Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow

if I show you the roses, will you follow?

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Jark

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to some degree now one of her signature hits. at the time it must have felt like a really WEIRD COLLAB.



she acknowledged the anniversary yesterday, which was cute - I think along with Confide it's the most successful ART KYLIE™ moment of her career, and she clearly agrees.

 
She absolutely sees it as a real artistic achievement.

I was obsessed with it as a child (weird?) - the drama of the storyline offplayed by the slow unwinding of the video is fantastic.
 
I think this is one of the reasons Kylie Minogue gets a pass from music snobs; when she did ‘real’ music, she really went for it. What a fucking triumph of a song.
 
Jark said:
to some degree now one of her signature hits. at the time it must have felt like a really WEIRD COLLAB.
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It was but not entirely unexpected as there was a bit of talk up before hand since she had become, by that point, the daring of the indie music press.

Incidentally there is a SECOND Kylie/Nick Cave song called Soon which was recorded and then shelved for Inpossible Princess. Apparently it sounds a bit like the track she did with Coldplay years later so it was probably for the best. :zombie:

Anyway this is great. Not surprised that she rarely performs it live since it really isn't the same without him.
 
me and Ag on the same page as usual
 
I understand it's importance within her career and legacy and parts of the song are very appealing.

HOWEVER as a whole I find it a touch jarring.
 
Ag said:
I understand it's importance within her career and legacy and parts of the song are very appealing.

HOWEVER as a whole I find it a touch jarring.
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Well, it is.

It's interesting to me how different the song feels when place in each artist's timeline. As a one-off in Kylie's singles catalogue, it is a genuine surprise and can't help but feel like a leading role in a Hollywood tragedy.

In the context of Cave's "Murder Ballads" album, it feels very different. In particular Cave's final verse becomes almost B-movie, the bleak humour being in the cornball sincerity of such a horrible sentiment. This is accentuated by the song being followed by what is essentially a hoe-down about a mass murderer. As a single, That shift in tone simply isn't detectable but as track 5 of a 10 track album that finishes with a multi-artist version of "Death Is Not The End", it feels very different indeed.

To say nothing of how a song with that lyrical theme would be taken if it were released today.
 
I think I prefer Henry Lee.



Gosh, imagine if he had got Dannii to do it instead of Peej. And by Dannii I mean GothDannii.
 
Anyway, I adore it, and as someone who was there at the time, can confirm it was a very strange collaboration that got a lot of publicity. It annoys the hell out of me (then and now) that it didn’t quite make the top ten, but I’m glad it’s considered amongst the canon of her very best work now.
 
it was both. that Showgirl Homecoming perf was MARVELLOUS (i mean, the entire show was utterly magical in its musical mashups and reinventions...)
 
Yeah, it was both. It was the men in the shower performance :disco:
 
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