I’ve managed to become rather obsessed with this Holiday / Doctorin’ the Tardis / Other Bits and Bobs mashup from the mid 00s. It’s pulled from the American Edit mashup album and the whole thing comes together far better than it has any right too…
And the BBC Archive has coughed up a lovely spot of old industrial folk music from the early 1970s. It’s certainly worth a listen and it’d be nice if the entirety of that edition of Omnibus somehow managed to make it to iPlayer…
Glass Candy’s Digital Versicolor. Which has been somewhat stuck in my head since I rewatched Winding Refn’s Bronson.
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!
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 readingEpisode 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!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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.