Song information Īccording to the sheet music edition published by, "Where The Wild Roses Grow" is written in the compound time signature of 6/8 and is set in the key signature of G minor, at a tempo of 56 beats per minute. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue first performed the song publicly on 4 August 1995 in Cork, Republic of Ireland. Nick Cave, quoted in Molly Meldrum presents 50 Years of Rock in Australia (2007)Ī CD of the track-which had Blixa Bargeld singing Minogue's lines-was sent to Minogue's parents' house (as she was staying there at the time) prior to her recording the song. In 2012, NME listed the song in the " 100 Best Songs of the 1990s" at number 35, while in 2014, NME placed it at number 378 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It reached number 8 in Triple J's Hottest 100 1995. Minogue performed a chorus of the song during her Showgirl and Homecoming tours. Cave arranged this tale as second of two B-sides, "The Ballad of Robert Moore & Betty Coltrane" / "The Willow Garden", released on the CD-Maxi single version.Īlthough the song does not feature on a Minogue studio album, it can be found on her compilations Hits+, Greatest Hits 1987–1999, Ultimate Kylie, The Abbey Road Sessions and Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection. "Where the Wild Roses Grow" was also certified Gold in Australia for selling 50,000 copies.Ĭave was inspired to write "Where the Wild Roses Grow" after listening to the traditional song, " Down in the Willow Garden", a tale of a man courting a woman and killing her while they are out together. It charted again at the bottom of the German Top 100 in 2008 because of digital downloads after it was used in a soap opera. The song was certified Gold in Germany in 1996 for 250,000 copies sold, despite never reaching the top ten in that country. It also received a limited promotional release in the United States. 3 in Norway, the top five in Australia, and the top twenty in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and New Zealand.
The song received a positive reception from music critics and became the band's most successful single worldwide reaching No. It was written by the band's frontman Nick Cave and produced by Tony Cohen and Victor Van Vugt. It is the fifth song and lead single from the band's ninth studio album, Murder Ballads (1996), released on Mute Records. " Where the Wild Roses Grow" is a murder ballad by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and pop singer Kylie Minogue. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds singles chronology
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