"All of This and Nothing" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in the previous This Year, Portions For Foxes, or Better Things series. It alternates between Obscure and Famous songs; feel free to argue either way if you're so inclined. See the introduction for more.
OK, I've finally hit the point where my "Obscure" songs are so obscure that I can't even find a version of them online to embed here. Which somewhat ruins the point of the post, I guess, but let me do what I can in the circumstances.
Boxer the Horse is [1] a band from the Canadian Maritimes; their debut EP was The Late Show in 2008. The music website Fingertips featured a song from that record; I downloaded it, liked it, and ended up buying the band's full-length French Residency when it came out a couple of years later. (They seem to have had another full-length in the middle, which I missed.)
That first song, the one I heard in 2008, is Jackson Leftfield, which has very little trace on these here Interwebs. YouTube has a live version, but the album version doesn't even seem to be on Spotify anymore. The Fingertips link is long-dead. No lyrics exist anywhere I can find.
It's a loose-limbed, harmonica-fueled, electronic-organ-infused romp - Jackson is a girl the singer is talking to, though I think she's a friend or acquaintance rather than the object of his affections. Whoever is after her, though, she's not having it:
Do you have any idea who I am?
It's an energetic, fun song from a band that seemingly has been forgotten even by the people who knew they existed in the first place. The world is full of songs like that, unfortunately - or fortunately; it means the world is full of great stuff - and this is one I really liked and wanted to remember...if only I could find it to share it.
[1] Probably "was," I don't see any activity post-2014. But let me be optimistic.
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