This was my husband's and my song ... he passed away in 2000 and I played it at his funeral. To this day it remains our song and it always brings back great memories. It is beautiful! 💕
My fiances song was "I Swear" by boyband All 4 One. Aussie tradie by day, but he secretly loved his beautiful "boybands" like Boys2Men. He'd be 41 now if the brain tumour hadn't regrown and taken him. R.I.P Dino and all those taken too soon❤
An Australian pop duo consisting of Darren Hayes on vocals and Daniel Jones on instruments. Formed in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1993, the duo achieved international success in the mid 1990s and early 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". The band's two studio albums, Savage Garden and Affirmation, reached No. 1 in Australia and peaked in the top ten in both the United Kingdom and United States. These albums sold 23 million copies worldwide.
The group won a record number of ten ARIA Music Awards in 1997 for their debut album and its related singles. They disbanded in the end of 2001, and Hayes continued as a solo artist.
I've heard that this song they struggled with and eventually they changed the title to Truly Madly Deeply only then did it sell - it's great love and Valentines song
Great 90s tune. Savage Garden made a huge splash between 1995 and 2000 before the duo (vocalist Darren Hayes and instrumentalist Daniel Jones) parted company in 2001. They had two #1 hits - this and "I Knew I Loved You". "I Want You" is a banger (and much faster-paced than this one). Others to check out are "To the Moon and Back", "Crash and Burn", and "The Animal Song".
Another good love song is “Waiting For A Girl Like You” by Foreigner (official video version with Lou Gramm), from 1981. Definitely Amber’s kind of thing.
This group was formed in the same city the Bee Gee's formed in! These guys came out at a time when most Australian music was hard indie rock - (in fact most Aussie pop singers would go to London) so they copped a lot of flack for being so soft and poppy.... I knew the singer a little before he was famous and he was working in a record shop.
Savage Garden was popular when my kids were little. They had a hit song called "I Want You" that was playing on the radio like crazy. In it he sings very fast and one line he sings "like you're drinking cherry cola". My kids misheard it and would keep asking me to play the "Chikka Cherry Cola song". ha ha They had a number of favorite songs at that age and they knew none of them by their real name. I ended up having to make a CD for them with THEIR names for the songs so when they went to their grandparents house grandma could play their songs since she didn't know what the "Chikka Cherry Cola" song was... Another one they liked was the "Boom Boom Bop" song... which was Queen's "We Will Rock You". :D
The lyric actually is “Chica Cherry Cola”. Your kids were right. The title is/was I Want You but is often unofficially referred to as I Want You (chica cherry cola) or I Want You (cherry cola).
Just checked the lyrics in my savage garden CD booklet, and it says 'chic-a-cherry cola'.... no idea what it means, but rolls off the tongue great when singing along to the song.
The instrument was a guitar that is being played like a spanish guitar. It is beautiful and you would love spanish guitar music. Amber, was it "Kiss an Angel Goodmorning" by Charlie Pride?
Savage Garden was so popular all over the world when they were around. Released two amazing albums, and then creative differences broke them up and it was all over just like that. “Affirmations” and “I Knew I Loved You” by Savage Garden are great too. And just because of the nostalgia and because I don’t see other reactors do this one- “2AM (Breathe)” by Anna Nalick is one of the best written songs of the century. And it’s so vastly underrated. But i know 💯 that you two would enjoy it so much!
Along these same lines give Natalie Imbruglia "Torn" a listen. Very good song and popular back in its time. The song you are trying to remember is "Kiss An Angle Good Morning" by Charlie Pride.
Loved Savage Garden during the late 90's Would suggest songs like this from this time: "Torn"- Natalie Imbruglia, "Back For Good"- Take That, "Runaway"- The Corrs
This song brings me back to a simpler time, when the world was a little more “innocent” and people actually talked to one another in person. Thanks for the wonderful review and for helping me find some good memories from so many years ago.
One of my favorite Savage Garden songs is "Affirmation." It shows their energetic side and rhythm. Also, the instrument solo was probably a mandolin. It's a great instrument you should see and hear. I hope you choose this as your next Savage Garden song.
Yes, you played Savage Garden, one of my favourite 90s bands. Darrens voice is so beautiful.For another great balled, try To The Moon And Back. And another fantastic more up-beat song is Tears Of Pearls. And of course, the unique, I Want You.
I personally would not know this song without my beautiful wife who loves to slow dance whenever we listen to it I am always happy to give her those sweet moments we have after 27 years of marriage! What I love the most is Jordan defending Barry Gibb I love me some Bee Gees music I was born in 1966 so I literally have been with the Bee Gees from the beginning they are my favorite group of all time So Jordan you keep defending the most ICONIC voice ever!!!
Love Savage Garden, they have more upbeat songs like Affirmation and Break me shake me, which I love. The singer Darren Hayes has done solo stuff as well.
Savage Garden vocalist Darren Hayes did a live performance at the 2003 Australian ARIAS of the Delta Goodrem song “Lost Without You” in front of her when she was recovering from chemotherapy and it was so beautiful it brought her (and everyone else) to tears.
