Bound by the Beauty

Infobox Album
Name = Bound By the Beauty
Type = Studio album
Artist = Jane Siberry


Released = September 12 1989
Recorded = 1989
Genre = Alternative Pop/Rock, Country
Length = 42:39
Label = Duke Street Records/Reprise Records
Producer = Jane Siberry and John Switzer
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fch1z81ajyv2 link]
Last album = "The Walking" (1988)
This album = "Bound By the Beauty" (1989)
Next album = "When I Was a Boy" (1993)

"Bound By the Beauty" is a 1989 album by Jane Siberry.

Following her controversial 1987/1988 outing "The Walking", "Bound By the Beauty" was a return to Siberry's trademark quirky but accessible brand of pop music. It received better initial reviews than "The Walking", and the title track received more extensive radio airplay than Siberry had seen since "One More Colour" in 1985. However, the whimsical "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog", whose video was still in frequent rotation on MuchMusic as late as 1993, is probably the album's most famous song.

The country-tinged title track was the lead-off single. The album songs are nature- ("Something About Trains", "The Valley") or Canadiana- ("Hockey") oriented, and some have a folk music-influence.

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 fag/fucking homeless preacher dyke/cabbie fucking union scab". Siberry was merely commenting on the prevalence of this type of offensive language on the streets of a big city, but some groups initially misunderstood the lyric as an endorsement of racism and homophobia.

"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". He was also responsible for the cover photograph.

Track listing

All tracks written by Jane Siberry.
# "Bound by the Beauty" – 4:41
# "Something About Trains" – 3:44
# "Hockey" – 3:58
# "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog" – 4:17
# "The Valley" – 6:04)
# "The Life Is the Red Wagon" – 4:12
# "Half Angel Half Eagle" – 3:55
# "La Jalouse" – 3:59
# "Miss Punta Blanca" – 1:38
# "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
*Dave Pilch – 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