Thank you very much everyone, ten bleeding years, and we're not even finished yet! Back again next week doing 1982, and hang around for another hour in Off The Chart Too! #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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Up 6 places, this was the first of three weeks at no.1 for "Heart", incredibly still the Pet Shop Boys' last no.1 hit. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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A non-mover at no.2, "Drop The Boy" was Bros's second of four no.2 hits in the UK, although it did sell 250,000 copies. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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Down two places to no.3, "Don't Turn Around", a Tina Turner B-side covered by Aswad. Their biggest hit before this had been "Chasing For The Breeze" which reached no.51 in 1984. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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The follow-up to Tiffany's no.1 hit "I Think We're Alone Now", "Could've Been" reached no.1 in the US, Canada and Ireland, but in the UK it spent three weeks at no.4 without getting any higher. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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Down 2 places from a peak of no.3, "Can I Play With Madness" was Iron Maiden's biggest hit at the time. They went on to have another 15 top ten hits after this. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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No.11 on the Indie chart and no.35 on the Dance chart, JVC Force with their debut single "Strong Island". Fearing a lawsuit from JVC they rebranded as J.V.C.F.O.R.C.E. and claimed it meant "Justified by Virtue of Creativity For Obvious Reasons Concerning Entertainment". #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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No.1 in Japan, "Paradise Ginga", the third single by boy band Hikaru Genji, named after the lead character in the classic 11th century Japanese novel "The Tale of Genji". It won best single at the 1988 Japan Record Awards. #ICEOTWF #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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Originally Debbie Gibson's first hit, reaching no.54 in October 1987, "Only In My Dreams" reached no.11 when it was reissued after the top ten success of "Shake Your Love". #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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Originally called "Intimate Strangers", the studio version of "Sex Talk" was T'Pau's second single but failed to chart. This live version was recorded at the SECC in Glasgow and reached no.23. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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New at 31, "I Need a Man" was the third single from Eurythmics' challenging seventh album "Savage", which was their first album since their 1981 debut that didn't include a top ten hit. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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No.19 on the Indie Distribution chart and no.17 on the Other chart, "Nothing Wrong" was the title track of the third album by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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New at 32, "Sidewalking" was a non-album single for the Jesus & Mary Chain, although it did appear on their B-sides and rarities collection "Barbed Wire Kisses" a few weeks after it was released. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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All About Eve's second of nine top 40 hits, "Every Angel" was new at 46 this week and peaked at 30. They had nine top 40 hits but somehow only one of them went higher than no.29. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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"Walk In The Night" was Paul Hardcastle's first hit single since his TOTP theme "The Wizard" in 1986, "Walk in the Night" is another cover version, originally a top twenty hit for Junior Walker and the All Stars in 1972. This version peaked at 54. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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Originally recorded by Holly & The Italians in 1979, Transvision Vamp's version of "Tell That Girl to Shut Up" was their first of ten top 75 hits in the UK, peaking at 45. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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From the various artists album "Sgt Pepper Knew My Father", an album put together by the NME featuring lots of different acts each covering a track from "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in aid of Childline, this is The Fall covering "A Day In The Life". #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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New at 84, Roger Taylor's other project The Cross with "Heaven For Everyone" which was later reworked into a no.2 hit for Queen. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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New at 90, "What For" was the second hit for James. In 2024 their eighteenth studio album "Yummy" became their first non-compilation album to top the UK chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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New at 94, "There's No Deceiving You", the only hit for the Blue Ox Babes, a band formed by two ex-members of Dexys Midnight Runners, Kevin Archer and Andy Leek. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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That's all from #BrandNewBeats this week - more at the same time in seven days' time.
Our repeat broadcast on @noiseboxradio.com is tomorrow at 1100 BST/1000 UTC, and then you can listen anytime on Noisebox's Mixcloud.
Cheers for listening, take care, stay safe and 'bye for now.
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NOT NOW DES!!! Kicking off our 10th anniversary show, Exposé with "Seasons Change", a song that reached no.1 in the US but only no.97 in the UK. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
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'Nightswimming' - Arlo Parks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ffg...
from third album 'Ambigious Desire', self-released
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(not REM's)
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'Black Cherry Liquor' - Silver Gore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXHx...
new single, self-released
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'Paper Thin' - She's Green
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5P7...
new single on Photo Finish Records
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'Terra Fable' - Deary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8tf...
from debut album 'Birding' on Bella Union - the @noiseboxradio.com Album of the Week
Hear more throughout the week on #NoiseboxRadio
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'Big Storm' - Jesca Hoop
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaoV...
new single, self-released
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'Shatter' - Makthaverskan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C1j...
from fifth album 'Glass and Bones' on Welfare Sounds and Records
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'Jackpot' - Ugly Ozo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=baAl...
new single on Rex Recs
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'Radio' - Junior Varsity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL5L...
new single on Key Records
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