Random Acts of Top of the Pops: #5 – February 25th, 1988

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!

Top of the Tops logo from February 25th, 1988

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!

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Random 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!

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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!

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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!

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Horrible Edge Cases to Consider When Dealing With Music

Microsoft’s Windows might dislike the naming scheme of MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s albums.
If you’re on Linux, you might appreciate ///////-//-///// from The You Suck Flying Circus.

Horrible Edge Cases to Consider When Dealing With Music, Dustri.org

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.