Everyday Demons
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| Studio album by The Answer | ||||
| Released | March 2, 2009 (UK) March 31, 2009 (US) |
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| Recorded | 2008 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 46:10 | |||
| Label | Albert Productions | |||
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| Hard Rock Hideout |    |
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"Everyday Demons" is the second studio album by Irish rock band The Answer. It was released on 2 March 2009 in the UK and 31 March 2009 in the US.
On 28 January 2009, the album leaked onto the internet. The special 2CD version of this album includes a whole concert recorded live at the Shibuya-AX in Tokyo, Japan, on 27 March 2007 as an audio on the second CD.
The album entered the UK Albums Chart at #25.
According to Cormac Neeson, "Demon Eyes" is "basically about the two-faced motherf—kers in this world who think they're the dog's bollocks. They pretend to be your friend but the whole time they're looking down on you in a very f—king condescending way and then going round the corner and slagging you off behind your back."
"Demon Eyes" was iTunes "Single of the Week" for the week beginning March 10, 2009.
"Too Far Gone" was written in response to then-Prime Minister Tony Blair's plans to introduce ID cards in the UK. In Neeson's opinion, "they might as well attach tracking devices on to everybody so they know exactly where everybody's going at every moment of the day."
Neeson explained in a Kerrang! interview that "On and On", the first single to be released from Everyday Demons, is "about stepping up to the challenges that everyday life throws at you."
Cormac Neeson notes that "Cry Out" is an attempt to "capture the spirit of youth, that kinda feeling when you're young". The song's lyrics reference Troublegum and "Take the Power Back", by Therapy? and Rage Against the Machine, respectively, two bands favoured by Neeson in his youth.
"Why'd You Change Your Mind" relates, to a certain degree, to Neeson's efforts to comprehend why a friend of his chose to commit suicide. Neeson explains: "In the chorus of the song I'm just trying to understand what goes through a person's mind and why they should take their own life."
"Pride" pertains to Neeson's time working in a bar in Ireland, where "you'd see a lot of really beautiful young women coming into the bar and kinda drink themselves away all day and end up going home with some kind of f—king lowlife motherf—ker, who was just hanging around the bars waiting to pick up women like that. I just remember thinking these girls don't need to do that. They're beautiful, intelligent and they deserve a lot better."
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