Worst Case Scenario (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Worst Case Scenario
Type = Album
Artist = dEUS


Released = 1994
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 55:13
Label = Bang!, Island Records
Producer = Peter Vermeersch, Pierre Vervloesem
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:osrb282t05oa link]
Last album = "Zea" (1993)
This album = 'Worst Case Scenario" (1994)
Next album = "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 media to categorise its music into a genre. They finally called it Art rock (a definition which still bothers singer Tom BarmanFact|date=September 2008).

"Worst Case Scenario" reached Gold in Belgium, selling 30,000 copies. By April 2008, "WCS" had sold 270,000 copies worldwide. [ [http://pocketrevolution.blogspot.com/2008/04/record-sales.html Pocket Revolution - The unofficial dEUS-weblog ] ]

Track listing

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

Singles

* Suds & Soda (June 1994)
* Via (October 1994)
* Hotellounge (Be the death of me) (January 1995) - #55 UK

Charts references: [http://www.chartstats.com [http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=7313 ] ]

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