1. Temple
2. Calling All Angels
3. Love Is Everything
4. Sail Across the Water
5. All the Candles in the World
6. Sweet Incarnadine
7. The Gospel According to Darkness
8. An Angel Stepped Down (And Slowly Looked Around)
9. The Vigil (The Sea)
10. Bells
11. At the Beginning of Time
12. Love Is Everything
When I Was a Boy
- Audio CD: 0 pages (1993-08-03)
- Publisher: Reprise / Wea
- Label: Reprise / Wea
- Studio: Reprise / Wea
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 44 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #7247
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Summary: Best album ever! 2007-12-04
Comment: This album is an experience and I think it's nothing short of a masterpiece. I didn't care for it at first, but it grew on me the more I became open to it. There are so many different layers of sound and meaning on each track. Listening with earphones heightens ones experience.
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Summary: Like a jazz open mic -- good for the performer, weak for the listener 2007-10-10
Comment: I love Jane S's voice and got this CD because her version of "Calling All Angels" was the song my son and daughter-in-law danced to at their wedding. The rest of the CD just doesn't appeal to my taste -- a little too "experimental" and what I'd call non-musical.
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Summary: "It's not you, it's me..." 2007-08-30
Comment: Have you ever met someone and thought they had lots of good qualities but somehow the spark wasn't there and you never really connected? There was nothing you could really put your finger on -- he/she was a good person, attractive, smart, etc. but it just didn't click. This album is like that for me. I can't say anything is particularly wrong with it, other than that it seems overly sentimental. She has a good voice and it's well produced, but I just don't want to listen to it.
Can we still be friends?
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Summary: When I was a Boy 2007-08-14
Comment: This exactly the CD I have been wanting. Very good quality. I only wanted one song from the CD but all songs are very good.
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Summary: Take a Chance 2007-06-29
Comment: Some excellent things in life take a little getting used to. This album might be one. The first time I heard it I thought it was pretentious at best, and quite possibly insufferable. But the album wouldn't let me reject it. I listened again. Bit by bit, it grew on me. And then I tumbled all the way. There was a period when this was the only CD I wanted to play, over and over.
People have made connections between Siberry and Kate Bush and other artists. You might as well throw Laurie Anderson in there. Like Anderson, Siberry can be extremely likable while taking you to some spooky places.
If you want an entry point to the album, use the one that worked for me. The duet with K D Lang, "Calling All Angels," is just stunning. The lyrics are poetry. The melody will haunt your dreams. The performance will almost surely leave you a changed person.
Quirky? God yes! And that can be a good thing.
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