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More Human Than Human

White Zombie — the title of this work, and its third owner

A single from Astro-Creep: 2000, released on Geffen in 1995. The record is assembled in large part out of other people’s audio. Its best-known song is named after a line of corporate dialogue from a film thirteen years older.

The song does not quote the motto. It takes the film’s audio and plays it: the manufactured man, standing in front of the man who made him, asking for more life.

I want more life, fucker.

Roy Batty to his manufacturer, Blade Runner, 1982 — theatrical release

Or father. Rutger Hauer delivered it so that it would sit between the two words and could not be settled. The 2007 restoration settled it. The restoration is the later object and it contains the more definite text.

Four words: chain of custody

1968  novel        absent
1982  film         written for the screen
1995  song         taken as a title
2007  restoration  the word settled
   —  this         taken as a title

In the film the motto belongs to the manufacturer and describes the product. In the song it belongs to the product.

The band is White Zombie. The song is commonly filed under the name of its singer.

The slogan passed through three owners without losing a letter. The only contested word is in the line where the product asks for more life.