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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Their stated goal was to "bring back real songwriting" and in doing so, they kick-started the era of NewWaveMusic. And they managed to perform perfect, note-for-note recreations of these meticulously created songs live long before advancements in technology made it easy for most performers to do so. It's no surprise that Music/TrevorHorn became such a successful producer.
* FirstInstallmentWins: ''The Age of Plastic'' is far better-known and generally more acclaimed than ''Adventures in Modern Recording''.
* NeverLiveItDown: The band is best known for having the first video played on Creator/{{MTV}}. That, and the fact that Horn went on to produce massive internationally recognized hits throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and perhaps their affiliation with Music/{{Yes}}, but "Video" is by far the work that's associated with him.
* SignatureSong: "Music/VideoKilledTheRadioStar" is by far their most famous song, to the point where they are sometimes (mistakenly) believed to have been a one-hit-wonder (at least in the [=UK=], Germany and Netherlands where "Living in the Plastic Age" was a top 30 hit).
* SpiritualSuccessor: Two albums by Music/{{Yes}} are essentially Buggles albums, rendering them "Yes InNameOnly":
** 1980's ''Music/{{Drama|YesAlbum}}'' featured unused Buggles tunes "White Car" and "Into the Lens", the latter of which becoming an actual Buggles tune, "I Am a Camera", a year later. Though production is credited to "Yes and Eddie Offord", it's very clear that Horn was behind the boards the whole time.
** 2011's ''Fly from Here'' featured Downes playing keyboards, with Horn producing the album and providing backing vocals, and is largely made up of unused Buggles songs: the "Fly from Here" suite includes two Buggles originals ("We Can Fly"; "Sad Night at the Airfield") and new sections written alongside Yes' Chris Squire and Steve Howe; and "Life on a Film Set". All three of those songs were originally written in 1980, with a live recording of "We Can Fly" from 1980 appearing on live album ''The Word Is Live''.) To drive it further home, a second version, ''Fly From Here - Return Trip'', was released in 2018 with Trevor Horn on lead vocals.
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