Free With This Months Issue

This month Alison B, The Ex-zine editor joins us to talk about Kerrang Magazine's Super Summer Swinging Sounds from July 1999.

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
2 - Pitchshifter - Please Sir (Live in France)
3 - Pissing Razors - Box Life
4 - My Ruin - Sycophant
5 - Symposium - Killing Position (Quick Kill Edit)
6 - The Hellacopters - Alright Already Now
7 - Lit - Miserable
8 - Pennywise - Greed
9 - Feeder - Day In Day Out
10 - Skunk Anansie - King Psychotic Size
11 - The Crocketts - James Dean-esque
12 - Fungus - Monsters From Mars
13 - VAST - Here
14 - Anathema - Make It Right F.F.S.

You can find Alison on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bubblegumzinearchive/

Alison's zines and patches can be found and ordered here - https://ko-fi.com/exzineeditor/shop.

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You can buy a copy of the tape from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3557877-Various-Super-Summer-Swinging-Sounds

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
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For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue Gemma Williamson is back after 6 years for her 3rd appearance to discuss Smash Hits' 12 Slammin' Bangin' Hits tape from May 1996.

The cassette's tracklisting is

1 - TLC - Creep '96
2 - Michelle Gayle - Freedom (Classic Expo Mix)
3 - SWV - Anything (Old Skool Mix ft U-God, Ol' Dirty Bastard, & Method Man (mislabelled on tape as I'm So Into You)
4 - Benz - Where's The Party?
5 - Ivan Matias - Your Love Has Gone Away
6 - Sleeper - What Do I Do Now?
7 - The Wannadies - You & Me Song
8 - Out Of My Hair - Safeboy
9 - 60 Ft Dolls - Stay
10 - Duffy - Sugar High
11 - Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)
12 - Deborah Cox - Who Do U Love

Find details of Crafted Words CIC, The organisation Gemma helps run which is all about creativity & mental health on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/craftedwordscic/ You can find details of their callout for winter zine submissions here - https://craftedwordscic.blogspot.com/2025/09/winter-zine-call-out-hard-times-healing.html

The brilliant Top Of The Pops: A Zombie Whodunnit zine Colin mentioned in the episode (and other excellent zines by next months guest Alison) can be found and ordered here - https://ko-fi.com/exzineeditor/shop

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You can buy a copy of the tape from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/7832220-Various-12-Slammin-Bangin-Hits

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
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For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined by Dean Jennings to discuss Metal Hammer's Noise Inc Volume 2 from November 1999.

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Alice In Chains - Man In The Box
2 - Type O Negative - Everything Dies
3 - Moonspell - Butterfly FX
4 - Fear Factory - Descent
5 - Slipknot - Spit It Out
6 - Agnostic Front - Sickness
7 - Will Haven - If She Could Speak
8 - Meathook Seed - Elemental
9 - Cannibal Corpse - Pounded Into Dust
10 - Chaos Engine - 888 (One Bigger Than God)
11 - Konkhra - Godgiven
12 - Violent Ultra - Cyanide Smile
13 - Guano Apes - Wash It Down
14 - Rachel Stamp - Pink Skab
15 - Inger Lorre - She's Not Your Friend
16 - Luca Turilli - Black Dragon

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You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3084077-Various-Metal-Hammer-Noise-Inc-Volume-2

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts
Technical assistance by Dean Jennings

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For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined by Lisa Williams & Sarah Daniels to discuss Mojo's Sub Pop 300 cd from July 2008

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Green River - This Town
2 - Mudhoney - Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More
3 - Tad - Wood Goblins
4 - L7 - Shove
5 - Screaming Trees - Change Has Come
6 - Afghan Whigs - R*tarded
7 - Red Red Meat - Braindead
8 - Eric Matthews - Fanfare
9 - Iron & Wine - Southern Anthem
10 - The Shins - New Slang
11 - The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
12 - Kelley Stoltz - The Sun Comes Through
13 - Flight Of The Conchords - Bowie
14 - P*ssed Jeans - Caught Licking Leather
15 - No Age - Eraser

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You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/1400039-Various-Sub-Pop-300

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
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For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined by Gaz Jones from the Trve Cvlt Pop Podcast to discuss Kerrang's first ever free cd Radio Kerrang Volume 1 from March 1997.

