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In A Bar, Under The Sea (30th Anniversary Edition)
ReleaseProduct
In A Bar, Under The Sea (30th Anniversary Edition)
Artist
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dEUS
Label
[PIAS] Recordings Belgium
Catalogue Number
PIASB1043DA
Release Date
March 6, 2026

In 1994 and 1996, dEUS released Worst Case Scenario and In a Bar Under the Sea, two albums that didn’t just introduce a band, but quietly rewired the possibilities of European alternative rock. Worst Case Scenario arrived fully formed yet thrillingly unstable: wiry guitars, fractured rhythms, and Tom Barman’s half-spoken, half-sung narratives drifting between paranoia and pop. Songs like “Suds & Soda” and “Via” felt less like singles than dispatches from a band inventing its own internal logic in real time.

In a Bar Under the Sea pushed that logic to its breaking point. Looser, stranger, and more communal in spirit, the album folded jazz phrasing, off-kilter pop hooks, and moments of near-chaos into something that still somehow cohered. It captured a band refusing to settle, embracing excess and experimentation at a moment when European guitar music rarely dared to sound this restless or this alive.

Now, widely regarded as Belgium’s most influential rock band, dEUS & [PIAS] Recordings will rerelease both albums as 3LP and 2CD expanded 30th Anniversary sets, including long lost B-Sides and rarities.

Digital Tracklist

Disc 1

  1. 1 I Don't Mind What Ever Happens 0:47 Buy

    I Don't Mind What Ever Happens

  2. 2 Fell Off the Floor, Man 5:15 Buy

    Fell Off the Floor, Man

  3. 3 Opening Night 1:39 Buy

    Opening Night

  4. 4 Theme from Turnpike 5:46 Buy

    Theme from Turnpike

  5. 5 Little Arithmetics 4:22 Buy

    Little Arithmetics

  6. 6 Gimme The Heat 7:36 Buy

    Gimme The Heat

  7. 7 Serpentine 3:16 Buy

    Serpentine

  8. 8 A Shocking Lack Thereof 5:51 Buy

    A Shocking Lack Thereof

  9. 9 Supermarketsong 1:58 Buy

    Supermarketsong

  10. 10 Memory Of A Festival 1:53 Buy

    Memory Of A Festival

Disc 2

  1. 1 Worried About Satan 1:10 Buy

    Worried About Satan

  2. 2 Overflow 3:30 Buy

    Overflow

  3. 3 My Little Contessa 3:29 Buy

    My Little Contessa

  4. 4 My Wife Jan 3:19 Buy

    My Wife Jan

  5. 5 The Tugboat 2:22 Buy

    The Tugboat

  6. 6 Everything Is The Same (Except No One Believes Me) 2:29 Buy

    Everything Is The Same (Except No One Believes Me)

  7. 7 I Suffer Rock 2:36 Buy

    I Suffer Rock

  8. 8 Difficult Day 2:07 Buy

    Difficult Day

  9. 9 Me And Your Mother 1:47 Buy

    Me And Your Mother

  10. 10 Opening Night (Live, 'Basta' at Studio Brussel) 2:31 Buy

    Opening Night (Live, 'Basta' at Studio Brussel)

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