Antropologia słowa Nicka Cave’a na jego debiutanckiej płycie z zespołem The Bad Seeds From Her to Eternity (1984)

This article tries to interpret the lyrics from From Her to Eternity (1984), a debut studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, including a cover of a song originally written by Leonard Cohen. As an example of a rock song lyrics study, it follows the receptive trace while reflecting on the beginnings of the creative path of this outstanding songwriter, rock music composer and vocalist endowed with a captivating voice. Nick Cave’s first musical incarnation was the Boys Next Door (1976–1980, the band changed its name several times and for a longer time was known as Concrete Vulture), later followed by the Birthday Party (1980–1983), Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1984–), and Grinderman (2006–2011). Originating from Warracknabeal, Australia, Nicholas E. Cave is considered to be one of the best rock culture artists, confirming his class as with every new album. His last two productions, Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace (2020) and Carnage (2021, a studio album recorded in a duo with the outstanding multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis), are beautiful, moving, and extraordinary works. The former is a concert film and a live album featuring Cave performing solo on piano, and it serves as the final film in a trilogy of this Brighton-based singer and composer, along with the phenomenal 20,000 Days on Earth (2014) and One More Time with Feeling (2016). Nick Cave is an artist who writes about loneliness, pain, and yearning for love, as clearly evidenced by From Her to Eternity, a moving study of the anthropology of love.