Free With This Months Issue 80 - Gemma Williamson picks Smash Hits 12 Slammin' Bangin' Hits

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 is1 - TLC - Creep '962 - 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 Away6 - Sleeper - What Do I Do Now?7 - The Wannadies - You & Me Song8 - Out Of My Hair - Safeboy9 - 60 Ft Dolls - Stay10 - Duffy - Sugar High11 - Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)12 - Deborah Cox - Who Do U LoveFind 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.htmlThe 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/shopListen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2QYou can buy a copy of the tape from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/7832220-Various-12-Slammin-Bangin-HitsHosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig PodcastsBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thismonthsissue.bsky.socialTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes, plus We Dig Music & Pick A Disc at www.wedigpodcasts.com

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 is1 - Alice In Chains - Man In The Box2 - Type O Negative - Everything Dies3 - Moonspell - Butterfly FX4 - Fear Factory - Descent5 - Slipknot - Spit It Out6 - Agnostic Front - Sickness7 - Will Haven - If She Could Speak8 - Meathook Seed - Elemental9 - Cannibal Corpse - Pounded Into Dust10 - Chaos Engine - 888 (One Bigger Than God)11 - Konkhra - Godgiven12 - Violent Ultra - Cyanide Smile13 - Guano Apes - Wash It Down14 - Rachel Stamp - Pink Skab15 - Inger Lorre - She's Not Your Friend16 - Luca Turilli - Black DragonListen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2QYou can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3084077-Various-Metal-Hammer-Noise-Inc-Volume-2Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig PodcastsTechnical assistance by Dean JenningsBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thismonthsissue.bsky.socialTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes, plus We Dig Music & Pick A Disc at www.wedigpodcasts.com

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 2008The cd's tracklisting is1 - Green River - This Town2 - Mudhoney - Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More3 - Tad - Wood Goblins4 - L7 - Shove5 - Screaming Trees - Change Has Come6 - Afghan Whigs - R*tarded7 - Red Red Meat - Braindead8 - Eric Matthews - Fanfare9 - Iron & Wine - Southern Anthem10 - The Shins - New Slang11 - The Postal Service - Such Great Heights12 - Kelley Stoltz - The Sun Comes Through13 - Flight Of The Conchords - Bowie14 - P*ssed Jeans - Caught Licking Leather15 - No Age - EraserListen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2QYou 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-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig PodcastsBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thismonthsissue.bsky.socialTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes, plus We Dig Music & Pick A Disc at www.wedigpodcasts.com

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 is1 - Korn - Introduction2 - Aerosmith - Crash3 - Machine Head - Ten Ton Hammer4 - Whatever - Down On The Up5 - Coal Chamber - Loco6 - Entombed - Like This With The Devil7 - Shihad - La La Land8 - Live - Unsheathed9 - Silverchair - The Door10 - Kerbdog - Severed11 - Cable - Souvenir12 - My Own Victim - Colorblind13 - 30 Amp Fuse - All Day Afternoon14 - Stuck Mojo - Pigwalk15 - Mindset - Delilah 16 - Jackie On Acid - Chrissy17 - 3 Colours Red - The K! ChallengeYou 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-locoListen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2QYou can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3067193-Various-Radio-Kerrang-Vol1Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig PodcastsBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thismonthsissue.bsky.socialTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes, plus We Dig Music & Pick A Disc at www.wedigpodcasts.com

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 1999The cd's tracklisting is1 - Feeder - Insomnia2 - Queens Of The Stone Age - If Only3 - Fear Factory - Edgecrusher4 - Coal Chamber - Tragedy5 - Machine Head - From This Day6 - Slipknot - Spit It Out7 - Lit - Quicksand8 - Cyclefly - Crawl Down9 - A - Monkey Kong10 - Clam Abuse - Message To Geri11 - Buckcherry - Dead AgainListen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2QYou can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/1679730-Various-New-Kids-On-The-RockHosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig PodcastsBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thismonthsissue.bsky.socialTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes, plus We Dig Music & Pick A Disc at www.wedigpodcasts.com

