It’s another locked down edition of Off The Chart! Join Steve and Julian as they struggle with yet another inadequate piece of software in an attempt to bring you hits, headlines and hilarity from this day in 1988, plus the usual brace of half-remembered hits, all three of the week’s new hit albums, a look at the Dutch chart, a review of the day’s events and the top five singles in full.
- Who wrote a song for Madonna but didn’t have the courage to send it to her?
- Which strait-laced rockers spent fifteen seconds playing with a sampler before abandoning it?
- And which legendary performer’s daughter almost won the Eurovision Song Contest?
Tune in and find out!
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There’s a podcast too!
For those of you who enjoy the nonsense we talk but don’t have time to listen to the music, we’ve put the talky bits together with some exclusive extras to make a podcast! This week’s discussion swerves to include William Shatner’s remote acting classes, the time the Department of Trade and Industry had a hit single, and the drummer from Frankie Goes To Hollywood reports on the war in Afghanistan. It’ll all make sense if you listen.
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!
