Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/11/89)
Really-From: Mike Cyze <6014_5371@uwovax.uwo.ca> Erik Olson writes: >What I want to know is what the heck is going on in her life that she >suddenly puts out a "gosh, isn't life great" album after the very angry >and disallusioned compositions in _The Walking_. Any clues? I recently saw a TV blurb about Jane's new album. Evidently, during the recording (and writing) of _The_Walking_ , Jane was in the midst of breaking up with her then-boyfriend _____ Switzer (can't remember his first name). Note that he was also a producer on the record - Hence the more "moody" sound. Before recording her latest disc, she had just moved in with her new boyfriend (some Canadian film-maker, whose name escapes me at the moment). Interesting bit of trivia: Did you know that before recording _No_Borders_Here_ Jane went to Spain on the sole purpose of meeting Salvador Dali? She spent 4 days at his castle (more specifically, on the doorstep) until S. D. would talk with her. Mike. -------------------------- Mike Cyze UNIVERSE OF WESTERN ONTARIO Department of Geophysics "through the clock they sent / a washing machine " - Syd Barrett --------------------------
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/13/89)
Really-From: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) Mike Cyze writes: >I recently saw a TV blurb about Jane's new album. Evidently, during >the recording (and writing) of _The_Walking_ , Jane was in the midst >of breaking up with her then-boyfriend _____ Switzer (can't remember >his first name). Note that he was also a producer on the record - >Hence the more "moody" sound. John Switzer was the bass player and co-producer (with Jane) on No Borders Here, The Speckless Sky, and The Walking. I believe that he's still the bass player on Bound by the Beauty, but I don't have a copy handy to check the credits. As I recall, the major changes in the band were a different drummer and a different keyboard player (with the old keyboard player, Ann Bourne (I think), adding bv's on one track). >Interesting bit of trivia: > Did you know that before recording _No_Borders_Here_ Jane went to > Spain on the sole purpose of meeting Salvador Dali? She spent > 4 days at his castle (more specifically, on the doorstep) until > S. D. would talk with her. I hadn't heard that. Anyone have any good sources for Jane interviews? -Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley) -Wilson Lab, Cornell U.
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/14/89)
Really-From: donley@blake.acs.washington.edu (Erik Olson) >Really-From: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) >John Switzer was the bass player and co-producer (with Jane) on No Borders >Here, The Speckless Sky, and The Walking. I believe that he's still the >bass player on Bound by the Beauty, but I don't have a copy handy to check >the credits. As I recall, the major changes in the band were a different >drummer and a different keyboard player (with the old keyboard player, >Ann Bourne (I think), adding bv's on one track). John Switzer is also the 1/2 producer on _BBtB_, though he doesn't show up laced throughout the credits like he is on _the Walking._ This business about their relationship/breakup and subsequent effect on the production of _the Walking_ cleans up a few holes I was wondering about in the differences between these albums. OK, here's a poser: What does the "secret message" mean on the end of "Are we dancing now?" -- you can hear by turning up the volume real high at the end of the song, footsteps and then Jane's voice saying "Wolfgang?" - Eo
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/16/89)
Really-From: think!ames!scubed!waterloo!g.simmons@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU (Gregg Simmons) In article <4031@blake.acs.washington.edu> you write: >Really-From: donley@blake.acs.washington.edu (Erik Olson) > >OK, here's a poser: What does the "secret message" mean on the end of >"Are we dancing now?" -- you can hear by turning up the volume real high at >the end of the song, footsteps and then Jane's voice saying "Wolfgang?" > > - Eo Wolfgang is Jane's dog (as in "Everything Reminds Me Of My Dog"). I believe he is an Irish wolf hound. He is listed in the thank you notes on BBtB and possibly others. He also appears in the song "Above The Tree Line" from Jane's first album _Jane_Siberry_ (1981?). I think the "secret message" is Jane asking Wolf if he'd like to go for a walk ("git along little doggie" :-) Speaking of Jane's first album, I believe someone was asking about it a few days ago. I bought this album in Toronto shortly after I bought (and fell in love with) _No_Borders_Here_. Jane paid for the recording of this album by working as a waitress (hence "Waitress" on NBH). It was recorded in the basement of her parents house in suburban Toronto (Their neighbours told me this when I happened to sit next to them at Jane's TSS concert in Toronto). The album itself is much more folkie than her later efforts but it's just as quirky and therefore is endearing nonetheless. As far as the availability of this album goes, I think I still see it occassionally in the bins in record stores in Toronto but I doubt we'd see a re-release of it. Jane didn't even perform anything from it on the TSS tour. Also, someone (I think Gary Dare) posted in rec.music.misc that Jane studied that the Ontario College of Art. While that may be (I hadn't heard it before) she also has a B.Sc. in Microbiology from the University Of Guelph. Hence the scientific references in her lyrics ("flying through the air like crazy atoms", "like atoms in a model" and "it takes forever if you go by inertia"). Gregg (I was a Jane fan before I was a KaTe fan) Simmons All I said is, "Why are you so fat? If you don't want to be and all that. No big deal, I just want to know." Jane Siberry "This Girl I Know" from _Jane_Siberry_