“Suds & Soda” by dEUS

"Suds & Soda" arrived in February 1994 as part of Worst Case Scenario, the dEUS album, and it's a wild, lurching thing. Tom Barman and Stef Kamil Carlens wrote the words, and the music is credited to Barman, Carlens, Jules De Borgher, Klaas Janzoons and Rudy Trouvé.

Barman sings lead and plays electric guitar alongside Trouvé, with Carlens on electric bass, De Borgher on drums and percussion, and Anton Janssens adding Rhodes piano; Carlens and Trouvé chip in vocals as well. Peter Vermeersch and Pierre Vervloesem produced, with Gilles Martin engineering, and they let the band's rough edges show: guitars that scrape and squall, a rhythm section that sounds ready to run off the rails at any moment, and a manic energy that makes it feel like the whole thing was cut on a dare. One station's listeners have kept it in their countdowns for decades.

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