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  • Back to this century again for our favourite songs of 2008, with a suitably eclectic mix taking in sparkly pop bangers, terrifying folk metal soundscapes, ultraviolent jungle, positive hip-hop & industrial speaker worriers.

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) -Agalloch, Alphabeat, American Music Club, Bloc Party, Bon Iver, Boris, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Cult Of Luna, The Cure, Cut Off Your Hands, Death Cab For Cutie, Elbow, Fleet Foxes, Girls Aloud, Grouper, DJ Hazard, July Skies, Kings Of Leon, The Last Shadow Puppets, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Nine Inch Nails, Opeth, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, Portishead, Retribution Gospel Choir, Sigur Ros, The Streets, Thomas Tantrum, The Watson Twins, and James Yorkston.

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EsXX0F56wkJiECGAcEJQG?si=4fa3c37835424eb2

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Helen Jackson-Brown
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with Free With This Months Issue & Pick A Disc.

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  • It's our 100th episode! To celebrate we'd decided for this month's Now Playing episode to each choose an album introduced to us by one of the other members of the WDM team! Colin has chosen Duran Duran's 1981 self titled debut album as introduced to him by Tracey. Tracey has picked *shels' 2011 post metal epic Plains Of The Purple Buffalo which Ian introduced her to, and Ian has chosen Monster Magnet's 1998 Stoner Rock classic Powertrip which Colin introduced him to.

    You can find the Duran Duran album on Spotify here - https://open.spotify.com/album/2Tc7ILGF89w1PWOhzuZlqB?si=cCVkbRcRRFecMCobdqBfJA

    You can find the *shels album here - https://open.spotify.com/album/3xIpxM4JMvq0vHjtQhgncJ?si=11e3cff0466945d9

    and you can find the Monster Magnet album here - https://open.spotify.com/album/51RrYaRLHpw1pbtpL6BE4L?si=ca452edae52a4ece

    As always, if you enjoy the music please consider supporting the artists by buying their records etc.

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts

    Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with Free With This Months Issue & Pick A Disc.

    Twitter – https://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast/
    Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast/
    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wedigpusicpcast/
    Find our other episodes & podcasts at www.wedigpodcasts.com

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  • Hi everyone,

    We're currently in the process of changing our hosting company. It should all transfer across smoothly with no action needed by our subscribers, but just in case it doesn't, our next episode is due on Sunday 28th April 2024. If it doesn't appear in your feed then you may need to unsubscribe from this feed and then re-add us. If you have any problems then let us know on any of the social media platforms or email us at [email protected] and we'll help you out.

    Back soon,

    Colin, Tracey, & Ian
    We Dig Music.

  • This month we're back to the BC era (Before Colin), where we'll be discussing our favourite songs of 1980, inlcuding lashings of nuclear paranoia, a brace of classic metal, and a nice healthy dollop of goth.

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - AC/DC, Bauhaus, The Beat, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Cabaret Voltaire, Comsat Angels, The Clash, The Cramps, The Cure, Dead Kennedys, Devo, Dexys Midnight Runners, Diamond Head, Iron Maiden, Japan, Nic Jones, Journey, Joy Division, Judas Priest, Killing Joke, Motorhead, The Only Ones, Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark, Ozzy Osbourne, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Specials, Stiff Little Fingers, Talking Heads, & Visage.

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1kij98NJCpKCK24D6GsvRG?si=cf71849309184fa9

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Helen Jackson-Brown
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • For the first episode of 2024 we're going back almost 30 years to 1995 to completely ignore britpop and talk about much, much better music that was happening at the same time.

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - At The Gates, Bjork, Cathedral, Clutch, Dubstar, Faith No More, Fear Factory, Foo Fighters, Fugazi, Garbage, Green Day, Emmylou Harris, The Jayhawks, Low, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins, Smog, Spacehog, Sparklehorse, Strapping Young Lad, Matthew Sweet, Teenage Fanclub, Therapy?, Tindersticks, Whale, White Zombie, The Wildhearts, & Yo La Tengo.

    This episode is dedicated to the memory of the legendary music journalist and bloody lovely bloke Neil Kulkarni who sadly and suddenly passed away last week. You may know Neil from the Chart Music Podcast, from his writing for Melody Maker, Kerrang, Vox, The Quietus, Plan B, Metal Hammer, DJ Mag & more, or you may have heard him when he guested on Colin & Ian's other podcast Free With This Months Issue in August last year. Neil's death sadly leaves his two daughters without a parent so his Chart Music & Melody Maker cohost David Stubbs has arranged a crowdfunder. please donate if you're able to do so - https://www.gofundme.com/f/neil-kulkarni?qid=17adb77df59eabad52ce7dca32d49510

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4t3vB1jZf6lxQZMBIuTYhx?si=288cce79f5654ce9

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Helen Jackson-Brown
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • It's the final days of 2023 and therefore time for us once again to reflect on all of the amazing music released this year. 2023 will go down in We Dig Music history as the year Tracey went Pop, Colin went cynical, And Ian continued submitting doom metal songs almost as long as the rest of the playlist put together.

