{"id":9556,"date":"2012-01-18T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=9556"},"modified":"2012-01-18T12:56:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:56:44","slug":"midweek-music-break-dominant-legs-make-time-for-the-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/midweek-music-break-dominant-legs-make-time-for-the-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Music Break: Dominant Legs, &#8220;Make Time for the Boy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a group named &#8220;Dominant Legs,&#8221; what in the <em>hell<\/em>\u00a0sort of music should we expect? Tina Turner in black leather, maybe?<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say I have a ready answer to the question. But it <em>wouldn&#8217;t<\/em> have been, for me, something like this: a Lynchian, sweetly blissed-out, dream-dancing, burbling-organ, saxophone-accented, group-sing throwback of a pop song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WMvR2kIN3Y8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"305\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>[<a title=\"Lyrics: 'Make Time for the Boy'\" onclick=\"javascript:wopen('https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/lyrics\/maketimefortheboy_dominantlegs.html', 'new', 450, 500); return false;\">Lyrics<\/a> (courtesy of Ryan Lynch of Dominant Legs)]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By &#8220;Lynchian,&#8221; I don&#8217;t mean just that\u00a0it reminds me, musically &#8212; right down to the finger snaps &#8212; of the song &#8220;Freshly Squeezed&#8221; (from the soundtrack to (yes, I know, sorry: <em>again<\/em>) <em>Twin Peaks<\/em>). I mean it <em>literally<\/em>: Dominant Legs&#8217;s sparkplug is a young man named Ryan Lynch (he&#8217;s the lead singer in the video, and also plays keyboard and guitar). He&#8217;s joined by Hannah Hunt, who sings and plays keyboard\u00a0(she&#8217;s the blonde woman above); Andrew Connors (bass guitar); Garett Goddard (guitar); and Rene Solomon (drums and percussion). The young woman whose dream-trip this apparently\u00a0represents is played by\u00a0Raina Mieloch. I don&#8217;t know who operated the mixing board, but I hope he or she got paid overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The group just released their first album, <em>Invitation<\/em>, a few months ago. (For another taste from it, see the video for &#8220;<a title=\"YouTube: Dominant Legs, 'Hoop of Love'\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/HuipyoE3ep4\" target=\"_blank\">Hoop of Love<\/a>.&#8221;) They&#8217;ve gotten a lot of favorable attention from critics, but &#8220;regular&#8221; folks seem split. It depends,\u00a0evidently, on whether you did or didn&#8217;t get burned out on 1980s techno-pop. Maybe I&#8217;m just an easy audience, but &#8220;Make Time for the Boy&#8221; is already on <em>my<\/em> list of favorite 2012 earworms.<\/p>\n<p>_______________<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I assume someone will ask. So, just in case&#8230;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 90%; line-height: 1.25em;\"><em>[Below, click Play button to begin <\/em>Freshly Squeezed<em>. While audio is playing, volume control appears at left &#8212; a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 3:48 long.<a class=\"hidden\" title=\"3.6MB - you sure about this?\" href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/audio\/freshlysqueezed_angelobadalamenti.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid silver; margin: 0.25em 0.5em 0.5em; padding: 1em 0.5em 0pt; width: 400px; float: none; text-align: center;\" title=\"Click Play button to hear 'Freshly Squeezed'\">[audio:freshlysqueezed_angelobadalamenti.mp3|titles=&#8217;Freshly Squeezed&#8217;|artists=Angelo Badalamenti]<\/div>\n<p>The title &#8220;Freshly Squeezed&#8221; refers to <a title=\"YouTube: 'Twin Peaks' - the 'freshly squeezed' scene\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x2qFQcgogCw\" target=\"_blank\">this scene<\/a> in the very first <em>Twin Peaks<\/em> episode (the song itself begins playing near the end of the clip). Even after seeing the scene probably a dozen times, I still grin throughout. <em>Especially<\/em>\u00a0at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a group named &#8220;Dominant Legs,&#8221; what in the hell\u00a0sort of music should we expect? Tina Turner in black leather, maybe? I can&#8217;t say I have a ready answer to the question. But it wouldn&#8217;t have been, for me, something like this: a Lynchian, sweetly blissed-out, dream-dancing, burbling-organ, saxophone-accented, group-sing throwback of a pop song: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2252,74],"tags":[2323,2769,2770,2771,2772],"class_list":{"0":"post-9556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-midweek-music-break","7":"category-music","8":"tag-earworms","9":"tag-dominant-legs","10":"tag-ryan-lynch","11":"tag-hannah-hunt","12":"tag-twin-peaks-again","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-2u8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9556"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9610,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556\/revisions\/9610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}