Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden

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Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden
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Greatest hits album by
Released1 November 2005
4 February 2006 (United States)
Recorded1995–2005
Genre
Length68:00
Label Columbia
Producer
Savage Garden chronology
Affirmation: The B-Sides
(2000)
Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden
(2005)
The Singles
(2015)
Singles from Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden
  1. "So Beautiful"
    Released: 31 October 2005

Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden is the first greatest hits album released by Australian pop duo Savage Garden. It was released on 1 November 2005 via Columbia Records. As of August 2006, the album has sold 31,000 copies in the United States. [1]

Contents

Background

The album was released worldwide on 1 November 2005, within the exception of the United States, where it was not available until 4 February 2006. The album was released to commemorate Savage Garden's tenth year in the music industry, and their overwhelming success, despite only releasing two albums— Savage Garden and Affirmation . The album was originally planned for release in 2003, containing thirteen of the band's singles, minus "Chained to You", and two bonus tracks—"All Around Me" and "I Don't Care". [2] However, due to contractual issues, the album release was cancelled. In 2005, Hayes and Columbia Records came together to organise a similar release, to be made available in the fourth quarter of 2005. Released on 1 November 2005, the album contains ten of the group's singles, all digitally remastered, in addition to five non-album B-Sides, as well as two new solo tracks from Hayes, "California" and "So Beautiful", the latter of which was released as a single on 31 October 2005, to promote the compilation. The album was made available with four different colour sleeves. A limited edition version of the album, containing a bonus DVD, was made available in Australia and Japan.

Track listing

All tracks written by Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones except where noted.

Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden track listing
No.TitleOriginal albumLength
1."I Want You" Savage Garden 3:53
2."I Knew I Loved You" Affirmation 4:11
3."To the Moon and Back"Savage Garden5:42
4."Hold Me"Affirmation4:52
5."Santa Monica"Savage Garden3:36
6."Crash and Burn"Affirmation4:42
7."Break Me Shake Me"Savage Garden3:25
8."Truly Madly Deeply"Savage Garden4:39
9."The Animal Song"Affirmation4:39
10."Affirmation"Affirmation4:58
11."So Beautiful" (
  • Darren Hayes
  • Robert Conley
)
Previously unreleased4:58
12."California" (
  • Hayes
  • Conley
)
Previously unreleased6:00
13."I Don't Care"B-side to "Affirmation"5:05
14."I'll Be He Was Cool"B-side to "Break Me Shake Me"4:41
15."Love Can Move You"B-side to "Universe"4:47
16."Fire Inside the Man"B-side to "I Want You"4:11
17."This Side of Me"B-side to "Universe"4:11
Total length:68:00
Deluxe edition bonus DVD
No.TitleDirectorLength
1."I Want You" Nigel Dick  
2."To the Moon & Back" Adolfo Doring  
3."Truly Madly Deeply" (US Version)Doring 
4."Break Me, Shake Me"Doring 
5."I Knew I Loved You" Kevin Bray  
6."Crash and Burn"Yariv Gaber 
7."Hold Me"Alex Keshishian 
8."Parallel Lines" (Documentary)Pip Mattiske 

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