One Step Ahead

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“One Step Ahead”
“One Step Ahead” cover
Single by Split Enz
from the album Waiata (aka Coroborree)
B-side
  • "In the Wars"
Released November 1980
Format 7" vinyl
Recorded AAV Studios, Melbourne, 1980
Genre New Wave, Rock
Length 2:52
Label Mushroom Records
Writer(s) Neil Finn
Producer David Tickle
Split Enz singles chronology
"Poor Boy"
(1981)
"One Step Ahead"
(1981)
"History Never Repeats"
(1981)

"One Step Ahead" is a 1980 song by New Zealand art rock group Split Enz from their studio album Waiata.[1] The song continued the group's success in their move towards their own version of New Wave rock music that the group had established with their release "I Got You", rating in the top ten charts both in New Zealand and Australia.

The video clip for the song was one of the first ever videos screened on MTV.

After Split Enz's dissolution in 1984, singer Neil Finn continued to perform "One Step Ahead" with his next group Crowded House, in particular, the group performed the song live at their 1987 concert in Daytona known as Spring Break '87.

The single's b-side "In the Wars" was recorded in the Waiata recording sessions, however was not originally released as a track on the album, though was later appended as track twelve in the album's 2006 re-release.

Contents

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  1. "One Step Ahead" - 2:52
  2. "In the Wars" - 3:32

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