We Dig Music - Series 4 Episode 7 - Best of 2001

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07/25/21 • 123 min

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This month we're back on the time travel malarkey and we're space oddyseying along to 2001 where we've been laughing at talking Velociraptors in Jurassic Park 3, Installing WIndows XP and wearing massive baggy shorts with wallet chains. We've also been talking about Tracey's over familiarity with Polly Jean Harvey, Unexpected Fall influencers & highly inappropriate reasons for cheering at festivals.
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!) - Alkaline Trio, Aphex Twin, The Beta Band, Bjork, Camera Obscura, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Converge, Dntel, Mark Eitzel, Explosions In The Sky, The Faint, The Frames, Life Without Buildings, Lift To Experience, Low, Mercury Rev, Ministry, Mogwai, Opeth, Roots Manuva, Shaggy, A Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra La La Band, Sparklehorse ft PJ Harvey, Spiritualized, Stars Of The Lid, System Of A Down, Thursday, Tool, Tweaker Ft Craig Wedren & The White Stripes.
Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3gV7poFnVyo3DouBDMR48Q?si=daef4c9b7c9f4147
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.
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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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We Dig Music - Series 4 Episode 6 - Now Playing June 2021 - Mordant Music, Meilyr Jones, & Battle Of Mice

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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/
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We Dig Music - Series 4 Episode 8 - Best of 1988

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This month we travel back to 1988 where we've been accidentally downloading the first ever computer virus, playing Treasure Island Dizzy on the Spectrum, & watching Beetlejuice at the cinema. We've also been talking about ambient superstars buying castles, Colin's Orangutan like behaviour, & potentially life saving rap lyrics.
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!) - a-ha, Another Sunny Day, Billy Bragg, Candlemass, Neneh Cherry, The Church,Dead Can Dance, Def Leppard, Dinosaur Jr., Enya, The Go-Betweens, The House Of Love, Iron Maiden, Jane's Addiction, Kino, Manowar, Metallica, Ministry, my bloody valentine, N.W.A., Pixies, The Primitives, Public Enemy, R.E.M.,Sea Urchins, Sonic Youth, The Sugarcubes, Talking Heads, Ultra Vivid Scene, & The Wonder Stuff
Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6XBlolI0ymFbnFiYlcsrbx?si=7995f72788754cfb
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