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United Kingdom (1977 – 1981)
The Buggles’ sound was characterised by a deliberately synthetic quality in keeping with the technological subject matter of their songs.
The Buggles had a smash hit with the first single from their debut album, The Age Of Plastic.
Video Killed the Radio Star was famously the 1st music video ever played on MTV (on August 1, 1981).
The novelty value of the song has led to The Buggles being perceived as being a one-hit wonder. They did release three further singles, but none came close to emulating the success of their debut track; The age of plastic reached #16 in the UK, Clean Clean stalled at #38, and
Elstree failed to enter the top 40. After joining progressive rock group Yes for their 1980 Drama album and tour, then recording the second Buggles album Adventures in Modern Recording in 1981, The Buggles members parted ways to explore other projects: Horn as a record producer, Downes as keyboardist for supergroup Asia.
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The Age Of Plastic
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Video Killed The Radio Star / Kid Dynamo
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Adventures In Modern Recording
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Lenny
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easterntrees
underrated does not even begin to describe.
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Mendeleaf
OOOH (Y)
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tangerman
Buggles is the correct spelling! --> http://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Buggles
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oldirtyvillain
Adventures in Modern Recording.
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Jamesismynamo
"I find irony in video killed the radio star." - my friends had a discussion about this, there's no irony
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SonnyGideon1
My review of The Age of Plastic http://sonnygideon.tumblr.com/post/29271612270/although-mostly-famous-for-their-huge-infectious follow me! :)
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likeadaydreamer
The Age of Plastic is the perfect pop album. And Trevor's glasses are the coolest ever.
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tripodthunder
Actually MTV killed the video star not the internet! MTV was the shit in the 80's, then the 90's hit and bye bye MTV...
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Grimmoire
"garynotrashcoug" has no fucking idea what a one-hit wonder is.
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InterceptorZero
v Internet killed the video star.
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Miss-Kei
I find irony in video killed the radio star.
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Syd-Barrett
True 80's!
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Harlottin
Island is so relaxing
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InterceptorZero
What garynotrashcoug said.
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tweber92
I HOPE ANOTHER NORWAY INCIDENT HAPPENS TO GEOFF DOWNES' ASS. I HATE THAT GUY.
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garynotrashcoug
It's a shame that they're so frequently perceived as a one-hit wonder group. "The Age of Plastic" features depth and rich orchestration that is rarely heard on similar new wave albums. Brilliantly composed and produced. I never get tired of listening to this record.
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Lightz39
Check out "Internet Killed The Video Star" By The Limosines.
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theneverclever
Exactly. For an uncomprehensible reason I thought that the band is called The Buggies.
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JacopKane
People actually needed to play GTA Vice City to even know of the existence of Video Killed the Radio Star? Wow...[3]
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supermarlin
People actually needed to play GTA Vice City to even know of the existence of Video Killed the Radio Star? Wow...[2]
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