When I Was A Boy

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Album Information
  • Artist: Jane Siberry (See All Albums by Jane Siberry)

  • Date Released: Jul 30, 1993

  • Genre: Rock/Pop, Style: Pop

  • Label: Reprise

  • Copyright: 1993 Reprise Records for the U. S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the U.S.

Total Tracks: 12   Total Length: 67:42

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"The Vigil" is Absolute Intensity

longislandhasher1

This album is a classic. I'm surprised the All Music review is relatively lukewarm as they usually err on the side of praise. I agree with the other posters. You want goosebumps? Sit in your listening room, turn off the lights and blast "The Vigil." Best $.49 high you'll ever get.

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soundtrack of heaven

Vitalengine

Was in a coffeeshop and heard this familiar and extraordinary voice, and it worried me as I tried to figure out where I'd heard it. Turned out to be Aimee Mann, and I thought, "how awesome are you, to disturb me like this." Love Aimee Mann. But Jane Siberry will give you those goosebumps and more. Strangeness, comfort, yearning. With any luck this is the soundtrack of heaven. Love is Everything is poetry: all-in, no-holds-barred, elusive splendor.

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This record makes me cry

frethepig

It's just so intimate and beautiful, I don't understand it, because I am one cynical mofo, but it is what it is.

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They Say All Music Guide

Considering the three-year delay since Jane Siberry’s previous release (which reportedly saw one completed album scrapped altogether), Siberry had obviously gone through some intense soul-searching to determine where her muse was to take her next. Judging by When I Was a Boy, she ended up retreating to some neutral ground that drew on several elements of her previous work without really taking things anywhere new. This is a very personal, introspective album, its intimate textures consistent with the ambient work that production collaborators Brian Eno and Michael Brook were well known for, and even average Siberry was still better than most of what was foisted on the public as female vocalist pop circa this album’s release in 1993. – Roch Parisien

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