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 ...
Nov 27, 2022•2 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 85
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, & Whatever the hell Scott Walker was doing at that point. 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 fro...
Oct 30, 2022•2 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 10
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, War Of The Ether, ethereal Icelandic soundscaper Sóley's Mother Melancholia, & eclectic Scottish doom outlaw Teethgrynder's Hostages. We also discuss recent gigs by CLT DRP, ArcTanGent festival, Tracey's recent foray into witchcraft, & giant pork balls.....
Sep 25, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 5Ep. 84
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 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...
Aug 28, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Season 5Ep. 83
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 ...
Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 57 min•Season 5Ep. 82
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 time Tracey has chosen Liverpool's finest early 80s psychedelic post punkers The Teardrop Explodes (Featuring our hometown hero Julian Cope) and their classic 1980 debut Kilimanjaro. Ian has picked Swedish post punk dog enthusiasts Viagra Boys and their amazin...
Jun 26, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 5Ep. 81
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 secret love of krautrock. 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 o...
May 29, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 5Ep. 80
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 protest anthems, Tracey's assassination attempts on late 80s Stourbridge based indie bands, and lots and lots of Disco. 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 distribu...
Apr 24, 2022•2 hr 20 min•Season 5Ep. 79
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 time are inspired by bands we've discussed over the last few episodes and while all three albums are very different, there are definitely similar themes throughout them (mainly them all being a bit goth). Colin has chosen American Alt rock supergroup A Perfect ...
Mar 27, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 5Ep. 78
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 instruments fashioned from root vegetables, uttery brilliant but thoroughly depressing movies, & we speculate whether Thom Yorke was turning up at every recording studio in the world in 2000. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent the...
Feb 27, 2022•2 hr 16 min•Season 5Ep. 77
This month we're travelling back 40 years to 1982, the year Colin was born, where we hang out with E.T. & Elliott, Play Choplifter on the Commodore 64, & eat Vienetta. We'll also be talking about Tipper Gore & The PMRC, lawsuits triggered by quiz shows, epic amounts of goth or goth adjacent music, and Colin & Ian explain to Tracey that 1978 IS NOT 1982!!! 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 an...
Jan 30, 2022•2 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 76
So, 2021 nears it's end and it's been another weird one, but again a brilliant year for music. We even had a few opportunities to see actual live music this year! Here's our traditional best of the year episode! 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 pref...
Dec 19, 2021•2 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 75
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 o...
Nov 28, 2021•2 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 74
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 b...
Oct 31, 2021•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 73
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 massi...
Sep 26, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 72
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 gi...
Aug 29, 2021•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 71
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, ...
Jul 25, 2021•2 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 70
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” W...
Jun 27, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 69
This month we've left the 60's behind and leapt forward to 1979 where we've been watching Alien & The Muppet Movie at the cinema, eating the first McDonalds Happy Meals & listening to all of these songs on newly introduced Sony Walkmans (walkmen?) . We've also been talking about unexpected Bill Bailey, the worlds first gothic spelling bee, & Kate Pierson's spectacular marine animal impressions. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Ian's wife Lydi...
May 30, 2021•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 68
We're back to our time travelling shenanigans and have warped all the way back through time to 1968 where we've been protesting the Vietnam war, appearing as extras in George Romero's Night Of The Living Dead & hanging out with The Grateful Dead in Haight Ashbury. We've also been talking about Dog bothering Jazz, Prog gigs in Yorkshire steel mills, & Dumbledore's soggy gateaux. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Ian's wife Lydia, who put the playli...
Apr 25, 2021•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 67
We're taking a break from our time travelling music charts this month for a slightly more relaxed episode where we're each talking about an album we've been listening to a lot over the last few months. Colin has chosen Ben Christopher's electronic tinged alt rock 1999 debut "My Beautiful Demon", Tracey has chosen Adrianne Lenker's indie folk double album "Songs/Instrumentals" from 2020 & Ian's chosen Ghostpoet's dystopian alternative trip hop record "I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep (Ag...
Mar 28, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 66
We've left 1985 behind and blasted forward through time to 2007 where we've been watching Spiderman 3 while queuing up to get our savings out of our Northern Rock bank accounts. We've also been talking about whether KT Tunstall is really as bad as Tracey previously thought, If rollerboots are cool or not, and whether Trent Reznor is a witch. 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 ...
Feb 28, 2021•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 65
It's 2021! But not for your intrepid We Dig Music crew. We've stolen Doc Emmet Brown's DMC DeLorean and gone back to 1985 where we've been riding around in Sinclair C5's, wearing ridiculous baggy suits, and watching Live Aid on telly. We've also been talking about songs that sound like Adam Ant at the wrong speed, Guitars that sound like pointy spiders, & Electro classics performed in sadly missed Birmingham toy shops. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over t...
Jan 31, 2021•1 hr 56 min•Season 1Ep. 64
2020! It's been a strange one. We may not have had many gigs to go to but there's been some absolutely brilliant music helping us all through, so, as with every year, here's our annual best of the year episode! Over the next 2 hours (Longest episode yet!) we'll count down our favourite 30 songs of the year, plus we'll also discuss songs we've discovered this year that weren't released in 2020, and a few songs that narrowly missed out on being included. We've changed the voting system a little th...
Dec 20, 2020•2 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 63
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 no...
Nov 07, 2020•1 min•Season 1Ep. 62
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 wher...
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 61
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...
Jul 26, 2020•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 60
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 music To explain how the vot...
Jun 28, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 59
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...
May 31, 2020•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 58
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 - https://open.spotify.com/playl...
Apr 26, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 57