I'll take come credit with introducing Savasge Garden to North America. My friends in Australia introduced me to their music and I pushed a local Toronto station to play a song "I want you", and sure enough it got a positive reaction.
The whole cd this song is off of is pretty good! This song was all over when it came out, very very popular! Thx guys!! Much love and peace !! Couple other of their songs…. “,I knew I loved you” “ to the moon and back” “Affirmation” “The lover after me”
Bruce also wrote “The End of the Innocence,” which Don Henley of The Eagles covered and made into a hit. He’s also the piano player on Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” He also played in the Grateful Dead for a while.
Oh my god! For you to say he is not a powerhouse vocalist is ridiculous. You have to listen to his other songs before you make a statement like that. This man has a range that other singers could only dream of having!!’
Couldn’t go 5 minutes without hearing this song in australia in the 90s (even afterwards). Once it was huge worldwide the radio here just wouldn’t stop playing it. This must be my most listened to song of my adolescence - and I never even put it on!
First, this is one of my wife Millie and I's love songs to each other. Another is Dido's "White Flag", a good female Friday song. Second, this song was current when my good friend's wife was dying of malignant melanoma. Rose was a beautiful woman in all aspects that a woman can be. She was saying the long goodbye to her son Andrew and husband Steve as her final weeks unfolded. How much would one want to lay down forever by the side of one's son? "Until the Sky falls down onto me."? Different lyrical interpretation of course, but shows how music can be so multi-purposeful. Very sad right now. But thanks for playing/reacting to it.
For Female Friday: Bette Midler - ‘From a Distance’ Ronnie Spector - ‘Be My Baby’ Toni Braxton - ‘Un-Break My Heart’ Roberta Flack - ‘First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ Other notables: Christopher Cross - ‘Sailing,’ Kayne Brown - ‘Worship You,’ Kool and The Gang - ‘Celebration,’ Dan Fogelberg - ‘Same Old Lang Syne’ Luther Vandross - ‘Dance With My Father’
'Truly, Madly Deeply' is a quirky, popular, but obscure British movie. I loved it! A musician's, musician boyfriend tragically dies, and she just can't get over her grief, so he comes back to her as a ghost, and then she loses her sentimentality for his memory. She is eventually able to get on with living.
Iconic Aussie band. Their first album literally had no bad songs on it, and I believe in one awards show took out something like 11 awards. So glad you did this. More Aussie music please!!!!
This song has so much meaning to me. I met a man on-line, when my marriage was falling apart....my husband had become quite abusive by that time, and i knew I had to get my kids away, but, it was so complicated. and I would have been broke, needing a full-time job, my kids fending for themselves after always having me there, and even homeschooling them, etc. I was terrified. Robert and I became friends over the course of three years (I am a very cautious person when it comes to trusting people. I talked with his kids, and even his ex, before I agreed to meet him, since we lived in different states.) I lived near an ocean, and he lived near hills and mountains. This became our song...our first dance, once we met. Unfortunately, he died of cancer, 4 years after my ex passed away, and 6 years after we had met. I bought at least three of Savage Garden's CDs, as I kept wearing them out, lol. But, he gave me hope in dark and scary times. He loved my girls, as he loved his own. He encouraged me to heights I never dreamed I could achieve. I miss him to this day...13 years later. I've never met anyone like him, and will never feel that kind of love again. This was "Our Song". They did another song, which I cannot find at this time, but it had the lyrics of , "But on the telephone line I am anything, I wanna be...I can be a Norman Mailer or Space Invader, and you wouldn't know. now would you? I can be supermodel or -----?" It made me so suspicious of anyone I meet on-line, you know? I forget the name of the song, but, well, it has be a couple of decades, lol. Anyone???
Classic 90’s song. If you enjoyed this check out The Corrs - Breathless. They are an Irish family band, 3 sisters & their brother. More upbeat musically, but similar tones and a just a great song overall.
Ooh yes I second this one. The Corrs were huge in the 90s and early 2000s with no. 1 songs in many countries. Both Breathless and Runaway would be good ones to check out 👍
Tremendous luv and blessings to u both and the viewers. Thank u for positive content u guys are amazing, I wish u all the blessings I can. Also the viewers, positive energy to all!!!!
@@andreasoice5905 ... I Knew I Loved You is the correct title. Fun Fact: If you seen the video the girl on the train is a seventeen-year-old Kirsten Dunst about a year before she made the first Spider-Man movie
"I want you" was their first hit... and completely different from this. This was later jn their career. But I love all their music. Please react to I want you... and compare the 2. Also... "I knew I loved you" my fav by them!
I believe that was a mandolin you asked about…..if you want to hear a stunningly beautiful song using the mandolin, by an artist/group that will send you down a talent rabbit hole, check out Mandolin Rain by Bruce Hornsby and the Range!
You've just scratched the surface of Savage Garden! in addition to the other songs already recommended in other comments, i also suggest, "Break Me, Shake Me", "Violet", "Carry on Dancing" and "Affirmation". There's just so many good songs of theirs!
Oh, love Savage Garden! "I knew I loved you" by Savage Garden was our wedding first dance song.. 🥰 I also love "To the moon and back", and "I want you" is faster and fun! Yes, love his voice too!
