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Mixcloud Select: “You forgot cranberries too?”

Steve BinnieMixcloud Select • Music • Mixcloud

To introduce our new Mixcloud Select site, we’re reactivating our classic Virtual CD Of The Month feature and reissuing the original virtual CDs that we tried to entice people into backing us on Patreon!

From December 2017, You Forgot Cranberries Too? rounded up 24 festive trinkets, some of them from the ’80s, others more recent recordings by ’80s acts, all of them sure to brighten up your Christmas. If it’s not Christmas as you read this, it soon will be.

This and all the other Virtual CDs can be yours when you join us on Mixcloud Select, as well as the weekly extended Deluxe Edition of Off The Chart, the spin-off show Further Off The Chart every dexy¹, and other special shows whenever an idea grabs us. You can also download shows to listen offline, thus saving your precious mobile data. All this for just £2.99 a month! Can’t be bad.

Off The Chart: 29 January 1984

Take a couple of hours off from your tax return and come back to this day in 1984 on another edition of Off The Chart! We’ve got another two hours of forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from one of … read more

29 January 2019 Steve Binnie1984 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1984 • ABC • B-Movie • Bobby Nunn • Cyndi Lauper • Dead Or Alive • Eartha Kitt • Fad Gadget • Frankie Goes To Hollywood • Huey Lewis & The News • Joe Fagin • John Lennon • Judas Priest • Matthew Wilder • Mixcloud • music • Off The Chart • Queen • Simple Minds • Stan Ridgway • Stewart Copeland • Talk Talk • Van Halen

Sound of the Crowd – a Discography of the ’80s: Fourth Edition available now!

Sound Of The Crowd: a Discography of the ’80s is the ultimate record collector’s guide to the 1980s. In the era of multi-formatting, picture discs, coloured vinyl, multiple remixes, funny shaped records and tiny CDs you could lose down the back … read more

14 November 2018 Steve BinnieBooks • News • New releasesA Flock Of Seagulls • a-ha • ABBA • ABC • AC/DC • Adam Ant • Alarm • Alison Moyet • Altered Images • Associates • Aztec Camera • Bad Manners • Bananarama • Bangles • Beat • Beatles • Bee Gees • Big Audio Dynamite • Big County • Billy Bragg • Billy Idol • Blancmange • Blondie • Blow Monkeys • Bon Jovi • book • Bronski Beat • Bros • Bruce Springsteen • Bucks Fizz • Chas and Dave • China Crisis • Christians • Clash • Cliff Richard • Communards • Culture Club • Cure • Curiosity Killed The Cat • Cyndi Lauper • David Bowie • Deacon Blue • Dead Or Alive • Def Leppard • Depeche Mode • Dexys • Dire Straits • Duran Duran • Echo and the Bunnymen • Eddy Grant • Elton John • Elvis Costello • Erasure • Eurythmics • Fine Young Cannibals • Five Star • Fleetwood Mac • Frankie Goes To Hollywood • Fun Boy Three • Gary Numan • Genesis • George Michael • Gloria Estefan • Go West • Haircut One Hundred • Heaven 17 • Hipsway • Hot Chocolate • Housemartins • Howard Jones • Hue and Cry • Human League • Imagination • INXS • Iron Maiden • Jacksons • Jam • Janet Jackson • Japan • Jesus & Mary Chain • John Lennon • Johnny Hates Jazz • Julian Cope • Kajagoogoo • Kate Bush • Kim Wilde • Kirsty MacColl • Kool and the Gang • Kylie Minogue • Level 42 • Lionel Richie • Living In A Box • Lloyd Cole • Madness • Madonna • Marc Almond • Marillion • Matt Bianco • Mel & Kim • Miami Sound Machine • Michael Jackson • Morrissey • Motorhead • New Order • news • Nick Heyward • Nik Kershaw • OMD • Paul McCartney • Paul Young • Pet Shop Boys • Peter Gabriel • Phil Collins • Pink Floyd • Pogues • Police • Prefab Sprout • Pretenders • Prince • Queen • Rick Astley • Robert Palmer • Rod Stewart • Rolling Stones • Roxy Music • Sade • Samantha Fox • Scritti Politti • Shakin' Stevens • Simple Minds • Simply Red • Siouxsie and the Banshees • Slade • Smiths • Soft Cell • Spandau Ballet • Specials • Squeeze • Status Quo • Stephen Duffy • Stevie Wonder • Sting • Stranglers • style council • Swing Out Sister • T'Pau • Talk Talk • Talking Heads • Tears For Fears • Texas • The The • Thomas Dolby • Thompson Twins • Tina Turner • Toyah • U2 • UB40 • Ultravox • Visage • Voice of the Beehive • Wet Wet Wet • Wham! • Whitney Houston • XTC • Yazoo

