For the song by Def Leppard, see Euphoria (Def Leppard album).

Kings Of Oblivion is a 1973 album by the UK underground

UK underground

The Underground was a countercultural movement in the United Kingdom linked to the underground culture in the United States and associated with the hippie phenomenon. Its primary focus was around Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill in London...

 group Pink Fairies

Pink Fairies

Pink Fairies were an English rock band active in the London underground and psychedelic scene of the early 1970s. They promoted free music, drug taking and anarchy and often performed impromptu gigs and other agitprop stunts, such as playing for free outside the gates at the Bath and Isle of Wight...

.

Paul Rudolph

Paul Rudolph (musician)

Paul Fraser Rudolph is a guitarist,bassist, singer, and cyclist. He made his mark in the UK underground music scene, and then as a session musician, before returning to Canada to indulge his passion for cycling...

 had quit the group on the release of What a Bunch of Sweeties

What a Bunch of Sweeties

What a Bunch of Sweeties is a 1972 album by the UK underground group Pink Fairies.Twink had left the band before the recording of this album...

, his replacement being Mick Wayne. 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

Larry Wallis

Larry Wallis is a guitarist, songwriter and producer. He is best known as a member of the Pink Fairies and an early member of Motörhead.-Early bands:...

 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

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

 track titled The Bewlay Brothers

The Bewlay Brothers

"The Bewlay Brothers" is a song written by David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory. The last track to be written and recorded for Hunky Dory, this ballad has been described as "probably Bowie's densest and most impenetrable song"...

. The cover, by Edward Barker

Edward Barker (cartoonist)

John Edward Barker was an English cartoonist, best known for his work in International Times and The Observer in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the comic strip "The Largactilites" . He was described as "the wittiest and most idiosyncratic cartoonist to emerge from the British...

, parodied the popular flying ducks ornaments of the time but with flying pigs instead, pigs having become an ident 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.

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
   Mick Farren
   Michael Anthony 'Mick' Farren is an English journalist, author and singer associated with counterculture and the UK Underground.-Music:...
   
   ) - 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

8. "Well, Well, Well (Single Version)" (Wayne) - 3:59
9. "Hold On (Single Version)" (Wayne/Sanderson/Hunter) - 4:10
10. "City Kids (Alternate Mix)" - 3:42
11. "Well, Well, Well (Alternate Mix)" - 3:20

External links

• Collectable Records - Original cover