We Dig Music

This month we're back to the year Colin's most excited about as we talk about our favourite songs of 1996, Including the best songs to receive a concussive head injury to, Songs to listen to at Ians house at 3am and subsequently fail your IT A-Level, & bands Colin apparently recommended to Tracey but has no recollection of..
We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Ian's wife Lydia, 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 to Colin's wife Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order. Helen 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!) - Alisha's Attic, Tori Amos, Arab Strap, Belle & Sebastian, Butthole Surfers, CAKE, Nick Cave & The Dirty Three, Corrosion Of Conformity, The Cure, Mark Eitzel, Everything But The Girl, Fugees, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Korn, The Lemonheads, Lilys, Manowar, Mogwai, Neurosis, PET, Placebo, Sebadoh, DJ Shadow, Skinny Puppy, Stereolab, Tool, Type O Negative, Uresei Yatsura, & The Wedding Present.
Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2gwaNgx9cVCoRuBX6B3V4k?si=22f66790599f4752
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

This month we're back travelling through time, but just a short trip this time, back to the seemingly very recent 2013, where we were all still regularly listening to cds (and even cassettes in colin's case as his car back then was impressively primitive), but other than that, pretty much wearing the same clothes as we do now. Listen to us battle eachother to discover our collective favourite songs of the 2013 and alog the way uncover Ian's traumatic Japanese Noise flashbacks, Colin's language blindness, Tracey's utter desperation to obtain more points, and we question exactly how tall Ed Sheeran actually is...
We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Ian's wife Lydia, 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 to Colin's wife Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order. Helen 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!) - Arcade Fire, Courtney Barnett, Biffy Clyro, David Bowie, Bring Me The Horizon, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Childish Gambino, Clutch, Daughter, Ghost, John Grant, Grouper, How To Destroy Angels, RM Hubbert, Lanterns On The Lake, Adrianne Lenker, Lorde, Low, Macklemore, Major Lazer, Melt-Banana, Nine Inch Nails, Paramore, The Pastels, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, This Many Boyfriends, Waxahatchee, Kanye West, & Steven Wilson.
Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/71SXqZsOFGgQl477yIKLXm?si=781e27b7728c4ecd
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
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It's time for another Now Playing episode while we recalibrate the time machine ready for our next batch of episodes so we're taking the time to sit back and talk about albums we're listening to a lot at th moment. Tracey has chosen former Inca Babies frontman Harry Stafford's debut swamp blues noir record Guitar Shaped Hammers from 2017, Colin's chosen Public Service Broadcasting's space funk electro concept album The Race For Space from 2015 and Ian has gone with Devin Townsend Project's massively uplifting cheerful prog pop metal album Epicloud from 2012.
You can listen to the Harry Stafford record here - https://open.spotify.com/album/5FFQ4PtWtiYHs6uJNFdifr?si=Dden21ooSh6_ZszyyVvoFg&dl_branch=1
here's the Public Service Broadcasting album - https://open.spotify.com/album/65KwtzkJXw7oT819NFWmEP?si=LTRKL3zkTAKPj_1N4yXL6A&dl_branch=1
and here's Devin Townsend's thoroughly cheerful offering - https://open.spotify.com/album/4WA0COIl14e6amUlwz89pN?si=KwsJ2vGcQEO4LLPJbCXrIg&dl_branch=1
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
We're part of the We Made This podcast network. Find all our episodes plus other brilliant shows such as We Buy Records, Pick A Disc, Giddy Carousel Of Pop plus Colin and Ian's other podcast Free With This Months Issue and loads more at http://wemadethispod.com/
https://twitter.com/wmt_network
You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com
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This month we're travelling through time almost 3 decades to 1993, where we were watching Animaniacs, going to the arcade to play Mortal Kombat II, & visiting an ill-fated dinosaur themed tourist attraction off the coast of Costa Rica. Listen to us battle each other to discover our collective favourite songs of the 1993 and alog the way uncover excellent soundtrack's to terrible movies, Tracey's modern day Riot Grrl aspirations, & even a special guest appearance from the frontperson of one of the bands featured!
We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Ian's wife Lydia, 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 to Colin's wife Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order. Helen 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 Afghan Whigs, American Music Club, Beck, Counting Crows, Cypress Hill, Depeche Mode, Dinosaur Jr., Entombed, Faith No More & Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., Gallon Drunk, PJ Harvey, Huggy Bear, James, Die Krupps, The Lemonheads, Madder Rose, Mazzy Star, New Order, Onyx, Pearl Jam, Sepultura, Slowdive, The Smashing Pumpkins, Snoop Dogg, Spin Doctors, Teenage Fanclub, Tindersticks, Tool, Ugly Kid Joe, & Voodoo Queens.
Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/520WJ8cqN8wAVxs3a5RMFT?si=ef1a6d0e25cf44d6
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
Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: www.patreon.com/wemadethis

Another pause in our time travelling music charts this month for another Now Playing episode where we're each talking about an album we've been listening to a lot over the last few months. Colin has chosen Mordant Music's uncompromising, glitchy, hauntological 2006 meisterwerk “Dead Air”, Tracey has chosen welsh chamber pop multi-instrumentalist's excellent but confusingly titled 2016 record “2013”, & Ian's chosen post metal supergroup Battle Of Mice's amazing 2006 record “A Day Of Nights” We also briefly discuss listeners picks for best songs of 1968 & 1979, records by The Lodger, Max Gowan, Milk Bottle Sympathy, Japanese Breakfast, Les Shirley, Garbage, Моне́точка, and Kauan, Plus the short life expectancies of 1970s kids playing on farms, trolling norweigan murdery fascists, and unexpected swan movement synchronised to harrowing post metal soundscapes.
We'll be back to our normal format next month where we'll be choosing our favourite songs from 2001.
Listen to the albums on Spotify here -
Mordant Music – Dead Air - https://open.spotify.com/album/1YeGzJxLEnSOYuaGQVkZXd?si=fj75fLzlQdu7J5LMMbVVHg&dl_branch=1
Meilyr Jones – 2013 - https://open.spotify.com/album/48IAjwtoTqbR7hIgFTBc9J?si=nRnSeislQtCPQUKI5sBnKw&dl_branch=1
Battle Of Mice – A Day Of Nights - https://open.spotify.com/album/5HXZmkbgxp4xssJdI1b9zu?si=1MpCY-5DT4-QyfUAxb5sZg&dl_branch=1
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
We're part of the We Made This podcast network. Find all our episodes plus other brilliant shows such as We Buy Records, Pick A Disc, Giddy Carousel Of Pop plus Colin and Ian's other podcast Free With This Months Issue and loads more at http://wemadethispod.com/
https://twitter.com/wmt_network
You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com
Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: www.patreon.com/wemadethis