I'm delighted that, after all this time, I still discover songs and albums Susan loved before we were dating. Everything but the Girl's first record, 1984's Eden, was a big one for her at a certain time in her life. The opening track, and fairly big single, "Each and Every One" sounds like a breakup song. But Tracey Thorn revealed in 2023 that it was about something else:
I’d been in the Marine Girls. We were three naive school girls making indie music, and we got a bit more attention than we might have expected. We got written about in the music press, but often in a patronizing tone of voice. When I got a year or so older, I looked at it and thought, “I used to think that was a compliment, but actually it’s quite patronizing.” I expressed those feelings in a slightly coded way in “Each and Every One,” so people have always interpreted it as a love song. It sounds like I’m singing to an annoying boyfriend or something. And it doesn’t matter, in a way—what comes through is a sentiment of, “I don’t like being told what to do. I don’t like to be put in my place.”