LA SEXORCISTO: DEVIL MUSIC, VOL. 1 [1992]

La Sexorcisto

La Sexorcisto” is the third studio album from White Zombie, and is arguably the record that propelled the band into the wider public consciousness commercially and artistically.

This was the first album to be released on Geffen Records with whom the band signed after releasing previous White Zombie albums with Caroline Records and on their own label Silent Explosion.

The band were joined by Jay “J” Noel Yuenger on guitar who replaced John Ricci. Ricci had previously appeared on the White Zombie album “Make Them Die Slowly”. “La Sexorcisto” would be the last to feature drummer Ivan De Prume.

The album gave the band it’s first entry onto the Billboard chart, with a peak position of 26. In total “La Sexorcisto” was on the Billboard 200 charts for 44 weeks.

The single Thunderkiss 65, saw the band nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.

La Sexorcisto” eventually earned them double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the US.


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Album Tracklist

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Title Length Lyrics Listen*
1 Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/Psychoholic Slag 06:17
[Intro]
(Demonic noises, shrieks)(“Fuckin’ kiss me”)Woven in the surface a premonition of a land erupting
A sparkling occasion of a city crashdown overhead
Revolv’n in a whirlpool a drag-o-rama
Walk’n on the sidewalk so let me see ya
Howl’n through the keyhole, “God damn, swept away”[Chorus]
She shouted—(“Now let’s move”)
She love it—(“Let’s take the back door”)
Get in away yeah!I concentrate the midnight without the benefit of ceremony
Whoever said, “The one who strips your soul is
The one that got away”
A weather-beaten angel descending to embrace the cemetery
Got love—so mystifying “God damn, swept away”[Chorus](“Oh, wow!”
“Cool it.”
“What’s that, jock?”
“Beat it.”
“You wanna start a rumble?”)Voodoo beat on the mind, the digs too deep to find
Something has got to give, man (psych-out)
Racketeer or star, you are just what you are
Don’t play the misty, baby! (get you)
Into a river sky, electro nation cry, “I need another…
Now”Drift beyond the sleeping the moon is shift’n
Shadows on her fig-
Ure—swamptime locomotion “I can’t take it, anymore!”
Sunlight through the shutters illuminating moment to the moment
Buzz a halo over “god damn, swept away”[Chorus](“Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?”)Planet pretty kill
Motherfucker hang me on the thrills
Psychoholic slag
Tomorrow yeah it’s another dragPicnic in the homeland — like a jesus super-star
Yeah! Kiss me deadly, baby (baby) I know who you are
(Come on) planet pretty kill
Motherfucker hang me on the thrillsNo small heaven I got the left
Hand of the keeper—Meet me in St. Louis “god” a one-
Way ticket’s cheaper yeah! Time-travel i’m walk’n
(Walk’n) i got a white line zombie fever (fever) yeah!
Time bomb the hero (hero) yeah get down[Outro]
(“Hula fast shorts, swing with a gassy chick
Turn on to a thousand joys, smile on what happened
Then check what’s gonna happen, you’ll miss what’s happening
Turn your eyes inside and dig the vacuum
Tomorrow, drag”)
2 Knuckle Duster (Radio 1-A) 00:21
[Intro]
(“Ahorre, no compre sin visitar Empori”)
(“We know how fast we can go”)
(Clarion…)
(Italian singing)
(“These are the facts as we know them, there is an epidemic of mass-
(Oh! Oh no! oh!)
-murder being committed by a virtual army of unidentified assassins”)
(Oh my God!)
3 Thunder Kiss ’65 03:53
Well, sweet little sista’s high in hell cheat’n on a halo
Grind in a odyssey holocaust heart kick on tomorrow
Breakdown—agony said “ecstacy” in overdrive
She come a riding on the world, thunder kiss’n
1965
Demon-warp is coming alive in 1965Livin’ fast and dying young like a endless poetry
My motor-psycho nightmare freak out inside of me
My soul salvation liberation on the drive
The power of the blaster move me faster
1965(“You’re all shook up, aren’t you baby?”)
(“I never try anything. I just do it.”)
(“Wanna try me?”)Roll’n like a supersonic, another fool that get down on it
Pig sweat a million miles, I got a heart atomic style
I make it look easy, that’s what I said
Blast of silence explodes in my headStep to the moonshine frenzy hail: the resurrection
What’s new, pussycat? Can you dig the satisfaction?
Well you can’t take it with you but you can! In overdrive
Some like it hot and twist’n
1965
4 Black Sunshine 04:49
[Intro Voiceover: Iggy Pop]
Gripping the wheel his knuckles went white with desire
The wheels of his Mustang exploding on the highway like a slug from a .45
True Death: 400 Horsepower of maximum performance piercing the night
This is Black Sunshine[Verse 1: Rob Zombie]
Yeah! Move me in the silence Baltic motorway
Hang me on the edge before I fall away
Apocalypse is dawnin’ action on the mile
A ‘can-do’ revolution, earth to the river (nile)[Chorus]
Sweet’n the ride Black Sunshine
Sweet’n the ride, yeah!
Sweet’n the ride Black Sunshine
Sweet’n the ride, yeah![Verse 2: Rob Zombie]
Cry a river ‘cosmic’, moon in Scorpio
Feel her body ‘breathe’, acid radio
Tell me that you like it, when I’m going down!
Tell me that you like it, move to the speed of (sound)[Chorus]
Sweet’n the ride Black Sunshine
Sweet’n the ride, yeah!
Sweet’n the ride Black Sunshine
Sweet’n the ride, yeah![Verse 3: Rob Zombie]
Go! Slide into, I said ’44’ cool heart can
A hypnotize dream into infinity, I turned the love to lies
