Worst Case Scenario (album)

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Worst Case Scenario
Studio album by dEUS
Released	1994
Genre	Rock
Length	55:13
Label	Bang!, Island Records
Producer	Peter Vermeersch, Pierre Vervloesem
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
dEUS chronology
Zea (1993) '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 which 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, selling 30,000 copies. By April 2008, WCS had sold 270,000 copies worldwide. ^[1]

[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) - #55 UK

Charts references: ^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Pocket Revolution - The unofficial dEUS-weblog
2. ^ http://www.chartstats.com [1]

v • d • e Deus Current members Tom Barman · Klaas Janzoons · Stéphane Misseghers · Alan Gevaert · Mauro Pawlowski Former members Stef Kamil Carlens · Rudy Trouvé · Jules de Borgher · Danny Mommens · Craig Ward Albums Worst Case Scenario · In a Bar, Under the Sea · The Ideal Crash · Pocket Revolution · Vantage Point EPs Zea · My Sister = My Clock Compilations No More Loud Music Singles "Suds & Soda" · "Via" · "Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)" · "Theme From Turnpike" · "Little Arithmetics" · "Roses" · "Fell Off The Floor, Man" · "Instant Street" · "Sister Dew" · "The Ideal Crash" · "Nothing Really Ends" · "iF You Don't Get What You Want" · "7 Days, 7 Weeks" · "What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love)" · "Bad Timing" · "Pocket Revolution Burnt" · "The Architect"