History Music / InABarUnderTheSea

** The line "I feel Gina might / on her opening night" in "Opening Night" is a reference to Creator/JohnCassavetes' film ''Opening Night'' with ''Gena Rowlands.''

* IntercourseWithYou: "Gimme The Heat:"

* ProductPlacement: "Fell Of the Floor, Man:"

[[caption-width-right:350:''He went to the bottom, put his soul on fire.'']]

''In A Bar, Under The Sea'' was the second full-length album by Belgian rock band Music/{{dEUS}}, released in 1996. Hit singles were "Fell Off The Floor, Man", "Theme From Turnpike" (used in the short movie "Turnpike"), "Roses" and "Little Arithmetics". The song "Serpentine" wasn't released as a single, but has become a fan favorite.

'''Tracklist'''

# "Guilty Pleasures" – (4:23)
# "Nine Threads" – (3:34)
# "Disappointed in the Sun" – (6:03)
# "For the Roses" – (4:57) (also named "Roses")
# "Wake Me Up Before I Sleep" – (2:53)

'''Personnel'''
* Stef Kamil Carlens: vocal, guitar, bass, double bass, percussion, claps
* Tom Barman: vocal, guitar, Hammond, Talkback, samples, percussion, synthesiser, cma's
* Jules De Borgher: drums, percussion, bells, claps
* Craig Ward: vocal, guitar, sax, mandolin, claps, ukelele, slide guitar
* Klaas Janzoons: vocal, percussion, Talkback, piano, violin, synthesiser, beatbox, claps
* Rudy Trouvé: vocal, piccolo, harmonica, guitar, ukelele

* Scott Mccloud: "philosophy"

* Pieter Lamot: trombone
* Ian Humphries: violin
* Charles Mutter: violin
* Nic Pendlebury: viola
* Deirdre Cooper: cello
* Dana Colley: saxophones
* Vincienne: claps
* Jim Brumby: claps, rate and depth
* Piet Jorens: piano, gong

!! Tropes From Turnpike
* AlbumTitleDrop: "Disappointed In The Sun"

* AlliterativeTitle: "'''F'''ell Off The '''F'''loor, Man", "'''T'''heme From '''T'''urnpike".
* BrokenRecord: "Roses"

* CapitalismIsBad: "Supermarketsong"

* CutShort: "Theme From Turnpike" is abruptly cut short.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover, designed by Rudy Trouvé.
* DroneOfDread: "Theme From Turnpike".
* EpicRocking: "Fell Off The Floor Man", "Theme From Turnpike", "Disappointed In The Sun".
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: "I Don't Mind Whatever Happens" was recorded through the telephone, while the band was in France and talking to presenters of the Belgian radio station ''Studio Brussel'' in Brussels, Belgium. This is also a {{Homage}} to "The Blimp" from ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'' by Music/CaptainBeefheart, which was also recorded through the telephone.
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: "Wake Me Up Before I Sleep".
* IntercourseWithYou: "Gimme The Heat".

* InTheStyleOf: "I Don't Mind Whatever Happens" is played in the style of a 1930s blues song. Tom Barman has admitted that "Roses" was a pastiche of Music/{{Nirvana}}.

* NostalgiaFilter: "Memory Of A Festival".
--> ''Do you remember the festival in '94 with 90 fuckups?''
* OneWordTitle: "Serpentine" and "Supermarketsong".
* ThePowerOfLove: "Serpentine".

* ProductPlacement: "Fell Of The Floor, Man"
--> ''Folks got me up against a Volkswagen''.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Roses" was inspired by an encounter Barman had with a German girl. They had a relationship, but when they saw each other again she acted as if they didn't knew each other, despite at the same time trying to seduce him. According to an interview in Humo (1998) the girl kept sending him awfully perfumed love letters each week.

** "Fell Off The Floor, Man" namedrops Music/JamesBrown and Creator/RitaHayworth.

--> ''...''
--> ''You're supposed to say: "Yeah!", like a Music/JamesBrown thing.''

