Everyone's Got One
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| Studio album by Echobelly | ||||
| Released | 25 October 1994 | |||
| Recorded | Summer 1994 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 41:16 | |||
| Label | Rhythm King | |||
| Producer | Simon Vinestock | |||
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Everyone's Got One is the debut album from English rock band Echobelly. Gaining a favourable response from critics, the album reached number 8 in the UK Albums Chart. On 21 July 2014, a 2CD expanded edition of the album was released by 3 Loop Music which featured b-sides and previously unreleased live material.
Insomniac", "I Can't Imagine The World Without Me" and "Close… But"" were all released as singles, and "Bellyache" was released as an EP. This EP also contained "Give her a gun". Videos were made for all of the singles (besides "Bellyache").
The album's title was fuelled by Sonya's fascination for wordplay. It was titled so that the first letter of each word spelled "EGO", a common theme throughout the album.
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This song is about Sonya's feeling of alienation, because of the fact she is Indian. In an Interview, Sonya said "Even though I have a brown skin, I didn't feel Asian. I felt alien".
This song is about her anger towards arranged marriages. "I was brought up, I've been told, that a husband is the goal. What connotations in these loaded words, a spinster and a bachelor, I am whole all by myself, I don't need nobody else"
Sonya feels that men have too much power and woman should have more power. The title is a metaphor for this, saying that woman should have guns. This suggests she even wants woman to be more powerful.
This shows Sonya's self-confidence, hence the name.
This song is about the pain a friend of Sonya's went through when having an abortion.
This song, similar to "Today, Tomorrow, Sometime Never", also expresses Sonya's feeling of alienation, but the lyrics are more obvious. "Outside, you will come out and play with me, I've been scrubbing at my skin you see but the colour remains on me . . . . I don't know, is it the same for everyone? Maybe that i've done something wrong. Why do you call me names?"
In this song Sonya tries to express her feeling off loneliness, despite all of the friends that she was getting to know around this time.
All songs written by Sonya Madan and Glenn Johansson.
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