I never thought of this as a wedding song till now. "I Knew I loved you" made me think of a new baby. Maybe because I was pregnant at the time. 😊 "I knew I loved you before I met you I think I dreamed you into life I knew I loved you before I met you I have been waiting all my life"
This song was my song to my longtime girlfriend when we first met in 1998. It perfectly describes how I felt about her until her passing in April, 2021 of a sudden cardiac arrest. Truly, Madly, Deeply. I feel the pain of her loss every single day.
I always felt like they were the Air Supply of the 90s. Great songs. They got their name from Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles. Lestat refered to the world of vampires as the Savage Garden.
Ah some good ol’ 90’s hits! Try “To The Moon & Back” “I Knew I Loved You”. Other 90’s hits…Train “Meet Virginia” GooGoo Dolls “Iris” Edwin McCain “I’ll Be” (you’d really like this one) and Third Eye Blind (they have a couple)
This was my wedding song!!! I picked it out& walked down to isle to it. Love Savage Garden!!! Divorced now, marriage was 15 years. But still love them & this song. We went to see them in concert too. They were amazing & everyone in the audience knew the words.
Hey - you guys discovered another GEM. My very favorite song by them is To the Moon and Back - you'll BOTH love it. And you MUST listen to I Want You. I just want to see the looks on your faces when you listen to it.
If y'all want more savage garden check out I knew I loved you and crash and burn. The meaning behind the lyrics of crash and burn is just amazing. Almost 20 years old and the lyrics still ring true today. I knew I loved you is a soft love song like truly madly deeply.
Ahhh yes Savage Garden from the late 90's. Interesting that Kirsten Dunst was in one of their videos. "I Knew I Loved You" is another one of their best hits. Btw, Jordan "Larger Than Life" is my favorite BSB song. "Jumper" by Third Eye Blind is a good one too.
This is probably their biggest hit, but they have so many great songs, many of which are much more upbeat. "Affirmation" is probably my favorite, along with "Gunning Down Romance".
Shall we turn them on to Debbie Boone & “You Light Up My Life”???? I mean she did win awards for the song & it was 10 weeks at number 1. J/K, I think I heard it enough in the 70s to last a life time :-)
They had two albums together on Columbia records before they split --loved both albums (every song on both albums is GOOD) , have both and still listen to their music. Another band to check out is Lifehouse - "You and me" and Savage Garden - "I Knew I loved you" which was from their second album
Suggestions 1. Patti Labelle & Michael MCDonald "On My Own" 2. Elton John & Kiki Dee " Don't Go Breaking My Heart" 2. Barbara Streisand & Donna Summer "Enough is Enough"
This takes me back. My cousin and I loved this song back in the day. I just had to attend his funeral two weeks ago... I had almost forgot this memory, so thanks for that.
"A really sincere and special and emotional song. There was something really emotional about the combination of this very naive intention and a very deep feeling, which was how I felt when I was living in a one-bedroom apartment in Kings Cross, with Daniel Jones, making this album. We were incredibly poor-I remember we used to save money by sleeping in late. Often the recording sessions wouldn’t start until 2 or 3 in the afternoon, so we would always skip breakfast and get lunch and then maybe something cheap from the grocery store for dinner. But I would sleep a lot of the weekend away just to save money. I’d only just gotten married and I was away from my wife. I was a 22-, 23-year-old baby in this new marriage; I’d never lived outside of my own city before and was genuinely just lost and sad. I wrote that song for her, about my wife and how much I missed her." - Darren Hayes via Apple Music
LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! Savage Garden! I was working in a hair salon when "I Want You" was released, and I was absolutely OBSESSED with the song. It drove my manager nuts that I knew every word of the song and could keep up with it when it came on the radio. (I kind of had a habit of breaking into song when it was on the radio ... if I wasn't behind the chair with my shears in hand that is.) Honestly you can't go wrong with anything from Savage Garden.
"Two beds and a coffee machine", "Affirmation", and "I want you" are ones to check out by Savage Garden. Although they have a huge catalog of Awesome songs that y'all should check out!!
YES! THANK YOU! Sorry for being extra hype but I've been waiting for someone to react to this band for YEARS now. I absolutely love this band and wore out both of their CDs from playing them so much back in the day. No joke I would listen to them *every* night as I went to bed. PLEASE do some more and see what else they have to offer. #LoveAndPeace #AndSavageGarden This song, "To the Moon and Back," and "I Knew I Loved You" were some big radio play hits but honestly I loved all of their songs. "Affirmation" was a fantastic shot of positive vibes, "Chained to You" had an energy I didn't quite understand when I first heard it but knew stirred something in me, "Violet" just got me going, and "Break Me Shake Me" just...ugh! I could go on for hours. Seriously, grab both of their albums, listen to every track, and let us come along for the ride. Worth every second.
You need to show some love for Robin Gibbs voice! Listen to bee gees For Whom the Bell Tolls. Barry’s voice is incredible but Robins voice can bring tears to my eyes
You need to react to "Hunting High and Low" by A-ha. Everyone reacts to "Take On Me", their most famous song (which is amazing), but this one is also great and the violins and cellos...you will love it.
