When I Was a Boy
| When I Was a Boy | ||||
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| Released | August 3, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | June 1991–January 1993 Mushroom Studios, Vancouver Reaction Studios, Toronto Westside Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Ambient Synthpop Downtempo | |||
| Length | 66:23 | |||
| Label | Reprise/Warner Bros. Records 26824 | |||
| Producer | Jane Siberry, Brian Eno (tracks 1 and 4), Michael Brook (track 3) | |||
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| The Village Voice | B− |
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 2000. 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 that was popular in dance clubs. The album was also Siberry's first to explore more spiritual themes, which would become a hallmark of her later 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".