Thunder Kiss 65 More Human Than The Human Welcome To The Planet Mf White Zombie

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Thunder Kiss '65 Album: La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One (1992)
More Human Than The Human Album: Astrocreep 2000 (1995)
Welcome To The Planet Mf Album: "La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1" (1992)
by White Zombie

"Thunder Kiss '65" was released in 1992 from the band's third studio album, La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One (1992).

The single for Thunder Kiss '65 was released three times as a single before it gained the attention of Mike Judge and its video was aired on Beavis and Butt-head in 1993. Actor lines are heard from the 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. The popularity of the single resulted in White Zombie's first Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance later that year. In May 2006, the song was ranked number 32 on VH1's list, '40 Greatest Metal Songs'.

A mix of Thunder Kiss '65 was used by Extreme Championship Wrestling for their weekend syndicated show from 1994–1997.

Thunder Kiss '65 was used to introduce Puck in the original broadcast of the 1994 season of The Real World: San Francisco.

Thunder Kiss '65 was featured on the 2005 video game Guitar Hero as a cover version performed by WaveGroup. It was also featured in the video game True Crime: New York City also released in 2005.

Thunder Kiss '65 was used in the 2007 movie, Wild Hogs, starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy.

"More Human than Human" is a song from their album Astro-Creep: 2000 (1995). It was released as the first official single from the album.

The title and lyrics reference the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, adapted in film as Blade Runner. The title was the slogan of the Tyrell Corporation, manufacturers of the very humaniform biological androids, or "replicants" that are the focal point of the story. "I want more life, fucker" (quoted in the lyrics) is one of the last things his creator hears when the replicant designed to be the perfect – and disposable – soldier (Rutger Hauer) finds him and is denied a reprieve from the programmed four-year life span.

More Human than Human features a repeated slide guitar figure, a technique typically associated with blues music.

The moaning in the intro to the song was sampled from a post-apocalyptic porn movie called Café Flesh directed by Stephen Sayadian.

"More Human than Human" quickly became the band's highest-charting and most recognizable[citation needed] single in the entirety of their career. The song earned them their second Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance in 1995. The song was named the 68th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.

More Human than Human was listed on PopMatters's "The 10 Best Alternative Metal Singles of the 1990s" list.

"More Human than Human" was ranked at number 43 on Spin's "The 95 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1995" list.

Welcome To The Planet Mf, track one of Welcome To The Planet Mf.

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