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - Bell WItch, Blink 182, Boygenius, The Bug Club, Cloth, CLT DRP, Craven Faults, Crosses, Darkher, Doja Cat, Drab Majesty ft Rachel Goswell, Fred Again & Brian Eno, Kenya Grace, Heartworms, The Hives, KEN Mode, Lichen Slow, O., Caroline Polachek, РоТь, Quiet Man, Ren, Olivia Rodrigo, Monika Roscher Bigband, Sleep Token, Sparks, Special Friend, Sunnsetter, Svalbard, & Yo La Tengo.

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here -
    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Q6haXdmCbDR2quq13dX6N?si=e3c4280a88c642d0

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Lydia Clarke
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • This month we head back to one of the rare years before any of us (even Tracey) were born and investigate our favourite songs of 1970. You can expect Prog, Folk, Pop, Reggae, Soul, Jazz, Country, & Metal.

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - Amon DΓΌΓΌl II, Badfinger, Syd Barrett, Black Sabbath, James Brown, Tim Buckley, Vashti Bunyan, Carpenters, Chairmen Of The Board, Dave & Ansell Collins, Miles Davis, Deep Purple, The Doors, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, The Hollies, The Jackson 5, Carole King, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Lee Marvin, Curtis Mayfield, MC5, Pink Floyd, John Sebastian, Simon & Garfunkel, Edwin Starr, The Stooges, Townes Van Zandt, & Scott Walker.

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3rGqXFzmixbgrzW9Q4sugS?si=00848dd580034aed

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Helen Jackson-Brown
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • This month we're back in our current millenium with our favourite songs of 2005 including generous helpings of indie-rock, chamberpop, industrial, synthpop, prog-metal & hiphop.

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) -And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Brendan Benson, The Bravery, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Clutch, Death Cab For Cutie, Editors, The Fall, Ben Folds, Gogol Bordello, Gojira, Imogen Heap, Malcolm Middleton, Nine Black Alps, Nine Inch Nails, Jim Noir, Opeth, Pernice Brothers, Porcupine Tree, Robyn, Shady Bard, The Spinto Band, Sufjan Stevens, Strapping Young Lad, Matt Sweeney & Bonny Prince Billy, Teenage Fanclub, VNV Nation, The Wedding Present, & Kanye West Ft Jay-Z.

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4X2NdJpqAODDHvaQgCRhJ5?si=dd0541fefa4d4f31

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Helen Jackson-Brown
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • It's September, so it's time for the last Now Playing episode of 2023! This time Tracey has chosen the self titled 1994 debut record from Chicago's jazz influenced post-rock pioneers Tortoise, Ian has chosen The Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Volume 3, a collection of songs by the legendary Texan country singer songwriter reinterpreted by Cave In, Amenra, & Marissa Nadler, and Colin has chosen the soundtrack to the 1998 glam rock movie Velvet Goldmine featuring an array of both original 70s Glam legends such as Roxy Music & Lou Reed and 90s alternative acts like Pulp & Placebo pretending to be 70s Glam legends.

    You can find the Tortoise album here - https://open.spotify.com/album/1AmtXhIDwENPsR1qzdoq3Q?si=pXrEAo7_TYmJV47_5mlDqw

    and Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Volume 3 is here - https://open.spotify.com/album/0yfy88SQOZaMo5bQXnkaqv?si=9B56xI4YSmazfjvr15HuSg

    The Velvet Goldmine soundtrack isn't on spotify but you can get a copy on Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/442619-Various-Velvet-Goldmine-Music-From-The-Original-Motion-Picture

    As always, if you enjoy the music please consider supporting the artists by buying their records etc.

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • Ian-terview #1
    As a bonus to our usual episodes, Ian recently caught up with Jayant Bhadula, Vocalist for excellent Indian Nu-Metal band Bloodywood before their amazing sold out show in Milton Keynes. They discussed merch prices, sleeves or lack thereof and why it’s totally ok for drunk guys to carry boxes for them.

    Go listen to Bloodywood and buy their records and gig tickets (and T-shirts with minigun toting Elephant gods) here - https://www.bloodywood.net/ (Seriously, Rakshak is one of the best and most fun metal albums in recent years. it deserves your time!)

    Host - Ian Clarke
    "assistance" - Colin Jackson-Brown
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Ian Clarke for We Dig Podcasts

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • This month we're headed to 1994 for a smorgasbord of slacker rock, industrial, alt country, pop punk, jungle, hip hop, triphop, and more.

