We Dig Music
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Three music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... Part of the We Dig Podcasts network, along with Free With This Months Issue & Pick A Disc. Find us at https://wedigpodcasts.com
Episodes
- We Dig Music - Series 9 Episode 4 - Best of 1987
The We Dig Music podcast discusses favorite songs of 1987, covering various genres like goth, pop, industrial, metal, hip hop, and indie. The episode presents a countdown of the top 20 songs, compiled and ranked by the hosts and guest Hele…
- We Dig Music - Series 9 Episode 3 - Now Playing March 2026 - Richard Dawson, Barbarians Of California, & Manic Street Preachers
This episode of We Dig Music features discussions on three albums: 'End Of The Middle' by Richard Dawson, 'And Now I'm Just Gnashing My Teeth' by The Barbarians Of California, and 'The Holy Bible' by Manic Street Preachers.
- We Dig Music - Series 9 Episode 2 - Best of 1974
The We Dig Music podcast episode focuses on the best songs of 1974, covering genres like prog, krautrock, and funk. The hosts and a guest rank their top 10 songs of the year, compiled into playlists by an external party, with all reactions…
- We Dig Music - Series 9 Episode 1 - Best Of 2010
The We Dig Music podcast counts down favorite songs from 2010. Hosts ranked songs from playlists compiled by Colin's wife, Helen, who also joins to reveal the countdown. The episode features a range of genres and genuine reactions to the r…
- We Dig Music - Series 8 Episode 12 - Ultra Epic Best of 2025
We Dig Music hosts Colin, Tracey, and Ian present their longest episode yet, counting down their top 10 songs of 2025. They discuss a wide range of genres and artists, with Helen joining to reveal the final ranked list after compiling thei…
- We Dig Music - Series 8 Episode 11 - Best of 1992
This month we travel back to a banger of a year for our favourite songs of 1992, including proto-post rock, hiphop classics, industrial metal, and enough shoegaze to open a branch of Specsavers opposite a branch of Foot Locker. We've each…
- We Dig Music - Series 8 Episode 10 - Best of 2015
This month we're in the slightly more recent past as we tackle 2015 which was only 18 months before the podcast began. (although is allegedly a decade ago despite feeling like last week). There's ethereal pop, modern classical piano epics,…
- We Dig Music - Series 8 Episode 9 - Now Playing Sept 2025 - Magdalena Bay, Crippling Alcoholism, & Ethel Cain
It's September, so it's time for the second and final Now Playing episode of 2025! This time we've all picked our current favourite concept albums. Colin has picked his favourite album of 2024, Magdalena Bay's altpop masterpiece Imaginal D…
- We Dig Music - Series 8 Episode 8 - Best of 1997
This month head back to Colin & Ian's teenage years and Tracey's not quite as teenage years to discuss the emergence of post rock, jangly indie rock, noisy glitchy electronica, stompy nu-metal & Vic Reeves with a cold. We've each chosen ou…
- We Dig Music - Series 8 Episode 7 - Best of 1977
This month we appear to be teleporting between CBGB's, Studio 54, The 100 Club, The Berlin Wall and some kind of prog gig in a field in Cambridgeshire as we battle over our favourite songs of 1977! We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs…
- We Dig Music - Series 8 Episode 6 - Festival Special
It's summertime, and what better to talk about for music nerds in the summer than our favourite music festival stories from almost 40 years of festival going between the three of us, from Reading 1988 through to modern festivals like ArcTa…
- We Dig Music - Series 8 Episode 5 - Best of 1967
This month we've gone back further than ever before to 1967 a time when none of us existed yet and everything was psychedelic and groovy. There's proto prog, primeval punk, pop masterpieces, and whatever you'd categorise Zabadak as... We'v…
- We Dig Music - Series 8 Episode 4 - Best of 1986
This month we're back to the mid 80s to talk about our favourite songs of 1986, including thrash metal classics, proto-industrial stompers, enormous pop bangers, massive cheesy 80s soundtrack rock and loads more. We've each chosen our 10 f…
- We Dig Music - Series 8 Episode 3 - Now Playing March 2025 - Wojtek The Bear, VOLA, & The Polyphonic Spree
It's March, so it's time for the first Now Playing episode of 2025! This time Tracey and Ian have both chosen records they somehow overlooked from their best of 2024 lists with Tracey going for Scottish indie pop melodymongers Wojtek The B…
- We Dig Music - Series 8 Episode 2 - Best of 1971
For this months episode we head back to 1971 for a batch of epicly long prog epics, peppered with the occasional bit of folk rock, powerpop, metal, jazz, and afrobeat. Our longest playlist yet, and lots of fun along the way! We've each cho…
- We Dig Music - Series 8 Episode 1 - Best Of 2002
We begin 2025 by going back 23 years to discuss our favourite songs of 2002, including emo classics, motivational hardcore, sparkly piano pop, terrifyingly positive psychedelic religious cults, and THE GREATEST GUITAR RIFF OF ALL TIME. We'…
- We Dig Music - Series 7 Episode 9 - Best of 2024
2024 is in it's final days and as is traditional it's time for us to talk aout all of the fantastic music released this year. This year Tracey & Colin have been on board with Charli XCX's Brat summer, while Ian has pretty much avoided it e…
- We Dig Music - Series 7 Episode 8 - Best of 1984
We're back, and this time we've gone back 4 whole decades to talk about our favourite songs from 1984, including lots of jazzy indiepop, metal (from extreme to hair), german pop, and the mystery of whether Lionel Richie or Prince's girlfri…
