This Delicate Rate We've Made: The Darren Hayes / Savage Garden Rate - WINNER announced

What will win this rate?

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Ezz

Ezz

An amazing write up, thanks so much. I'm obviously biased towards the Steps version - on the original 'Tears on the Dancefloor' album it forms an absolutely perfect trilogy in my head with Happy, No More Tears and Firefly (realizing a relationship is over, going out and trying to heal yourself, looking back and realizing the relationship was toxic). And it absolutely went off live!



If only we'd get an album full of these sung by Darren himself ...
 
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jtm said:
It is if people start scoring. Hopefully everyone who said they would will start doing it over the holidays. I‘ll also post some spotlights on b-sides during the next days. So.. please start voting everyone!
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Yeah, I kinda forgot about this hence the question. I had to pick this up from the third page. So I think it is good to do some spotlights to make sure it stays on the main page (also a second tagging spree might help).
 
jtm

jtm

Ok, so first of all some housekeeping and something I should have done from day one. I apologize in advance to the people who are already halfway through the rate: Since most people I've sent PMs to today won't have started rating yet and even though I already moved a good part of the tracks to the optional section, I couldn't help but think that it's still too much to rate for someone who might not be the biggest fan or doesn't have a lot of time to do this.

Therefore I decided to move all the Spin b-sides, a lot of obscure Delicate b-sides, and some other non-essential bonus tracks to the optional section as well. This leaves us with a more manageable amount of tracks, most of which are the main album tracks.

Again, very sorry to those of you who already worked their way through the shitty Spin b-sides. Your votes are not lost - depending on the amount of votes these songs get I'll include them in the regular countdown or we'll reveal them separately. You also don't have to change anything if you are using the 'old' PM-friendly list from the first post - I'll sort it all out since this is on me. I hope this solution is acceptable for everyone. If not, please let me know and we'll figure it out.
 
jtm

jtm

I'll try and post some of these over the holiday period to highlight some of the remaining b-sides. Hopefully, this will also make it a bit more interesting / easier to rate them. Of course I also don't want to influence your vote. Not all of these songs will get high votes from me, and I will try to not let my opinion shine through.

Let's start with my favorite b-side ddd just kidding.. and probably the most obscure of the songs on our list that have been commercially released.

Believe it or not, Secret Codes and Battlships only had three b-sides. The rest of the tracks outside the main album are actually bonus tracks from the deluxe version of the album. Which I guess for once made owning the deluxe version really worth it in terms of bonus content. But back to the b-sides - with only three songs this matches the Tension & The Spark era, which also had three b-sides only (there probably would have been more, but that era was cut short somewhat). And then there's of course the shitton of Spin and Delicate b-sides.

Now, one of the Battleship b-sides is not like the others. While the other two songs were released on the digital singles and can be found on Spotify / Apple, the third was literally a b-side to the 7" vinyl single of Bloodstained Heart and never released in any other way. Which means that you can probably count the amount of people that were actually able to listen to this on two hands. I myself own the single but have never been able to play it - the cheap record player I bought a year ago doesn't seem to be able to play 7" records.

About the song itself, and that's maybe making this post a bit underwhelming, I can't really tell you much since there's no useful information or quotes to be found. The vinyl says it was written by Darren, Mirko von Schlieffen and Ivo Moring. The latter two are German music producers, with von Schlieffen being the more famous one for his electronic project 'Schiller' who are quite successful in Germany with a bunch of number 1 albums.

So here's this ultimate rarity of the rate, the understated, icy electropop ballad called 'I Need You':

 
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RIP cundy.
 
Ezz

Ezz

Very curious. I have to add the degree of separation between 3 of the albums is small, but 2 seem a bit more coherent overall. And I definitely need to do a search of my CD collection to see if I've kept any of the singles (or hope the era of 1 penny plus postage singles on eBay still exist!)
jtm said:
I have a feeling people will agree on one of the albums, but opinions on which the second amazing one is might differ. If you prefer Delicate you’re in luck: It seems the person who didn‘t like it on the first page of this thread had their account deleted.
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