Crawl across the water, wave and sink into the sea
Reflecting onto everything, that you can never be
‘Check-out!’, yeah!
To the devil a daughter comes 200 worlds away, yeah
Born to lose the love you choose, destroy another day
Check out!![Chorus]
Sweet’n the ride Black Sunshine
Sweet’n the ride, yeah!
Sweet’n the ride Black Sunshine
Sweet’n the ride[Verse 4: Rob Zombie]
Stare into the T.V. kiss off the pain
Wonderland is falling, no sing, no rain momentary
Damage into the high drift me to the circuit sky[Outro Voiceover: Iggy Pop]
Finally nothing moves. High noon
Black top rolling below the asphalt drive
A concrete fascination scraping the edge of nothing
This is Black Sunshine
5 Soul-Crusher 05:07
(“Drop it, buster.”)Leatherneck’n down the street like “Hey I’m joyrid’n”
Like a bad dog — come on “Burn in!”Demon got my soul and I said “Drive!”
Come on — speed kills — but I’m alive yeah!
In my Durango 95 Yeah!
Casino on the edge she move like a twister
Gravity crank — solo my sista — Come on
She said “Take me away” Away Away
Shout!I’m deadly on the eyes an astro-spyder, baby
A powertripp’n no, no, no, maybe? Come on –
Angel trumpets again yeah!Motherfucker scream “horrorshow” time
A diamond ass right on my line
Come on – She said “Take me away” away away, shoutBurning like fat in the fire the smell
Of red, red kroovy screamed mega-flow
A stalking ground without prey
A flash of superstition whimpering like a crippled animal
Dogs of the Soul-Crusher, pulling closer
Like the blue steel jaws of hellDigg’n in my heart I find a human generator
Duke of N.Y. See Yeah! Eliminator
All you need is love – Yeah! Like
A cool and crazy freak machine she twanged
Off and out like I never seen
I’m gonna take her, I’m gonna take her
Down, her down, her down, watch out!Shack’n out in my skin, flesh ‘n’ waves they begin
I’m going out like a holiday (shout it!)
Then my mind generate a weepy young “D” to terminate
Takin’ a trip, I said, “Straight to hell” (shout it!)Real country dark the street, hog the road, swamp the beat
She gonna know just what I mean, yeah!
Trip back on the serpent move, Z-man slowly bang the groove
Takin’ a trip — “a real kick” to hell (shout it!)
Think’n that when she die spirit go up to the sky
Devil come a stepp’n, brainiac a look’n below, yeah!
6 Cosmic Monsters Inc. 05:13
“Meanwhile, behind the façade of this innocent-looking bookstore…”How big is life? Can it ride like the butterfly?
Star in the dust — rocketman — supersky
Sugar on the hill — Explode and never die
I think I will — Come on take it![Chorus]
High — I gotta O yeah! Come on
So high — I gotta O yeah! Come on!
So loosely illustrated — A trick of light — I demonstrated
Right to you what you do! (“You’re all shook up, aren’t you baby?”)
How high is up? Can it reach at the butterfly?
Rise in the howl hit me cold — supersky
Witness the kill explode! Never die
I think I will — Come on! take it![Chorus]Deaf to the ear — Fat city slang
Bloody ma growls “concentrate the bang”
Broadway do — The winter kills
Astro-Creep’n you untilOvercome the devil — Deluxe the game
One, sweep, spun “I got no name”
Paper thin cut — On the edge of hell
Wrestle with heaven but I never Fell
(“They come from the bowels of hell
The transformed recent walking dead
Zombies guided by a master plan
For complete domination of the Earth.”)
Sink to a level realize no direction
West of the moon — I got no reflection
Blood on the stone — I do not surrender
Wait’n for someone — I do not remember
[Chorus]
Cosmic monsters waited — Turn around incorporated
Right to…
(“The only thing square about this world are the cats what live in it!)”
7 Spiderbaby (Yeah-Yeah-Yeah) 05:01
(Bells)Yeah, I knew I hit the edge when I saw the spider
Jukebox paranoid insider
Blaze they gaze — Amaze at the razor
Stranglehold L-O-V-E laze or[Chorus]
Power Breakdown — Get on it
Stateside crazy – Get with it
Sista told ya — you ain’t nothin’, yeah, yeah, yeahShadow make a move and it goes right through me
Gun Styl’n planet – Do me!!
Sling the ring they sting on the outside
Chrome crank’em ’til they’re singing rawhide[Chorus](Chanting #1)Well deep-dish on the body
Spinout sugar – devil
Wayward road of losing
6-pack’n the evilWell macabro on the body
Roulette blast a roddin’
Reptile rhythm voodoo
Journey to the tide and…?(Chanting #2)
8 I Am Legend 05:08
[Verse 1]
When I’m in the sky, I’m too far away
[Gotta] kick in to feel it
Terminate another, no one is my brother
Yeah, the sun burns on me, well
Hell is home, tomb, city, stone
Nail me to another cross, yeah[Chorus]
Pour the gasoline, yeah, burn the fucker clean
Tell me who’d she coo I want her
Like a suicide flex, hit the run and hide
Tell me who’d she coo, shine the body[Verse 2]
Omega-Man say, “It’s all gone away, I cannot believe it.”
Well I am the one, a God with a gun
Well I am legend
Planet, grave, hard, kill the slave
Nail me to another cross, yeah[Chorus][Verse 3]
Yeah, a vampire sharpshooter
“O,” I said, “a messenger for the damned.”
I got a holy gun, come a loaded
To kill everything that I am
Well I am the only nitty-gritty
Ride a rail and look at the crime, yeah!
Well I am the only—god? one they can find[Chorus]
9 Knuckle Duster (Radio 2-B) 00:25
(“Now what we have to ask is ‘Why is it that God has admonished us to hate evil? Well, first of all, God…”)
(“Y cuando tu vuelvas…”)
[?]
(“And strangled them and finally dismembered their bodies…”)
[?]
(“The homelessness and all that…”)
(“And now, the voice you’ve been waiting for…”)
10 Thrust! 04:05
Thrust in deep, there are no limitations
