| Bound By the Beauty | |
| Type: | Studio album |
| Artist: | Jane Siberry |
| Cover: | Bound by the Beauty (Jane Siberry album - cover art).jpg |
| Released: | September 12, 1989 |
| Recorded: | 1989 |
| Genre: | Art pop, folk pop, soft rock |
| Length: | 42:39 |
| Label: | Duke Street Records/Reprise Records |
| Producer: | Jane Siberry and John Switzer |
| Prev Title: | The Walking |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | When I Was a Boy |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
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 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.[1]
"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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