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
- 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.
- 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?. Facts and references in the video:
- The video's concept is an homage to the 1966–67 sci-fi television show The Time Tunnel, centring around two scientists who are trapped within various notable events in the past (and on two occasions, the future) due to a malfunctioning time machine.
- "Viaggio Nel Tempo", seen in the upper left of the video, is "time travel" in Italian. "Livello" is Italian for "level".
- The figure in the wasteland in Livello 3 is Hammurabi from "The Mesopotamians".
- The creature in Livello 8 is a Morlock from the 1960 film The Time Machine, based on the novel by H.G. Wells.
- The first Livello 10 depicts a pixelated version of the New York State Pavilion at Flushing Meadows park in Queens, where the "Don't Let's Start" music video was shot (and the site of the 1964 World's Fair).
- The second Livello 10 shows 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.
Song Themes
Accidents, Backwards, Bodily Mutilation, Body Parts, Children, Colors, Conservatism, Fading, Hands, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Precious Metal, Puns, Recursion, Screaming, Sleep, Time
Videos
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