Label: Raceway Records (UK & Europe), RWY001CD
Style: Proto Punk, Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 37:56
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 253 Mb
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 re-activating 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 Motorhead. "City Kids" was re-recorded for On Parole, Motorhead's 1976 cancelled debut album (eventually released 1979) with Wallis on guitar. It was re-recorded yet again by Motorhead for the B-side of their 1977 single "Motorhead", this time with "Fast" Eddie Clarke on guitar.
The Pink Fairies had not finished recording Kings of Oblivion before Polydor took the master tapes. According to one commentator, the label then "hastily mixed the LP while the Fairies were away on tour, even leaving the vocal tracks off one cut, 'Raceway'." Released to tie in with their concurrent tour, it was the band's third album, and first and only released in the United States. In 2002, all three of the band's albums were re-released on CD by Polydor.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Oblivion)
01. City Kids (03:46)
02. I Wish I Was A Girl (09:39)
03. When's The Fun Begin? (06:11)
04. Chromiun Plating (03:49)
05. Raceway (04:09)
06. Chambermaid (03:16)
07. Street Urchin (07:03)
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