Free With This Months Issue

To celebrate the We Made This podcast network's 5th birthday we're releasing a series of crossover episodes throughout the network this January. For this special bonus episode Kurt North from We Made This's X Files podcast The X-Cast joins us to talk about the 1996 compilation Songs In The Key Of X.

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Mark Snow - X-Files Theme (Extended)
2 - Soul Coughing - Unmarked Helicopters
3 - Sheryl Crow - On The Outside
4 - Foo Fighters - Down In The Park
5 - William S Burroughs & R.E.M. - Star Me Kitten
6 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
7 - Filter - Thanks Bro
8 - Frank Black - Man Of Steel
9 - Meat Puppets - Unexplained
10 - Danzig - Deep
11 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Frenzy
12 - Elvis Costello with Brian Eno - My Dark Life
13 - Rob Zombie & Alice Cooper - Hands Of Death (Burn Baby Burn)
14 - P.M. Dawn - If You Never Say Goodbye
15 - Mark Snow - X-Files Theme (P.M. Dawn Remix)
0 - Nick Cave & Dirty Three - Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum/X-Files Theme

Find The X-Cast here.

Find Kurt online here where you can find links to his social media and many podcasts including The aforementioned X-Cast, Shipwrecked And Comatose (a Red Dwarf Podcast which also features Colin & our previous guests Carl Bryan, Mark Adams, & Matt Latham), No Book Club (A podcast about the utterly brilliant recent tv series Yellowjackets - seriously, if you haven't watched Yellowjackets yet, go and watch it , after you've listened to our podcast, obviously...), The Time Is Now, (a podcast about the late 90s Occult detective show Millennium from the creators of The X Files), And Make It So (which is some kind of trekkie thing...)

He also has a brand new podcast called The Magic Box launching today, all about the massively influential cult series Lost which can be found at linktr.ee/TheMagicBoxPod

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/master/43593-Various-The-X-Files-Songs-In-The-Key-Of-X

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

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For episode 62 Birmingham's Most Rock & Roll Chef, Alex Claridge joins us again to discuss Mojo's Up Yours! Punk's Not Dead cd from March 2003.

The cd's tracklisting is -

1 - The Clash - 1977
2 - The Strokes - The Modern Age
3 - The Adverts - One Chord Wonders
4 - The Hives - Main Offender
5 - Vic Godard/Subway Sect - Ambition
6 - Hot Hot Heat - Get In Or Get Out
7 - Erase Errata - Tongue Tied
8 - X-Ray Spex - Identity
9 - The Hunches - Lisa Told Me
10 - Johnny Thunders - Chinese Rocks
11 - Part Chimp - Cover Me
12 - Undertones - True Confessions
13 - The Catheters - Pale Horse
14 - Sex Pistols - Submission
15 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Our Time
16 - Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
17 - ATV - Action Time Vision
18 - The Libertines - The Boy Looked At Johnny
19 - Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
20 - Sleater-Kinney - Combat Rock
21 - The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
22 - Mudhoney - Urban Guerilla
23 - The Damned - Neat, Neat, Neat
24 - The Warlocks - Caveman Rock
25 - Iggy & The Stooges - Search & Destroy
26 - Swearing At Motorists - Timing Is Everything

Go to Alex's restauranrt The Wilderness. you can book a table (a few months in advance!) for some amazing food here.

Also, look out for Alex's new restaurant, the amazingly named Albatros Death Cult opening in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter later this year.

Find Alex & The Wilderness on Instagram here and twitter here.

Buy a copy of the cd from discogs here.

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist.

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

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And just like that another year is over, so our old friend Leah Fitzsimmons joins us to talk about Mojo Magazine's Best of 2023 cd!

The tracklisting is -
1 - Young Fathers - Drum
2 - The Tubs - Round The Bend
3 - The Coral - Oceans Apart
4 - Anohni & The Johnsons - Scapegoat
5 - Lankum - Clear Away In The Morning
6 - Grian Chatten - All Of The People
7 - Julie Byrne - Portrait Of A Clear Day
8 - Wilco - Meant To Be
9 - Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Facetime (Ft Sam Herring)
10 - Rickie Lee Jones - Just In Time
11 - Jaimie Branch - Baba Louie
12 - Everything But The Girl - Run A Red Light
13 - BC Camplight - The Last Rotation Of Earth
14 - Slowdive - Shanty
15 - Robert Forster - Tender Years

Find Leah on Twitter here and watch her excellent TEDx Talk "How A Virus Everyone Has Is Helping To Cure Cancer" here. You can also visit the website of Moselele, the Ukelele group Leah plays with here.

You can buy a copy of this particular issue of Mojo with the cd here - https://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/latest-issues/mojo-362-january-2024-the-beatles/

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/28855705-Various-The-Best-Of-2023

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

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For episode 60 it's a special episode on the actual greatest band in the universe (The Cure, obviously), to celebrate our guest's new book, Curepedia - An A-Z Of The Cure which is out now! This month music journalist, author, DJ, & podcaster Simon Price joins us to talk about Mojo Magazine's Why Can't I Be You, a cd of Cure covers from January 2021. Simon is another of the music journalists who's work Colin grew up reading in Melody Maker, and is now a member of the Chart Music podcast team along with our previous guest Neil Kulkarni.

