[6] In September 1997, Savage Garden won a record ten ARIA Awards from 13 nominations for the album and associated singles.

[13][14] In 1995, they entered the studio to work on their debut album with producer, Charles Fisher (Air Supply, Moving Pictures, 1927).

The record label's executives sent Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones to Sydney for 8 months, tasking them with writing material.

It was there that they would come up with most of the songs for their debut album, including "Truly Madly Deeply", for which Darren Hayes wrote the chorus while dining out in Kings Cross.

The international version adds the track "Promises", which had previously been released in Australia as the B-side to "Truly Madly Deeply".

It was thought by many that an arrangement of "A Thousand Words" was later used as the installation music for Microsoft's Windows XP, however that track was actually written by linear media composer Stan LePard around the same time.

[20] Additionally, "All Around Me" was released as a radio-only promotional single in Australia in January 1998, although around 3,000 physical copies were given away via a radio competition and at the band's second massive concert in Brisbane.