Bound by the Beauty
{{Infobox album
| name = Bound By the Beauty
| type = Studio album
| artist = Jane Siberry
| cover = Bound by the Beauty (Jane Siberry album - cover art).jpg
| alt =
| released = September 12, 1989
| recorded = 1989
| venue =
| studio =
| 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
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r17944|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
}}
Bound By the Beauty is a 1989 album by Jane Siberry. It received better reviews than her previous album, The Walking,{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} and the title track received more extensive radio airplay than Siberry had seen since "One More Colour" in 1985.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}
The track "Half Angel Half Eagle" was controversial.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} 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.{{cite web|title=John Balance Service|url=http://www.thresholdhouse.com/service.pdf |publisher=Threshold House |access-date=8 June 2023 |author=Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson |date=30 November 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320070418/http://www.thresholdhouse.com/service.pdf |archive-date=20 March 2009 }}
"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.
- "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
- David Piltch – 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
- Cherie Camp – vocals on 6
- Don Freed – vocals on 4
Charts
Album
| class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Year !align="left"|Chart !align="left"|Peak position !align="left"|Weeks on the chart |
| align="left"|1987
|align="left"|RPM Top 100 Albums |align="left"|6 |