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Worst Case Scenario (30th Anniversary Edition)
ReleaseProduct
Worst Case Scenario (30th Anniversary Edition)
Artist
dEUS
Label
[PIAS] Recordings Belgium
Catalogue Number
PIASB1042DA
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 Intro 0:24 Buy

    Intro

  2. 2 Suds & Soda 5:14 Buy

    Suds & Soda

  3. 3 W.C.S. (First Draft) 5:05 Buy

    W.C.S. (First Draft)

  4. 4 Jigsaw You 2:26 Buy

    Jigsaw You

  5. 5 Morticiachair 4:23 Buy

    Morticiachair

  6. 6 Via 4:12 Buy

    Via

  7. 7 Right as Rain 4:27 Buy

    Right as Rain

  8. 8 Mute 3:57 Buy

    Mute

  9. 9 Let's Get Lost 4:24 Buy

    Let's Get Lost

  10. 10 Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me) 6:23 Buy

    Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)

Disc 2

  1. 1 Zea (Intro Replica) 0:37 Buy

    Zea (Intro Replica)

  2. 2 Zea 4:58 Buy

    Zea

  3. 3 Texan Coffee 1:08 Buy

    Texan Coffee

  4. 4 It. Furniture In The Far West 0:51 Buy

    It. Furniture In The Far West

  5. 5 Violins And Happy Endings 4:58 Buy

    Violins And Happy Endings

  6. 6 Great American Nude (Strip Mix) 3:42 Buy

    Great American Nude (Strip Mix)

  7. 7 Niche 2:03 Buy

    Niche

  8. 8 Whose Vegas (Is It Anyway) 3:51 Buy

    Whose Vegas (Is It Anyway)

  9. 9 Let Go 2:00 Buy

    Let Go

  10. 10 Jigsaw You (Live) 4:15 Buy

    Jigsaw You (Live)

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