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Bound by the Beauty

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Released
  
September 12, 1989

Length
  
42:39

Release date
  
12 September 1989

Label
  
Reprise Records

Recorded
  
1989

Artist
  
Jane Siberry

Producer
  
Jane Siberry

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Bound By the Beauty (1989)
  
When I Was a Boy (1993)

Genres
  
Folk music, Alternative rock, Folk rock, Country rock

Similar
  
The Walking, The Speckless Sky, When I Was a Boy, No Borders Here, Shushan the Palace: Hymns of

Jane siberry bound by the beauty


Bound By the Beauty is a 1989 album by Jane Siberry. It received better reviews than her previous album, The Walking, and the title track received more extensive radio airplay than Siberry had seen since "One More Colour" in 1985.

Contents

The track "Half Angel Half Eagle" was controversial. Siberry used the images of an angel and an eagle soaring over a city to depict a view of both the beauty and the ugliness of city life; the ugliness was apparent in the lyric "fucking honky nigger Jew/WASP Jap dago fag/fucking homeless preacher dyke/cabbie fucking union scab". Siberry was commenting on the prevalence of this type of offensive language on the streets of a big city.

"Something About Trains" also appeared (as "This Old Earth") on The Top of His Head, the soundtrack to Peter Mettler's film The Top of His Head; the song was a Genie Award nominee for Best Original Song at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990.

Mettler also took the album's cover photograph.

Bound by the beauty


Track listing

All tracks written by Jane Siberry.

  1. "Bound by the Beauty" – 4:41
  2. "Something About Trains" – 3:44
  3. "Hockey" – 3:58
  4. "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog" – 4:17
  5. "The Valley" – 6:04
  6. "The Life Is the Red Wagon" – 4:12
  7. "Half Angel Half Eagle" – 3:55
  8. "La Jalouse" – 3:59
  9. "Miss Punta Blanca" – 1:38
  10. "Are We Dancing Now? (Map III)" – 6:11

Personnel

  • Jane Siberry – guitars, piano, vocals
  • Teddy Borowiecki – piano, accordion
  • Ken Myhr – guitars
  • John Switzer – bass, vocals
  • Stich Wynston – drums

    • Additional personnel

  • Wendell Ferguson – pedal steel guitar on 5
  • David Piltch – acoustic bass on 8
  • David Ramsden – vocals on 6, 7
  • Rebecca Jenkins – vocals on 6, 7
  • Anne Bourne – vocals on 6
  • Gina Stepaniuk – vocals on 6
  • Cheri Camp – vocals on 6
  • Don Freed – vocals on 4

    • Charts

    Album

    Songs

    1Bound by the Beauty4:42
    2Something About Trains3:45
    3Hockey3:58

    References

    Bound by the Beauty Wikipedia
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