Description
Savage Garden – Affirmation / Sony Music Entertainment Audio CD 1999 / COL 494935 2
UPC 5099749493520 / ASIN: B001BYP2FM
Savage Garden's songs are of innocence and urgency. On the Australian pop duo's second album, Affirmation, love is either a broken thing or a newly exploding one, passion and obsession taking over after a spin on the dance floor. At the same time, when Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones proclaim that they want to "live like animals," they're not planning anything too raw, too Reznorish: they just want that childlike lack of guile. This approach, taken with a total lack of irony and with large doses of appealing melodicism, led to multiplatinum sales for the act's debut, and there's no reason to think that Affirmation won't be similarly accepted. Sometimes a bit too goodhearted for its own good--the title track's wide-eyed sentiments might make even Stuart Smalley smirk--the disc's best moments are hard to dislike when taken on their own terms. --Rickey Wright
Label: Sony Music Entertainment – COL 494935 2
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 1999
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Pop Rock, Synth-pop
Tracklist:
| 1 | Affirmation | 4:56 |
| 2 | Hold Me | 4:50 |
| 3 | I Knew I Loved You | 4:10 |
| 4 | The Best Thing | 4:19 |
| 5 | Crash And Burn | 4:41 |
| 6 | Chained To You | 4:08 |
| 7 | The Animal Song | 4:39 |
| 8 | The Lover After Me | 4:50 |
| 9 | Two Beds And A Coffee Machine |
3:27 |
| 10 | You Can Still Be Free | 4:18 |
| 11 | Gunning Down Romance | 5:34 |
| 12 |
I Don't Know You Anymore | 3:50 |
- A&R – Mitchell Cohen
- Acoustic Guitar – Dean Parks (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8)
- Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] – Jeremy Lubbock (tracks: 9)
- Arranged By [Vocals], Producer, Arranged By – Walter Afanasieff
- Arranged By, Written-By, Co-producer – Daniel Jones
- Backing Vocals – Darren Hayes (tracks: 1 to 8, 10, 11)
- Bass – Nathan East (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 11)
- Cello – Ernest Ehrhardt (tracks: 9), Larry Corbett (tracks: 9), Miguel Martinez (2) (tracks: 9)
- Contractor [Strings] – Jules Chaikin (tracks: 9)
- Coordinator [Production] – Barbara Stout
- Design – Aimée Macauley
- Drum – Steve Smith (5) (tracks: 10, 11)
- Electric Guitar – Daniel Jones (tracks: 5, 6, 11), Michael Landau (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 8, 10, 11)
- Electric Guitar, Baritone Guitar [Solo] – Michael Thompson (tracks: 5)
- Engineer [Assistant] – Brian Vibberts (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 8, 10), Dave Ashton (tracks: 2, 4, 6, 8), Ethan Schofer (tracks: 2, 6, 10), Luis Quine (tracks: 5, 6), Mark Gregory (tracks: 5), Pete Krawiec (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 12), Ryan Hewitt (tracks: 8), Tony Rambo (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 8 to 11)
- Engineer [Drums] – David Gleeson (tracks: 10), David Gleeson (tracks: 8, 10), Jan Healy (tracks: 11)
- Engineer [Fairlight] – David Gleeson (tracks: 8 to 10)
- Engineer [Guitars] – David Frazer (tracks: 1 to 11), David Reitzas (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8)
- Engineer [Strings] – David Frazer (tracks: 9)
- Engineer [Track] – David Gleeson (tracks: 7), Kent Matcke (tracks: 1 to 6, 8, 10, 11)
- Engineer [Vocals, Acoustic Guitar] – David Gleeson (tracks: 9)
- Engineer [Vocals] – David Frazer (tracks: 3, 6), Jan Healy (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11)
- Keyboards [Additional], Synthesizer, Drum Programming, Programmed By [Rhythm] – Greg Bieck (tracks: 10, 11)
- Keyboards, Synthesizer, Drum Programming, Programmed By [Rhythm] – Daniel Jones (tracks: 1 to 8, 11), Walter Afanasieff (tracks: 1 to 8, 11)
- Lead Vocals, Arranged By [Vocals], Arranged By, Written-By, Co-producer – Darren Hayes
- Management – Larry Tollin, Rebecca Mostow
- Mastered By – Vlado Meller
- Mixed By – Chris Lord-Alge (tracks: 7), Dave Way (tracks: 1 to 6, 8, 10 to 12)
- Other [Assistant To Darren Hayes And Daniel Jones] – Leonie Messer
- Photography By – Stephane Sednaoui*
- Piano [Acoustic], Keyboards, Programmed By [Synthesizer] – Walter Afanasieff (tracks: 9, 12)
- Product Manager – Josh Zieman
- Product Manager [International] – Jim Sabey
- Programmed By [Macintosh & Digital Additional] – Dan Shea (tracks: 7)
- Programmed By [Macintosh & Digital] – Adam Rossi (tracks: 7), Greg Bieck (tracks: 1 to 6, 8, 10 to 12)
- Recorded By – David Frazer (tracks: 12)
- Viola – Marilyn Baker (tracks: 9), Michael Zinovyev (tracks: 9)
- Violin – Anatoly Rosinsky (tracks: 9), Armen Garabedian (tracks: 9), Robert Sanov* (tracks: 9), Brian Leonard (tracks: 9), Mari Tsumura (tracks: 9), Rebecca Bunnell (tracks: 9)