Wing shaped constellations everywhere now
Creep, babe, creep your life’s a suicide
And I said “I’m gonna ride it” She don’t care now[Chorus]
Yeah! Maybe — the night ride gonna bleed
Yeah! Maybe — this is what ch’all need!Sink’n deep into your destination
Dig the demolition everywhere, now
Creep, babe, creep into your ring ‘o’ fire
Burned out on the wire — She don’t care, now[Chorus](“It has been established that persons who have recently died have been returning to life and committing acts of murder. Widespread investigation of reports from funeral homes, morgues, and hospitals has concluded that the unburied dead are coming back to life and seeking human victims. It’s hard for us here to believe what we’re reporting to you, but it does seem to be a fact.”)Yeah! Open the darkness an hour later to the minute
Move under the guilty she went deep into the corner
Snap dog city hypnotize and break the mercury
Rig test — Oil inject freak hallucination
Shot through the backdoor buzz a whirling locomotion
West straight to another, through the sea of loveLife on the line, still in time, you will find “She has gone away.”
Don’t ask why, super sky, live or die, “She has gone away.”
Figure this, no more, sis, Spanish kiss, “She has gone away.”Thrust into a diamond generation
Dexceleration everywhere
Up from hell a missile to the moon and
Zero to the 3 and
4 and 5 and[Chorus]How fast can you really move me
Come on, come on, come on, come on, yeah!
A ritual electro-nation – yow!!
11 One Big Crunch 0:21
Only parts of the corpse have been removed
Only parts of the corpse have been removed
Only parts of the corpse have been removed
Only parts of the corpse have been removed
He steps to the water and plunges in
Making far more impression on his skull than on the lady
12 Grindhouse (A Go-Go) 04:05
Listen to the dream of life — a conversation
Hustle me beneath a spark — flesh or reflection
Faith can’t hold insto-matic soul — trapped the light
A fool for love stand’n still — deep is the night[Chorus]
Jump in the back — a pack attack — Gimme that — dig in
Lethal mind — fugitive kind — Hustle!Steal’n back the past ahead – that’s how I’m roll’n
Trick racer so desperate — that’s how I’m living
Dead heat shred the midway air — I see forever
Drag-O-Rama kick’n in — no say never[Chorus]Scrimshaw motherfucker bazooka 5-star cat a howl’n
Kitten got a whip but no escape to bait the prowl’n
If hell is like a woman, said “Take me to the fire”
Shot down! Another desperate love crucifier
Yeah! Boiling out of nowhere — crazyhead decision
Skintight on the action grind into collision yeah!
Breath’n seeped into my head — the gang is bang’n
Pump the creature daddy-o — spring-loaded hang’n
Everything ya always need — right for the taking
Shoot the works the haunted hill house is a shak’n
13 Starface 05:02
(“One. We are one. One is the beginning.”
“Are you one, Herbert?”
“I am not Herbert.”)(“X minus 5 seconds
4…3…2…1”)September in the rain — her sweat come a frozen onto my skin
Eliminate the outerspace and come and get I’m swing’n down it again
Synchronize me — fall away — I believe that I’m wicked on the way
Look alive now![Chorus]
Yeah! Stars explode my eyes — Well, “I been down a long time”
Days crawl away and die — “Forever is a long time”Remember howling “crazy” like at the moonlight superfly
A penetrating powerman “O baby” I’m painted in the sky
Iron fister on the hour
Paralyzing demon flower[Chorus]Surround the pain the love’s insane got a pseudo-systematic gain
Careening through the neon side — a horizontal “mind collide”
Harum scarum holiday — Double deal’n on the ones who say
“Collapse me with a powerblast” Groung to zero roll’n fast
Ride the glide — treasure slide — got a wooden symbol soul inside
“Freeze” the heart — a razor tear pack she doesn’t care
If the pillow jacob sky snatch the pad I don’t deny
Been a long time — been a long timeStep into the wind and watch a red girl come alive
She scream’n to the world “I’m diggin’ on the fact that you will not survive!”
Radiate me — walk away — you shook the devil’s dig deep hand today[Chorus]A million miles an hour – a million miles an hour
A million miles an hour – let’s get inside(“Oh, Herbert, you are stiff!”)
14 Warp Asylum 06:42
Been down, yeah! Well I look down and my
Mind blows away deep in the darkness “illuminate”
Beyond a million miles — Something slid up to my head
Circling around my eye, eye, eyes[Chorus]
And I said, smooth operator says
Get up, get up, and outta here
Smooth operator saysLights band the traffic thunder
Two blocks west of the rest
Tore away the bottom and saw
Life is a test
Beyond a million miles
Well I ricocheted through my head
One hand kills and the other’s cra-a-azy[Chorus]Sail into night, ghost ship a tripping
Struck by the plunge something to see yeah
Bootleg the girl, she is a looker
Pure is the fear that breaks awayStraight to the sun I am a walk’n
State of the art — all that I see
New gods move whipp’n the shore and
Dash on the reef — surf cityI walk alone and stare, man
Right in the sun
Tear-jerk asylum and
Cemetery run
How’d I ever get this far man?
Smooth curves switchback the sweat
Underneath the body, baby
Where what you see is what you
See and
What you
Get(“Thank you so very much. God bless you. Have a ball! And goodnight.”
“A few of these sentences have already begun to take root in your subconscious mind, haven’t they? If you play the record a few more times, you’ll be amazed at how easily you have begun to understand.”)

