Everyone's Got One

Everyone's Got One
Studio album by Echobelly
Released 25 October 1994
Recorded Summer 1994 [1]
Genre Alternative rock
Length 41:16
Label Rhythm King
Producer Simon Vinestock
Echobelly chronology
Everyone's Got One
(1994)		 On
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[2]
Vox[3]

Everyone's Got One is the debut album from English rock band Echobelly. Gaining a favourable response from critics,[4] 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.

Singles

Insomniac", "I Can't Imagine The World Without Me" and "Close… But"" were all released as singles, and "Bellyache" was released as an EP.[5] This EP also contained "Give her a gun". Videos were made for all of the singles (besides "Bellyache").[6][7][8]

Album meaning

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. [9]

Song Meanings

Source:[10]

Today, Tomorrow, Sometime, Never

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".

Father Ruler King Computer

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"

Give Her A Gun

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.

I Can't Imagine The World Without Me

This shows Sonya's self-confidence, hence the name.

Bellyache

This song is about the pain a friend of Sonya's went through when having an abortion.

Call Me Names

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?"

Close... But

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.

Track listing

Original 1994 release

All songs written by Sonya Madan and Glenn Johansson.

  1. "Today Tomorrow Sometime Never" – 3:39
  2. "Father, Ruler, King, Computer" – 2:40
  3. "Give Her a Gun" – 3:37
  4. "I Can't Imagine The World Without Me" – 3:00
  5. "Bellyache" – 4:29
  6. "Taste of You" – 3:30
  7. "Insomniac" – 4:15
  8. "Call Me Names" – 3:49
  9. "Close… But" – 2:50
  10. "Cold Feet Warm Heart" – 3:28
  11. "Scream" – 5:52
  12. "Centipede"*
  13. "Sober"*

Bonus disc included with the 2014 reissue[12]

  1. "Bellyache"
  2. "Sleeping Hitler"
  3. "Give Her A Gun"
  4. "I Don't Belong Here"
  5. "Centipede"
  6. "Talent"
  7. "Sober"
  8. "Venus Wheel"
  9. "So La Di Da"
  10. "I Can't Imagine A World Without Me (Live)"
  11. "Cold Feet Warm Heart (Live)"
  12. "Father Ruler King Computer"*
  13. "Call Me Names"*
  14. "Taste Of You"*
  15. "Give Her A Gun"*

Personnel[13]

Original Album

Expanded edition disc 2

References

External links

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