Bound by the Beauty

Bound By the Beauty
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 12, 1989
Recorded1989
GenreArt pop, folk pop, soft rock
Length42:39
LabelDuke Street Records/Reprise Records
ProducerJane 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
Allmusic[1]

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]

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.

  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.