The cd's full tracklisting is -
1 - Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven
2 - The Wedding Present - High
3 - Luna - Fire In Cairo
4 - Frankie Rose - Play For Today
5 - Phoebe Bridgers - Friday I'm In Love (Recorded At Spotify Studios NYC)
6 - A.A. Williams - Lovesong
7 - Cowboy Junkies - Seventeen Seconds
8 - Tricky - The Love Cats
9 - Akala - I Don't Know
10 - Strange As Angels - The Walk
11 - The Separate Ft Mark Lanegan - Close To Me
12 - Liela Moss - Prayers For Rain
13 - 8:58 Ft The Unthanks - A Forest
14 - Woodpigeon - Lullaby
15 - Nadja - Faith

Simon's epic new book Curepedia - an A-Z of The Cure is out now and can be bought in all good bookshops and online here - https://geni.us/Curepedia

You can find links to all of Simon's writing and other work here - https://linktr.ee/simonprice

Find the utterly amazing Chart Music podcast (also known as Colin's favourite ever podcast) at https://chartmusiccouk.wordpress.com/ or at pod.link/1225229780

If you're anywhere near Brighton and dig music of an alternative 80s persuasion then Simon's club night Spellbound takes place on the third saturday of every month at Komedia.

Plus if you want EVEN MORE Cure & Cure related music (and why would you not?) then Simon's made a spotify playlist of his DJ set from the book launch for Curepedia which can be found here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/250akLsTIYBLEdiBX921Cd?si=7c651defc7bb40eb

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/17142433-Various-Why-Cant-I-Be-You-Mojo-Presents-A-Tribute-To-The-Cure

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

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Steven from Kerrang Back Issues joins us again for the second of two weekly episodes to talk about Kerrang's Supersonic tapes from October 1996. This week it's Supersonic Volume two from exactly 27 years ago.

The tape's full tracklisting is -
1 –Ash - Hulk Hogan's Bubble Bath (Live)
2 - Reef - I Would Have Left You
3 - Paradise Lost - Embers Fire (Live)
4 - Floodgate - Till My Soil
5 - NY Loose - Detonator
6 - The Dawn - Losing Streak
7 - Type O Negative - Black No 1 (Little Miss Scare-All) (US Studio Edit)
8 - Pist.On - Grey Flap
9 - Imperial Drag - Breakfast By Tiger (Kiss It All Goodbye)
10 - Imperial Teen - Imperial Teen
11 - dBh - Reduced
12 - The Driven - Devil

Find all the previous episodes of Kerrang Back Issues at https://anchor.fm/kerrang and follow Steven on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/kerrangbackissues/

you can find the corresponsing episode of Kerrang Back Issues talking about this particular issue of Kerrang here - https://pod.link/1548101393/episode/1aefe961e33133670df626f73225bca6

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

buy a copy of the tape on discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3165853-Various-Supersonic-Volume-Two

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

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As an extra special treat this month Steven from Kerrang Back Issues joins us for the first of two weekly episodes to talk about Kerrang's Supersonic tapes from October 1996. This week it's Supersonic Volume one from exactly 27 years ago.

The tape's full tracklisting is -
1 –Kerbdog - On The Turn
2 - Symposium - Disappear
3 - Lodestar - Wait A Minute
4 - Crazy Gods Of Endless Noise - Razor Baby
5 - Feeder - Shade
6 - Joyrider - Fabulae
7 - Korn - Good God
8 - Corrosion Of Conformity - Man Or Ash
9 - Cathedral - Suicide Asteroid
10 - Dub War - Enemy Maker
11 - Sponge - I Am Anastasia
12 - Moby - Soft

Find all the previous episodes of Kerrang Back Issues at https://anchor.fm/kerrang and follow Steven on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/kerrangbackissues/

you can find the corresponsing episode of Kerrang Back Issues talking about this particular issue of Kerrang here - https://pod.link/1548101393/episode/62753ec275dcab0a5a1b2f8600659fed

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

buy a copy of the tape on discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3166083-Various-Supersonic-Volume-One

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

Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

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For episode 57 we're joined by Caroline Cawley who's the singer and guitarist for Dystopian Future Movies (who listeners to our other podcast We Dig Music will be very familiar with as they've been voted our song of the year for both 2022 & 2022, a feat only equalled by The Cure!) She's also a one of the vocalists (& tambourine virtuoso) for Church Of The Cosmic Skull. The CD she's chosen for us to discuss this month isVox Magazine's Class of 96 from October 1996.

