#offthechart — Public Fediverse posts

Written and originally recorded by US singer/songwriter Jules Shear, Cyndi Lauper covered "All Through The Night" for her debut album "She's So Unusual". Although it only made no.64 in the UK, it was a top ten hit for Cyndi in the US, Canada, Austria and Chile. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

"Childhood's End?" from "Misplaced Childhood", the third album by Marillion and their most successful, entering at no.1 this week. A concept album loosely based on the childhood of lead singer Fish, it spent a total of 42 weeks on the chart, earning a Platinum disc. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Are we living in a land where sex and horror are the new gods? Well, yes, probably, but don’t let that put you off tuning in to #OffTheChart this week as we take a trip back to this day in 1984! Join us at 9pm on #NoiseboxRadio and jitterbug to your heart's content. https://offthechart.show/10-june-1984/

New at no.1 on the album chart, "The Miracle" was the 13th studio album by Queen. The album was a deliberate attempt to present the band as a united entity, with all writing credits given to the whole band and their faces morphed together on the cover. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

New at no.2, "Complete Madness" was the first of many Madness compilations and their most successful album, it spent three weeks at no.1 and a total of 106 weeks on the UK chart, shifting over a million copies. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

No.65 this week, "I Ran" was A Flock of Seagulls' third single and their first of eight hits in the UK. Although it didn't reach the top 40 here it was their biggest hit worldwide, reaching no.9 in the US, no.7 in New Zealand and no.1 in Australia. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Peaking at 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 was also their biggest hit in the US. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Peaking at 27, "Candy" was the second single from Cameo's album "Word Up!" and the follow-up to their biggest UK hit "Word Up!" which reached no.3. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

This was literally a lifeline for Spandau Ballet, whose career was in trouble after a few flop singles. The first single from their third album "True", it entered at 57 this week and climbed to no.7. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Like John Waite, John Farnham was also huge elsewhere but only ever had one top 40 hit in the UK. The follow-up to "You're The Voice", "Pressure Down" peaked at no.78. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Remember to tune in tonight at 9pm for 'Off The Chart' with Steve & Julian! Dive into forgotten gems from 23 July 1982 for two hours of nostalgic tunes. Chat with us on our Discord server or join the conversation with #OffTheChart & #NoiseboxRadio! noiseboxradio.com

"Kylie", the debut album by Kylie Minogue, new at no.2 this week. It spent 29 consecutive weeks in the top 10, including six weeks at no.1, and a total of 69 weeks on the chart. It went 6x Platinum in the UK, becoming the biggest selling album of 1988. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Frightening, truly frightening - "February on course to break unprecedented number of #heat records - Rapid #ocean #warming and unusually hot #winter days recorded as human-made #GlobalHeating combines with #ElNiño." And the attached chart of Earth's energy imbalance is even more frightening (it does not go past November 2023 yet; check the https://climatechangetracker.org/global-warming/monthly-earths-energy-imbalance website for updates).

"A little over halfway into the shortest month of the year, the heating spike has become so pronounced that climate charts are entering new territory, particularly for sea-surface temperatures #SST that have persisted and accelerated to the point where expert observers are struggling to explain how the change is happening.

“The #planet is #warming at an accelerating rate. We are seeing rapid temperature increases in the ocean, the climate’s largest reservoir of heat,” said Dr Joel Hirschi, the associate head of marine systems modelling at the UK National Oceanography Centre. “The amplitude by which previous sea surface temperatures records were beaten in 2023 and now 2024 exceed expectations, though understanding why this is, is the subject of ongoing research.”
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"#Humanity is on a trajectory to experience the hottest February in recorded history, after a record January, December, November, October, September, August, July, June and May, according to the Berkeley Earth scientist Zeke Hausfather."
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"The first half of February shocked #weather watchers. Maximiliano Herrera, who blogs on Extreme Temperatures Around the World, described the surge of thousands of meteorological station heat records as “insane”, “total madness” and “climatic history rewritten”. What astonished him was not just the number of records but the extent by which many of them surpassed anything that went before.

He said #Morocco had seen 12 weather stations register over 33.9C, which was not only a national record for the hottest winter day, but also more than 5C above average for July. The northern #Chinese city of #Harbin had to close its winter ice festival because temperatures crept above freezing for an unprecedented three days this month.

