"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 by Mute Records, it is the fifth song and lead single from the band's ninth studio album, Murder Ballads (1996).

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.

Not since Debbie Gibson contributed backing vocals on the Circle Jerks's cover of the Soft Boys' "I Wanna Destroy You" has there been such an odd collaboration of musical talent.

Forget "Loco-Motion": Minogue carries her own as Cave catapults his vocals into a moody pit of musical melancholy and lyrical despair.

Down by the river, "He" kneels above "Her" with a rock in his fist, and calmy batters her brains out, whispering ...all beauty must die..."[12] Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented, "Written especially for Minogue, the diminutive singer forms an unlikely but stunning combination with Cave.

"[13] A reviewer from Music Week gave it four out of five, adding, "Nick croons while Kylie purrs in this folksy foretaste of the album of murder ballads".

A tense, ghostly, Grimm's fairytale wherein the midget fights gamely to keep her voice tied to the whispering reeds while the nutter secures his to the coal bunker at the core of the earth.

[19] The music video for "Where the Wild Roses Grow", commissioned by Emma Davies for Mute Records, shot by American photographer and music video director Rocky Schenck and produced by Nick Verden for Atlas Films, shows Kylie Minogue in character, apparently having been murdered by Nick Cave's character.

A guide track with the Bad Seeds guitarist, Blixa Bargeld, singing Kylie Minogue's vocal part was released on the compilation B-Sides & Rarities.