This is what you search for, what you pray you’ll find, and that this is reciprocated….as humans this is why we have love sonnets, love songs, poetry and most of all hope💖
This is where I again beg for Richard Marx. He is known for being pitch perfect. Hazard (Fave!) Beautiful Goodbye (Watch video if possible, smoking hot. He made it with his wife, Daisy Fuentes, who is drop dead gorgeous as well) Should've Known Better Don't Mean Nothin' Keep Coming Back Endless Summer Nights
Savage garden was so under rated! Love them. Love the bsb comparison! Those are my boys. BRAVO ALL STARS "Let The Music Heal Your Soul" is a nice song too. A bunch of 90s music artists
Hey Jay, I'll put Frankie Valli's falsetto in the song "Sherry" up against any song you choose from the Bee Gees. Let's have a falsetto off. What do you say?
A pop duo from Australia, Savage Garden showed true talent. Had songs that were smooth and catchy with just a little bit of edge. They're still on rotation withpop radio stations in some markets
When I was 19 back in the year 2000, my gf at the time won tickets to see them live. I bitched and moaned as she dragged me because I was into skate punk and hip hop only. They were so awesome in concert. They were probably one of the groups that made me realize I was missing out on great music because of my close-mindedness.
This was my husband's and my song ... he passed away in 2000 and I played it at his funeral. To this day it remains our song and it always brings back great memories. It is beautiful! 💕
Condolences for your loss...but, it's good that this song still brings you joy and not sadness. Great music should be that way.
My fiances song was "I Swear" by boyband All 4 One.
Aussie tradie by day, but he secretly loved his beautiful "boybands" like Boys2Men.
He'd be 41 now if the brain tumour hadn't regrown and taken him.
R.I.P Dino and all those taken too soon❤
You guys picked a great song!😇
I'm trying real hard not to cry. It's so wonderful you have something so beautiful that connects you to someone you loved
I am so sorry for the loss of your husband. My heart goes out to you xo
After 27 yrs of marriage, my husband still sings this to me. ❤️ That and Bryan Adams' Everything I Do What a guy 🙂
That's sweet cindy
As my mother would say, " You must be really good in bed."
@@EchoBravo370 And as my father would say "You're goddam right, I can sleep all day, no issue whatsoever."
Awwwww so sweet
Your man is DA MAN!!!!!!
An Australian pop duo consisting of Darren Hayes on vocals and Daniel Jones on instruments. Formed in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1993, the duo achieved international success in the mid 1990s and early 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". The band's two studio albums, Savage Garden and Affirmation, reached No. 1 in Australia and peaked in the top ten in both the United Kingdom and United States. These albums sold 23 million copies worldwide.
Your Wiki copy/paste skills are quite impressive.
@@ItsHammer - nothing positive to contribute? Sorry for you.
The group won a record number of ten ARIA Music Awards in 1997 for their debut album and its related singles. They disbanded in the end of 2001, and Hayes continued as a solo artist.
I've heard that this song they struggled with and eventually they changed the title to Truly Madly Deeply only then did it sell - it's great love and Valentines song
Thanx info so welcome
Great 90s tune. Savage Garden made a huge splash between 1995 and 2000 before the duo (vocalist Darren Hayes and instrumentalist Daniel Jones) parted company in 2001. They had two #1 hits - this and "I Knew I Loved You". "I Want You" is a banger (and much faster-paced than this one). Others to check out are "To the Moon and Back", "Crash and Burn", and "The Animal Song".
Affirmation all the way!
My favorite is Santa Monica! Love them all though.
Also Affirmation
Oh yeah. I Want You AKA Cherry Cola. A very difficult song to sing along to. The guy hardly breathes through the verses. 😊
Tears of pearls and break me shake me!!
Great song. They had a several top 10 hits in multiple countries. You'll like their "I Want You". 90s music.
“I want you” is a really great song; I definitely second this recommendation.
THE CHICKA CHERRY COLA SONG!
@@elliekahl5305 beat me to it!
I've tried to sing that song in karaoke. It's almost impossible because there's so many words there's no chance for you to take a breath!
Another good love song is “Waiting For A Girl Like You” by Foreigner (official video version with Lou Gramm), from 1981. Definitely Amber’s kind of thing.
For a complete contrast in styles, listen to them sing 'To the moon and back'. Punchier, pop-rock based and completely enjoyable
Great choice. Very different to this ballad, but still a great song
Love that song
Oh heavens thatʼs a beautiful song.
This group was formed in the same city the Bee Gee's formed in! These guys came out at a time when most Australian music was hard indie rock - (in fact most Aussie pop singers would go to London) so they copped a lot of flack for being so soft and poppy.... I knew the singer a little before he was famous and he was working in a record shop.