In the past week, monitoring stations as far apart as South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Japan, North Korea, the Maldives and Belize have registered monthly heat records."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/17/february-on-course-to-break-unprecedented-number-of-heat-records

#GlobalHeating #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Klimakrise #Klima #ClimateEmergency #China #OffTheChart

New at 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week in 1980, "Desire" by The Rockets. It peaked at 70 and comes from their fourth album "No Ballads". #OffTheChart #GOTCha

Tuesday night at 9pm on #NoiseboxRadio Steve & Julian from #OffTheChart are doing News at When? instead. 2 hours of songs that were new entries on the UK singles chart this week, but each from a different year. All you have to do is guess which year each one entered the chart!

No more of that live nonsense on #OffTheChart this week, we’re back on safe ground for two hours of obscure, forgotten and neglected hits from this week in 1982! Join us on Noisebox Radio at 9pm!

"Here's To Future Days", the fifth album by the Thompson Twins, bizarrely entering the chart at a joint #5 position with another album which we'll address later. It was their last album as a trio, as Joe Leeway left the band shortly afterwards. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Back to virtually prehistoric times on this week’s #OffTheChart with two hours of obscure, neglected and forgotten hits from this week in 1980! Join us on #NoiseboxRadio at 9pm!

Quick ad break from the last Tarrant-fronted #Tiswas from today in 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=914uUsFp-Vs #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio #TellySellyTime

Well, guess we'll just head back to 1989 and see what's happening there... oh bloody hell. Never mind, join us on #NoiseboxRadio for #OffTheChart at 9pm and we'll make the best of it.

Quick ad break from the last Tarrant-fronted #Tiswas from today in 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=914uUsFp-Vs #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio #TellySellyTime

Quick ad break from the last Tarrant-fronted #Tiswas from today in 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=914uUsFp-Vs #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio #TellySellyTime

Quick ad break from the last Tarrant-fronted #Tiswas from today in 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=914uUsFp-Vs #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio #TellySellyTime

Quick ad break from the last Tarrant-fronted #Tiswas from today in 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=914uUsFp-Vs #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio #TellySellyTime

Until 9pm next Friday, when the #TOTP hashtag brings you 1984 and 1976!

Those fine Off The Chart guys have two hours of hits and misses from this week in 1986.

Goodnight, all!
https://www.mixcloud.com/SOTC80s/off-the-chart-19-august-1986/
#OffTheChart

Yes, believe it or not we're doing #OffTheChart live again tonight! Join us at 9pm on @noiseboxradio for two hours of hits, headlines and helplessness from today in 1981!

The top 5 this week in 1988, all of them non-movers and all of them at their peak position:

5 - Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love
4 - Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana
3 - Everything But The Girl - I Don't Want To Talk About It
2 - Salt 'n' Pepa - Push It
1 - Glenn Medeiros - Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You

And that's 1988, another dexy underway. Join us at 9pm next Tuesday for 1982, and hang around on #NoiseboxRadio for another hour of 1988 hits in #OffTheChart Too!

Evening all, 1988 on #OffTheChart tonight and we're getting the #ArthurDentMoment out of the way early, so feel free to tune in about 5 past 9. #NoiseboxRadio

It’s the end of the dexy, it’s the middle of summer and we’re five days too late for Live Aid, but we’re going back to this day in 1985 anyway on #OffTheChart! As always we’ll have two hours of obscure, forgotten and neglected hits mixed with three tracks from the album chart, a look at what was going on in the world, a hit from the French chart and the top five in full to round things off. Join Steve and Julian at 9pm on #NoiseboxRadio!

So your 1984 #OffTheChart top 5:

5 - Ollie & Jerry - Breakin'… There's No Stopping Us
4 - Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
3 - Nik Kershaw - I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
2 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
1 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes

And there's another hour of 1984 hits coming up on #NoiseboxRadio from 11pm! We'll be back at 9pm next Tuesday going all the way back to 1980. Thanks for listening!

Your bottom rung of hits on #OffTheChart tonight...

97 - Daisy Chain - No Time To Stop Believing In Love
87 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - In the Ghetto
73 - Womack & Womack - Baby I'm Scared Of You
65 - Eartha Kitt - I Love Men

#NoiseboxRadio