Virtual C90: June 2018

This month’s virtual mixtape includes new music from Rick Astley, Prince, Johnny Marr, Tony Hadley and Nick Lowe, plus the usual mix of ’80s hits, misses and 12″ mixes. Give it a listen on Mixcloud or Spotify! read more

28 June 2018 Steve BinnieMusic • Mixcloud • Spotification • Virtual C90A Flock Of Seagulls • Bananarama • Bucks Fizz • Cyndi Lauper • Duran Duran • Eurythmics • Fine Young Cannibals • Human League • John Foxx • Johnny Marr • Kirsty MacColl • Mixcloud • Mobiles • music • Naked Eyes • Nick Lowe • Peter Gabriel • Prince • Rick Astley • Spotify • Tony Hadley • Virtual C90 • Wham!

Off The Chart: 10 February 1984

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, … read more

10 February 2018 Steve Binnie1984 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1984 • Billy Bragg • Colour Field • Corey Hart • Cyndi Lauper • Duran Duran • Echo & The Bunnymen • Fiat Lux • Frankie Goes To Hollywood • Juan Martin • Marillion • Matthew Wilder • Mel Brooks • Mixcloud • music • Off The Chart • Prefab Sprout • Pretenders • Private Lives • Queen • Thomas Dolby • Thompson Twins • Ultravox

Off The Chart: 20 January 1987

Come back to January 1987 with Steve and Julian on this week’s Off The Chart! There’s a veritable blizzard of forgotten and half-remembered hits, a track from an international chart, three tracks from the week’s featured album and the top … read more

20 January 2018 Steve Binnie1987 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1987 • Alison Moyet • Anthony Hopkins • China Crisis • Cyndi Lauper • David Sylvian • Duran Duran • Elkie Brooks • Falco • Huey Lewis & The News • Hurrah! • Jackie Wilson • Japan • Mick Karn • Mixcloud • music • Off The Chart • Paul Simon • Robbie Nevil • Rosie Vela • Steve 'Silk' Hurley • Taffy • UB40 • Vesta Williams

Off The Chart: 15 July 1984

Is it still nostalgia if you’re listening to old records you don’t remember? Here’s your chance to find out as we go back to 1984 to dig out some of the week’s forgotten hit singles, as well as three tracks … read more

15 July 2017 Steve Binnie1984 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1984 • Alison Moyet • Associates • Belle Stars • Blancmange • Cyndi Lauper • Elvis Costello • Frankie Goes To Hollywood • Jacksons • Kid Creole • Michael Jackson • Mick Jagger • Mixcloud • music • neil • Nino De Angelo • Off The Chart • OMD • Prince • Raf • Richard "Dimples" Fields • Rolling Stones • Spandau Ballet • Spider

Virtual C90 – August 2016

New music this month from New Order and Heart, tracks from some of this month’s hottest reissues and deluxe editions, plus the usual mix of hits, misses, remixes and forgotten gems. Don’t forget the Virtual C90 is now on Mixcloud … read more

