SONG OF THE DAY (#173)

'changed (a sailor's plea),' by montt mardie

david pagmar lists his influences as genesis, elvis, jay-z, joy division, frank sinatra, john coltrane, paul mccartney and duran duran. i also hear a little bit of wham! [which really would have been all i needed to jump on the mm train.] how, exactly, does such a stew sound? better than you could ever imagine. david pagmar (a.k.a montt mardie) is all his influences and more. maybe it's the chintzy keyboards, the over-the-top falsetto, the pristine melodies, the basement production sound, the doo-wops and bee-bops, the cheezy synth lines, but whatever it is, it is 21 kinds of awesome. indeed, montt mardie is a strange and wonderful melange of disparate sounds fused into a happy, melodic whole. and objectivity be darned: this is brilliant stuff. it's the toppermost of poppermost and david pagmar my friggin' hero.

and for the record, 'drama' was released in 2005, and 'clocks' in 2007. i can't recommend them enough. as for the songs, it was absolutely impossible to pick two or three songs, so i picked six. this'll get you started. now go get the rest. now. :)

happy weekend. see you monday...

��� montt mardie: changed (a sailor's plea)
��� montt mardie: birthday boy (drama)
��� montt mardie: huckleberry friend
��� montt mardie: highschool drama
��� montt mardie: metropolis [w/fredrick hellstrom of le sport]
��� montt mardie: once i was so in love that i followed [w/bobby baby]