“Oblivious” by Aztec Camera

"Oblivious" was the second single from Aztec Camera's debut album, High Land, Hard Rain, and it's Roddy Frame at his most sunstruck: bright acoustic strumming, a bouncing bassline from Campbell Owens, Dave Ruffy's light-footed drums and Bernie Clarke's keyboards, all produced by Clarke and John Brand. Frame wrote it, arranged it and sings it in a languid drawl, and Record Mirror swooned over his personality-packed songwriting and dreamy guitar.

The Scottish band's first go at the UK chart stalled at No. 47, but once the Rough Trade graduates had Warner muscle behind them, WEA sent the song out again in October 1983 and it climbed to No. 18. The video was shot a long way from home, at the Madewood Plantation House in Napoleonville, Louisiana.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.