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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.

"From Her to Eternity"
Song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
from the album From Her to Eternity
Released	18 June 1984 (1984-06-18)
Recorded	March 1984 (1984-03)
Studio	Trident, London
Genre	Post-punk experimental rock
Length	5:33
Label	Mute
Songwriter(s)	Barry Adamson Blixa Bargeld Nick Cave Mick Harvey Anita Lane Hugo Race
Producer(s)	Flood

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."[1]

Accolades

Year	Publication	Country	Accolade	Rank
2011	Treble	United States	The Top 200 Songs of the 80s[2]	144
2012	Consequence of Sound	United States	The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time[3]	96

Personnel

Adapted from the From Her to Eternity liner notes.[4]

See also

• Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds discography

References

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