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We Dig Music

We Dig Podcasts

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

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We Dig Music phase 2 teaser...

We Dig Music ·

2020/11/07

Previously on We Dig Music...at the end of last episode Colin miscalculated the amount of thermonuclear weapons needed to destroy the alphabet and in doing so blew up the entire format of the podcast. This is a brief transmission to let you know we survived and we'll be back on December 20th with our traditional episode counting down our favourite songs of the year. Following that we'll be continuing with WE DIG MUSIC PHASE 2. obviously, you've got a bit of time until our next episode so why not

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108:11

We Dig Music - Series 3 Episode 9 - Manowar & The...

We Dig Music ·

2020/08/30

This month we're singing battle hymns on board the last train to Clarksville where we'll be talking about New York's mightiest heavy metal barbarians Manowar & prefabricated 1960's pop titans The Monkees. As usual we can never stay on topic for too long so we'll also be talking about Mike Nesmith's fictional shenanigans, We investigate whether Manowar are secretly members of 1980s Oxford twee indiepoppers Talulah Gosh, and we try to find out if Tracey is able to name any bands she likes where she

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105:51

We Dig Music - Series 3 Episode 8 - The Lemonheads &...

We Dig Music ·

2020/07/26

This month it's about time we take it to the Mathews Bridge so we'll be talking about Boston's finest alternative rock bubblegrunge troubadours The Lemonheads & Jacksonville's polarising “Rage Against The Machine For Idiots” Nu Metal rapscallions Limp Bizkit. As usual we can never stay on topic for too long so we'll also be talking about fair excuses for being late for Glastonbury sets, Enya's beard, & where George Michael went wrong.Find all available songs on our spotify playlist here -

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82:27

We Dig Music - Series 3 Episode 7 - Best of 1990

We Dig Music ·

2020/06/28

It's our third anniversary! we've been putting out podcasts for 3 years and to celebrate we're doing one of our infamous Best Of episodes where we count down our 30 favourite songs of a particular year.This time we've decided to go back in time 30 years to 1990, a time where Milli Vanilli were busted for lip synching, Tim Berners Lee set out formal plans for the World Wide Web and an 8 year old Colin was still more interested in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles than musicTo explain how the voting

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104:34

We Dig Music - Series 3 Episode 6 - Guitar Wolf &...

We Dig Music ·

2020/05/31

This month we've got Kawasaki Z ii 750 Rock & Roll Hammering in our heads so we'll be talking about Japanese Jett Rock & Roll high volume zombie slayers Guitar Wolf & Scottish/American glossy goth pop supergroup Garbage. As usual we can never stay on topic for too long so we'll also be talking about slicing UFO's in half with samurai swords, songs about hunting canadian river dwelling rodents & possibly the best band name origin story we've ever heard. BWUANG!!! EXPLOSION!!!Find all available songs

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92:51

We Dig Music - Series 3 Episode 5 - Ben Folds & Foo...

We Dig Music ·

2020/04/26

This month we're exhausted, selfless, cold, and composed and will be talking about North Carolina's virtuoso piano nerd Ben Folds and thoroughly friendly alt rock titans Foo FIghters. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll be talking about stadium rock bands doing stadium rock things in stadiums, Harry Connick Jr goes full on freeform skronk jazz, and Tracey jabbers on about Dean Friedman again.Find all available songs on our spotify playlist here -

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83:46

Series 3 Episode 4 - Nick Drake & Deftones

We Dig Music ·

2020/03/29

This month we're being quiet and driving far away under the northern sky where we'll be talking about reclusive Warwickshire folk legend Nick Drake and Sacramento's pioneering alt metal titans Deftones. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be talking about music festival Bigfoot sightings, A mild disagreement about the best member of Duran Duran & Tracey tries to retrospectively project her own pretentious literary allusions onto 51 year old albums.Find all available songs on

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77:34

Series 3 Episode 3 - Camera Obscura & Nick Cave

We Dig Music ·

2020/02/23

This month let's get out of this country and visit the palaces of Montezuma where we'll be talking about Scottish indie pop Spector enthusiasts Camera Obscura & Antipodean dark prince of gothic rock Nick Cave. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be talking about dangerous Bristolian landmarks, seafaring indie festivals seemingly designed for one percenters, and Tracey devises some kind of colour coding system to be used on an audio podcast...Find all available songs on our

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100:33

We Dig Music - Series 3 Episode 2 - The Beach Boys &...

We Dig Music ·

2020/01/26

It's 2020! and it's bloody cold in the UK so lets warm everyone up with a particularly californian episode. This Month we'll be talking about the indie rock supergroup Boygenius and it's component members Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker & Lucy Dacus (plus various other projects they've been involved in such as Better Oblivion Community Centre, and then we'll be talking about California's greatest ever close part harmony mostly non surfing surk legends The Beach Boys! As usual we can never stay on

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97:49

We Dig Music - Super Mega Ultra Badass Christmas Best...

