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Westworld
Band United Kingdom Active 1986–1992 late 80s UK pop/post-punk band
Westworld formed in 1986 in the United Kingdom and was active until 1992. Westworld has 6 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1988–1994. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Painkiller”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #17. The station that charted Westworld most often is Live 105 (San Francisco, CA), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1988.
Westworld took their name from the sci-fi film and their sound from a junk shop of rock history. Former Generation X guitarist Bob "Derwood" Andrews and American singer Elizabeth Westwood started the band in 1986, with Nick Burton on drums, and they bolted vintage rock and roll, glam and punk onto beatboxes and sequencers, then styled the whole thing like a comic book come to life.
It worked fast. "Sonic Boom Boy", their first single, went to number 11 in Britain in February 1987 and turned up in Sony's ads, and "Ba-Na-Na-Bam-Boo" gave them another Top 40 hit that May. Rockulator, from 1987, carried "Painkiller", a gleefully trashy blast of drum-machine thump and rockabilly sneer that found a home on San Francisco's Live 105 even though America mostly passed them by. RCA had them on its books.
Burton left before the third and last album, replaced by Gary "Gaz" Young and Tracey "T.J." O'Conner, and in 1992 the band packed up for the Arizona desert and turned into Moondogg.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Westworld on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Painkiller | 6 | #17 | – | 1988 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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