"Video Killed the Radio Star" has its own page.
- Awesome Music: Their stated goal was to "bring back real songwriting" and in doing so, they kick-started the era of New Wave Music. 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 Trevor Horn became such a successful producer.
- First Installment Wins: The Age of Plastic is far better-known and generally more acclaimed than Adventures in Modern Recording.
- Never Live It Down: The band is best known for having the first video played on 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 Yes, but "Video" is by far the work that's associated with him.
- Signature Song: "Video Killed the Radio Star" 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).
- Spiritual Successor: Two albums by Yes are essentially Buggles albums, rendering them "Yes In Name Only":
- 1980's Drama 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.
