Truly, Madly, Completely- The Best of Savage Garden

Savage Garden | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 24, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000BUXUUG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,063 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Savage Garden, The Best of Savage Garden: Truly, Madly, Completely

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not thrilled with the album, January 3, 2007

By 

Jenmark Grace (ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Truly, Madly, Completely- The Best of Savage Garden (Audio CD)

My husband and I are huge Savage Garden fans. We were both disappointed with this album. It seems like towards the end of the CD they were just trying to fill in space. It is ashame because there were so many other wonderful songs they created that did not appear on the album. I would reccomend buying the original CD's separately, get more for your money that way.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Collection, Why Remastered Though?, February 26, 2006

By 

KiWiSouP "kiwisoup" (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Truly, Madly, Completely- The Best of Savage Garden (Audio CD)

All the hits are here despite only having two CDs. The addition of the two new Darren songs is great, I can't get "So Beautiful" out of my head. "California" is also pretty good, but I don't care much for any of the B-sides that follow that song. I would have much rather had more hits or fan favorites than these songs that didn't make it to the albums for a reason.

I didn't really see the need to digitally Remaster ANY of these songs...they aren't decades old, don't fix what isn't broken. I can't help but notice a difference in the songs...they just sound tampered with...but some people probably wouldn't notice. Oh well...btw check out Darren's CD "The Tension And the Spark" very highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome CD with a Few Surprises, January 25, 2008

By 

Nicole Martinez "Reviews by Cole" (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Truly, Madly, Completely- The Best of Savage Garden (Audio CD)

Savage Garden songs are basically the soundtrack to my middle school life and listening to them always brings me back to hanging out with friends, my first failed relationships and all the hopes I had for the world. Although I own both their CDs I was excited for this one. Unfortunately, I do not own it but have listened to it extensively.

This CD does contain many of their hits (Including, from Savage Garden - "I Want You" and "Truly Madly Deeply" and from Affirmation "I Knew I Loved You," "The Animal Song" and "Crash And Burn ") and, if you like the music but don't want to purchase the whole 2 albums or aren't a huge fan, this is a good CD full of 90's pop with strong, creative lyrics, danceable beats, sweet ballos and song mechanisms that don't necessarily fall into standard pop cliches.

This CD also contains B-sides which SG has released over the years.
Many SG fans, including myself, have fallen in love with those B-sides and the addition of this is genius. Although I never owned any of the singles, I spent much time hunting down the songs online to add them to my collection and I'm glad I did; though they may not have been singles themselves, they're all high quality gems and many are unique in sounds (which is probably why they were left off the CDs, not because they are dull songs).

I did not specifically notice the remastering although I have listened to these songs in digital format which may be less clear; however, as everyone knows, sometimes it's the clicks, pops and "white noise" that makes us love an album even more and, if that's what you're looking for, I suggest you buy the original 2 CDs.

I would also suggest you buy the original 2 CDs if you're more than just an average SG fan because SG's music is such that it is best appreciate when listening to the whole CD and you can better appreciate the arrangement of the songs that way. This compilation may also be missing some of your favourite tracks which were not big hits or released as singles.

To end on a positive note, you can also find 2 tracks by Darren Hayes as a solo artist - "So Beautful" and "California" - which are both, simply beautiful although "California" is rather sad.

Overall, a strong release with some awesome surprises which may be lacking in areas but it wouldn't make sense to have a 2 disc compilation when SG only released 2 CDs.