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Korn - Introduction
2 - Aerosmith - Crash
3 - Machine Head - Ten Ton Hammer
4 - Whatever - Down On The Up
5 - Coal Chamber - Loco
6 - Entombed - Like This With The Devil
7 - Shihad - La La Land
8 - Live - Unsheathed
9 - Silverchair - The Door
10 - Kerbdog - Severed
11 - Cable - Souvenir
12 - My Own Victim - Colorblind
13 - 30 Amp Fuse - All Day Afternoon
14 - Stuck Mojo - Pigwalk
15 - Mindset - Delilah
16 - Jackie On Acid - Chrissy
17 - 3 Colours Red - The K! Challenge

You can find Gaz's excellent Trve Cvlt Pop podcast at https://pod.link/1646709997 or anywhere you get your podcasts.

Kerrang’s very funny deep dive on Coal Chamber's music video for Loco can be found here - https://www.kerrang.com/a-deep-dive-into-coal-chambers-video-for-loco

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You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3067193-Various-Radio-Kerrang-Vol1

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
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For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined by Sarah Daniels & Lisa Williams to discuss Melody Maker's New Kids On The Rock cd from October 1999

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Feeder - Insomnia
2 - Queens Of The Stone Age - If Only
3 - Fear Factory - Edgecrusher
4 - Coal Chamber - Tragedy
5 - Machine Head - From This Day
6 - Slipknot - Spit It Out
7 - Lit - Quicksand
8 - Cyclefly - Crawl Down
9 - A - Monkey Kong
10 - Clam Abuse - Message To Geri
11 - Buckcherry - Dead Again

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You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/1679730-Various-New-Kids-On-The-Rock

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For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined by Hannah Oseland to talk about Metal Hammer's The Rock Machine 2001 Turns You On from April 2001

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Iommi (Ft Henry Rollins) - Laughing Man (In The Devil Mask)
2 - Amen - Room Of Ruin
3 - Sunna - Guinea Pig People
4 - At The Drive-In - Guinea Pig People
5 - Godhead - Break You Down
6 - Slaves On Dope - Thanks For Nothin'
7 - A Perfect Circle - Magdalena (Live From Phoenix)
8 - Vex Red - Can't Smile (Demo)
9 - Bare Jr - If You Choose Me
10 - Snot - Absent
11 - Crackout - Joey Lost His Mind
12 - Placebo - Evil Dildo

You can watch the At The Drive In TV Advert which was on the enhanced section of the cd here - https://youtu.be/0QAmZKh4GW0?si=bdWMyb8l2tiefQib

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You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/2738806-Various-The-Rock-Machine-2001-Turns-You-On?srsltid=AfmBOopKtMXF-rWcd5Qb2v7gLyBiw4GonK5ZswkRj2sLl4vekyHWs9YH

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
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For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined by Bill Cummings from God Is In The TV Zine & the Show Me Magic podcast to discuss Q Magazine's Essential Chill out from November 2000. 

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Moby - Novio
2 - Groove Armada - At The River (Radio Edit)
3 - Kinobe Ft Ben & Jason - Slip Into Something... (Radio Edit)
4 - Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
5 - John Martyn - Solid Air
6 - Underworld - Push Downstairs
7 - Moloko - Sing It Back (Album Version)
8 - Oasis - Half The World Away
9 - Nick Drake - River Man
10 - Grandaddy - Underneath The Weeping Willow
11 - Garbage - Milk (The Classic Mix by Massive Attack)
12 - Goldfrapp - Utopia
13 - Talk Talk - Inheritance
14 - Depeche Mode - Useless (The Kruder & Dorfmeister Session Edit)
15 - David Bowie - Art Decade
16 - Mercury Rev - Holes