We Dig Music ·

2019/12/23

It's the end of 2019 which has been an utterly fantastic year for music (possibly at the expense of everything else...) so as is traditional, here's our annual best of the year extravaganza!We count down our favourite 30 songs of the year, plus we discuss songs that didn't quite make it, our favourite gigs of the year and also music we've discovered this year that didn't come out in 2019. It's basically like Top Of The Pops but with way more music from the former USSR...To explain how the voting

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59:48

We Dig Music - Series 3 Episode 1 - Ahab & A-ha

We Dig Music ·

2019/11/25

Series 3 is here! and we're starting it with a particularly European flavour! This month we'll be talking about the surprisingly melodic German Funeral Doom whale botherers Ahab and Scandinavian 80s pop legends A-Ha! As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be jabbering about overuse of Fairlight Synthesizers ruining original versions of amazing songs, Hasselhoff/Ocean confusion, and wondering why indie bands don't usually tend to write many elaborate epic concept albums.Find all

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53:28

We Dig Music - Series 2 Episode 22 - Yo La Tengo & ZZ...

We Dig Music ·

2019/10/27

We've reached the end of the alphabet and therefore it's the final episode of series 2! It's also our 50th episode! This month we'll be talking about New Jersey's indie rock music nerd favourites Yo La Tengo & Texas's noisiest beardiest bluesiest boogie merchants ZZ Top! As usual we can never staymon topic for long so you also get to hear what may be Colin's worst dad joke yet, stories about ridiculous tour menageries and Tracey explains baseball. Find all available songs here -

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70:36

We Dig Music - Series 2 Episode 21 - The Wedding...

We Dig Music ·

2019/09/29

This month we travel to the 1980's bedsits of Leeds and the mean violence drenched streets of Shaolin where we'll be talking about perennial Peel favourites and indie legends The Wedding Present & Staton Island's biggest chess obsessed hip hop titans Wu-Tang Clan. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be talking about dan dan diggy de dan de dan, shocking plot twists abd "non violent hip hop like Cypress Hill"...Find all available songs here -

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56:07

BONUS CONTENT!!! Free With This Months Issue/We Dig...

We Dig Music ·

2019/09/15

Surprise! this isn't a We Dig Music episode, this is Colin & Ian's other podcast "Free With This Month's Issue"! a podcast where Colin & Ian plus a different guest each month listen to a free covermount cd from an old music magazine such as Melody Maker, NME, Mojo, Kerrang, Q, Metal Hammer, Uncut etc and uncover it's various horrors and delights. This particular month our guest is some indie loving woman called Tracey, who may sound familiar to you lot, so we thought some of you might want to hear

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72:42

We Dig Music - Series 2 Episode 20 - This Will...

We Dig Music ·

2019/08/25

After a short break (cos Colin's laptop broke) we're back! This month we spiral out & keep going to the letter T where we'll be talking about Texan post rockers This Will Destroy You & Californian prog metal alchemist mathematicians Tool. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be talking abut making post rock acceptable for 3 year olds, wanton destruction of pub floorboards, and musicians on hallucinogenics...Find all available songs here -

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74:23

We Dig Music - Series 2 Episode 19 - Best of 1999...

We Dig Music ·

2019/07/01

We're 2 years old (not literally, please don't close our Twitter account...) so in a break from our usual programming this month we have a VERY SPECIAL EPISODE for you all. It's a bit like our christmas/end of year episodes, but rather than being our favourite songs of the last year, this time we're going back in time for two full decades to the year 1999! To explain how the voting works, we each picked our 10 favourite songs of the year, then for each list we each ranked them 1-10 giving 10 points

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65:23

We Dig Music - Series 2 Episode 17 - Sunn O))) &...

We Dig Music ·

2019/05/26

This month we travel where boys fear to tread, all the way to the letter S where we'll be talking about Seattle's noisiest experimental drone sluts Sunn O))) and Billy Corgan's shiny headed alt rock guitar heroes Smashing Pumpkins. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so you can also hear Colin's ridiculous Black Metal vocals, Tracey not recognising multiple vocalists, infinite guitar overdubs and innapropriate stage divers.Find all available songs here -

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75:15

We Dig Music - Series 2 Episode 16 - Red House...

We Dig Music ·

2019/04/28

This episode it's the end of the world as we know it, but we feel fine cos it's the letter R and we're talking about California based sadcore miserabalists Red House Painters (and the other works of Mark Kozelek such as Sun Kil Moon) and Atlanta's finest college rock megstars R.E.M.. As usual we never stay on topic for long so we'll also be discussing techniques for avoidig Red Hot Chili Peppers, Concept albums about Lichfield, More "Yeah's" than Lithium & the world premier of the new hit game show

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64:52

We Dig Music - Series 2 Episode 16 - The Pastels &...

We Dig Music ·

2019/03/31

This episode we're either driving a truck, train, tractor or taking a walk to the letter P where we'll be rambling on about Scottish Indie (we don't care what you say Stephen) DIY pioneers The Pastels & Texas's finest cowboys from hell Pantera. As usual we never stay on topic for long so we'll also be discussing the disturbing parallels between Norwiegan Black Metal & C86 Scottish Indiepop, Genre Dysphoria & Terribly unconvincing convoluted and highly implausible excuses for bad behaviour.Find all

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71:44

We Dig Music - Series 2 Episode 15 - Opeth & Oasis

We Dig Music ·

2019/02/17

Surprise! you get this episode a whole week early as Colin & Ian are off to Poland to see Laibach next week! It's February and we're at the letter O so this time we'll be discussing (and in one bands case, arguing slightly) about Swedish Prog metal behemoths Opeth and Mancunian everyone plagiarists Oasis. There's a LOT of very rude words in this episode so possibly best not to listen to when you're with your granny, local vicar or any sensitive members of Oasis. Obviously as usual we never stay on

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