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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 from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She 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!) - Aerosmith, Banbarra, Black Sabbath, Burning Spear, Glen Campbell, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Foghat, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Emmylou Harris, The Hollies, KC & The Sunshine Band, Kiss, Fela Kuti & Afrika 70, Willie Nelson, The Outlaws, Pink FLoyd, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, Paul SImon, Patti Smith, Sparks, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Television, The Tubes, Van Der Graaf Generator, The Walker Brothers, War, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, and Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention featuring Captain Beefheart.

Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2juBbBjb0YxzF6VMAvNIEi?si=4334ba0599c44034

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 (which need updating but I plan on doing them over the next month or so), 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 – Helen Jackson-Brown
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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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 hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She 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!) - American Music Club, Billy Bragg, Curve, Cypress Hill, Dinosaur Jr, Extreme, The Field Mice, Guns N Roses, Chesney Hawkes, Ice-T, Mercury Rev, Metallica, Monster Magnet, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Orbital, Primus, R.E.M., Scorpions, Sepultura, Shudder To Think, Slint, The SMashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, SPin Doctors, Teenage Fanclub, The Telescopes, Temple Of The Dog, A Tribe Called Quest Ft Leaders Of The New School, & The Wedding Present

Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5XhJtoJjmZC9DLNh2lQqCL?si=6c98c73fd7dd480b

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 – Helen Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.

Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with Free With This Months Issue & Pick A Disc.

Twitter – https://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wedigpusicpcast/
Find our other episodes & podcasts at www.wedigpodcasts.com 

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 soundtrack to the 1998 glam rock movie Velvet Goldmine featuring an array of both original 70s Glam legends such as Roxy Music & Lou Reed and 90s alternative acts like Pulp & Placebo pretending to be 70s Glam legends.

You can find the Tortoise album here - https://open.spotify.com/album/1AmtXhIDwENPsR1qzdoq3Q?si=pXrEAo7_TYmJV47_5mlDqw

and Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Volume 3 is here - https://open.spotify.com/album/0yfy88SQOZaMo5bQXnkaqv?si=9B56xI4YSmazfjvr15HuSg

The Velvet Goldmine soundtrack isn't on spotify but you can get a copy on Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/442619-Various-Velvet-Goldmine-Music-From-The-Original-Motion-Picture

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

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This time our alphabetical musical meanderings bring us to the letter G so we'll be talking about fancy musical Hodor John Grant and Los Angeles' finest glam metal detectives Guns N Roses. As usual, we never stay on topic for long so along with this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us conversing around the topics of Jesus's fear of hidden instruments, Inappropriate soundtracks for dentistry and how to tell if you might be Axl Rose...

Listen to the songs in full here - https://open.spotify.com/user/newpathstohelicon/playlist/3h2worSg7ndjh2bhfMPiLu

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This time our alphabetical musical adventures go from one extreme to the other with the letter "F" so we'll be discussing Los Angeles' finest sci-fi industrial metalheads Fear Factory and transatlantic pop rock legends Fleetwood Mac. As usual, we rabbit on about all sorts of things so along with this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us blathering on about the German pop charts of the mid 1990s, David Cameron's favourite remix of a death metal classic and we also have a public service announcement about the dangers of religious cults...

Listen to the songs in full here - https://open.spotify.com/user/newpathstohelicon/playlist/5Sp5ol8WRwENO4Y3grCQcl

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This time our alphabetical musical quest is taking the time to chill out a bit as we reach the letter "E" so we'll be discussing Texan Post-Rockers Explosions In The Sky and Bury's friendliest band Elbow. As usual, we like to converse on a multitude of topics so in addition to this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us wittering on about Tracey's theory of "Boys Music", How one of us ended up on the credits to one of Elbows earlier albums and speculating whether Explosions In The Sky are secretly Motley Crue...

Listen to the songs in full here - https://open.spotify.com/user/newpathstohelicon/playlist/2lzatKEHEbt6zl9erzUQTA

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This time our alphabetical musical shenanigans wander vaguely towards the letter "D" so we'll be discussing Washington State's Indie nice guys Death Cab For Cutie and Basildon Stadium-Goth giants Depeche Mode. As usual, we can never stay on topic for long so in addition to this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us jabbering on about the pros and cons of Zooey Deschanel, unexpected industrial music in early 90s childrens TV shows and more examples of Colin's superhuman inability to pronounce people's names correctly (although this time it's not his fault dammit!)...

Listen to the songs in full here - https://open.spotify.com/user/newpathstohelicon/playlist/1fcZjipO6wCmCrPkCt8K4b

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This time our alphabetical musical journey strolls merrily along to the letter "B" so we'll be discussing New York Emo rockers Brand New and the legendary chameleon of pop, David Bowie. As usual, on our journey we'll be taking the scenic route to enable conversations about the correct and many incorrect ways of pronouncing "Bowie" (Hint - it's not booooowie), Whether it's possible to "get" emo if you were out of your teens before 1997 and whether David Bowie would have sided with the Autobots or the Decepticons...

Listen to the songs in full here - https://open.spotify.com/user/newpathstohelicon/playlist/7q4epJz5kh9ckSBVDLZ609

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This time it's our first proper episode, so we'll unsurprisingly be beginning our alphabetical musical journey at the letter "A" and discussing alcohol fuelled Scottish indie storytellers Arab Strap, and (fake) Australian kickass rock legends AC/DC. As usual, on our journey we'll be taking the scenic route to enable conversations about the preferred music format for extra terrestrial beings, Tracey repeatedly trying to change the subject to a completely different band and the curiously violent tale of Marilyn Manson's saliva...

Listen to (Most of) the songs in full here -
https://open.spotify.com/user/newpathstohelicon/playlist/3qy2m0GSfARuYElb4NWtVa

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Music discussion Podcast with 3 music geeks from the West Midlands.

This week it's our first ever episode so to get to know Colin, Tracey and Ian we'll be discussing our best/worst/last/first albums and gigs including discussions about the advantages of leather jackets in moshpits, Tracey's embarrassing easy listening past, whether 3rd rate Nu-Metallers Disturbed are an elaborate joke and how playing The Cure at high volume can stop co-workers from bothering you on valentines day.

Bands featured in this episode include The Cure, Refused, Blink 182, The Damned, Kings Of Leon, Avenged Sevenfold, Dean Friedman, Jenny Lewis, Bruce Dickinson, Oathbreaker, July Skies, Teenage Fanclub and loads more.