Savage Garden was popular when my kids were little. They had a hit song called "I Want You" that was playing on the radio like crazy. In it he sings very fast and one line he sings "like you're drinking cherry cola". My kids misheard it and would keep asking me to play the "Chikka Cherry Cola song". ha ha They had a number of favorite songs at that age and they knew none of them by their real name. I ended up having to make a CD for them with THEIR names for the songs so when they went to their grandparents house grandma could play their songs since she didn't know what the "Chikka Cherry Cola" song was... Another one they liked was the "Boom Boom Bop" song... which was Queen's "We Will Rock You". :D
The lyric actually is “Chica Cherry Cola”. Your kids were right. The title is/was I Want You but is often unofficially referred to as I Want You (chica cherry cola) or I Want You (cherry cola).
I believe “chic-a-cherry cola” is the correct lyrics. At least according to Google and several sites haha.
Just checked the lyrics in my savage garden CD booklet, and it says 'chic-a-cherry cola'.... no idea what it means, but rolls off the tongue great when singing along to the song.
The lyric is "sweet like a chic-a-cherry cola", and the song was 'I Want You'.
That is adorable
The instrument was a guitar that is being played like a spanish guitar. It is beautiful and you would love spanish guitar music. Amber, was it "Kiss an Angel Goodmorning" by Charlie Pride?
That's a flamenco guitar with nylon strings.
It is a Mandolin
Classical guitar..
This guys voice is beyond a lot of vocalists
Savage Garden was so popular all over the world when they were around. Released two amazing albums, and then creative differences broke them up and it was all over just like that. “Affirmations” and “I Knew I Loved You” by Savage Garden are great too.
And just because of the nostalgia and because I don’t see other reactors do this one- “2AM (Breathe)” by Anna Nalick is one of the best written songs of the century. And it’s so vastly underrated. But i know 💯 that you two would enjoy it so much!
Along these same lines give Natalie Imbruglia "Torn" a listen. Very good song and popular back in its time. The song you are trying to remember is "Kiss An Angle Good Morning" by Charlie Pride.
Torn!!! OMG, great song!!! Yes!
Loved Savage Garden during the late 90's
Would suggest songs like this from this time: "Torn"- Natalie Imbruglia, "Back For Good"- Take That, "Runaway"- The Corrs
Corrs Fan Forever
Corrs are like my fav band.
I don’t think I’ve seen any reactors cover The Corrs. They were huge.
The Corrs and Bono- Dancing where the stars go blue.
This song brings me back to a simpler time, when the world was a little more “innocent” and people actually talked to one another in person. Thanks for the wonderful review and for helping me find some good memories from so many years ago.
One of my favorite Savage Garden songs is "Affirmation." It shows their energetic side and rhythm. Also, the instrument solo was probably a mandolin. It's a great instrument you should see and hear. I hope you choose this as your next Savage Garden song.
Savage Garden lead singer has a really great voice. « I knew I loved you » is my favourite.
Me too!! The video is great too!!
Yes, you played Savage Garden, one of my favourite 90s bands. Darrens voice is so beautiful.For another great balled, try To The Moon And Back. And another fantastic more up-beat song is Tears Of Pearls. And of course, the unique, I Want You.
I personally would not know this song without my beautiful wife who loves to slow dance whenever we listen to it I am always happy to give her those sweet moments we have after 27 years of marriage! What I love the most is Jordan defending Barry Gibb I love me some Bee Gees music I was born in 1966 so I literally have been with the Bee Gees from the beginning they are my favorite group of all time So Jordan you keep defending the most ICONIC voice ever!!!
Love Savage Garden, they have more upbeat songs like Affirmation and Break me shake me, which I love. The singer Darren Hayes has done solo stuff as well.
Savage Garden vocalist Darren Hayes did a live performance at the 2003 Australian ARIAS of the Delta Goodrem song “Lost Without You” in front of her when she was recovering from chemotherapy and it was so beautiful it brought her (and everyone else) to tears.
Oh my god that performance gives me goosebumps every time I watch it, especially knowing that she didn't know it was going to happen!
@@killinglonliness88 it was truly special.
I'll take come credit with introducing Savasge Garden to North America. My friends in Australia introduced me to their music and I pushed a local Toronto station to play a song "I want you", and sure enough it got a positive reaction.
I highly, HIGHLY, recommend you guys listen to the song "Crash and Burn" by Savage Garden. It has an awesome message and is my favorite song by them.
The whole cd this song is off of is pretty good! This song was all over when it came out, very very popular! Thx guys!! Much love and peace !!
Couple other of their songs….
“,I knew I loved you”
“ to the moon and back”
“Affirmation”
“The lover after me”
Savage Garden, their "I Want You" is awesome!
"MANDOLIN RAIN" and "THE WAY IT IS" by BRUCE HORNSBY would be up your alley, Jay.
Bruce also wrote “The End of the Innocence,” which Don Henley of The Eagles covered and made into a hit. He’s also the piano player on Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” He also played in the Grateful Dead for a while.
Vocally Darren Hayes would run rings around any boyband. Live he has a crazy vocal range
I got this album back when they were big, but I mainly got it for "I want you", which was a banger.
Oh my god! For you to say he is not a powerhouse vocalist is ridiculous. You have to listen to his other songs before you make a statement like that. This man has a range that other singers could only dream of having!!’
