Worst Case Scenario is the first album by Belgian alternative

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 rock band

Rock Band

Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band series. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were released in the United States on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was...

 Deus released in 1994. The cover art was designed by guitarist 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...

. It contains the single "Suds & Soda", which was to become an underground hit and a fans favorite.

The album was first released in Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 on the indie label Bang!

Bang!

Bang! is a wild west-themed card game similar to a spaghetti western designed by Emiliano Sciarra and released by Italian publisher daVinci Editrice in 2002...

 with a different track listing: "Right as Rain" and "Great American Nude" (both tracks present on the Zea

Zea

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EP released in Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 in 1993) are replaced by the song "Let Go". It was then released in the UK and Europe

Europe

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 through Island Records

Island Records

Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

 with the track listing as written below.

Worst Case Scenario received good reviews internationally, and this despite the impossibility for the British media to categorize its music into a genre. They finally called it Art rock

Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, with influences from art, avant-garde, and classical music. The first usage of the term, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, was in 1968. Influenced by the work of The Beatles, most notably their Sgt...

 (a definition which still bothers singer Tom Barman).

Worst Case Scenario reached Gold in Belgium, selling 30,000 copies. By April 2008, WCS had sold 270,000 copies worldwide.

Track Listing

1. "Intro" (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...
   
   , Jules de Borgher) – 0:24
2. "Suds & Soda" (Deus) – 5:14
3. "W.C.S. (First Draft)" (Barman, Stef Kamil Carlens
   Stef Kamil Carlens
   Stef Kamil Carlens is a Belgian musician and leader of Belgian rock band Zita Swoon. Carlens studied at the "Hoger Kunstonderwijs, Rijksinstituut, Antwerpen". Together with Tom Barman he co-founded Belgian Alt Rock band Deus...
   
   )– 5:05
4. "Jigsaw You" (Barman, Carlens) – 2:26
5. "Morticiachair" (Deus) – 4:23
6. "Via" (Barman, Mark Meyers) – 4:12
7. "Right as Rain" (Barman, 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...
   
   , Carlens) – 4:27
8. "Mute" (Barman) – 3:57
9. "Let's Get Lost" (Barman, Carlens) – 4:23
10. "Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)" (Barman, Trouvé) – 6:23
11. "Shake Your Hip" (Deus) – 0:41
12. "Great American Nude" (Trouvé) – 5:39
13. "Secret Hell" (Barman) – 4:59
14. "Divebomb Djingle" (Carlens, Ward, Christie) – 3:00

Staff

• Tom Barman - vocals, guitar, piano
• Rudy Trouvé - guitar, vocals, piano, steel plate
• Stef Kamil Carlens - bass, vocals, guitar
• Klaas Janzoons - violin, vocals
• Julle de Borgher - drums, metalophone, gasheating, timpani, maracas, guitar, vocals

Singles

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

Charts references:

Trivia

W.C.S. (First Draft) contains a sample from Frank Zappa's

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

 "Little Umbrellas", from his 1969 album, Hot Rats

Hot Rats

Hot Rats is the second solo album by Frank Zappa. It was released in October 1969. Five of the six songs are instrumental . It was Zappa's first recording project after the dissolution of the original Mothers of Invention...

.