEXP should add the band's new name, Preoccupations, to this clip

Increíble, dejan todo en el set.

And the award for best guitar riffs goes to...

Amazing ! thanks for sharing*)

this performance is un fucking real

Reminds me of Sonic Youth with a freaking amazing voice!!

This reminds me a hell of a lot of This Heat and to an extent Big Black.

"That was awesome!!!" - Cheryl

Amazing!

how do you play drums with a cat on your head?

AWESOME SET! Shouldnt expect anyless from a KEXP performance. Love Viet Cong and what is the deal with the double pbass pick up set up? Pretty cool, ive never seen somthing like that before.

I know this is the bassist from Women because he the only other person in the world to have two PJ pickups on his bass

Watching with the sound off. Still good.

This some baller ass shit.

I WANT MORE VIET CONG.

Underrated band.

I can't even watch any other KEXP videos anymore because they all seem lame compared to Death

great band!

When he said that the expression "by the skin of our teeth" could be offensive to someone out there, he was actually talking about how people felt offended by the band name back then and thats why they changed it to preoccupations.

funk yeah

KEXP caved and let the band sublet the studio to live in

similar instrumental attitude to Swans on the last song.. primitive drones, love it!

'By the skin of one's teeth' is one of them. Meaning 'narrowly' or 'barely', and referring usually to a narrow escape from disaster, the phrase comes from the Book of Job, in which Job is subjected to horrible trials by Satan, to be relieved finally by God.

I LIKE IT

so coooool

FUCK YES THANK YOU KEXP

Yeah!