Couldn’t go 5 minutes without hearing this song in australia in the 90s (even afterwards). Once it was huge worldwide the radio here just wouldn’t stop playing it. This must be my most listened to song of my adolescence - and I never even put it on!
First, this is one of my wife Millie and I's love songs to each other. Another is Dido's "White Flag", a good female Friday song. Second, this song was current when my good friend's wife was dying of malignant melanoma. Rose was a beautiful woman in all aspects that a woman can be. She was saying the long goodbye to her son Andrew and husband Steve as her final weeks unfolded. How much would one want to lay down forever by the side of one's son? "Until the Sky falls down onto me."? Different lyrical interpretation of course, but shows how music can be so multi-purposeful. Very sad right now. But thanks for playing/reacting to it.
I love White flag. Then Eminem used it with her to sample a song. 💥🔥
For Female Friday:
Bette Midler - ‘From a Distance’
Ronnie Spector - ‘Be My Baby’
Toni Braxton - ‘Un-Break My Heart’
Roberta Flack - ‘First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’
Other notables:
Christopher Cross - ‘Sailing,’
Kayne Brown - ‘Worship You,’
Kool and The Gang - ‘Celebration,’
Dan Fogelberg - ‘Same Old Lang Syne’
Luther Vandross - ‘Dance With My Father’
Ummm. No, respectfully.
Floor Jansen and Nightwish
'Truly, Madly Deeply' is a quirky, popular, but obscure British movie. I loved it! A musician's, musician boyfriend tragically dies, and she just can't get over her grief, so he comes back to her as a ghost, and then she loses her sentimentality for his memory. She is eventually able to get on with living.
Oh I'd forgotten that film so thanks for reminding me. Beautiful film, fantastic story, guaranteeing you are in tears by the end.
Iconic Aussie band. Their first album literally had no bad songs on it, and I believe in one awards show took out something like 11 awards. So glad you did this. More Aussie music please!!!!
"I Knew I Loved You" by Savage Garden is in my top 10 favorite songs of all time. You'll have to check it out
Ooh I second this one. Such a beautiful love song 😍
This song has so much meaning to me. I met a man on-line, when my marriage was falling apart....my husband had become quite abusive by that time, and i knew I had to get my kids away, but, it was so complicated. and I would have been broke, needing a full-time job, my kids fending for themselves after always having me there, and even homeschooling them, etc. I was terrified. Robert and I became friends over the course of three years (I am a very cautious person when it comes to trusting people. I talked with his kids, and even his ex, before I agreed to meet him, since we lived in different states.) I lived near an ocean, and he lived near hills and mountains. This became our song...our first dance, once we met. Unfortunately, he died of cancer, 4 years after my ex passed away, and 6 years after we had met. I bought at least three of Savage Garden's CDs, as I kept wearing them out, lol. But, he gave me hope in dark and scary times. He loved my girls, as he loved his own. He encouraged me to heights I never dreamed I could achieve. I miss him to this day...13 years later. I've never met anyone like him, and will never feel that kind of love again. This was "Our Song". They did another song, which I cannot find at this time, but it had the lyrics of , "But on the telephone line I am anything, I wanna be...I can be a Norman Mailer or Space Invader, and you wouldn't know. now would you? I can be supermodel or -----?" It made me so suspicious of anyone I meet on-line, you know? I forget the name of the song, but, well, it has be a couple of decades, lol. Anyone???
Classic 90’s song. If you enjoyed this check out The Corrs - Breathless. They are an Irish family band, 3 sisters & their brother. More upbeat musically, but similar tones and a just a great song overall.
Yeah, they're kinda like a pop music response to the Irish folk band Clannad.
Ooh yes I second this one. The Corrs were huge in the 90s and early 2000s with no. 1 songs in many countries. Both Breathless and Runaway would be good ones to check out 👍
It’s Corrs not Coors
@@aussiepie4865 You’re absolutely right. I didn’t proofread to make sure autocorrect didn’t go awry.
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Almost chose this for my wedding song, but Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" won in the end.
I also like "I Loved You Before I Met You" by Savage Garden, too.
@@andreasoice5905 ... I Knew I Loved You is the correct title. Fun Fact: If you seen the video the girl on the train is a seventeen-year-old Kirsten Dunst about a year before she made the first Spider-Man movie
Oooh soooo stunning and smooth. His voice is unreal. Beautiful song! 👌🏼
"I want you" was their first hit... and completely different from this. This was later jn their career. But I love all their music. Please react to I want you... and compare the 2. Also... "I knew I loved you" my fav by them!
I believe that was a mandolin you asked about…..if you want to hear a stunningly beautiful song using the mandolin, by an artist/group that will send you down a talent rabbit hole, check out Mandolin Rain by Bruce Hornsby and the Range!
People knock this guy for his voice but to me his music is great. Savage Garden is great in concert.
Affirmation and I Want You are fantastic
I love this group and this song. It is on my playlist. I Knew I Loved You is another favorite of theirs.
You've just scratched the surface of Savage Garden! in addition to the other songs already recommended in other comments, i also suggest, "Break Me, Shake Me", "Violet", "Carry on Dancing" and "Affirmation". There's just so many good songs of theirs!
