When I Was a Boy

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When I Was a Boy
When I Was a Boy cover
Studio album by Jane Siberry
Released August 3, 1993
Recorded June 1991–January 1993
Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, BC
Reaction Studios, Toronto
Westside Studios, London
Genre Adult Alternative, Ambient Pop, Trip-Hop
Length 66:23
Label Reprise Records
Producer Jane Siberry, Brian Eno (tracks 1 and 4), Michael Brook (track 3)
Professional reviews
Jane Siberry chronology
Bound by the Beauty
(1989)		 When I Was a Boy
(1993)		 Maria
(1995)

When I Was a Boy is a 1993 album by Jane Siberry. Internationally, it is her most famous album. In Siberry's native Canada, however, the album was commercially successful but not as big a hit as her 1985 album The Speckless Sky.

The album includes Siberry's most famous song, "Calling All Angels", a duet with k.d. lang which appeared on two movie soundtracks, Until the End of the World in 1991 and Pay It Forward in 1998. The song was also sung by cast members of Six Feet Under in a scene from the episode "The Rainbow of Her Reasons." "Sail Across the Water" and "Temple" were the other singles from the album.

Several songs included electronic textures; "Temple" was Siberry's first song which was popular in dance clubs. The cover of the album features Siberry and visually conveys the attitude felt in the music.

On The Tragically Hip's 1997 live album Live Between Us, Gordon Downie sings the chorus from "Temple" in that album's track "Nautical Disaster".

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Jane Siberry, except where indicated.

  1. "Temple" – 4:45
  2. "Calling All Angels" – 5:17
  3. "Love Is Everything" – 5:50
  4. "Sail Across the Water" – 5:22
  5. "All the Candles in the World" – 3:49
  6. "Sweet Incarnadine" (Siberry, Erdal Kizilcay, Ken Myhr) – 6:46
  7. "The Gospel According to Darkness" – 4:51
  8. "An Angel Stepped Down (And Slowly Looked Around)" – 5:50
  9. "The Vigil (The Sea)" – 9:23
  10. "Bells" – 1:19
  11. "At the Beginning of Time" – 7:20
  12. "Love Is Everything (Harmony Version)" – 5:51

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Additional personnel