I'm actually kind of furious that they took down the music video for this song, because it's just Joel Plaskett traveling creatively through a fishing village. Like, by school bus, skateboard, scull, and in the front bucket of a backhoe. Which does not start with an S. "Steam shovel" does, I guess, but that's a different thing.
"Through & Through & Through" is off an album called Three, which contains several themes based on the number of the same name--it's a triple album, and several songs, including this one, have one word repeated three times. What makes this song so catchy...well, there are a lot of reasons. Let's make an itemized list.
"Through & Through & Through" is off an album called Three, which contains several themes based on the number of the same name--it's a triple album, and several songs, including this one, have one word repeated three times. What makes this song so catchy...well, there are a lot of reasons. Let's make an itemized list.
- The four-against-three feel in the chorus, in keeping with the theme of the record at large. It's jarring, but more like it's slapping your ass than knocking you off your chair.
- Horns. But they're different than Mark Ronson's Horns. Mark Ronson's Horns wear a suit but no tie and want to have very serious but slightly tipsy sex with you. Joel Plaskett's Horns want to put on a t-shirt and Dad Jeans and take you rollerblading.
- In addition to the horns, "Through & Through & Through" isn't shy about nonlyrical vocal sound effects, i.e. the panting at 1:17 and the "Heeeeep" at 3:12 and elsewhere. We don't do this enough in pop music.
- So much of this song is constructed in chunks in which one rhythmic pattern is repeated over and over, but with a different melody. This is pretty much the easiest way to make a song catchy, though I'm not sure why, exactly, this is the case. But it's going to come up again later in the Top 100.
