Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head
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| song name | Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | They Might Be Giants, Then: The Earlier Years, Best Of The Early Years, Direct From Brooklyn, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants, A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants: Melody, Fidelity, Quantity |
| year | 1986 |
| first played | March 1, 1985 (159 known performances) |
| run time | 2:12 |
| sung by | John Flansburgh |
Trivia/Info
- Linnell wrote the chorus (all seven titular words of it).
- The spoken break ('Memo to myself...') was added at the last minute during the recording of 1985 Demo Tape.
- The lyrics 'Quit my job down at the car wash / Didn't have to write no-one a good-bye note' are most likely inspired by the Elvis Presley song 'Guitar Man' that begins 'I quit my job down at the car wash / Left my mamma a good-bye note'.
- The synthesized instrument heard playing arpeggios for most of the song and playing chords through the chorus is the "FUNNY" preset on an early 1980s Casio keyboard, assumedly a CZ-101 as its versatility is noted in the Then handbook.
- In the original script for Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's film Being John Malkovich, this song was supposed to run over the end credits.
- Per the commentary from Direct From Brooklyn, the video was filmed on the tails (pieces of film cut if a whole scene cannot fit on them) of the movie Married to the Mob.
- Video directed by Adam Bernstein.
- Filming location: empty lot next to Con Edison plant, at North 12th St & Kent Ave in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (also the shooting location for the duo couch interview scenes in Gigantic)
Song Themes
Aversion To Work, Doors, Falling, Guy Songs, Heads, Love, Misanthropy, Puppets, Religion, School, Streets, Tongue-Twisters, Zombies Or The Undead
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