bEST dEUS aLBUM?!

Is there even a question? In a Bar surely

Worst Case Scenario for me

ahem.

yeah, it leaked

I wonder if Nath will actually be able to choose

Ideal Crash for sure.

The new one is awful. Pocket isn't much better.

Pocket revolution is really good!

herman, you are a man of versatile taste!

for me, it's 'the ideal crash'. of only for 'magdalena' and 'dream sequence #1'

I've yet to hear My Sister yet, is it worth checking out?

Pocket has a few decent tracks ("Sun Ra" is fantastic) but it's mostly dreck. The new one is truly embarrassing in certain spots. Ideal Crash and In a Bar are among my favourite albums of the '90s.

It is not mostly dreck. It's a really strong consistent album.

I can see how people hear a good album in it, but mostly I notice Barman's vocal lines and lyrics taking a sharp turn towards the dull, some leaden alt-rock arrangements (particularly on "Bad Timing" and "If You Don't Get What You Want"), and an almost total retreat from the emotionally engaging aspects of the other records, except for maybe on "7 Days, 7 Weeks" and "Include Me Out." Even on those songs, the melodic aspects aren't as nearly rich as on Ideal Crash.

("Nothing Really Ends" is great but I don't consider it part of the album.)

Pocket Revolution is, I think, sort of the beginning of the end tbh. :-( I am not sure which to choose. WorstCase is more influential, In A Bar is great cause it has different styles. Hmm. I love The Ideal Crash (wonderful album about past and future love).

TBH I'm not too bothered by the new one. I heard the single and I cringed. :-(

Simon, MySister=MyClock is pretty good but not essential. Better to check out for the B-sides. I Suffer Rock is one of my fave B-sides!

Also, WCS is from 1994? Oh man I feel old.

their boldest - and perhaps finest

Good lord, they can't be serious, right?

I dont get the hate for Pocket Revolution, esp from you nath!

i played the new deus record. my oldest kid went:"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Not man singing. POOH MUSIC." she has good taste. ;-)

haha

What do you think of the new album now?

i've seen "I Suffer Rock" referenced in the most obscure places. It's an excellent song!

no way! where have you heard it mentioned? one of my fave songs evah

kerr, i think it's crap

I dunno, I think I saw "I was 24 when my heart stopped beating" on some random person's Facebook/Myspace page. I was all totally "I KNOW WHAT SONG THAT'S FROM I DO!".

I've got a whole load of dEUS b-sides. What's particularly impressive is the live version of Hotellounge that goes into a 9-minute jazz fusion breakdwon.

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Pocket Revolution at number 2 SHOCKA! Is it because that's the last (and possibly only) one that people have bought? I like In A Bar best.

hmmmm people need to clean out their ears and give 'the ideal crash' a spin

my sister=my clock is brilliant but totally different, it's like a collage of fragments rather than a collection of songs.

ideal crash is really great too but the best album won

Ideal Crash = In a Bar > WCS > MS=MC > PR >>> new album.

no

i found ideal crash a bit boring personally. a couple of standouts (Instant Street) but i actually think i prefer Pocket Rev just slightly.

listening to the new one now. so far they'res not very much interesting going on.

a few songs in and no, it's not interesting but it's not awful and there are a couple of bits that stand out. it does surprise me that they've gone from being a genuinely unique band using a whole lot of stylistic and insturmental ideas and experience, to what is essentially an MOR rock band with a few good hooks.

yep, that sounds about right.

experience = experiments

ooh, "slow" is good - nice doomy epic vocal bit which is something i love in music.

architect now - kind of cool, industrial funkiness. I can hear a bit of a David Bowie circa Station To Station coming through.

i just find that 'the ideal crash' did that semi-conventional rock thing so much better and more convincingly than more acknowledged bands

i dont get the hate

what's happened with me with every dEUS album from The Ideal Crash onwards (new one included) is that initially i'm disappointed, but then the record grows on me, and finally i end up loving it to bits.

I am a huge fan of In a Bar... (still my favourite), but i think it's a good thing not every dEUS record sounds like this, they're all very distinctive in fact, but they all sound thoroughly dEUS-like.

yeah, i just think they were really onto something with the blues/befheart/fusion thing and it was something that not many other people did and that they did it very well, and am perplexed as to why they suddenly seem to be so happy doing this stuff now. I mean, it's pretty good, very textured etc, but it's so rigid and formalist now. i couldn't imagine dEUS doing something as mad as the live version of hotellounge today for instance. They're practically a different band. Was there a major line-up change after In A Bar?

well they did lose a guitarist and a bass player around that time. and very few of the newer tracks feature the whole band playing - it's heavily studio-based, although that was probably true of some of the older records too.

I was lucky to see the WCS line up. when they played T In The Park 1995 i think. My Sister ... was just out.

very lucky, yes

one thing i really like about 'the ideal crash' i might add, is that it captures some really inspired, thoughtful moods and channels them in a really effective way. a track like 'dream sequence # 1' is a really moving song if you approach it in a certain frame of mind. 'sister dew' and 'magdalena' touch me in a similar way too.

i still can't get into Ideal Crash, but then i only came to it after hearing Pocket Revolution (despite being a long time fan of mid-90s dEUS), so maybe if i'd heard them in order it would've made more sense. I like Instant Street and Sister Dew though.

pocket rev is rather nice. pretty solid throughout. 7 days, 7 weeks and nothing really ends are both great.