Push Back The Hands
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| song name | Push Back the Hands |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | I Like Fun, Dial-A-Song (2018) |
| year | 2018 |
| run time | 3:01 |
| sung by | John Linnell |
Trivia/Info
- Video directed by David Cowles and Jeremy Galante; animation by Brad Pattullo and Jeremy Galante; backgrounds by Arianna Palmer and David Cowles. The video is in a similar style to "Put It To The Test" from Here Comes Science and "Thinking Machine" from Why?.
- "Viaggio Nel Tempo", seen in the upper left of the video, is "Time Travel" in Italian.
- "Livello" is Italian for "Level".
- This video also contains references to TMBG videos of the past.
- The figure in the wasteland in Livello 3 is Hammurabi from The Mesopotamians.
- The first Livello 10 (there are two) looks like the Don't Let's Start music video.
- The creature in Livello 8 is a Morlock from the 1960 film The Time Machine, based on the novel by H.G. Wells.
- The second Livello 10 has the Hill Valley Courthouse from Back To The Future in the background, with the clock being struck at 10:04 PM, just before our cyborg hero is zapped away.
- The term "mission creep" refers to the expansion of a project or mission beyond its original goals. It's usually considered undesirable because it can lead to the dangerous path of each success breeding more ambitious attempts, stopping only when a final, often catastrophic, failure occurs.
- "Rosy-fingered" is an old epithet for the dawn, originating in Homer.
Song Themes
Accidents, Backwards, Bodily Mutilation, Body Parts, Children, Colors, Conservatism, Fading, Hands, Precious Metal, Puns, Recursion, Screaming, Sleep, Time
Videos
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