The cd's full tracklisting is -
1 - Suede - Trash
2 - Kula Shaker - Smart Dogs
3 - Dodgy - If You're Thinking Of Me (FPS2 Lovesick Mix)
4 - Ash - Oh Yeah
5 - Mansun - Things Keep Falling Of Buildings
6 - Tiger - Icicle
7 - Geneva - No One Speaks
8 - The Divine Comedy - Woman Of The World
9 - Space - Money (Lost In Space Mix)
10 - Super Furry Animals - Hometown Unicorn
11 - Tricky -Chistiansands (Imposter Mix)

Go listen to Dystopian Future Movies (and buy their records, gig tickets & merch) at www.dystopianfuturemovies.com
Likewise, do the same with Church Of The Cosmic Skull at https://cosmicskull.org/

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/1357896-Various-Class-Of-96

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts
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For episode 56 we're joined by music journalist, musician, & podcaster Neil Kulkarni, who's written for Melody Maker, DJ mag, Uncut, Kerrang, Metal Hammer, Plan B, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Terrorizer & The Quietus, and is a regular member of the mighty Chart Music podcast team. The CD we're discussing this month is Uncut Magazine's 4ad records sampler from November 1998.

The cd's full tracklisting is -
1 - Pixies - Debaser
2 - Lush - Hypocrite
3 - Mojave 3 - Go Lady Go
4 - Tanya Donelly - Lantern
5 - His Name Is Alive - Wishing Ring
6 - Throwing Muses - Mania
7 - This Mortal Coil - You And Your Sister
8 - Thievery Corporation - Shaolin Satellite
9 - Gus Gus* - Barry (Gi Gi Galaxy Remix Edit)
10 - Cuba - Urban Light (12am)
11 - Colourbox - Unofficial World Cup Theme
12 - The Breeders - Saints
13 - The Birthday Party - Big Jesus Trash Can
14 - Lisa Germano - Tomorrowing
15 - Red House Painters - New Jersey
16 - Kristin Hersh - Your Ghost
17 - Dead Can Dance - American Dreaming (live)
18 - The Hope Blister - Sweet Unknown
19 - Cocteau Twins - Pearly Dewdrops' Drops (7" Version)

Find Neil's substack where he shares lots of his writing at https://neilk.substack.com/
plus his articles on The Quietus can be found here - https://thequietus.com/users/5098

Find the utterly amazing Chart Music podcast (also known as Colin's favourite ever podcast) at https://chartmusiccouk.wordpress.com/ or at pod.link/1225229780

Plus if you're quick enough there are still a small number of tickets left for the 2nd ever Chart Music Live at The London Podcast Festival on Saturday September 16th 2023. You can get Tickets here - https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/chart-music-the-totp-podcast-2/. Already got our tickets so we'll see you there!

You can listen to Neil's band The Moonbears and buy their latest album "Four Sides For Red" here - https://themoonbears.bandcamp.com/album/four-sides-for-red-2

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/785938-Various-4AD

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

Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

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Steven from Kerrang Back Issues joins us again to talk about Rare (Because Kerrang! Cares) from October 1995.

The tape's full tracklisting is -
1 –Reef - Repulsive
2 - Skyscraper - Lovesick
3 - Machine Head - Hard Times
4 - Fear Factory - Your Mistake
5 - Carcass - Generation Hexed (Battery Rough Mix)
6 - Monster Magnet - Dead Christmas
7 - Rub Ultra - Suspend Your Belief
8 - Silverchair - Undecided
9 - Dog Eat Dog - No Fronts (Clean Greene Mix)
10 - Shelter - Civilised Man
11 - Hagfish - Minit Maid
12 - Catherine Wheel - Little Muscle
13 - Whale - I Miss Me
14 - Paw - Hope I Die Tonight

Find all the previous episodes of Kerrang Back Issues at https://anchor.fm/kerrang and follow Steven on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/kerrangbackissues/

you can find the corresponsing episode of Kerrang Back Issues talking about this particular issue of Kerrang here - https://pod.link/1548101393/episode/5d90950da2fd6837b2029fdd091e3f1a

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

buy a copy of the tape on discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3083765-Various-Rare-Because-Kerrang-Cares

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

Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

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For episode 54 we're joined again by Charlotte Lombardi-Whitehouse to talk about Q Magazine's Best Of The Best - 2017 In Music from January 2018.

The cd's full tracklisting is -
1 - Morrissey - I Wish You Lonely
2 - Liam Gallagher - I've All I Need
3 - Stormzy - Big For Your Boots
4 - Dizzee Rascal - Space
5 - Sleaford Mods - Just Like We Do
6 - Gorillaz - Saturnz Barz
7 - Forest Swords - The Highest Flood
8 - St. Vincent - Pills
9 - Father John Misty - Total Entertainment Forever
10 - Kevin Morby - Downtown's Lights
11 - Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses
12 - LCD Soundsystem - Oh Baby
13 - Jane Weaver - The Lightning Back
14 - Alt-J - 3WW
15 - The Horrors - Press Enter To Exit

Follow Shar on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/__cnlw/

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/11168965-Various-Q-Presents-Best-Of-The-Best

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

Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network

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