After Hot Cha's decisive ending, we have another grand epic in Women And Men, similar in many ways to Theme From Flood. Women And Men is a bookmark that stands alone and resets the mood for the denouement trilogy of Sapphire Bullets, They Might Be Giants, and Road Movie To Berlin
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Women and Men can be seen as a celebration of the whole human expansion project. The ship runs out of ocean and runs aground. What's in the ship? Women and men, bringing with them messages of love, and everywhere they go, love will grow.
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They enter the wilds of the new land, and set up shop. This stream of people gets wider, eventually becoming an ocean, which bears more ships of more women and men.
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Like Theme From Flood, however, and taken as a reflection of that opening movement, this takes on a somewhat sinister tone. The "messages of love" are whistling in the dark, ignoring the apocalyptic (and in many cases genocidal) impacts of such expansion.
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Again and again in the TMBG canon, "ocean" is death and destruction; it is tumultuous, full of fickle peril. It is the flood that threatens to end us. The ocean is what the mighty lighthouse stands guard over, which the meager nightlight could never hope to aspire to. It's SCARY.
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The people who crossed the ocean are only trying to make a life for themselves. They're loving, they're kind, they just wanna have kids and families. But in so doing, what do they become? Another ocean.
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As the beneficiaries of this expansion, rolling over and erasing what was before, what are we to do? Shall we accept the messages of love, and become an ocean carrying more ships? Flood doesn't give us "ought". Only "is". And we probably will continue expanding and destroying.
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Women And Men takes the pattern of retreating from darkness to absurdity, and makes it personal. WE are the darkness. WE are the danger. WE are the flood rising. And overall, we're happy about it. Quite pleased with ourselves, in fact.
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Next up: Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love. There is SO much to say about this song. If Birdhouse and Particle Man are the songs from Flood that everyone (or, at least, every GenX and Millennial) knows, Sapphire Bullets is the one that perhaps looms largest for TMBG superfans.
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The title is from this short weird piece by the same name, from the Mahavishnu Orchestrahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFVtZKC9RLA …
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