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Off The Chart: 22 March 1988

Off The Chart: 22 March 1988

It’s a new dexy and a new home for Off The Chart as we pick up the whole shebang and drop it onto Noisebox Radio! Everything else is just as normal, however, because we’ll have your regular two hours of obscure, forgotten and neglected hits from this day in 1988, as well as three of the week’s big new albums, a round-up of the day’s events, a quick visit to the New Zealand chart, and back home for the top five in full, as per.

  • Whose career was torpedoed when her debut single was cannibalised to make a remix for someone else?
  • Who had seventeen hit singles before finally reaching the top five?
  • And which TV theme composer had a hit with a medley of someone else’s songs?

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!

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Off The Chart: 7 September 1986

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Off The Chart: 29 June 1981 (with a red triangle in the top left corner)

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Off The Chart: 6 April 1982

Off The Chart: 6 April 1982

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Off The Chart: 30 March 1988

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Off The Chart: 22 September 1981

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Off The Chart: 25 February 1981

Off The Chart: 25 February 1981

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Off The Chart: 10 December 1986

Off The Chart: 10 December 1986

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Off The Chart: 5 November 1984

Off The Chart: 5 November 1984

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Now Parlez 4

Now Parlez 4 artwork

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Mixcloud Select: Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat

October 2018’s Virtual CD is a celebration of all things weird, spooky and ghoulish, from the gothic rock of Bauhaus to the sinister synths of Japan, via the sheer lunacy of The Cramps and Toto Coelo. Eighteen ’80s cuts designed … read more