You’ve been on such an Aussie kick lately, love it!
This is their biggest international hit but their two albums are back-to-back hits.
"To the Moon and Back" is my favorite. But to get a real feeling for their vocals "I knew I Loved You" is the best.
Although he is singing some falsetto, the majority of the notes he is singing are not falsetto… he has a beautiful tenor voice! ❤️
He has a falsetto voice....
@@killinglonliness88 On some notes he does, but he is mostly singing in his regular voice.
Yeah this song is hard to sing 😅
@@hellokittyx7 Yes and he is a falsetto, he has said so himself as have many voice coaches.
I should have commented to u guys earlier u guys are awesome.Pete from Oz
Oh, love Savage Garden! "I knew I loved you" by Savage Garden was our wedding first dance song.. 🥰 I also love "To the moon and back", and "I want you" is faster and fun! Yes, love his voice too!
I never thought of this as a wedding song till now. "I Knew I loved you" made me think of a new baby. Maybe because I was pregnant at the time. 😊
"I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life"
@@karenvelasquez8436 Aww, can see how it would be a beautiful song for Moms too.
This song was my song to my longtime girlfriend when we first met in 1998. It perfectly describes how I felt about her until her passing in April, 2021 of a sudden cardiac arrest. Truly, Madly, Deeply. I feel the pain of her loss every single day.
Another one of my all-time favorites. I look at Savage Garden as being more like the Australian version of Maroon 5 than a boy band.
I love Savage Garden. You have to check out their faster paced songs "I Want You", "A Thousand Words" or "Tears of Pearls"
I always felt like they were the Air Supply of the 90s. Great songs. They got their name from Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles. Lestat refered to the world of vampires as the Savage Garden.
Ah some good ol’ 90’s hits! Try “To The Moon & Back” “I Knew I Loved You”. Other 90’s hits…Train “Meet Virginia” GooGoo Dolls “Iris” Edwin McCain “I’ll Be” (you’d really like this one) and Third Eye Blind (they have a couple)
Another great Australian band
This was my wedding song!!! I picked it out& walked down to isle to it. Love Savage Garden!!! Divorced now, marriage was 15 years. But still love them & this song. We went to see them in concert too. They were amazing & everyone in the audience knew the words.
Hey - you guys discovered another GEM. My very favorite song by them is To the Moon and Back - you'll BOTH love it. And you MUST listen to I Want You. I just want to see the looks on your faces when you listen to it.
Definitely I Want You is a must!
If y'all want more savage garden check out I knew I loved you and crash and burn. The meaning behind the lyrics of crash and burn is just amazing. Almost 20 years old and the lyrics still ring true today. I knew I loved you is a soft love song like truly madly deeply.
SAVAGE GARDEN ROCKS!!! Listen to I WANT YOU, TO THE MOON AND BACK, AND THE ANIMAL SONG.
Ahhh yes Savage Garden from the late 90's. Interesting that Kirsten Dunst was in one of their videos. "I Knew I Loved You" is another one of their best hits. Btw, Jordan "Larger Than Life" is my favorite BSB song. "Jumper" by Third Eye Blind is a good one too.
This is probably their biggest hit, but they have so many great songs, many of which are much more upbeat. "Affirmation" is probably my favorite, along with "Gunning Down Romance".
They have so many great songs, Gunning down romance is a masterpiece
@@fellihoijer4395 Yes!!
This is one of the most beautiful songs and it stands the test of time!
You should do “Two Beds and a Coffee Machine” by Savage Garden. Very powerful and you’ll love the piano.
Fabulous songs great 👌 deep loving caressing feeling
Shall we turn them on to Debbie Boone & “You Light Up My Life”???? I mean she did win awards for the song & it was 10 weeks at number 1.
J/K, I think I heard it enough in the 70s to last a life time :-)
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They had two albums together on Columbia records before they split --loved both albums (every song on both albums is GOOD) , have both and still listen to their music. Another band to check out is Lifehouse - "You and me" and Savage Garden - "I Knew I loved you" which was from their second album
That whole album was great. "To the moon and back" speaks to my teenage soul
I adore Savage Garden ❤ You should listen to Affirmation
The two of you are just adorable! Such a cute couple! 😍
Suggestions
1. Patti Labelle & Michael MCDonald
"On My Own"
2. Elton John & Kiki Dee " Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
2. Barbara Streisand & Donna Summer "Enough is Enough"
This takes me back. My cousin and I loved this song back in the day. I just had to attend his funeral two weeks ago... I had almost forgot this memory, so thanks for that.
"A really sincere and special and emotional song. There was something really emotional about the combination of this very naive intention and a very deep feeling, which was how I felt when I was living in a one-bedroom apartment in Kings Cross, with Daniel Jones, making this album. We were incredibly poor-I remember we used to save money by sleeping in late. Often the recording sessions wouldn’t start until 2 or 3 in the afternoon, so we would always skip breakfast and get lunch and then maybe something cheap from the grocery store for dinner. But I would sleep a lot of the weekend away just to save money. I’d only just gotten married and I was away from my wife. I was a 22-, 23-year-old baby in this new marriage; I’d never lived outside of my own city before and was genuinely just lost and sad. I wrote that song for her, about my wife and how much I missed her."
