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Released
  
June 1973

Length
  
38:01

Release date
  
June 1973

Recorded
  
1973

Artist
  
Producer
  
Dave Hitchcock

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Studio
  
Chipping Norton Recording Studio, Oxfordshire

Kings of Oblivion(1973)
  
Genres
  
Psychedelic rock, Hard rock, Proto-punk

Similar
  
Pink Fairies albums, Psychedelic rock albums

Pink fairies kings of oblivion full album


Kings Of Oblivion is a 1973 album by the UK underground group Pink Fairies.

Contents

Paul Rudolph had quit the group on the release of What a Bunch of Sweeties, thus briefly deactivating the band. Duncan Sanderson and Russell Hunter formed a new band with Steve Peregrin Took and guitarist Mick Wayne, before splitting from Took and reactivating the Pink Fairies with Wayne as singer/guitarist. This new three piece recorded one single, "Well, Well, Well"/"Hold On", but Sanderson and Hunter were unhappy with the musical direction Wayne was taking the band. Convincing Larry Wallis (formerly of Took's 1970 band Shagrat) to join the group as a second guitarist, they then sacked Wayne passing songwriting and singing duties onto the inexperienced Wallis.

The album was named after a line from a David Bowie track titled "The Bewlay Brothers". The cover, by Edward Barker, parodied the popular flying ducks ornaments of the time but with flying pigs instead, pigs having become a motif for the band. An inner foldout sheet contained individual portraits of the group members in their chosen scenes of oblivion.

After this album the group continued touring, but Wallis, who wanted to be in "a very slick two guitar rock band", was at odds with Sanderson and Hunter's attitude of being "content to get up and jam for ten minutes". Eventually he would leave to join Lemmy in the first incarnation of Motörhead.

Pink fairies city kids studio version


Track listing

  1. "City Kids" (Wallis, Sanderson) - 3:45
  2. "I Wish I Was a Girl" (Wallis) - 9:41
  3. "When's The Fun Begin?" (Wallis, Mick Farren) - 6:13
  4. "Chromium Plating" (Wallis) - 3:48
  5. "Raceway" (Wallis) - 4:08
  6. "Chambermaid" (Wallis, Sanderson, Hunter) - 3:18
  7. "Street Urchin" (Wallis) - 7:07

2002 CD Bonus Tracks

  1. "Well, Well, Well" (Single version) (Wayne) - 3:59
  2. "Hold On" (Single version) (Wayne, Sanderson, Hunter) - 4:10
  3. "City Kids" (Alternate mix) - 3:42
  4. "Well, Well, Well" (Alternate mix) - 3:20

Personnel

  • Larry Wallis – guitar, vocals
  • Duncan Sanderson – bass, vocals
  • Russell Hunter – drums
  • Technical
  • Dave Grinsted - engineer
  • Peter Lavery - photography
  • Songs

    1City Kids3:45
    2I Wish I Was a Girl9:41
    3When's the Fun Begin?6:13

    References

    Kings of Oblivion Wikipedia


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