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - American Music Club, Beastie Boys, Jeff Buckley, Come, Corrosion Of Conformity, The Cure, Green Day, Helmet, Lisa Loeb, Low, M-Beat ft General Levy, Machine Head, Kylie Minogue, Nailbomb, Nine Inch Nails, The Offspring, Pavement, Pop Will Eat Itself, Portishead, The Prodigy, Pulp, Saint Etienne, Seal, Sebadoh, Senser, Silver Jews, Snoop Dogg, Therapy? Veruca Salt, & The Wedding Present.

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/61qfMZ2SdEtA927ZICsCvy?si=bd3276f6964742de

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Helen Jackson-Brown
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • This month we're back half a century to discuss our favourite songs of 1973 with lashings of glam, folk, prog, funk, protopunk, metal, Boogie (but no woogie) and a lot more country than some of us were hoping for.

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - Allman Brothers Band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Tim Buckley, John Cale, Can, Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash, Betty Davis, Golden Earring, The Isley Brothers, Dr John, Kool & The Gang, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Martyn, New York Dolls, Mike Oldfield, Gram Parsons, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, Doug Sahm, Stephen Stills, Iggy & The Stooges, Π’Π»Π°Π΄ΠΈΠΌΠΈΡ€ Высоцкий, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Tom Waits, The Who, & ZZ Top.

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6wpvYSJ6KVwRqJWFrtnwLk?si=6d7777dc93dc450c

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Lydia Clarke
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • It's June, so it's time for another Now Playing episode! This time Colin has chosen 2022's The Gods We Can Touch by Norwegian art pop singer songwriter AURORA, Ian has chosen Output Negative Space, the 2006 album by San Franciscan Post Punk storytellers Enablers, and Tracey has picked this years debut record Rest Lurks by Lichen Slow, the new project from Malcolm Middleton (from Arab Strap) & Joel Harries' (from 72% & Team Leader).

    Listen to the AURORA record here - https://open.spotify.com/album/2HPgGJnpimfmFPMjP0syqY?si=DmRBnl5bR6aD5Dfp2VecQA

    Listen to the Enablers record here - https://open.spotify.com/album/3K0x3WSlnF2Sb5Y5dsTFnQ?si=-PXR_EelTyqIYJJe6D-M_g

    and listen to the Lichen Slow record here - https://open.spotify.com/album/1meKQyugIxu5GJxmTbyT7G?si=DAenGqRXQ_GoHV08UGSuvg

    As always, if you enjoy the music please consider supporting the artists by buying their records etc.

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • We're back to this century for this months episode as we talk about our favourite songs from 2011, ranging from indiepop to black metal, with various arguments about The Muppets along the way.

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - Battles, Beastie Boys, Bon Iver, Anna Calvi, Childish Gambino, Death Cab For Cutie, The Deer Tracks, Dir En Grey, Fleet Foxes, The Go! Team, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Kvelertak, Lanterns On The Lake, Limp Bizkit, Liturgy, Low, J Mascis, Mogwai, Thurston Moore, Opeth, Amanda Palmer, Josh T. Pearson, Radiohead, *shels, Soley, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Ulver, The Weeknd, Weezer Ft Hayley Williams, & YOB.

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6bizkqtWTTgxkNqH7GGoj5?si=af071097a6324a9a

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Lydia Clarke
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • Back to our time travelling shenanigans and this month we're heading back to 1981 for what may be our favourite batch of songs yet. We've got an absolutely killer selection of post punk, pop, dub, metal, & prog tracks to chuck into the battle arena to fight for supremacy.

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - Bauhaus, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, The Cure, Dead Kennedys, Duran Duran, Echo & The Bunnymen, Einsturzende Neubauten, Fun Boy Three, Gang Of Four, The Go-Go's, The Human League, Iron Maiden, Japan, Journey, King Crimson, Kraftwerk, Mission Of Burma, Motley Crue, New Order, The Passions, Pigbag, Pretenders, Rush, Scientist, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Soft Cell, The Teardrop Explodes, UB40 & Kim Wilde.

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7fOEje9Z2pj7uyKqkZJDec?si=9593f349eb174975

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Lydia Clarke
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • It's March so time for our first Now Playing episode of 2023. This time Colin has chosen Saddle Creek records' 2003 compilation Saddle Creek 50 featuring Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, Cursive, Azure Ray, The Faint, & More to coincide with its 20th Anniversary this month. Tracey has chosen Glasgow alt rock band Cloth's self titled 2020 debut record, And Ian has chosen ambient legend Brian Eno's most recent record FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE from last year.

