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
Recorded1995–2005
Genre Pop, pop rock, soft rock
Length68:00
Label Columbia
Producer Mark Endert
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 a compilation album released by Australian pop duo Savage Garden.

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". [1] 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. The DVD contained seven music videos and a documentary video on the duo. Till August 2006, the album sold 31,000 in United States. [2]

Track listing

  1. "I Want You" – 3:53 from Savage Garden
  2. "I Knew I Loved You" – 4:11 from Affirmation
  3. "To the Moon and Back" – 5:42 from Savage Garden
  4. "Hold Me" – 4:52 from Affirmation
  5. "Santa Monica" – 3:36 from Savage Garden
  6. "Crash and Burn" – 4:42 from Affirmation
  7. "Break Me Shake Me" – 3:25 from Savage Garden
  8. "Truly Madly Deeply" – 4:39 from Savage Garden
  9. "The Animal Song" – 4:39 from Affirmation
  10. "Affirmation" – 4:58 from Affirmation
  11. "So Beautiful" – 4:58 Previously unreleased
  12. "California" – 6:00 Previously unreleased
  13. "I Don't Care" – 5:05 B-Side from Affirmation
  14. "I'll Bet He Was Cool" – 4:41 B-Side from Break Me Shake Me
  15. "Love Can Move You" – 4:47 B-Side from Universe
  16. "Fire Inside the Man" – 4:11 B-Side from I Want You
  17. "This Side of Me" – 4:11 B-Side from Universe
Deluxe edition bonus DVD
  1. "I Want You" – 3:53
  2. "I Knew I Loved You" – 4:11
  3. "To the Moon and Back" – 5:42
  4. "Hold Me" – 4:52
  5. "Crash and Burn" – 4:42
  6. "Break Me Shake Me" – 3:25
  7. "Truly Madly Deeply" – 4:39
  8. "Parallel Lives" documentary – 30:00

Chart performance and certifications

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