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Bound by the Beauty

Bound By the Beauty
Bound by the Beauty (Jane Siberry album - cover art).jpg
Studio album by Jane Siberry
Released September 12, 1989
Recorded 1989
Genre Alternative rock
Country rock
Folk rock
Length 42:39
Label Duke Street Records/Reprise Records
Producer Jane Siberry and John Switzer
Jane Siberry chronology
The Walking
(1988)The Walking1988
Bound By the Beauty
(1989)
When I Was a Boy
(1993)When I Was a Boy1993
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Allmusic 3/5 stars

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.

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 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.

All tracks written by Jane Siberry.

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