“Instant Street” by dEUS

"Instant Street" was a single from The Ideal Crash, the third album by Belgian rock band dEUS, which came out in March 1999. Tom Barman and Craig Ward wrote the words and shared the music with Danny Mommens, and David Bottrill produced and mixed it, with Ben Findley engineering. Two guests color it in: Browndog on strings and Piet Jorens on percussion.

The album was a well-travelled thing, recorded in Spain, Britain and Belgium and mixed at Olympic Studios, and it was the first dEUS record to come out directly through a major label, Island. It was also the only one of their albums never released in America, so the song's story is a European one: it became an underground hit there and scraped onto the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 49. One station's listeners have kept it on their countdowns ever since.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.