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 is1 - Iommi (Ft Henry Rollins) - Laughing Man (In The Devil Mask)2 - Amen - Room Of Ruin3 - Sunna - Guinea Pig People4 - At The Drive-In - Guinea Pig People5 - Godhead - Break You Down6 - 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 Me10 - Snot - Absent11 - Crackout - Joey Lost His Mind12 - Placebo - Evil DildoYou can watch the At The Drive In TV Advert which was on the enhanced section of the cd here - https://youtu.be/0QAmZKh4GW0?si=bdWMyb8l2tiefQibListen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2QYou 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-rWcd5Qb2v7gLyBiw4GonK5ZswkRj2sLl4vekyHWs9YHHosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig PodcastsBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thismonthsissue.bsky.socialTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes, plus We Dig Music & Pick A Disc at www.wedigpodcasts.com

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 is1 - Moby - Novio2 - 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 Air6 - Underworld - Push Downstairs7 - Moloko - Sing It Back (Album Version)8 - Oasis - Half The World Away9 - Nick Drake - River Man10 - Grandaddy - Underneath The Weeping Willow11 - Garbage - Milk (The Classic Mix by Massive Attack)12 - Goldfrapp - Utopia13 - Talk Talk - Inheritance 14 - Depeche Mode - Useless (The Kruder & Dorfmeister Session Edit)15 - David Bowie - Art Decade16 - Mercury Rev - Holes You can find Bill's webzine here - https://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/ & his podcast Show Me Magic here - https://pod.link/1522302142Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2QYou can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/140416-Various-Essential-Chill-Out?srsltid=AfmBOopNZo8qjh-bm7-kZiFy35B1q0g44Kn84pgFDNQrdRGhEmOqumsRHosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig PodcastsBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thismonthsissue.bsky.socialTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes, plus We Dig Music & Pick A Disc at www.wedigpodcasts.com

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 2005The cd's tracklisting is1 - Foo Fighters - Free Me2 - Funeral For A Friend - Recovery3 - Green Day - She's A Rebel4 - Towers Of London - Fuck It Up5 - Stereophonics - Doorman6 - My Chemical Romance - Thank You For The Venom7 - Trivium - Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr8 - Lordi - The Devil Is A Loser9 - Still Remains - The Worst Is Yet To Come10 - Bullet For My Valentine - Her Voice Resides (Live)11 - Slipknot - The Blister Exists (Live)12 - Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine Fix 13 - Fightstar - Palahniuk's Laughter14 - Avenged Sevenfold - Trashed & Scattered15 - Eighteen Visions - I Let GoGo 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.Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2QYou can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/2952041-Various-Kerrang-Awards-2005-The-NomineesHosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig PodcastsBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thismonthsissue.bsky.socialInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes, plus We Dig Music & Pick A Disc at www.wedigpodcasts.com

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 is1 - 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.Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2QYou can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/1262312-Various-NME-Awards-2008Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig PodcastsBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thismonthsissue.bsky.socialInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/ Find our other episodes, plus We Dig Music & Pick A Disc at www.wedigpodcasts.com

For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined again by Bo Nicholson from the Movieversaries & Academy Watch podcaststo talk about Uncut Magazine's best of 2024 cd which at the time of recording is still the current issue in the shops.The cd's tracklisting is1 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God2 - Fontaines DC - Death Kink3 - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Empty Trainload Of Sky4 - Jack White - Thats How I'm Feeling5 - Mabe Fratti - Kravitz6 - Richard Thompson - Freeze7 - Beth Gibbons - Reaching Out8 - The Smile - Read The Room9 - Christopher Owens - Beautiful Horses10 - Grandaddy - Nothin' To Lose11 - BASIC - New Auspicious12 - Bill Ryder-Jones - If Tomorrow Starts Without Me13 - Still House Plants - M M M14 - BEAK> - Hungry Are We15 - Sarah Davachi - Night Horns (Edit)Go listen to Bo's podcast's Movieversaries (a podcast celebrating classic anniversaries of movies having a significant anniversary that year, so we're very much looking forward to episodes on Son Of The Mask & Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo in 2025 then!), and Academy Watch(which is a podcast all about analysing and predicting the Oscar results).Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2QYou can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/32230929-Various-The-Sound-Of-2024Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig PodcastsPart of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network Twitter – https://twitter.com/thismonthsissue Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/ Find our other episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com Find other We Made This shows & writing at www.wemadethisnetwork.com