You can find Bill's webzine here - https://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/ & his podcast Show Me Magic here - https://pod.link/1522302142

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You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/140416-Various-Essential-Chill-Out?srsltid=AfmBOopNZo8qjh-bm7-kZiFy35B1q0g44Kn84pgFDNQrdRGhEmOqumsR

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For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined for the first time by Sam Stokes, who hosts the Den Of Ten, Reel Talk, & One Rules Them All podcasts on the Film Stories Network to discuss Kerrang's Kerrang Awards 2005: The Nominees CD from August 2005

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Foo Fighters - Free Me
2 - Funeral For A Friend - Recovery
3 - Green Day - She's A Rebel
4 - Towers Of London - Fuck It Up
5 - Stereophonics - Doorman
6 - My Chemical Romance - Thank You For The Venom
7 - Trivium - Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr
8 - Lordi - The Devil Is A Loser
9 - Still Remains - The Worst Is Yet To Come
10 - Bullet For My Valentine - Her Voice Resides (Live)
11 - Slipknot - The Blister Exists (Live)
12 - Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine Fix
13 - Fightstar - Palahniuk's Laughter
14 - Avenged Sevenfold - Trashed & Scattered
15 - Eighteen Visions - I Let Go

Go listen to Sam's other podcasts!
Den Of Ten - a podcast where Sam & a different guest debate their top ten of anything from Alternative 80s songs to regional accents.
Reel Talk - where Sam & various guests discuss new movie releases.
& One Rules Them All - a Lord Of The Rings podcast Sam cohosts with Baz Greenland, although to be honest they aren't nearly critical enough about how annoying Tom Bombadil is in the books.

If you haven't seen the mighty misheard Trivium lyric video we reference in the episode then you can find it here.

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You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/2952041-Various-Kerrang-Awards-2005-The-Nominees

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For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined by our We Dig Podcasts brother Matt Latham from Pick A Disc to talk about NME’s Awards 2008 cd from February 2008.

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Manic Street Preachers - Umbrella (Originally by Rihanna)
2 - The Futureheads - A Picture Of Dorian Gray (Originally by Television Personalities)
3 - Lightspeed Champion - Back To Black (Originally by Amy Winehouse)
4 - CSS - Knife (Originally by Grizzly Bear)
5 - The Cribs - Modern Way (Originally by Kaiser Chiefs)
6 - Kaiser Chiefs - Golden SKans (Originally by Klaxons)
7 - The Kooks - Young Folks (Originally by Peter Bjorn & John)
8 - Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Whip It (Originally by Devo)
9 - Kate Nash - Mens Needs (Originally by The Cribs)
10 - My Chemical Romance - Song 2 (Originally by Blur)
11 - Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly - D.A.N.C.E. (Originally by Justice)
12 - The Wombats - Bleeding Love (Originally by Leona Lewis)
13 - Bloc Party - Say It Right (Originally by Nelly Furtado)
14 - The Ting Tings - Anyway I Can

The full televised 2008 NME Awards show is on Youtube in 3 parts. you can find part one here, part two here, and part three here. Disclaimer - Free With This Months Issue, We Dig Podcasts, & all associated parties take no responsibility for any damage caused as a result of yeeting your phone or computer, and/or other devices across the room due to the presence of James Corden.

Go listen to Matt's other podcasts. His music podcast Pick A Disc, where each episode a different guest (which, to be fair, is often Colin) picks an album to talk about.
Ask Us About Loom - a podcast about point & click adventure games & their legacy (think Monkey Island & Day of The Tentacle through to newer games like Life Is Strange & The Stanley Parable).
No Book Club, a podcast about the utterly brilliant tv series Yellowjackets which both series & podcast are due to return next month,
& Shipwrecked & Comatose, the Red Dwarf Podcast where both Colin & Matt, along with other previous FWTMI guests Kurt North, Mark Adams, & Carl Bryan make up the regular crew.

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You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/1262312-Various-NME-Awards-2008

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
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