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"From Her to Eternity"
Song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
from the album From Her to Eternity
Released18 June 1984 (1984-06-18)
RecordedMarch 1984 (1984-03)
StudioTrident, London
Genre
Length5:33
LabelMute
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Flood

"From Her to Eternity" is a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appearing on their debut album From Her to Eternity. It was written by Barry Adamson, Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Anita Lane and Hugo Race and was recorded in March 1984 at Trident Studios.[citation needed]

Mat Snow described the song as an "epic starring the most icy scalpel of a piano motif ever to cut to the heart of trauma. And backing it up is an arsenal of breakdown, electrocution and massacre that rises and rises again in the multiple orgasm of a man torturing himself to death."[2]

Accolades

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Year Publication Country Accolade Rank
2011 Treble United States The Top 200 Songs of the 80s[3] 144
2012 Consequence of Sound United States The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time[4] 96

Personnel

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Adapted from the From Her to Eternity liner notes.[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Pitchfork Staff (10 September 2018). "The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 25 April 2023. Where Cohen stared down humanity's horror with a practiced stoicism, the Bad Seeds' goth-punk attack is sharp...
  2. ^ Mat Snow. "Nick Cave: From Her To Eternity (Mute)". Rock's Backpages.(Subscription required.)
  3. ^ Treble Staff (2011). "The Top 200 Songs of the '80s". Treble. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  4. ^ Staff (2012). "Top 100 Songs Ever: 100-51". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  5. ^ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1984). From Her to Eternity (sleeve). London, United Kingdom: Mute Records.
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