** The line "I feel Gina might/on her opening night" in "Opening Night" is a reference to Creator/JohnCassavetes' film "Opening Night" with Gena Rowlands.
** "Theme From Turnpike" has a sample from Music/CharlesMingus' "Fare Wells, Mill Valley" from "Mingus Dynasty" (1959). The line "New Jersey turnpike ridin' on a wet night" refers to a song on Music/BruceSpringsteen's album ''Nebraska.''
** Music/ElvisPresley is namedropped during "A Shocking Lack Thereof".
** "Nine Threads" refers to a line from "Hey Hey My My" by Music/NeilYoung from his album ''Music/RustNeverSleeps'', but twists it around:

** "Serpentine" was inspired by an interview Barman had with Creator/SeanPenn and where the actor said: "You do it straight or you do it serpentine."
** "Disappointed In The Sun" is a reference to a quote from Music/CaptainBeefheart in the short documentary "Some Yo-Yo Stuff" (1993), directed by Creator/AntonCorbijn where he claimed that after leaving the Creator/VincentVanGogh museum in Amsterdam the sun "disappointed him." Also mentionable is the fact that "I Don't Mind Whatever Happens" was recorded through the telephone, much like "The Blimp" on ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'' and that former Beefheart band member Eric Drew Feldman produced "In A Bar Under The Sea". Beefheart was referenced again in "Roses":
--> ''She's painting''

* SingerNamedrop: "Supermarketsong" has a line referring to Sam Louwijck and Eric Drew Feldman, who produced the album
--> ''Spastic Sam and Eric Drew make supermarkets superflue''.
* TheSomethingSong: "Supermarketsong".
* SpecialGuest: Scott Mccloud (Girls Against Boys) plays along on "Fell Off The Floor, Man", Dana Colley (Morphine) on "Supermarketsong" and Bart Maris (X-Legged Sally) on "Nine Threads".
* StudioChatter: Near the end of "I Don't Mind Whatever Happens" and at the start of "Guilty Pleasures".
* UnderTheSea: The album title, as well as the protagonist in "Disappointed In The Sun" who dives in the sea to go to an underwater bar.
* WordSaladLyrics: "Fell Off The Floor, Man".
* YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive: "Little Arithmetics".

''He said.... NO MOOOOORRRRRRE... loud...muuusic!''

* SingerNameDrop: "Supermarketsong" has a line referring to Sam Louwijck and Eric Drew Feldman, who produced the album

** Music/TheWalkabouts covered "Wake Me Up Before I Sleep" in 2000.

** "Theme From Turnpike" has a sample from Music/CharlesMingus' "Fare Wells, Mill Valley" from "Mingus Dynasty" (1959). The line "New Jersey turnpike ridin' on a wet night" refers to a song on Music/BruceSpringsteen's album ''Music/{{Nebraska}}''.

'''''In A Bar, Under The Sea''''' was the second full-length album by Belgian rock band Music/{{dEUS}}, released in 1996. Hit singles were "Fell Off The Floor, Man", "Theme From Turnpike" (used in the short movie "Turnpike"), "Roses" and "Little Arithmetics". The song "Serpentine" wasn't released as a single, but has become a fan favorite.

'''In A Bar, Under The Sea''' was the second full-length album by Belgian rock band Music/{{dEUS}}, released in 1996. Hit singles were "Fell Off The Floor, Man", "Theme From Turnpike" (used in the short movie "Turnpike"), "Roses" and "Little Arithmetics". The song "Serpentine" wasn't released as a single, but has become a fan favorite.

* MinisculeRocking: "I Don't Mind Whatever Happens".

--> ''Spastic Sam and Eric Crew make supermarkets superflue''.

** "Disappointed In The Sun" is a reference to a quote from Music/CaptainBeefheart in the short documentary "Some Yo-Yo Stuff" (1993), directed by Creator/AntonCorbijn where he claimed that after living the Creator/VincentVanGogh museum in Amsterdam the sun "disappointed him." Also mentionable is the fact that "I Don't Mind Whatever Happens" was recorded through the telephone, much like "The Blimp" on ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'' and that former Beefheart band member Eric Drew Feldman produced "In A Bar Under The Sea". Beefheart was referenced again in "Roses":

'''In A Bar Under The Sea''' was the second full-length album by Belgian rock band Music/{{dEUS}}, released in 1996. Hit singles were "Fell Off The Floor, Man", "Theme From Turnpike" (used in the short movie "Turnpike"), "Roses" and "Little Arithmetics". The song "Serpentine" wasn't released as a single, but has become a fan favorite.