    Listen to Saddle Creek 50 here - https://open.spotify.com/album/5czFIe96e39kNJfVl1D8cH?si=VtIOy4yyQBeMsTGfifmeIQ

    Listen to Cloth here - https://open.spotify.com/album/1wjACzJBtfygdPfQbTAwQi?si=wlkh3iKzRI6D35wo3-JMAw

    Listen to the Eno record here - https://open.spotify.com/album/1fsGRseH9xCUSiO1MDSB7W?si=BL_KMxNfTT-Ib3fwKNRyFA

    As always, if you enjoy the music please consider supporting the artists by buying their records etc.

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • This month we're heading back to 1976 where only one of us existed yet, to explore a smorgasbord of punk, prog, krautrock, funk, dub, pop, disco, folk, reggae, metal, & whatever the hell the Hollies song classifies as.

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - AC/DC, Blue Oyster Cult, Boney M, CAN, The Damned, Dillinger, Dr Feelgood, Bob Dylan, Electric Light Orchestra, Flamin' Groovies, Peter Frampton, The Hollies, Jean-Michel Jarre, Judas Priest, KISS, Steve Miller Band, The Modern Lovers, King Tubby & Augustus Pablo, Parliament, Rainbow, Ramones, The Real Thing, Max Romeo & The Upsetters, Rush, Klaus Schulze, Bob Seger, Van Der Graaf Generator, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, & Warren Zevon.

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4uuaF2z2giwA5OBbH7LxbT?si=ffd7a22f3065434c

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Lydia Clarke
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • We're back for 2023! and to celebrate, we're talking about our favourite songs from 20 years earlier in 2003, when Colin quit university to work in a record shop, In addition to the music we talk about linguistics in pop punk, and feature both the longest, & shortedt songs we've ever had on any of our playlists.

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - Alfie, Alkaline Trio, A Perfect Circle, Blink 182, Broadcast, Cult Of Luna, Cursive, The Dears, Evan Dando, Explosions In The Sky, The Fall, Four Tet, Jose Gonzalez, Hope Of The States, Jay-Z, Lamb Of God, Liam Lynch, Machine Head, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Mew, Ministry, Kylie Minogue, Mogwai, Opeth, The Postal Service, Radiohead, Sleep, Spiritualized, Stars, & Patrick Wolf.

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4uuaF2z2giwA5OBbH7LxbT?si=ffd7a22f3065434c

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Lydia Clarke
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • We're in the last days of 2022 AD and as such it's time for us to talk about our favourite songs of the year! It's been yet another amazing year for music and each of us could easily have submitted a top 30 on our own rather than keeping it to 10 each, but that would have taken even longer for Colin to edit so thankfully we kept it to 10...

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - Arctic Monkeys, The Asteroid No. 4, Astrel K, Author & Punisher, Andrew Bird Ft. Phoebe Bridgers, Rachel Chinouriri, CLT DRP, Crippled Black Phoenix, Cult Of Luna, Dystopian Future Movies, Enablers, Natalie Evans, Ex-VΓΆid, FES, Ghost, Grave Lines, Just Mustard, Kathryn Joseph, Melt Yourself Down, Metric, Nordic Giants Ft. Alex Hedley, Beth Orton, Paledusk, Peaness, Psychonaut, Taylor Swift, Devin Townsend, Tropical F*ck Storm and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Viagra Boys, & White Ward.

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here -
    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7eb2y8sQtL1znst8CPrDlF?si=a3595d51d2fc40f7

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Lydia Clarke
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

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    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

  • More time travel before we snap back up to date with next month;s best of 2022 episode, This month we're in 1989 (the year, not the Taylor Swift album) where we're crashing the Exxon Valdez into the Berlin Wall (or something like that, I don't know, I was only 7...)

    We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.

    Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.

    Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - The Cult, The Cure, The Darling Buds, Del Amitri, Electronic, Extreme, Faith No More, The Field Mice, Don Henley, Kitchens Of Distinction, Loop, Biz Markie, Ministry, Mother Love Bone, Bob Mould, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, The Pastels, Pixies, Pop Will Eat Itself, Public Enemy, Ramones, Senseless Things, Sepultura, Skid Row, Skinny Puppy, The Sundays, Spaceman 3, Technotronic, & Transvision Vamp

    Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4uuaF2z2giwA5OBbH7LxbT?si=ffd7a22f3065434c

    Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ

    If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg
    Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA
    and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw

    The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -

    1st place - 20 points
    2nd place - 18 points
    3rd place – 16 points
    4th place – 14 points
    5th place – 12 points
    6th place – 9 points
    7th place – 7 points
    8th place – 5 points
    9th place – 3 points
    10th place -1 point

    Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B
    Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.
    Playlist compiling/distributing – Lydia Clarke
    Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
    Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

    Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast

    Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

    You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com