Where the Wild Roses Grow

"Where the Wild Roses Grow"
Single cover
Single by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue
from the album Murder Ballads
B-side	"The Ballad of Robert Moore & Betty Coltrane" "The Willow Garden"
Released	2 October 1995 (1995-10-02)[1]
Length	3:57
Label	Mute
Songwriter(s)	Nick Cave
Producer(s)	Tony Cohen Victor Van Vugt
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds singles chronology
"Red Right Hand" (1994) "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1995) "Henry Lee" (1996)
Kylie Minogue singles chronology
"Where Is the Feeling?" (1995) "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1995) "Some Kind of Bliss" (1997)
Music video
"Where the Wild Roses Grow" on YouTube

"Where the Wild Roses Grow" is a murder ballad^[2] by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and pop singer Kylie Minogue. Released in October 1995, it is the fifth song and lead single from the band's ninth studio album, Murder Ballads (1996), released on Mute Records. It was written by the band's frontman, Nick Cave and produced by Tony Cohen and Victor Van Vugt. The accompanying music video was directed by Rocky Schenck.

The song received a positive reception from music critics and became the band's most successful single worldwide, reaching No. 3 in Norway, the top five in Australia, and the top twenty in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and New Zealand. It also received a limited promotional release in the United States. The song was certified gold in Germany in 1996 for 250,000 copies sold,^[3] despite never reaching the top ten in that country. 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. "Where the Wild Roses Grow" was also certified gold in Australia for selling 50,000 copies.

Cave 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. Cave arranged this tale as the second of two B-sides, "The Ballad of Robert Moore & Betty Coltrane" / "The Willow Garden", released on the CD-Maxi single version.

Although 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. Minogue performed a chorus of the song during her Showgirl: The Greatest Hits and Showgirl: The Homecoming tours.

It reached number eight in Triple J's Hottest 100 in 1995. In 2012, NME listed the song in their 100 Best Songs of the 1990s list at number 35,^[4] while in 2014, NME placed it at number 378 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.^[2]