- Darren Hayes via Apple Music
LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! Savage Garden! I was working in a hair salon when "I Want You" was released, and I was absolutely OBSESSED with the song. It drove my manager nuts that I knew every word of the song and could keep up with it when it came on the radio. (I kind of had a habit of breaking into song when it was on the radio ... if I wasn't behind the chair with my shears in hand that is.) Honestly you can't go wrong with anything from Savage Garden.
Darren's voice is like silk...Savage Garden were a great 90's Aussie pop band 💜🙌
Wow, so liked a couple of their songs, simply beautiful voice, so different.
"Two beds and a coffee machine", "Affirmation", and "I want you" are ones to check out by Savage Garden. Although they have a huge catalog of Awesome songs that y'all should check out!!
YES! THANK YOU! Sorry for being extra hype but I've been waiting for someone to react to this band for YEARS now. I absolutely love this band and wore out both of their CDs from playing them so much back in the day. No joke I would listen to them *every* night as I went to bed. PLEASE do some more and see what else they have to offer. #LoveAndPeace #AndSavageGarden
This song, "To the Moon and Back," and "I Knew I Loved You" were some big radio play hits but honestly I loved all of their songs. "Affirmation" was a fantastic shot of positive vibes, "Chained to You" had an energy I didn't quite understand when I first heard it but knew stirred something in me, "Violet" just got me going, and "Break Me Shake Me" just...ugh! I could go on for hours. Seriously, grab both of their albums, listen to every track, and let us come along for the ride. Worth every second.
Other Australian groups around this time, Human Nature (have a look at the one they did with John Farnham maybe) and Crowded House.
One of my favorite love songs I can't help it just sway and close my eyes and sing along when it comes on
That instrument sounds like a mandolin!
Yes, plz. do I Want You (the Cherry cola song). So much fun. Awesome reaction guys.
You need to show some love for Robin Gibbs voice! Listen to bee gees For Whom the Bell Tolls. Barry’s voice is incredible but Robins voice can bring tears to my eyes
To The Moon and Back, another great song by this band
You need to react to "Hunting High and Low" by A-ha.
Everyone reacts to "Take On Me", their most famous song (which is amazing), but this one is also great and the violins and cellos...you will love it.
This is what you search for, what you pray you’ll find, and that this is reciprocated….as humans this is why we have love sonnets, love songs, poetry and most of all hope💖
This is where I again beg for Richard Marx. He is known for being pitch perfect.
Hazard (Fave!)
Beautiful Goodbye (Watch video if possible, smoking hot. He made it with his wife, Daisy Fuentes, who is drop dead gorgeous as well)
Should've Known Better
Don't Mean Nothin'
Keep Coming Back
Endless Summer Nights
Right Here Waiting
@@consciousbeing1188 I was having mad brain farts, thank you!!!!
I’ve always loved this song and had to look it up to remember when it was released. It shocked me that it debuted in 1997. Geez, I’m getting too old!
Jay, you're right. This fits right in with the boy bands.
I used to headshot people in COD to this.
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Savage garden was a magic group...always loved their music, and great to hear them again. 👍
That instrument sounded like a mandolin....
Savage garden was so under rated! Love them. Love the bsb comparison! Those are my boys. BRAVO ALL STARS "Let The Music Heal Your Soul" is a nice song too. A bunch of 90s music artists
The lead singer is Darren Hayes. Listen to Darren Hayes - Insatiable.
Beautiful song made even more beautiful by the fact he wrote this for his wife ❤️
Hey Jay, I'll put Frankie Valli's falsetto in the song "Sherry" up against any song you choose from the Bee Gees. Let's have a falsetto off. What do you say?
I’ll raise you one BeeGee & a Valley.
I’ve got David Lindley/Jackson Browne “Stay”.
@@OhLeandra That's a nice one. I thought about going with Leo Sayer and "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing," but I'll stick with Valli.
Donna from 10cc?
A pop duo from Australia, Savage Garden showed true talent. Had songs that were smooth and catchy with just a little bit of edge. They're still on rotation withpop radio stations in some markets
I'm pretty sure that instrument was a mandolin.
When I was 19 back in the year 2000, my gf at the time won tickets to see them live. I bitched and moaned as she dragged me because I was into skate punk and hip hop only.
They were so awesome in concert. They were probably one of the groups that made me realize I was missing out on great music because of my close-mindedness.
I love, love Savage Garden. “Affirmation “, “chained to you”, and the brutally heartbreaking “2 beds and a coffee machine”
Declaration, the live version of Affirmation!
Oh Two beds and a coffee machine gets me every time. Even 20+ years later. Can't listen to it without tearing up.
2 beds and a coffee machine is SO sad. It truly touches you.
“2 beds” kills me because I lived it as a kid
@@topherwhite370 you have my sorrow for your sorrow. I pray you are well now.
A guilty pleasure of this metal head right here. I have all their albums, I listen to their greatest hits collection regularly.