My Top 10 Favourite Singles – Savage Garden
Home » Music, Film & TV »I’ve mentioned several times on my blog, my love of Darren Hayes… formerly of Savage Garden. You may remember the Australian band from the 90s – Truly, Madly, Deeply and I Knew I Loved You were two of their big hits here in the UK.
They split up in 2001, after world wide success, including a huge 80 show World Tour, the release of 2 albums, which spawned several hits (that I still get excited about when I hear them on the radio!) and 20 million plus in record sales. Savage Garden are one of the most successful duos in pop music history and among the most successful Australian recording artists of all time, winning a record number of ten ARIA Music Awards in 1997. In addition, they are the reigning record-holders for the longest number of weeks on the Monitor/Billboard Adult Contemporary Airplay charts in the US for their singles: I Knew I Loved You (124 weeks) and Truly, Madly, Deeply (123 weeks).
They have released 3 new CDs – expanded editions of their Savage Garden and Affirmation albums, and, The Singles, a CD retrospective compiling their incredible string of hits in one place, as well as accompanying film clips on DVD; and includes the previously unreleased, recently unearthed 1994 demo recording ‘She’.
When I saw this news on Savage Garden’s Facebook page, I immediately went over to their store to buy all three CDs! And I did a very happy dance when they finally arrived! It’s been a while since I listed through all of Savage Garden’s tracks – I tend to stick to Darren’s solo work these days, but oh, the wonderful sounds of the band hit me full of nostalgia for the first time I listened to the songs. I was very late to the game as far as being a fan is concerned… a pen pal of mine said they were awesome, so I bought their CDs and fell in love with their sound from the moment I heard them! I was gutted to have never seen them on tour, but at least I’ve seen Darren (several times), and even met the man himself! I am truly a fan girl of this Aussie!
It’s been ages since I did a Sunday Sounds post, I’m quite flaky, but I’m going to try and stick to it each week… maybe..! And since I can’t just pick my favourite song, it’s impossible, but I’ve decided to share my top 10 favourite Savage Garden singles. That means there is room for another post, as there are lots of album tracks I love too! So, I thought, from time to time I’d compile a list of my favourite thing in another series called Top 10s!
It was quite hard to put my favourites in order – #1 has always been, and will always be #1; but so close with #2, which I remember playing over and over on the radio, and it made me fall in love with Darren’s voice; and #3 was played at our wedding when we signed the register…
My Top 10 Singles – Savage Garden
10 – Break Me, Shake Me
9 – Truly, Madly, Deeply
8 – Tears of Pearls
7 – I Want You
6 – To The Moon and Back
5 – The Animal Song
4 – I Knew I Loved You
3 – The Best Thing
2 – Crash and Burn
Happy Homebird
July 7, 2015 @ 9:12 pm
He’s a fine looking man! Love Savage Garden so this brought back some great memories. Adding a few to my YouTube play list now :) Truly, Madly, Deeply, The Animal Song, Crash and Burn, I Knew I Loved You. xx
Michelle Ordever
July 8, 2015 @ 3:22 pm
You can say that again – he is fine with a capital F!! Even more gorge in real life, and believe me, I fan girled hard when I met him! He has an awesome back catalogue from his SG days xx
sonya
July 7, 2015 @ 10:20 am
Havent heard some of these for years – thanks for the reminder!
Michelle Ordever
July 7, 2015 @ 10:26 am
They are quality pop tracks, for me, they stand the test of time! x
Sara
July 6, 2015 @ 10:55 am
I LOVE SAVAGE GARDEN!!! Affirmation is by far one of my favourite songs of all time, I remember my teacher in primary school asking us to analyse the lyrics and I still think about it today. Definitely ahead of it’s time, that’s for sure!
Michelle Ordever
July 7, 2015 @ 10:27 am
Always great to meet a fellow fan!! The lyrics for Affirmation really do it for me – as well as the melody of course, but the words just stand out and speak to me x
Beautyqueenuk
July 5, 2015 @ 5:25 pm
Im not a huge fan of Savage Garden but Truly Madly Deeply is on my iPod x
Michelle Ordever
July 7, 2015 @ 10:27 am
Everyone loves Truly Madly Deeply! x