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Instructions to achieve a DEUS-like sound:
1 - connect your guitar to a washing machine in the spin cycle and disconnect the power every 4 beats
2 - hire a violinist, cripple him, and force him to play while hopping on one foot
3 - stay for 6 months in Belgium listening only to Velvet Underground and Zappa, learning to sing their lyrics with the local accent.
dEUS are eccentric, whimsical, they make guitars sound like radiators but are also refined, they love the Velvet Underground and steal loops from Zappa's songs: all this in 1994, the wonderful year of Grunge and the first cries of Brit Pop.
They come from Belgium, they baffle the critics and are admired across the continent: the path is paved by the single Suds and Soda which is actually jovial with its hopping violin (in Stravinsky it represented the devil). The chorus makes you jump, energizes, smashes... anything you want.
Second gem: Hotellounge, melancholic yet reassuring, is a sort of quirky ballad, soft but with the guitar expressing itself through a toaster.
And then Via, with a movie-like intro, every stroke of the bow sends a shiver down your spine. The title track is a tribute to the recently deceased Zappa: the loop is borrowed from an old piece of his, the result is of a mad intellectual.
In Lets Get Lost, they really sound like Lou Reed's band played on an old gramophone losing its beat, in Jigsaw You the sadness that emerges is that of an old clown.
The tracks are all of the highest level but perhaps Right As Rain is the most introspective if not the most fascinating. I don't want to add anything else, it's up to you...
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
02 Suds & Soda (05:17)
friday (several times throughout the song)
your pussy come on is dead and gone
it might as well be said so long
it's suds and soda a brain decoder
and can i wait for my decoder
get off get up you son of pop
the light below is bright on top
it's suds and soda a smile decoder
and can i get yeah what i ordered?
and there's always something in the air
sometimes,
suds & soda mix OK with beer
can i
can i break your sentiment
oh, you're just reminding me
can't see no person there
just wanna shout what the fuck...
jimmy ean is halloween
like kerosene for dee dee scene
it's suds and soda a brain decoder
and can i skip this thing i ordered
get off get up you son of pop
the light below is bright on top
it's suds and soda a vibe decoder
and can i get yeah what i ordered?
and there's always something in the air
sometimes,
suds & soda mix OK with beer
can i
can i break your sentiment
oh, you're just reminding me
can't see no person there
just wanna shout what the fuck...
and there's always something in the air
your face come on is dead and gone
you might as well be said so long
it's suds and soda a brain decoder
and can i wait for my devoter
get off get up you son of pop
the light below is bright on top
it's suds and soda a smile decoder
and can i skip yeah what i ordered?
and can i break your sentiment
so can i break your sentiment (x11)
friday, friday
04 Jigsaw You (02:29)
Fifty six falcon, across the old laundry, I tasted
Jigsaw you, how I hate to see this wasted
Thinkin' of a parallel
These lines won't cut but all it takes is finding some
Way to weld
Some way to weld
05 Morticiachair (04:27)
Now, let's talk about the time I had this morticiachair in my apartment
Right there in front of the living room as an open invitation to strangers
A cold machine might show
Smiling like a face, waiting for a telephone call, of a beloved feline
She is in a state and it's california, she's been there for quite a while
I've got no presents, I've got no presents
Drop the phone, take the plane and come back home again
Drop the phone, take the plane and come back home again
Drop the phone, take the plane and come back home again
Drop the phone, take the plane and come back home again
Drop the phone, take the plane and come back home again
She knows where she rolls when she goes for the doorknob
She knows where she rolls when she goes for the doorknob
By the time of my second car crash I got totally wired
Like in the days I cut myself up with a razor-blade, oh nostalgia
Lost myself in so many ways I didn't know what to think of him
Ah, maybe I think to much, I don't think so
Fell madly in love with a couple of beautiful ears
It's only a variation
Had long and boring conversations about nothing
Talked so much I bored myself to death
And the more I talk, the more I turn into a vegetable
God I'm such a fool
She knows where she rolls when she goes for the doorknob
She knows where she rolls when she goes for the doorknob
I'll behave won't you shame me, I'm into deep, won't you shame me
She knows where she rolls when she goes for the doorknob
I'll behave won't you shame me, I'm into deep, won't you shame me
She knows where she rolls when she goes for the doorknob
Taste of orange, orange, little christ
I'm in her bath-tub, consulted
Consulted, consulted, consulted
She knows where she rolls when she goes for the doorknob
She knows where she rolls when she goes for the doorknob
I'll behave won't you shame me, I'm into deep, won't you shame me
She knows where she rolls when she goes for the doorknob
I'll behave won't you shame me, I'm into deep, won't you shame me
She knows where she rolls when she goes for the doorknob
Information, information
I'm bored, bored
Information
Turn
06 Via (04:16)
I'm gonna hit it and against the rock
