History Music / FictionFactory

* TooGoodToLast: ''Big time''.

''Fiction Factory''' was a Scottish NewWave-NewRomantic-SynthPop band from the 1980s. Today, they are [[OneHitWonder only known for one of their two hit singles,]] "(Feels Like) Heaven", but there's a tad more to them than that. Taking influence from fellow little-known New Wave band Music/Heaven17, their records featured a dreamy sound that blurred the lines between NewWave, NewRomantic & SynthPop. Featuring Kevin Patterson on vocals, Chic Medley on guitars, Graham [=McGregor=] on bass, Eddie Jordan on keyboards, and Mike Ogletree as drummer and percussionist, their first album ''Throw the Warped Wheel Out'' was released in 1984. It spawned two hit tracks, the aforementioned song and "The Ghost of Love". They split up in 1985, but not before releasing one more album, ''Another Story'', making them a perfect case of TooGoodToLast for New Wave/New Romantic/Synth-Pop fans.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: ''Way'' on the cynical side, but the upbeat accompaniments tend to mask it.

** Hell, just about ''all'' their songs were this. They were ''not'' [[TheCynic happy chappies]].

* TheMasochismTango: Almost ''every'' song about love, to the point where it's easier to list the ''exceptions''[[note]]for the record, "Heart & Mind" appears to be their only happy love song[[/note]].

* TheMasochismTango: ''Every'' song about love.

* LyricalDissonance: One of the most unfortunate examples, as it inadvertently ''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero led to the band's breakup]]''. "(Feels Like) Heaven" was a tragic breakup song set to a rather cheery accompaniment, featuring lyrics such as "Twisting the bones until they snap" & "That lingered but turned sour". Most listeners, however, [[ViewersAreMorons didn't bother to listen to the lyrics]] and assumed it was just another SillyLoveSong. Due to this misconception, people assumed they penned sappy love ballads, and kept requesting them to make them, which lead to their [[ArtistDisillusionment disillusionment]] with their listeners and subsequent breakup in 1985.

* {{Irony}}: The anti-true love lyrics in their songs, given that Kevin is now HappilyMarried with kids.

* LoveHurts: "(Feels Like) Heaven", "Panic", "All Or Nothing"...Patterson[[note]]the lead songwriter[[/note]] sure wasn't keen on true love.

* EndOfAnAge: Their breakup signalled the end of the New Wave movement in the U.K., as most of the other groups were close to disbanding (Music/CultureClub) or [[GenreShift switched over to Synth Pop]] (Music/{{Ultravox}}).

* LoveHurts: "(Feels Like) Heaven", "Panic", "All Or Nothing"...Patterson[[note]]the lead songwriter[[/note]] didn't seem to be keen on true love.

* NewRomantic: One of the last surviving acts at the time; one they faded away, [[EndOfAnAge the movement was essentially over]].

* EndOfAnAge: Their breakup signalled the end of the New Wave movement in the U.K., as most of the other groups had close to disbanding (Music/CultureClub) or [[GenreShift switched over to Synth Pop]] (Music/{{Ultravox}}).

* EndOfAnAge: Their breakup signalled the end of the New Wave movement in the U.K., as must of the other groups had either disbanded (Music/CultureClub) or [[GenreShift switched over to Synth Pop]] (Music/{{Ultravox}}).