“Thunderkiss '65 (KFMDM Remix)” by White Zombie

"Thunderkiss '65" was White Zombie's first official single, a 1992 cut from their third album, La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1, on Geffen, and this KFMDM remix takes another run at the track that finally got the band noticed. It's groove metal with a drive-in soul, strutting like a hot rod idling at a red light, while actors' lines lifted from Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, the 1965 exploitation flick, crackle through it like a bad TV signal at 2 a.m.

It took 3 releases as a single before the song caught on. Then Mike Judge picked up on it, the video aired on Beavis and Butt-head in 1993, and the heat was enough to earn White Zombie their first Grammy nomination, for Best Metal Performance. VH1 later put it at 32 on its list of the 40 Greatest Metal Songs.

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