Come back to 1984 on this week’s Off The Chart for a spectacular display of how attitudes have changed in the past third of a century – and that’s just the first song. There’s the usual hatful of half-remembered hits, three tracks from a featured album, an international hit and the top five in full, plus the usual forfeit track to try and bully you into backing us on Patreon so you don’t have to hear it. Which major act released a disastrous flop single after nine consecutive top 50 hits? Who scored a hit album that was actually a 12″ single? And how did we end up with two moons next to each other? Click PLAY to find out!
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If you’ve missed a previous edition they’re all on our Mixcloud page, or for a taster of the music we play, listen to our Spotify playlist Way Off The Chart including one track from each show!
We also have a Spotify playlist for our #ICEOTWF feature, including all (well, most) of the international hits we’ve played since the feature began in March 2017. There are all sorts of oddities in here, all of which were hits somewhere in the world but not in the UK!
