2023 Charity Shop Purchases #61 - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds & Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow ( CD Single)
I had a moment of doubt when I picked up Where the Wild Roses Grow by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue in a Cupar charity shop. I knew I had one of the Murder Ballads CD singles already but as they are not yet catalogued I wasn't sure if it was this one or Henry Lee the one he did with P.J Harvey.
Fortunately when I got home I discovered that it was the latter
A single from 1995 on the Mute label it was the lead single and also the 5th track on the aforementioned 1996 Murder Ballads album .As it was the lead single, or perhaps because it featured Kylie, it was the most successful of the two .It was in fact the most successful single by Nick & the Bad Seeds reaching number 11 and being in the charts for 4 weeks. It did reach number 1 in the UK Indie Charts. Nick and P.J. only made number 37 and number 7 on the Indie charts.
The second song The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane sounds like it should be on Murder Ballads but it isn't.
The third song The Willow Garden has vocals by the Bad Seeds pianist and organ player Conway Savage. Sadly Conway died in 2018 aged 58 following a brain tumour.
Late-era Johnny Cash would have done a great cover of that first track
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