Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...About Nothing," all awash in a swirl of percussion and spot-on "galactic surf guitar," mines the same glam vein, but with a new wave twist. Unlike the first track, it's got an actual melody, and the track itself wouldn't sound out of place on a Porno for Pyros CD. Given Weiland's voracious propensity for aping other musical artists, it then comes as no surprise that Porno for Pyros bassist Martyn LeNoble plays bass on most of the tracks, including this...
...lips / Capsize just like a tanker / Kill Kill Piss Piss") that are an amateur Freudian's wet dream. "Son" is a gently motoring ode to Weiland's new son, a la "Kooks" off Hunky Dory. "Jimmy Was a Stimulator" is a pleasant piece of glam/new wave with a nonsense lyric and a "Whole Lotta Love"-style freak-out middle...
...emotional expressions of nationalist sentiment which Americans take for granted. For example, we appreciate the practical need for a national anthem, but are not going to worry too much about learning is words. Our tradition tends to be ironic and skeptical; we tend to suspect that those who wave flags are trying to distract attention from other agendas...
...like the discoveries that paved the way for the first wave of biotechnology entrepreneurs, today's new techniques of drug discovery represent a profound--and unavoidable--shift in the growth of the global pharmaceuticals industry...
...While foreign to most biologists and perhaps chemists, and, in fact, not taught in normal biomedical education, these become the most important tools for the next wave of biomedical research," he says...