More Human than Human
"More Human than Human" is a song by the American heavy metal band White Zombie from their album Astro Creep: 2000 - [Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head|Astro-Creep: 2000]. It was released as the first official single from the album and is also included on Rob Zombie's Past, Present & Future, the greatest hits album The [Best of Rob Zombie], and a remix is included on Supersexy Swingin' Sounds and Revolutions.
Music and lyrics
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" is one of the last things his creator hears when the replicant designed to be the perfect – and disposable – soldier finds him and is denied a reprieve from the programmed four-year life span.The song 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.
Reception
"More Human than Human" quickly became the band's highest-charting and most recognizable 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.The song was listed on PopMatterss "The 10 Best Alternative Metal Singles of the 1990s" list.
"More Human than Human" was ranked at number 43 on Spins "The 95 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1995" list.