Until 9pm next Friday, when the #TOTP hashtag brings you 1984 and 1976!

Those fine Off The Chart guys have two hours of hits and misses from this week in 1986.

Goodnight, all!
https://www.mixcloud.com/SOTC80s/off-the-chart-19-august-1986/
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Most of the Off The Chart chat's currently on the Discord server but comments are equally welcome here of course. https://discord.com/channels/1080909104752623636/1081148231708332053 #OffTheChart

I know a lot of you enjoyed the Forgotten 80s toot-along on Sunday night so perhaps we could try out another radio show popular with much of the same Twitter crowd. Off The Chart, a 2-hour show on Tuesdays at 9pm (UK) on Noisebox Radio that takes a sideways look at the UK music charts/TV listings/gigs etc. on a particular day in the 1980s and today it just happens to be 4 July 1984. My favourite year and arguably peak 1984 as well https://noiseboxradio.com/ #Forgotten80s #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

I know a lot of you enjoyed the Forgotten 80s toot-along on Sunday night so perhaps we could try out another radio show popular with much of the same Twitter crowd. Off The Chart, a 2-hour show on Tuesdays at 9pm (UK) on Noisebox Radio that takes a sideways look at the UK music charts/TV listings/gigs etc. on a particular day in the 1980s and today it just happens to be 4 July 1984. My favourite year and arguably peak 1984 as wel. https://noiseboxradio.com/ #Forgotten80s #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

The top 5 then:

5 - Mirage - Jack Mix II/III
4 - George Michael - I Want Your Sex
3 - Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
2 - Johnny Logan - Hold Me Now
1 - Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

Thanks as always for listening, we'll be back next week doing 1983 and there's another hour of 1987 hits in #OffTheChart Too on #NoiseboxRadio right now!

New at #91 in the UK this week in 1987, "Tallulah", the fifth album by Australian band The Go-Betweens and the first of three to chart in the UK, each of which spent just one week on the chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Tying in spectacularly and completely unplanned with Ready Player One earlier, this week's #ICEOTWF is "Hexen" by Ecco, #3 in Austria this week in 1987. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Up the top end of the chart this week in 1987 on #OffTheChart...

42 - Living in a Box - Scales of Justice
35 - Herb Alpert - Diamonds
14 - Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn

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New at #57 in the UK album chart this week in 1987, "BAD (Bigger And Deffer)", the second album by LL Cool J, it includes his breakthrough hit single "I Need Love". In the US the album sold 2 million copies and reached #3 on the Hot 200 album chart; in the UK it peaked at #54. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Propping up the middle of the chart this week on #OffTheChart...

71 - Princess - Red Hot
68 - Paul Carrack - When You Walk In The Room
64 - Slayer - Raining Blood
46 - Tina Turner - Break Every Rule

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Straight into the UK album chart at #1 this week in 1987: "Whitney" by Whitney Houston. Her second album, it spent six weeks at #1 and went Double Platinum. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Bottom hits on this week's 1987 #OffTheChart...

94 - Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
87 - Black Britain - Funky Nassau
82 - Cry Before Dawn - Gone Forever
74 - The Christians - Hooverville (And They Promised Us The World)

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Here we go! Join us on #NoiseboxRadio for two hours of hits, headlines and hopscotch from this week in 1987 - it's #OffTheChart time!

Summer’s definitely here, so allow Steve and Julian to throw a bucket of cold water over your evening with a trip back to this day in 1987 in #OffTheChart! As usual it’s brimming with obscure, neglected and forgotten hits. Join us on #NoiseboxRadio at 9pm! https://offthechart.show/13-june-1987/

The 1981 top five on this week's #OffTheChart:

5 - Kim Wilde - Chequered Love
4 - The Jam - Funeral Pyre
3 - Smokey Robinson - Being With You
2 - Shakin' Stevens - You Drive Me Crazy
1 - Adam & The Ants - Stand and Deliver

Thanks for listening! Stay with us on #NoiseboxRadio for another hour of 1981 hits, and join us again next week for a look at 1987!

This week's #ICEOTWF is "They Won't Let My Girlfriend Talk To Me", the only Australian top 40 hit for shock-rock group Jimmy & The Boys, a song written by Tim Finn. #13 in Australia this week in 1981, it peaked at #8. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

The top end of #OffTheChart hits this week:

29 - Siouxsie & The Banshees - Spellbound
20 - Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
15 - George Harrison - All Those Years Ago

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New at #11 on the album chart this week in 1981, "Present Arms", the second album by UB40. It peaked at #2, went Platinum, and even spawned a dub album "Present Arms In Dub" which reached the top 40 in its own right. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Your middling hits on #OffTheChart tonight:

57 - Bucks Fizz - Piece of the Action
52 - Hot Chocolate - You'll Never Be So Wrong
51 - Kelly Marie - Love Trial
32 - The Beat - All Out To Get You

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The highest new entry on the album chart this week in 1981: "Heaven Up Here", the second album by Echo & The Bunnymen. New at its peak of #10, it spent 16 weeks on the chart and won "Best Dressed LP" in the NME readers' poll. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio