dEUS – Worst Case Scenario
Tracklist
1 | Intro | 0:25 | |
2 | Suds & Soda | 5:14 | |
3 | W.C.S. (First Draft) | 5:08 | |
4 | Jigsaw You | 2:26 | |
5 | Morticiachair | 4:25 | |
6 | Via | 4:14 | |
7 | Let Go | 2:07 | |
8 | Mute | 4:06 | |
9 | Secret Hell | 5:03 | |
10 | Let's Get Lost | 4:25 | |
11 | Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me) | 6:25 | |
12 | Shake Your Hip | 0:47 | |
13 | Dive-Bomb Djingle | 3:06 |
Companies, etc.
- Distributed By – Bang!
- Copyright © – Great American Nude Records
- Recorded At – Studio Caraïbes
- Mixed At – Studio Caraïbes
- Mastered At – Dyam
- Glass Mastered At – DADC Austria
Credits
- Artwork – Dirk Belmans
- Bass, Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Stef Kamil Carlens
- Drums, Metallophone [Metalophone], Noises [Gasheating], Timpani, Maracas, Guitar – Julle De Borgher*
- Electric Guitar, Vocals, Piano, Percussion [Steel Plate] – Rudy Trouvé
- Engineer – Gilles Martin
- Management – Musickness
- Painting – Rudy Trouvé
- Photography By [Photo Of The Band By] – Alex Salinas
- Producer – Vermeersch*, Vervloesem*
- Violin, Vocals – Klaas Janzoons
- Vocals, Electric Guitar, Piano – Tom Barman
- Words By, Written-By [Music Written By] – Tom Barman (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6 to 11), dEUS (tracks: 2, 5, 12)
Notes
Small sticker on cover:
"Deus
Worst Case Scenario"
On disc:
© Great American Nude Records 1994
On back cover:
© 1994 Great American Nude Records
Distributed by BANG!
In booklet:
Recorded & mixed at Caraïbes studio (Brussels)
Mastered at Dyam (Paris)
Catalog numbers:
BANG 20504: on disc
BANG! 20504: in booklet and on spine
Jewel case packaging with 6-page fold out lyrics booklet.
"Deus
Worst Case Scenario"
On disc:
© Great American Nude Records 1994
On back cover:
© 1994 Great American Nude Records
Distributed by BANG!
In booklet:
Recorded & mixed at Caraïbes studio (Brussels)
Mastered at Dyam (Paris)
Catalog numbers:
BANG 20504: on disc
BANG! 20504: in booklet and on spine
Jewel case packaging with 6-page fold out lyrics booklet.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Mirrored, variant 1): [DADC Austria logo] BANG20504 13 A1
- Matrix / Runout (Mirrored, variant 2): [DADC Austria logo] BANG20504 13 A2
- Matrix / Runout (Mirrored, variant 3): [DADC Austria logo] BANG20504 13 A5
- Mould SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI 94C2
- Rights Society: SABAM TM
Other Versions (5 of 30)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Recently Edited | Worst Case Scenario (CD, Album) | Island Records, Bang! | 74321 22714 2 | Germany | 1994 | ||
Recently Edited | Worst Case Scenario (LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered) | Island Records, Island Records, Bang! Music | ILPS 8028, 524 045-1 | UK | 1994 | ||
Recently Edited | Worst Case Scenario (CD, Album) | Island Records, Bang! Music | 314-524 045-2 | US | 1994 | ||
New Submission | Worst Case Scenario (Cassette, Album) | Island Records, Island Records | ICT8028, 524045 4 | UK & Europe | 1994 | ||
New Submission | Worst Case Scenario (Cassette, Album, Promo) | Not On Label | none | UK | 1994 |
Recommendations
Reviews
- Edited 13 years agoWhile I'm not a particular dEUS fan (electronic music mostly rocks my world, see) I had a dream set to this sound track last night... And so this morning I found myself really wanting to write a review about this album. Why? Well, partly because it affected me so deeply upon first listening to it that I've never been able to get it out of my mind... But mainly because it's one of the most creative free-sliding musical excursions that I've ever had the chance (and pleasure) of listening to!!!
It was a friend, totally out of the blue, who recommended it to me in 2004 when we were record shopping in Glastonbury town, Somerset, in the only record shop worth visiting... Tor Records. As he knew of my heavily biased electronic, jazz and folk preferences, he was doing his best to bend my keen interest in eclectic music styles so that I might consider other genres of creatively imagined scoring. And to be honest, I was somewhat surprised with his recommendation when he pulled out this dEUS album from the rock section. Having heard some of dEUS's previous stuff, I had never been impressed enough remember any of their works. But low and behold, one listen to this album... And I was left gob smacked at the sheer genius of it!!!
Released back in 1994, this is a deeply personal/insightful/figurative simile for modern day living, all aspects of which are interwoven into each other with as much raw energy, imagination and sensibility as any rock band should muster in their work. To add to that, this energy and rawness is beautifully countered by several melancholic interludes, as well as some progressively poignant remorse, and epic melodic tinglings that span the length of its running time. Right from the outset, it harks that this is going to be an abstract journey into the minds, memories and aesthetics of dEUS themselves... "Listen to me", spoken in French, reveals their European origins (themselves being from Belgium) among other things... While other songs admit to weak and feeble distractions that we can get lost in i.e. break-ups, binging, etc... So once I started listening, I couldn't stop.
What really sets this album so apart from other dEUS releases is the way in which they use word play to fuse together a never ending flow of ideas into a seamless blend of stories and abstracted analogies. "Jigsaw You" depicts rather beautifully the throw away nature of our thoughts, most of which seem to be single serving entities born from proximity infatuations and memetic proneness... One pop and it's gone, unusable and unsuitable for the never-ending new experiences and expressions that continue past memories into the present moment. "Right As Rain" wouldn't be out of place in a Wild Western mining town; filled with remorse about the cheap thrills and rides we loose ourselves in while gallivanting through the saloons of good-times, we always find that excuse for our pointless behaviour, cantillating that we do so to have lived as best as we could, absolving all the pain that we've felt with happiness and hedonism... Devoid of any certain meaning, yet we still do what we do without question, seeing other doing so and copying them all too easily. But in between all the melancholic nodes, it still carries enough light heartedness to balance these deep insights and almost heavy regrets with a loosened seriousness. While "Via" lifts the heart and makes me shake my body and soul to it musical unfolding... But what's the point describing what it means/does to me... It'll no doubt reveal new meanings from someone else's point of view.
Along with clear creative mixing and production, it's set in a style that could almost be likened to Steely Dan's own crystal productions... Instruments separating in the mix beautifully, giving space and feeling for their ideas to breath and flow... Yes... Flow! That's what it does... This album's flow demonstrates the pure poetry behind the arrangement of their ideas into creative meanderings that talk to me on so many levels! This is the genius of dEUS... Writing songs so that they languidly coalesced into one another like interdependent systems of mindful musings...
No less than an epic journey, this album could easily be my sound track to life... This is dEUS at the pinnacle of their creative powers! Lively and tender, yet abstract and painful, its meanings shift with your place in time... Yet it always manages to carry across that poignant power it had when you first heard it. A truly timeless wonder! dEUS... Here's to the genius of your one album!
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