Album line-up and album details

LENGTH:57:30
LABEL:Geffen
RELEASED:March 17, 1992

CENTERSPREAD COURTESY OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, USA.

IGGY POP APPEARS ON BLACK SUNSHINE COURTESY OF VIRGIN RECORDS AMERICA, INC. 

DIALOGUE EXCERPTS FROM FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL! KILL! AND MUDHONEY/RUSS MEYER FILMS. “IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED…” FROM NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

LYRICS REPRINTED BY PERMISSION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 1992 THE DAVID GEFFEN COMPANY

ALL MUSIC:  White Zombie
ALL LYRICS:  Rob Zombie
ALL SONGS:  Publishing Designee
PRODUCED BY:  Andy Wallace
ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY:  Andy Wallace
ASSISTANT ENGINEER:  David Carpenter
MASTERED BY:  Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk, NYC
RECORDED:  May 1991 at 321 Studios, NYC
ALL ILLUSTRATIONS:  Rob Zombie
ART DIRECTION:  Rob Zombie, Sean Yseult, Michael Golob
PHOTOSHOP:  Michael Golob
PHOTOGRAPHY:  Alison Dyer
LIVE PHOTOS:  Kristin Callahan
A&R:  Myriam Santos-Kayda
MANAGEMENT:  Andy Gould
SPECIAL THANKS:  Michael Alago, Daniel Rey, Iggy Pop, Toni Quirk, Jim Thirwell, Russ Meyer, ESP, Gibson and the Zombie Squad-Gregg Skoorka and Damien Ierino