Pink Fairies - Kings of Oblivion 1973

***ATTENTION***

This post is from the very beginning of when I started doing this Blog. As you can see, I was going to do this album by album by album, that is, not whole bands on each post. However, that became a much more daunting task than I could handle at that point in mt life. And since those periods have their way of popping up now and then, well a lot more these days, anyhow I decided to do it the way you're used to seeing it. That is, band by band. Plus, I'm just fucking lazy and I don't get payed fort his shit!!!

Pink Fairies - Kings of Oblivion

The 1973 album by the U.K. underground band Pink Fairies

Paul Rudolph had quit the band after the release of "What a Bunch of Sweeties" thus, deactivating the band. Duncan Sanderson and Ralph Hunter started another band with Steve Parren Took and guitarist Mick Wayne before splitting with Took and reactivating the Fairies with Wayne as singer/guitarist. 

The new trio recorded a single "Well Well Well" b/w "Hold On" but Sanderson and Hunter were not happy with the direction that Wayne was taking the band. So they asked Larry Wallis (formerly from Took's Shagrat) as a second guitar, then they sacked Wayne, passing the songwriting and vocal duty to the inexperienced Wallis. The album was named after a line in a David Bowie track titled,  

"The Bewlay Brothers." 

The Cover, by Edward Barker parodied the flying duck ornaments of the time with pigs instead of ducks. Pigs having become a motif for the band. An inner fold-out sheet contained a photo of each individual band members in their chosen scene of oblivion.

After this album the band 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 of getting up to jam for ten minutes" Eventually he would join Lemmy and Lucas Fox for the first incarnation of Motorhead. "City Kids' was recorded and featured on the cancelled Motorhead debut that was eventually released in 1979 with Wallis on guitar.

Track listing: 

1. "City Kids" (Walis, Sanderson)

2. "I Wanna Be  Girl" (Wallis) 

3. "When's the Fun Begin" (Wallis, Mick Farren)

4. Chromium Plating" (Wallis)

5. "Raceway" (Wallis)

6' "Chambermaid" (Wallis, Sanderson, Hunter)

7. "Street Urchin" (Wallis)

2002 CD Bonus Tracks:

1. "Well, Well, Well" (Single Version) (Wayne)

2. "Hold On" (Single Version) (Wayne, Sanderson, Hunter)

3. "City Kids" (Alternate Mix) 

4. "Well, Well, Well" (Alternate Mix)