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Off The Chart: 7 September 1986

Off The Chart: 7 September 1986

Come back with us to this day in 1986 for another Off The Chart! As always we’ll bombard you with hits you’d forgotten about or didn’t remember in the first place, along with three of the week’s new albums, a look at what else was going on in the world, a quick jaunt down under to look at the Australian chart, and the top five singles in full.

  • Who released a double album although their record company only paid for one?
  • Which duo released two self-titled albums twenty years apart?
  • And who went from singing about sex and violence to quoting Dylan Thomas?

Tune in and find out!


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Spotify playlists

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!

Off The Chart: 15 September 1986

15 September 1986

This week we’re shining a torch into the ear of 1986 on Off The Chart as we revisit the UK charts of this day 34 years ago. As always we’ll have a load of hits you might not remember, as … read more

Off The Chart: 13 October 1986

Off The Chart: 13 October 1986

Come back to this day in 1986 for another two hours of hits, headlines and happy-ever-afters on this week’s Off The Chart! As always Steve and Julian scour the week’s UK singles chart for half-remembered hits, plus three tracks from … read more

Off The Chart: 4 August 1986

Off The Chart: 4 August 1986

Whether you’re calling all the heroes or just putting on some camouflage and fighting for yourself, you can take a couple of hours off to listen to this week’s Off The Chart! Steve and Julian are dragging us back to … read more

Off The Chart: 28 October 1986

Off The Chart: 28 October 1986

Come back in time with us as Steve and Julian revisit the UK singles chart of this day in 1986 on another Off The Chart! They’ll unearth some forgotten hits, play three tracks from one of the week’s big albums, … read more

Further Off The Chart Seven

Further Off The Chart Seven

Has it really been a full dexy since the last one? It certainly has! Here we are again with another edition of Further Off The Chart, exclusively for our Patreon backers, in which Steve and Julian round up a dozen … read more

Off The Chart: 19 August 1986

Off The Chart: 19 August 1986

Come with us back to August 1986 on this week’s Off The Chart! Steve and Julian uncover some of the week’s forgotten hits, review the day’s events, play three tracks from the week’s featured album, plus a track from that … read more

Off The Chart: 3 September 1986

Off The Chart: 3 September 2016

Time to discover with absolute horror that all these records are thirty years old! We’re looking at the chart of 3 September 1986 on this week’s Off The Chart, as Steve and Julian play some of the hits you don’t … read more