Worst Case Scenario (album)

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Worst Case Scenario
Studio album by dEUS
Released	1994
Genre	Rock
Length	55:13
Label	Polygram
Producer(s)	Peter Vermeersch, Pierre Vervloesem
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
dEUS chronology
	'Worst Case Scenario (1994)	My Sister = My Clock (1995)

Worst Case Scenario is a 1994 album by dEUS. The cover art was designed by guitarist Rudy Trouvé. It contains the single Suds & Soda, which was to become an underground hit and a fans favorite.

The album was first released in Belgium on the indie label BANG! with a different tracklisting: Right as Rain and Great American Nude (both tracks present on the Zea EP released in Belgium in 1993) are replaced by the song Let Go. It was then released in the UK and Europe through Island Records with the tracklisting as written below.

Worst Case Scenario received good reviews internationally, and this despite the impossibility for the British medias to categorise its music into a genre. They finally called it Art Rock (a definition who still bothers singer Tom Barman).

"PRETENTIOUS ART WANK? Possibly. But as a big fan of art & wanking I make no apologies for proclaiming dEUS the most refreshing young guitar aspirants of 1994" (Peter Paphides, in Time Out, 1994).

Worst Case Scenario reached Gold in Belgium by selling 30,000 copies while it sold around 150,000 worldwide.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Intro" (Tom Barman, Jules de Borgher) – 0:24
2. "Suds & Soda" (dEUS) – 5:14
3. "W.C.S. (First Draft)" (Barman, Stef Kamil Carlens)– 5:05
4. "Jigsaw You" (Barman, Carlens) – 2:26
5. "Morticiachair" (dEUS) – 4:23
6. "Via" (Barman, Marc Meyers) – 4:12
7. "Right as Rain" (Barman, Rudy Trouvé, Carlens) – 4:27
8. "Mute" (Barman) – 3:57
9. "Let's Get Lost" (Barman, Carlens) – 4:23
10. "Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)" (Barman, Trouvé) – 6:23
11. "Shake Your Hip" (dEUS) – 0:41
12. "Great American Nude" (Trouvé) – 5:39
13. "Secret Hell" (Barman) – 4:59
14. "Divebomb Djingle" (Carlens, Ward, Christie) – 3:00

[edit] Singles

• Suds & Soda (June 1994)
• Via (October 1994)
• Hotellounge (Be the death of me)(January 1995)