The Ideal Crash is the third studio album by the Belgian rock band Deus, released in March 1999. The album was recorded in Spain

Spain

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 and it includes the single Instant Street, which became an underground

Underground music

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 hit in Europe

Europe

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. The album cover art is the first Deus CD cover that does not feature a painting by ex-guitar player Rudy Trouvé

Rudy Trouvé

Rudy Trouvé is a Belgian musician from Antwerp.In the early nineties he founded the Heavenhotel record label and released dozens of records since...

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The Ideal Crash was the first Deus album to be directly released through a Major label (Island Records

Island Records

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) but it's also the only Deus album that didn't get a US release.

The album gained a quick success in Belgium

Belgium

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 by reaching Gold (25,000 copies) in one week. By April 2008, The Ideal Crash had sold about 250,000 copies.

Track listing

1. "Put the Freaks Up Front" (Deus) – 5:14
2. "Sister Dew" (Tom Barman
   Tom Barman
   Tom Barman is a Belgian musician and film director.Barman studied at the film school of St.-Lucas in Brussels, but didn't finish his studies because of he wished to pursue a career in music. He began by forming the rock band, Deus in Antwerp, in 1989...
   
   , Craig Ward) – 5:35
3. "One Advice, Space" (Barman, Ward, Kelvin Smits) – 5:46
4. "The Magic Hour" (Barman, Ward) – 5:23
5. "The Ideal Crash" (Barman, Ward, Danny Mommens) – 5:00
6. "Instant Street" (Barman, Ward, Mommens) – 6:15
7. "Magdalena" (Barman, Ward, Mommens) – 4:58
8. "Everybody's Weird" (Barman, Ward) – 4:51
9. "Let's See Who Goes Down First" (Klaas Janzoons, Ward) – 6:23
10. "Dream Sequence #1" (Barman, Ward) – 6:31

Singles

• Instant Street (February 1999) - #49 UK
• Sister Dew (May 1999) - #62 UK
• The Ideal Crash (October 1999)

Charts references:www.chartstats.com