Bound by the Beauty

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Bound By the Beauty
Bound by the Beauty (Jane Siberry album - cover art).jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 12, 1989
Recorded1989
Genre Art pop, folk pop, soft rock
Length42:39
Label Duke Street Records/Reprise Records
Producer Jane Siberry and John Switzer
Jane Siberry chronology
The Walking
(1988)
Bound By the Beauty
(1989)
When I Was a Boy
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Bound By the Beauty is a 1989 album by Jane Siberry. It received better reviews than her previous album, The Walking,[ citation needed ] and the title track received more extensive radio airplay than Siberry had seen since "One More Colour" in 1985.[ citation needed ]

Contents

The track "Half Angel Half Eagle" was controversial.[ citation needed ] 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.

The track "The Valley" was played during the funeral service for John Balance. [2]

"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.

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

Additional personnel

Charts

Album

YearChartPeak positionWeeks on the chart
1987 RPM Top 100 Albums80 [3] 6

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (30 November 2004). "John Balance Service" (PDF). Threshold House. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 March 2009. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  3. "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 50, No. 25, October 16 1989". Archived from the original on 2012-10-15. Retrieved 2010-06-13.