I'm gonna hit it and against the rock, hit it, I'm gonna hit it and against the rock, hit it
I'm gonna hit it and against the rock, hit it, I'm gonna hit it and against the rock, hit it
I skipped the part about love, I skipped the part about love
I'm gonna hit it and against the clock, I'm gonna hit it and against the clock, hit it
I'm gonna hit it and against the clock, hit it, every minute and against the clock, hit it
I'm gonna hit it and against the clock, hit it
I skipped the part about love, I skipped the part about love
I break my heart with a frying pan
Liar, liar, liar, liar, liar, liar
I'm gonna hit it and against the rock, liar
I'm gonna hit it and against the rock, I'm gonna hit it and against the clock
I'm gonna hit it and against the clock, hit it, I'm gonna hit it and against the clock, hit it
I'm gonna hit it and against the clock, hit it, I'm gonna hit it and against the rock, hit it
I'm gonna hit it and against the clock, hit it, I'm gonna hit it and against the rock, hit it
I'm gonna hit it and against the clock, hit it
07 Let Go (02:00)
Every other day
Black and white and grey
Today
Every other night
I get so uptight
Tonight
I would say hello
To you my friend
Hello hello hello
Please don't break your head
Look around instead
Let go
Let go
08 Mute (04:04)
I, I knew a girl and she was a joker
Her hair was nicotine-brown and eyes of a joker
Her grass has a pale ginger green
Whatever that means
Together we saw they were building a building
Alone I see the building is there
Her grass has a pale ginger green
Whatever that means
Your mind goes, your mind goes, your mind goes
This has nothing to do with you, it's just the way that I turn you
Your mind goes, your mind goes, your mind goes
Cause this has nothing to do with you, it's just the way that I turn you
You see i, I knew this girl and she was a joker
And if she was so big, I guess I would smoke her
Her grass has a pale ginger green
She knows what it means
Your mind goes, your mind goes, your mind goes
Well this has nothing to do with you, it's just the way that I turn you
Your mind goes, your mind goes, your mind goes
And this has nothing to do with you
I'm calling it off, I'm taking it low, I'm staying ahead of our soul
I'm calling it off, I'm taking it low, I'm staying ahead of our soul
I'm calling it off, I'm taking it low, I'm staying ahead of our soul
I'm calling it off, I'm taking it low, I'm staying ahead of our soul
Your mind goes, your mind goes, your mind goes
Crawl so damn low
I'm calling it off your mind goes
I'm taking it low your mind goes
I'm staying ahead of our soul your mind goes
09 Secret Hell (05:05)
Hey I know there's more to this...
But I bought you a newspaper every Sunday
At the end just a huge pile of yellowed
Sunday telegraphs on the windowpane
We sang Three Blind Mice together:
"Three blind mice, three blind mice
who went in across the farmer's house.."
You know well
Just never tell
If someone's got a secret hell
Now you
You should be breakin' me
Sometimes I lose my head
I don't know nothing
You should be breaking me
Instead you let me hide behind your back
What goes around
Will come back down
Can someone get it out of town
I'm in this state
Kinda late
But tell me, don't it look just great?
You
You should be haunting me
Some drift get twisted before I even touch 'em
You should be scaring me
But don't I only scare myself?
So don't I only scare myself? (x5)
11 Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me) (06:28)
"This elevator only takes one down", she said "This place, this hotel lounge, it's my daily
bread, but I'm underfed" He asked, "Are you living in the night?
Cause I can tell you have a lousy imagination
And as a matter of speaking I hate this situation
But it happens to be one of my pickin'"
Cause it's so hard, to keep the dream alive
Cause if it all comes down to this, how will
You move me, you move me, you move me round and round, I guess
Take it back your analogue, it's on the other side of this
You move me, you move me, you move me round and round, I guess
Take it back your analogue, it's on the other side of this
Cause if it all comes down to this, how will
And then she said, "And have another cigarette"
I tend to forget
And hoisted the flag but it keeps hanging down
"You know this place, this hotel lounge
It's my life, it's my choice
And I'm in love with Ricky Lee Jones' voice"
Cause it's so hard to keep the dream alive
And if it all comes down to this, how will
You move me, you move me, you move me round and round, I guess
Take it back your analogue, it's on the other side of this
You move me, you move me, you move me round and round, I guess
Take it back your analogue, it's on the other side of this
You move me, you move me, you move me round and round, I guess
Take it back your analogue, it's on the other side of this
You move me, you move me, you move me round and round, I guess
Take it back your analogue, it's on the other side of this
You move me, you move me, you move me round and round, I guess
Take it back your analogue, it's on the other side of this
And if it all comes down to this
"This elevator only takes one down", she said, "this place in this same hotel"
Do you see that man in the left-hand corner
Do you see that woman their love-story's famous
12 Shake Your Hip (00:49)
So come on baby, baby, shake your hip baby, baby, come on
So come on baby, baby, shake your hip baby, baby, come on
So come on baby, baby, shake your hip baby, baby, come on
So come on baby, baby, shake your hip baby, baby, come on
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