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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 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 fr...

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 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...

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 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 p...

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 introduced to him by Tracey. Tracey has picked *shels' 2011 post metal epic Plains Of The Purple Buffalo which Ian introduced her to, and Ian has chosen Monster Mag...

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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 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 so...

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 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, al...

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 submitting doom metal songs almost as long as the rest of the playlist put together. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's...

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 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 s...

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 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 hos...

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 Volume 3, a collection of songs by the legendary Texan country singer songwriter reinterpreted by Cave In, Amenra, & Marissa Nadler, and Colin has chosen the...

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 or lack thereof and why it’s totally ok for drunk guys to carry boxes for them. Go listen to Bloodywood and buy their records and gig tickets (and T-shirts with m...

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 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 th...

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 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...

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 Punk storytellers Enablers, and Tracey has picked this years debut record Rest Lurks by Lichen Slow, the new project from Malcolm Middleton (from Arab Strap) &...

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 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 ot...

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 battle arena to fight for supremacy. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists togeth...

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 20th Anniversary this month. Tracey has chosen Glasgow alt rock band Cloth's self titled 2020 debut record, And Ian has chosen ambient legend Brian Eno's most...

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 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 playli...

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 both the longest, & shortedt songs we've ever had on any of our playlists. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's...

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 it to 10 each, but that would have taken even longer for Colin to edit so thankfully we kept it to 10... We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and...

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 dis...

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...

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 g...

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...