Affirmation: The B-Sides

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Affirmation: The B-Sides
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Compilation album by Savage Garden
Released 23 March 2000
Recorded 1998–2000
Genre Pop
Length23:04
Label Sony Music
Producer J.M.W. Productions Australia
Savage Garden chronology
Ultra Hit Tracks
(2000)
Affirmation: The B-Sides
(2000)
Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden
(2005)

Affirmation: The B-Sides is a compilation album released by Australian pop duo Savage Garden exclusively in Japan. The album was commissioned following two other compilation albums being released exclusively in Japan during 1998 and 1999. The album contains five B-sides from singles taken from the group's second studio album, Affirmation . The album was released on 23 March 2000. [1]

Savage Garden Australian pop rock duo

Savage Garden were an Australian pop duo consisting of Darren Hayes on vocals and Daniel Jones on instruments. Formed in Logan City, Queensland, in 1994, the duo achieved international success in the end of the 1990s and beginning of the 2000s with the No. 1 hit singles "I Want You", "To the Moon and Back", "Truly Madly Deeply", "The Animal Song" and "I Knew I Loved You".

A-side and B-side the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records and cassette capes

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33​13 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records. The A-side usually featured the recording that the artist, record producer, or the record company intended to receive the initial promotional effort and then receive radio airplay, hopefully, to become a "hit" record. The B-side is a secondary recording that has a history of its own: some artists released B-sides that were considered as strong as the A-side and became hits in their own right. Others took the opposite approach: producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side.

<i>Affirmation</i> (Savage Garden album) 1999 studio album by Savage Garden

Affirmation is the second and final studio album by Australian pop duo Savage Garden. The album was released on 9 November 1999 by Columbia Records. It won the 2000 ARIA Music Award for Highest Selling Album along it nominated the 2000 ARIA Music Award for Best Group but lost to Killing Heidi's Reflector and Best Pop Release but lost to Kylie Minogue's "Spinning Around".

Track listing

  1. "Affirmation" (Groovy Mix) – 4:45
  2. "I Knew I Loved You" (7" Mini-Me Mix) – 4:19
  3. "I Knew I Loved You" (Eddie's Rhythm Radio Mix) – 4:25
  4. "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine" (Piano and Vocal Rough Mix) – 3:28
  5. "I Don't Care" (original version) – 5:05

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