Glass Candy’s Digital Versicolor. Which has been somewhat stuck in my head since I rewatched Winding Refn’s Bronson.
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Random Acts of Top of the Pops: #5 – February 25th, 1988
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Episode Number: 1250
First Shown: 7.00pm on February 25th, 1988
Presenter(s): Peter Powell and Mark Goodier
Official Top 40: @The Official Charts
Studio: BBC Television Centre
iPlayer: Top of the Pops – February 25th, 1988
BBC Genome: Here!
Intro
After our jaunt to the cold of February 1994, it’s time to slip six years back to the equally freezing wastelands of February 1988. Yes, pop pickers, it’s time for another Random Acts of Top of the Pops!
Continue readingRandom Acts of Top of the Pops: #4 – February 24th, 1994
Episode Number: 1564
First Shown: 7.00pm on February 24th, 1994
Presenter(s): Bruno Brookes
Official Top 40: @The Official Charts
Studio: BBC Elstree Centre
iPlayer: Top of the Pops – February 24th, 1994
BBC Genome: Here!
You’ll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties / Jona Lewie (1980)
Jona Lewie’s You’ll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties from 1980. Apparently it made it as high as number 16!
The Theme to Doctor Who / Orbital (2004)
Orbital covering the theme to Doctor Who at Glastonbury 2004. A little less than a year later we would get Murray Gold’s significantly more prosaic orchestral version for the reboot.
Random Acts of Top of the Pops: #3 – January 26th, 1978
Episode Number: 730
First Shown: 7.10pm on January 26th, 1978
Presenter(s): David ‘Kid’ Jensen
Official Top 100: @The Official Charts
Studio: BBC Television Centre
iPlayer: Top of the Pops – January 26th, 1978
BBC Genome: Here!
Random Acts of Top of the Pops: #2 – June 19th, 1986
Episode Number: 1162
First Shown: 7.00pm on June 19th, 1986
Presenter(s): Gary Davies
Official Top 40: @The Official Charts
Studio: BBC Television Centre
iPlayer: Top of the Pops – June 19th, 1986
BBC Genome: Here!
Random Acts of Top of the Pops: #1 – January 18th, 1990
Episode Number: 1351
First Shown: 7.00 pm on January 18th, 1990
Presenter(s): Nicky Campbell
Official Top 40: @The Official Charts
Studio: BBC Television Centre
iPlayer: Top of the Pops – January 18th, 1990
BBC Genome: Here!
Horrible Edge Cases to Consider When Dealing With Music
Microsoft’s Windows might dislike the naming scheme of MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s albums.
Horrible Edge Cases to Consider When Dealing With Music, Dustri.org
If you’re on Linux, you might appreciate ///////-//-///// from The You Suck Flying Circus.
And here’s a fun little list of weird edge cases to think about when dealing with music. Some – such as Nine Inch Nails’s Broken having 90 tracks of four seconds of silence – I knew about, but may of them I’d not seen before and their issues wouldn’t have even crossed my mind.
Baby, It’s Cold Outside / Nina and Frederik (1966)
Baby, It’s Cold Outside as covered by Nina and Frederik in 1966. And it also happens to be my favourite version of that song.