- We Dig Music - Series 7 Episode 7 - Best of 2014
For this month's episode we've gone back to ten years, only a few years before the podcast began to talk about our favourite songs of 2014, including trve kvlt black metal, avant garde noise, sparkly pop bangers, swedish alt country, & kra…
- We Dig Music - Series 7 Episode 6 - Best of 1975
For this month's episode we're deep in the mid 70s to explore the finest glam, country, reggae, funk, rock, folk, afrobeat, prog, pop, avant garde noise, and whatever category you'd chuck Sparks in to. We've each chosen our 10 favourite so…
- We Dig Music - Series 7 Episode 5 - Best of 1991
Tracey is particularly happy this month as we're discussing our favourite songs from her favourite ever year, 1991, including hip hop, shoegaze, thrash, pop, grunge, indie, & more. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and s…
- We Dig Music - Series 7 Episode 4 - Best of 2008
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 chos…
- We Dig Music - Series 7 Episode 3 - 100th episode Now Playing special - Duran Duran, *shels, & Monster Magnet
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 int…
- Technical update
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. I…
- We Dig Music - Series 7 Episode 2 - Best of 1980
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 favour…
- We Dig Music - Series 7 Episode 1 - Best of 1995
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 t…
- We Dig Music - Series 6 Episode 12 - Super Ultra Badass Best of 2023 Christmas Special!
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 submit…
- We Dig Music - Series 6 Episode 11 - Best of 1970
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…
- We Dig Music - Series 6 Episode 10 - Best of 2005
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…
- We Dig Music - Series 6 Episode 9 - Now Playing Sept 2023 - Tortoise, The Songs Of Townes Van Zandt, & Velvet Goldmine soundtrack
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 V…
- We Dig Music Bonus episode! Ianterviews - Jayant Bhadula from Bloodywood
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 o…
- We Dig Music - Series 6 Episode 8 - Best of 1994
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 pu…
- We Dig Music - Series 6 Episode 7 - Best of 1973
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…
- We Dig Music - Series 6 Episode 6 - Now Playing June 2023 - AURORA, Enablers, & Lichen Slow
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 Pun…
- We Dig Music - Series 6 Episode 5 - Best of 2011
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 th…
- We Dig Music - Series 6 Episode 4 - Best of 1981
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 bat…
- We Dig Music Series 6 Episode 3 - Now Playing March 2023 Saddle Creek 50, Cloth, & Brian Eno
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 2…
- We Dig Music - Series 6 Episode 2 - Best of 1976
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 ou…
- We Dig Music - Series 6 Episode 1 - Best of 2003
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…
- We Dig Music - Series 5 Episode 12 - Super Mega Best of 2022 Christmas Special!
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 i…
- We Dig Music - Series 5 Episode 11 - Best of 1989
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 d…
- We Dig Music - Series 5 Episode 10 - Best of 2006
We're back to our time travel again this month, heading back to 2006 where we'll be exploring our favourite songs from the year Pluto had it's planetary status cruelly ripped from it's icy mountains. We discuss Pop, Folk, Post-Metal, Emo,…
- We Dig Music - Series 5 Episode 9 - Now Playing Sept 2022 - Dystopian Future Movies, Sóley, & Teethgrynder
September rolls around again so it's time for our 3rd and final Now Playing episode of 2022. This Month we have a very exciting exclusive where we're talking about the forfthcoming third album by Nottingham based Dystopian Future Movies, W…
- We Dig Music - Series 5 Episode 8 - Best of 1972
This month we've gone back half a century to 1972, where only one of us exists, to talk about the best ear slicing soundtracks, epic prog, shiny glam, & spooky folk. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over t…
- We Dig Music - Series 5 Episode 7 - Best of 1996
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…
- We Dig Music - Series 5 Episode 6 - Now Playing June 2022 The Teardrop Explodes, Viagra Boys, & Deftones
Fuel for the time machine is ridiculously expensive at the moment so we're giving it a rest this month and doing another Now Playing Episode again, we've gone for 3 very different albums but there's elements of post punk in all three. This…
- We Dig Music - Series 5 Episode 5 - Best of 2012
This month we're we're a mere decade away from our current time as we ignore the Mayan doomsday prophecies and choose our favourite songs of 2012. We'll also be talking about making country legends cry, Turkish goth music, & Tracey's secre…
- We Dig Music - Series 5 Episode 4 - Best of 1978
This month we're heading back to 1978 to listen to the first radio broadcast of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, tow fake icebergs to Sydney Harbour, & search for Charlie Chaplin's coffin. We'll also be talking about unexpected Burmese…
- We Dig Music Series 5 Episode 3 - Now Playing March 2022 A Perfect Circle, Ulver, & Japan
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 the moment. All three records this…
- We Dig Music - Series 5 Episode 2 - Best of 2000
This month we're all meeting up in the year 2000 to hang out in the Millenium dome, play Timesplitters on the PS2, & try to avoid getting sued by Metallica for downloading Master Of Puppets on Napster. We'll also be talking about wind inst…