Crap! I forgot my Subiversary is today!
Here goes: Bullseye board game 🎯
Trivial Pursuit/Rock Star Ate My Hamster on Speccy.
Dark Room and @robbotron.bsky.social giveaway ☠️
FF Classics and @ian-livingstone.bsky.social giveaway 🎲🎲☠️
Minecraft to finish. #BedrockBound ☠️
twitch.tv/Babel_17 1900h BST
That's the end of another show, next week we'll have been doing this nonsense for TEN YEARS. Join us for the start of another dexy as we begin the run up to our 500th show! God, whose idea was this? #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
This was the third of four weeks at no.1 for "Easy Lover", the biggest UK hit for Philip Bailey, formerly of Earth Wind & Fire; but the second of three no.1 hits for Phil Collins and the only one of those that wasn't a '60s cover. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Up 3 places to no.2, the heavily edited title track of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" album was their fourth single and their first to fail to reach no.1. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
From Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Requiem", "Pie Jesu" peaked at no.3 for Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston. It was Sarah's first top 40 hit since "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper" with Hot Gossip which reached no.6 in 1978. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Down to no.4 after peaking at no.2, "That Ole Devil Called Love" was Alison Moyet's biggest solo hit, matching the chart peak of Yazoo's biggest hit "Only You". The song was first recorded by Billie Holiday in 1945. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Up to no.5 on its way to no.2, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was Tears For Fears' biggest of 17 top 40 hits between 1982 and 2005; it won Best Single at the 1986 Brit Awards and has so far spent 71 weeks on the chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Formed in 1967 in Dayton, the Ohio Players are best known for '70s songs like "Love Rollercoaster" and "Fire" but they were new at 50 on the Disco & Dance chart in 1985 with "Follow Me". They only had one hit single in the UK: "Who'd She Coo" which made no.43 in 1976. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Up 4 places to 63 in Canada, The Parachute Club's "Act of an Innocent" was their third of seven hit singles. Their biggest hit was their debut "Rise Up" which is not really how parachutes work. #ICEOTWF #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Like "Dancing In The Dark", Bruce Springsteen's "Cover Me" had first been released in 1984 when it just manage to sneak into the top 40 at no.38. A new promotional push saw "Cover Me" follow "Dancing in the Dark" back into the UK chart in 1985, reaching no.16. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Down 2 at 23 after peaking at 21, this version of "Dancing in the Dark" was the only UK hit for Big Daddy, not Shirley Crabtree the wrestler but a US band who covered contemporary hits in a '50s doo-wop style. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
New at 36, "Be Near Me" was the biggest hit single from ABC's third album "How To Be A Zillionaire", from the baffling period where the band was portrayed as cartoon characters. It peaked at 26 but went top ten in the US. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
New at 33 on the Indie chart in 1985, the Chameleons' "Nostalgia" was actually recorded in 1981, one of three tracks they recorded for Epic Records who dropped them almost immediately afterwards. The single peaked at no.11 on the indie chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
The first single and by far the biggest hit for The Dream Academy, "Life in a Northern Town" was co-produced by David Gilmour and written as an elegy to Nick Drake. Climbing to 38 this week, it peaked at no.15. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Up 3 to peak at no.41, "Aikea-Guinea" was the follow-up to the Cocteau Twins' first top 40 hit "Pearly Dewdrops Drops" almost a year earlier. Apparently "aikea-guinea" is an old Scots word meaning "seashell". #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Killing Joke had 13 hits in the 1980s but only one of them reached the top 40, "Love Like Blood" which reached no.16. "Kings and Queens" was the follow-up to their top 40 breakthrough but only got to no.58. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Peaking at 72, "A Pair of Brown Eyes" was the first hit single for the Pogues, though their debut album "Red Roses For Me" had spent a week in the lower reaches of the album chart in November 1984. The song was played at Shane Macgowan's funeral in 2023. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
"Bite The Hand That Feeds" from "The Secret of Association", Paul Young's second album, straight in to the album chart at no.1 this week. Although not as successful as "No Parlez", it spent 49 weeks on the chart and went Double Platinum. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Absolutely no mystery about it, this version of "Only The Lonely" was the fifth hit for the Flying Pickets, a version of the song which was Roy Orbison's first UK hit, reaching no.1 in 1960. The Pickets' version peaked at 79. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Stuck at 93, "She Goes To Finos" was the second and final hit for the Toy Dolls, the follow-up to their top five hit "Nellie The Elephant" at Christmas 1984. This one is about a famous nightclub in the Toy Dolls' home town Sunderland. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
New at 95, "Sugar Walls", a controversial single from Wee Sheena, written for her by her pal "Alexander Nevermind" (i.e. Prince), who also plays all the instruments on the track. It peaked at 95 here but got all the way to no.9 in the US. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
G'mu! It's 1985 on Off The Chart and we kick off with "Crashin' Down" by Legear, which despite its title is actually a non-mover at 99 and will go on to reach no.93 next week. It's also a cover version of a song first recorded by the Nolans. 🤨 #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Moving at one million miles an hour, we’ve made it to the end of another dexy and it’s 1985 on this week’s #OffTheChart! Join us at 9pm on @noiseboxradio.com for two hours of obscure, forgotten and half-remembered hits! offthechart.show/31-march-1985/
There we go then, thanks everyone, hang around for another hour of 1980 hits in Off The Chart Too and join us again next week for 1985, the end of another dexy! G'bu! #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
This was the second of three weeks at no.1 for "Going Underground", the first of four no.1 hits for The Jam and the first single to enter the UK chart at no.1 since Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" in 1973. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
"Together We Are Beautiful" had spent a week at no.1 but was Fern Kinney's only hit single, although she had sung backing vocals on Dorothy Moore's top ten hit "Misty Blue" in 1976. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Peaking at no.3, "Turning Japanese" was by far the biggest hit for the Vapors, from Guildford. Their next two hit singles and their debut album "New Clear Days" all peaked at no.44. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Up to no.4, "Dance Yourself Dizzy" peaked at no.2 and was the biggest hit for Liquid Gold, who nearly represented the UK in the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest but just lost out to Bucks Fizz. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
For anyone who didn't catch this at random times on ITV when they had no adverts to show, this is why we keep making "give blood" jokes about the Detroit Spinners: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cb... #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Up 3 places to no.5, the medley of "Working My Way Back To You" and "Forgive Me Girl" (which nobody else has ever recorded ever) went on to become the (Detroit) Spinners' only no.1 hit in the UK. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio