I have just found this band by accident and was immediately curious about the name. I thought this record would be about traditional songs from vietnam from the viet cong epoch, or something like it. But these people seem to have absolutley nothing to do with vietnamese culture at all, nor is there music chronological placed in the antiwar movement. Just a bunch of kids who had obviously no idea how to call their band. That is very sad!

That's understandable. I was SO disappointed when I discovered Boards of Canada were actually from Scotland, that I proceeded to burn my entire BoC vinyl collection and urinate on the ashes. You don't even want to know what happened when I found out Kid Rock was neither a kid, nor a rock...

Yeah, they were already ahead of you on that. They changed their name awhile ago. Thanks for the non-album review though.

The Jagjaguwar white edition is a licence and not an original pressing. The Flemish Eye Records (canadian label) white edition is the original pressing of this album.

Looks like the band are changing their name to Preoccupations - http://exclaim.ca/music/article/viet_cong_reveal_new_band_name

This bands name is lyk sooooo iffensive

Assuming you mean offensive, why? The name 'Viet Cong' is simply a contraction of 'Vietnam Cong-san', which means Vietnamese Communist.

diet dong

My copy came with a yellow-ish stain on it, extremely noticeable on the white vinyl. I have yet to see if it affects the sound. Anyone else have this?

Mine has a brown splotch about the size of a half-dollar that bleeds through both sides. It doesn't affect it at all! Pure white is boring anyway!

Unfortunately the stain on the A-side is responsible for a LOT of background noise. The B-side plays fine though.

Yeah mine did. Plays fine.

Nobody buy this while the prices are this much higher then what it's already sold for, ridiculous what it's at right now.

Sticker is not on the cover

Dat B-side, holy fuck.

Solid album. enjoying it.

im a big fan of old liars and this definitely has that vibe.

That's right. My copy doesn't have the sticker and it's black vinyl.

Cover sticker states "Debut album from Viet Cong -limited edition colored vinyl." If your copy doesn't have this sticker, it's highly unlikely it's the white vinyl.