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Music: Savage Garden
May. 4th, 2010 10:32 pm'Nother music bit. Currently lending Jessie my usual car CD (Ace of Base: Da Capo) serendipitously led me to look for something else and I got out one of those other favorites I've been neglecting for months/years, Savage Garden. Sadly the band only lasted for two albums, but I love them both, and was just listening to the first one.
I had forgotten how much I loved and identified with To The Moon And Back, but, funny story: I actually discovered this band for the same reason I wanted PopoloCrois. Those old Rurouni Kenshin fansubs' Japanese TV commercials included quite a number of commercials for music singles and albums (since IIRC the show was sponsored primarily by Sony; I still think American music companies could take a page there---nice format for a tantalizing taste of music, and I wouldn't have ended up in college chasing for a ridiculous amount of time to find who the dang artist was for that one song on the radio*...)---and one of the spots was for the Savage Garden single I Want You:
Later on in the album some of it gets edgier with the angry Break Me Shake Me, the sad contemplative Santa Monica, and whatever you'd call Carry On Dancing---it has this mysterious fascination but a trapped-in-motion feel that just makes you want to imagine a story...
Anyway, nice to refresh myself on an old favorite. Now I'll have to try their Affirmation album again soon...
*Sunny Came Home, Shawn Colvin. She does great stuff, but if you want feel-good music, she's definitely an artist to avoid.
I had forgotten how much I loved and identified with To The Moon And Back, but, funny story: I actually discovered this band for the same reason I wanted PopoloCrois. Those old Rurouni Kenshin fansubs' Japanese TV commercials included quite a number of commercials for music singles and albums (since IIRC the show was sponsored primarily by Sony; I still think American music companies could take a page there---nice format for a tantalizing taste of music, and I wouldn't have ended up in college chasing for a ridiculous amount of time to find who the dang artist was for that one song on the radio*...)---and one of the spots was for the Savage Garden single I Want You:
Later on in the album some of it gets edgier with the angry Break Me Shake Me, the sad contemplative Santa Monica, and whatever you'd call Carry On Dancing---it has this mysterious fascination but a trapped-in-motion feel that just makes you want to imagine a story...
Anyway, nice to refresh myself on an old favorite. Now I'll have to try their Affirmation album again soon...
*Sunny Came Home, Shawn Colvin. She does great stuff, but if you want feel-good music, she's definitely an artist to avoid.
