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! 💕

After 27 yrs of marriage, my husband still sings this to me. ❤️ That and Bryan Adams' Everything I Do What a guy 🙂

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.

Great song. They had a several top 10 hits in multiple countries. You'll like their "I Want You". 90s music.

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".

For a complete contrast in styles, listen to them sing 'To the moon and back'. Punchier, pop-rock based and completely enjoyable

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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!!’

Savage Garden lead singer has a really great voice. « I knew I loved you » is my favourite.

People knock this guy for his voice but to me his music is great. Savage Garden is great in concert.

Almost chose this for my wedding song, but Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" won in the end.

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!

Although he is singing some falsetto, the majority of the notes he is singing are not falsetto… he has a beautiful tenor voice! ❤️

Savage Garden, their "I Want You" is awesome!

"MANDOLIN RAIN" and "THE WAY IT IS" by BRUCE HORNSBY would be up your alley, Jay.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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!!!!

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.

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.

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.

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!!!!

Another great Australian band

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’

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.

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 Knew I Loved You" by Savage Garden is in my top 10 favorite songs of all time. You'll have to check it out

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.

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.

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".

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”

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!

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.

I love this group and this song. It is on my playlist. I Knew I Loved You is another favorite of theirs.

Oooh soooo stunning and smooth. His voice is unreal. Beautiful song! 👌🏼

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.

"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 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.

You should do “Two Beds and a Coffee Machine” by Savage Garden. Very powerful and you’ll love the piano.

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 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 went to a medical magnet high school (wore scrubs daily and spent half my day volunteering in a multitude of hospitals around the city). Our program director and lead instructor made a video yearbook in May of every year and starting in 1997 (the song came out in March of that year), he dubbed this song over the video every year until his passing. My face is all over 4 years worth of video with this song playing (1997-2001). It's not my particular choice of music, but when I hear it, it reminds me of the greatest teacher & mentor I've ever known. He was the father figure I never had and I'm forever grateful for the impact he had on my life.

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 :-)

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 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!!!

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!

That instrument sounds like a mandolin!

This is mine and my husband's song. I absolutely love savage garden. They split up later and the lead singer Darren hayes went solo. I love his music as well

this was my wedding song, got married at 17 and still going strong 21 years! still love this song

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)

"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

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.

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 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?

Darren's voice is like silk...Savage Garden were a great 90's Aussie pop band 💜🙌

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!

"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.

That whole album was great. "To the moon and back" speaks to my teenage soul

I love, love Savage Garden. “Affirmation “, “chained to you”, and the brutally heartbreaking “2 beds and a coffee machine”

i cannot express how much i love savage garden lmaoo

I adore Savage Garden ❤ You should listen to Affirmation The two of you are just adorable! Such a cute couple! 😍

SAVAGE GARDEN ROCKS!!! Listen to I WANT YOU, TO THE MOON AND BACK, AND THE ANIMAL SONG.

Other Australian groups around this time, Human Nature (have a look at the one they did with John Farnham maybe) and Crowded House.

Wow, so liked a couple of their songs, simply beautiful voice, so different.

I should have commented to u guys earlier u guys are awesome.Pete from Oz

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.

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.

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???

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

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

This song made me think of "More Than Words" by Extreme. Great guitar and harmonies.

These guys were my jam in highschool, I have a couple of their albums. Fun Fact: Kirsten Dunst was a big fan of theirs and featured in one of their music videos 'I Knew I Loved You'.

Gorgeous Sounds from an Aussie Fave. Really appreciate you guys. You are my Guilty Pleasure. Keep it up.

That instrument sounded like a mandolin....

Jay, you're right. This fits right in with the boy bands.

Thank Jay and Amber, love u both and your beautiful children. Ireland.🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪

Fabulous songs great 👌 deep loving caressing feeling

The lead singer is Darren Hayes. Listen to Darren Hayes - Insatiable.

"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!!

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.

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 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

Hey, this is a great song!!!! Sad it's always been considered an incredibly generic sound for the time. I don't think there's anything wrong with 'generic'. I LIKE NICKELBACK. COME AT ME >:)

A guilty pleasure of this metal head right here. I have all their albums, I listen to their greatest hits collection regularly.

To The Moon and Back, another great song by this band

I'm pretty sure that instrument was a mandolin.

Darren Hayes sang one of their other songs "I Knew I Loved You" with Gary Barlow over on his channel just last year. Sounds pretty much exactly the same, if not better than he did back then. Check that one out if you get a chance!

Awesome! Fantastic jam, and great reaction!

Before my health problems started, and my voice changed due to heavy medication, I was driving my eighteen year old daughter and her best friend to a graduation party, this song came on the radio and I started belting the song out, mind you I was a 43 year old 285 pound man. My daughters friend looked at me from the back seat of the car and her jaw dropped, she had never heard me sing before, and couldn’t believe that I sounded just like the lead singer of this group.