One Step Ahead (Split Enz song)

"One Step Ahead" is a 1980 song by New Zealand art rock group Split Enz. It was released November 1980 as the lead single from their seventh studio album Waiata.

"One Step Ahead"
Single by Split Enz
from the album Waiata (aka Coroborree)
B-side
  • "In the Wars"
ReleasedNovember 1980
RecordedAAV Studios, Melbourne, 1980
GenreNew wave, rock
Length2:52
LabelMushroom Records
Songwriter(s)Neil Finn
Producer(s)David Tickle
Split Enz singles chronology
"Poor Boy"
(1980)
"One Step Ahead"
(1980)
"History Never Repeats"
(1981)

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.

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