Legendary Rock Songs: OBLIVION: TERRORVISION.
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Theme:OBLIVION.
Disc:How To Make Friendo And Influence People.
Year:1994.
Sometimes the stupidest chorus or the simplest and most absurd melody can bring a sure success precisely because of its ease to conquer the public. Over the years we have seen successful advertising campaigns that based their claim on strange onomatopoeias but that hooked the viewer and potential consumer at the first time, and there we have the famous “gueropa” and “washaaaa! to confirm it. The charm of Terrorvision's “Oblivion” is a similar case, a song with a simplistic and effective melody with an immediate effect, that “ua-ba-ba-ba-ua” was as catchy as chewing gum, and once it was lodged in your brain you couldn't get it out of your head or stop humming it all the time.
Undoubtedly, their recreators, the British Terrorvision, had to live a difficult time for the English music, the 90s. They were clearly a great band, but the times in which they developed their career were not the most propitious for rock in the Islands, and in spite of everything, they managed to show their head, achieving some achievements in the charts. Their pop-punk rock with some unbridled guitars never renounced to the great melodies, and of course, with the one of “Oblivion” they hit the nail on the head, taking them even to play in the famous American program Top Of The Pops.
A cheerful, carefree and instantaneous song, with the persistent chorus of the chorus doing its thing guided by a great rhythmic base, a fantastic guitar work by Mark Yates, who highlighted the potential of the song with different guitar licks and a particularly rocking bridge, and a Tony Wright who, meanwhile, displayed his English accent and his vitality with chained phrases. That album of curious and sarcastic title, “How To Make Friends And Influence People”, took them to the festivals of Donington and Reading.
Here we had the opportunity to enjoy them in 1996 on two occasions, at the first Festimad and when their colleagues from Def Leppard brought them as opening act, but they always went unnoticed except in the UK (where they had a couple of good entries in the charts and even a number one with their single “Tequila”) and this tune that everyone seemed to know and know how to hum. Their work should not be forgotten. To keep the rocker bug alive with a smile in the hard stage of decadence and transition of British music.
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