“Where the Wild Roses Grow” by Nick Cave featuring Kylie Minogue

"Where the Wild Roses Grow" paired Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds with pop singer Kylie Minogue, and it came out on Mute in October 1995 as the first single from Murder Ballads, the band's ninth album. Cave wrote it after hearing the traditional "Down in the Willow Garden", in which a man courts a woman and then kills her, and his own take on that old song became a B-side on the CD single. The result is a murder ballad sung as a duet, lovely and chilling at once.

It became the band's biggest single worldwide, getting to No. 3 in Norway and the top five at home in Australia, and it went gold there and in Germany. Rocky Schenck directed the video, and NME later placed it at 35 among the best songs of the 1990s.

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