Where the Wild Roses Grow

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"Where the Wild Roses Grow"

Single by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue
from the album Murder Ballads
Released	October 1995: Worldwide
Format	CD single: Worldwide Cassette single: Australia Vinyl single: United Kingdom
Recorded	1995
Genre	Rock – Alternative
Length	3:57
Label	Mute
Writer(s)	Nick Cave
Producer(s)	Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tony Cohen Victor Van Vugt
Chart positions
#2 (Australia) #2 (Sweden) #4 (Austria) #5 (Finland) #11 (UK) #12 (Germany)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue singles chronology
Nick Cave: "Red Right Hand" (1994) Kylie Minogue: "Where Is the Feeling?" (1995)	"Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1995)	"Henry Lee" (1996) "Some Kind of Bliss" (1997)

"Where the Wild Roses Grow" is an alternative–rock song written by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' ninth album Murder Ballads (1996), and features guest vocals by Australian pop-singer Kylie Minogue. The song was produced by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Tony Cohen and Victor Van Vugt and received a positive reception from music critics. The song was released as the first single in the fall of 1995 and became the band's most successful single worldwide reaching the top five in Australia and the top twenty in the United Kingdom and Germany. It also received a limited promotional release in the US.

Cave was inspired to write "Where the Wild Roses Grow" after listening to the traditional song, "The Willow Garden", a tale of a man courting a woman and killing her while they are out together.