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Released
  
August 3, 1993

When I Was a Boy (1993)
  
Maria (1995)

Release date
  
3 August 1993

Length
  
66:23

Artist
  
Jane Siberry

Label
  
Reprise Records

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Recorded
  
June 1991–January 1993 Mushroom Studios, Vancouver Reaction Studios, Toronto Westside Studios, London

Genres
  
Alternative rock, Ambient music, Electropop, Downtempo

Producers
  
Jane Siberry, Brian Eno, Michael Brook

Similar
  
The Walking, Bound by the Beauty, The Speckless Sky, No Borders Here, Love Is Everything: The Jane

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When I Was a Boy is a 1993 album by Jane Siberry. Internationally, it is her most famous album. In Siberry's native Canada, however, the album was commercially successful but not as big a hit as her 1985 album The Speckless Sky.

Contents

The album includes Siberry's most famous song, "Calling All Angels", a duet with k.d. lang which appeared on two movie soundtracks, Until the End of the World in 1991 and Pay It Forward in 2000. The song was also sung by cast members of Six Feet Under in a scene from the episode "The Rainbow of Her Reasons." "Sail Across the Water" and "Temple" were the other singles from the album.

Several songs included electronic textures; "Temple" was Siberry's first song that was popular in dance clubs. The album was also Siberry's first to explore more spiritual themes, which would become a hallmark of her later music.

On The Tragically Hip's 1997 live album Live Between Us, Gordon Downie sings the chorus from "Temple" in that album's track "Nautical Disaster".

The song "All the Candles in the World", is featured in the 2000 movie Final Destination.

Track listing

All songs written by Jane Siberry, except where indicated.

  1. "Temple" – 4:45
  2. "Calling All Angels" – 5:17
  3. "Love Is Everything" – 5:50
  4. "Sail Across the Water" – 5:22
  5. "All the Candles in the World" – 3:49
  6. "Sweet Incarnadine" (Siberry, Erdal Kızılçay, Ken Myhr) – 6:46
  7. "The Gospel According to Darkness" – 4:51
  8. "An Angel Stepped Down (And Slowly Looked Around)" – 5:50
  9. "The Vigil (The Sea)" – 9:23
  10. "Bells" – 1:19
  11. "At the Beginning of Time" – 7:20
  12. "Love Is Everything" (Harmony Version) – 5:51

Personnel

  • Jane Siberry – guitar, piano, keyboards, organ, vocals, backing vocals
  • Ken Myhr – guitar, vocals on 7 8, percussion on 11

    • Additional personnel

  • Brian Eno – shaker on 1, oboe on 1, synthesizer on 4
  • Teddy Borowiecki – piano on 2
  • Glenn Milchem – drums on 1
  • David Ramsden – vocals on 1 7 8 11
  • James Pinker – drums on 1 4
  • Bryant Didier – bass on 1
  • Jamie West-Oram – guitar on 1
  • k.d. lang – vocals on 2
  • Ben Mink – viola on 2
  • Michael Brook – guitar on 3, infinite guitar on 3
  • Sid Wells – drum loops on 5 8
  • Robert Ahwai – bass on 5 7 8
  • Erdal Kızılçay – piano on 6
  • Holly Cole – vocals on 7 8
  • Rebecca Jenkins – vocals on 7 8 9
  • Michael Phillip-Wojewoda – vocals on 7 8, percussion on 11
  • Anne Bourne – cello on 7 8 9
  • Graham Dickson – drum loops on 7
  • Rebecca Campbell – vocals on 8
  • Andy Stochansky – vocals on 11
  • John Switzer – bass on 9
  • Paul Douglas – vocals on 9

    • Charts

    Album

    Singles

    Songs

    1Temple4:47
    2Calling All Angels5:19
    3Love Is Everything5:51

    References

    When I Was a Boy Wikipedia
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