Deus - Worst Case Scenario (14 tracks) +Album Reviews

DEUS are well known in Russia!!

Lisa | Russia | 10/03/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The good thing about this superb band dEUS is that they never sound the same - their music is absolutely unique and very diverse. The guys always put a great deal of absolutely variable ideas into each song - this unpredictability truly amazes me. However, dEUS simply do not have bad albums, so it is pretty hard for me to pick up any of them - I love all of their masterpieces equally. This record (Worst Case Scenario) in particular, is the band's rawest work yet melodic. I cannot keep wondering how a man (Tom Barman I mean, of course!) can use English so perfectly when it is in fact not his native language - just take a look at his brilliant lyrics. They are like some kind of stream-of-conciousness stuff at times, but they are always touchy, deep, weird, intelligent and beautiful. Tom Barman is definitely a genius. Well, no doubt, all of the band members are really talented people! Conclusion: I highly recommend buying 'Worst Case Scenario' as well as other dEUS records - they are a band everybody ought to check out."

DEUS, where were you?

x_bruce | Oak Park, ILLINOIS United States | 05/14/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Seriously, why haven't more people heard of dEUS and why haven't they been able to gain anything beyond a cult audience? I'm new to their music, I'd heard about them but was told by a knowing store clerk they were 80's style metal.They're not of course but perhaps it's the poor marketing of a major label? Whatever it is the music on Worst Case Scenario is exceptional.Suds & Soda is a terrific lead off track combining several punk and rock styles within five minutes. At times there is a Pixies like sound and vocal delivery, at others a punkish raver. The myriad of styles flow freely and in a most entertaining way. There's also an excellent segment that has a heart stoppingly accurate sound of hearing a blown speaker in action.W.C.S groves and twists it's way along, almost like a different band were playing. The semi-spoken/rapped voice gives the feel of beat poetry 90's style.Other highlights include Hotellounge and Divebomb Jingle to name a few. There is not a track on this CD that isn't good. Immediate comparisons that come to mind, Mr. Bungle - to a degree but more fringe based and without a frontman from Faith No More, also John Zorn in dEUS' angular playing and arrangements.If you wondered what could have been a possible logical progression from early 90's alternative this is it. If you have any sense of adventure Worst Case Scenario is worth buying."

Big from Belgium

x_bruce | 11/08/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The first dEUS-CD is truly amazing. Some people (the band members themselves included) like the last one (The Ideal Crash) best, but I still don't agree. This one is once rough, then soft, always melodic, never boring, and has nothing but brilliant songs. I can also highly recommend "In a bar under the sea", but it doesn't seem to be available here at Amazon.com! Do something about it asap."

Best of Belgium - dEUS

Nele Scheers | Antwerpen, Belgium | 03/30/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

""It all began in 1994. A small but vibrant Antwerp (Belgium, Europe) music scene meant that most alternative bands were incestuous, liquid beings; with each musician being as likely to be in five bands as one, but a mutual love of all things alternative and underground, melded five talented musicians and performers into dEUS. A band that spent the next six years producing a body of work that, chameleon-like, was able to array it's colour shifts of musical style and tone in dazzling kaleidoscope but, in shape, was eternally, indisputably and unmistakably dEUS.

Debut album 'Worst Case Scenario' with the gonzoid punk chant of first single 'Suds & Soda' to the off kilter pop sensibilities of 'Via' and onwards to the gentle introspective elegance of 'Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)', emanated from the streets of Belgium across mainland Europe and stone skipped its way across the Channel to knock on the door of the musical psyche of a continent. Backed up by powerhouse live performances through Europe, dEUS had successfully launched themselves into the burgeoningly healthy indie scene of the mid-90s and achieved it with a hybrid of intelligence and experimentation that perhaps was lacking in some of the more back-to-basics, past-reverential sounds of their contemporaries."

The above is some background, taken from the dEUS-website. I still remember my schoolfriends being exited about "that band with the violin" that they had seen live (I was living in Germany at the time, so I hadn't seen them). When this album came out, some of my friends practically forced me to listen to it... And I was blown away. Back when Mtv was still a station where you could discover new things, they used to play the Suds & Soda video a lot (with the "Friday friday friday" chanting). A belgian rock journalist recently commented that this song has become our national anthem, and in a way, it has. So you should definitely buy this album...

I know they are relatively unknown in the States (even though they are touring there as I'm writing this), but in Europe (and Israel), most of their recent concerts (over 100) were sold out very quickly. They have recently released their 4th album, Pocket Revolution (if you don't count the ep).

I also want to correct one of the other reviewers: It was their bass player, not their singer, who went on to form the band that was first called Moondog Jr. and is now called Zita Swoon. Check them out as well!

www.deus.be and www.zitaswoon.be

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Timeless beauty

Nele Scheers | 07/10/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"dEUS (mind the spelling) surely is one of the most exciting and innovating bands of the nineties. It will take you a couple of times to discover all the beauty they included, but once these songs got into your mind it's gonna be hard to get them back out. You 'll find yourself humming and whisteling these catchy tunes with their strange angles and turns. Start enjoying everything that they recorded by buying this album. Bands like this you 'll find only once in a million times. Also check out their other albums :In a Bar, Under the Sea (Little Arithmatics, Roses, ...) The ideal Crash (Sister Dew, Instant street, ...): its true timeless beauty."

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