Track Listing

1. Intro
2. Suds And Soda
3. WCS (First Draft)
4. Jigsaw You
5. Morticiachair
6. Via
7. Right As Rain
8. Mute
9. Let's Get Lost
10. Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)
11. Shake Your Hip
12. Great American Nude
13. Secret Hell
14. Divebomb Djingle
15. Punch - Victory Pill

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22839 in Music
• Released on: 1998-02-02
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Do NOT Miss This!
Every single second you spend reading this is one second you're wasting. This album remains an incredible breath of fresh air. I had never ever heard anything like it, and to this day, even the band themselves have done nothing that can touch it.

Think of it as an existential fluke we're lucky to be able to hear. The precise combination of people that led to this album is something that no longer exists - they've all moved on to separate projects, and has each gone down (to some extent) his own rabbit hole.

HERE - However, is something equally sublime, punky, literary, jazzy, and rocking. I could start going on about each track, but honestly, I'd be spoiling the surprises that lie ahead of you. Suffice to say, were you not certain that this is ONE CD by ONE band, you'd think it was a compliation of the most incredible bands you've never heard.

I kid you not.

Buy the damn thing.

You are SO going to be grateful.

Yes.

One of the most unsung debuts of the 1990s
'Worst Case Scenario' set out dEUS's stall of fusing modern jazz with leftfield art-rock. As bad as that may sound, it's actually an incredibly innovative album. For all the free-jazz dynamics, warped guitars and John Cale-style strings, the band didn't forget to write some great tunes, as the brilliant 'Hotellounge' proves. It's not a compromising listen, and anyone who views, say, Radiohead as too alternative may wish to avoid it. However, there's no denying the quality of tracks like the blistering psychotic rock of 'Suds & Soda' or the creepy funk of 'W.C.S.'. dEUS put Belgium on the map in musical terms, just after grunge had petered out, and 'Worst Case Scenario' stands as one the rock landmarks of the 1990s.

Fantastic, sublime, and moving.
Worse Case Senario leaves the listener with an almost tangible sense of joy. Dark and yet ultimately optimistic, no-one understands the inner psyche and the torment of existence in musical form like dEUS. To the average 'consumer' of music this will be nothing but freaky, to those who know music, it will be freakily amazing.