10 August 2016 Steve BinnieMusic • Mixcloud • Virtual C90Buggles • China Crisis • Christians • Cutting Crew • Cyndi Lauper • ELO • Elvis Costello • Fine Young Cannibals • Hall & Oates • Heart • Human League • Madness • Marc Almond • Mixcloud • music • New Order • Nik Kershaw • Police • Simple Minds • Spotify • Tears For Fears • Toto • Virtual C90

Off The Chart: 30 July 1984

On Off The Chart this week Steve and Julian revisit the chart of 30 July 1984 and play some of the hits that don’t get played anymore, plus the top five in full. They’re joined by special guest A Recording … read more

30 July 2016 Steve Binnie1984 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1984 • A Bigger Splash • Boothill Foot-tappers • Captain Sensible • Colour Field • Cyndi Lauper • David Austin • Divine • Frankie Goes To Hollywood • Friends Again • Hazell Dean • Kevin The Gerbil • M+M • Martha & The Muffins • Mixcloud • music • neil • Off The Chart • Prince • Roland Rat • Thompson Twins • Tina Turner • Ultravox

Chart Watch and New Releases: 6 May 2016

Chart Watch How soon we forget. After having six songs in the singles chart last week, Prince‘s only appearance this week is Purple Rain, which falls a spectacular 82 places from last week’s number 6 to this week’s number 88. … read more

6 May 2016 Steve BinnieNews • New releasesBilly Ocean • chart watch • Cyndi Lauper • Divine • Kool & The Gang • new releases • Prince

Virtual C90 – April 2016

New music this month from New Order, Holly Johnson, Andy Bell, Blancmange, Tanita Tikaram and James, plus the usual mix of hits, misses, remixes and forgotten gems. Enjoy! read more

1 April 2016 Steve BinnieMusic • Virtual C90 • Uncategorizeda-ha • Adam Ant • Andy Bell • Blancmange • Blow Monkeys • Cyndi Lauper • Freeez • Full Force • Fuzzbox • Heaven 17 • Holly Johnson • James • Kinks • Level 42 • Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam • Midge Ure • music • New Order • OMD • Spotify • Tanita Tikaram • Virtual C90

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Here we go! Two hours of hits, headlines and handstands from this day in 1982 - it's #OffTheChart time! Join us on #NoiseboxRadio via MyTuner Radio, your internet radio device, in your browser at noiseboxradio.com or at offthechart.show/29-march-198… pic.twitter.com/HqMaqTeeno

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Just five regular-sized minutes until this week's edition of #OffTheChart hits #NoiseboxRadio! We're heading back an eye-watering forty years to re-examine the chart and associated goings-on from this day in 1982. Join us at 9pm! offthechart.show/29-march-198… pic.twitter.com/9uKjaNAQN1

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You're just five short minutes away from this week's #OffTheChart - two hours of hits, headlines and hagiography from this day in 1985! Join us at madwaspradio.com and tweet along with the lunacy! offthechart.show/15-march-198… #MadWaspRadio pic.twitter.com/KaTc35fg98

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It's 1985 all over again on this week's #OffTheChart! Join us at 9pm on @MadWaspRadio for two hours of obscure, forgotten and neglected hits from 37 years ago today. That's if Central Television's legal department don't confiscate our playlist first. offthechart.show/15-march-198… pic.twitter.com/me6d2UpLOu

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Here we go! Two hours of hits, headlines and hedgehogs from this day way back in 1980 - it's #OffTheChart time! Join us at madwaspradio.com, on your smart speaker or at offthechart.show/8-march-1980… #MadWaspRadio pic.twitter.com/0qJVZjcjyN

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Take five minutes to compose yourselves and join us on #MadWaspRadio at 9pm for another #OffTheChart! This week we're heading back 42 years all the way to 1980, so don't panic and make sure you know where your towel is. offthechart.show/8-march-1980… pic.twitter.com/zejaWPAmSH

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