tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: new albums from Bob Vylan and The Black Keys, and last year’s next big thing Nothing But Thieves.
Also: Muse for beginners, is this good, sprinkle-free, deluxe additions, having a guy, wallowing in nostalgia as a business plan, two piece endpoints, some of the same words, the raw and the cooked, Arc’ing up, kitchen vibes vs humming metrics, arrested chavelopment, getting robbed, Rage funk covers, peculiar samples, two weeks of picks, (Bodega’s Version), Shirty the Slightly Aggressive Bear, labels getting twitchy and Doc’s list of albums that exist.

Next week: The Libertines | The Dandy Warhols | Tyla
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: final day permutations, three-way tiebreakers, nowhere to run, the Pacers’ turning point, handshake agreements, Houston might yet finish .500, bench punch, the future is in the future, Grayson Allen has an NBA skill, two old teams enter one old team ends, exporting your computer to America, Knicks positivity corner, Bucks negativity basement, Cavs continuity cul-de-sac, here’s the sex pestols, score-last point guards, senior pros, no chill Gil, all-NBA all the time, obvious tank jobs, sagging when everyone zags, the final day wins pool breakdown, the T20 world cup is going well, Erebus: nothing to see here and Geoff and Terry Baily Finance.

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This week: new albums from The Jesus and Mary Chain, Drunk Mums and Gesaffelstein.
Also: valiant pushes, random edit points, canefield circlework, the end of Splendour, does Kylie talk to kids, the Graun on festivals, the minimal viable product model of setlists, mind the gap, still chasin’ status, why FOMO can FO, reaction dependency, mic-clipping levels of disgust, both types of music, the irony of complaining about production on a podcast with bad production, I’m aware of tripping balls, being confidently wrong about the release date of an album, eating all your Easter eggs at once, entrenched in disco, navigating by McWhirters, settling your bets, zero alcohol beers, the Libertines moment and resetting your Release Radar.

Next week: Bob Vylan | The Black Keys | Nothing But Thieves
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: ice bath deep dives, turning a knob down*, sleepwalking to the playoffs, how do I explain that I have no external monologue, the Wayne Carey of baseball, all Wemby all the time, Western scrums, historic faithlessness, inadvisable tanking, has Bob Myers blocked Mike Dunleavy’s number yet, teams that will be better at playoff basketball than regular basketball, teams that will be the opposite of that, incredibly violent and not very talented, when the NHL puts it on their YouTube channel it’s hard to argue it’s not league-sanctioned, always bet on Ohtani, the Ballmer touch, a major major Basque sausage and Jay Vine’s improbable backstory.

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*Not down far enough in the case of Doc’s mic gain. Apols, we’ll do better.

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This week: new albums from Judas Priest, the Black Crowes and Talk Show.
Also: never knowingly oversold, 1980s metal panic, greatest bits, doing yourself proud, the Powderfinger of the NWOBHM, unserious thrash, easing the seat back, have we learned nothing, pencil case recommendations, you give legacy acts a bad name, Babylon tings, new country for old men, box-set stans, every album is a journey, don’t bore us get to the chorus, sinister funk, major international releases, finding your audience and sweet Carol Ryan.

Next week: The Jesus and Mary Chain | Drunk Mums | Gesaffelstein
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: the Rockets’ red glare, goodnight San Francisco, regicide, unnecessary runups, unwritten rules, the hot hand fallacy fallacy, someone has to be on NBA TV, recycled Heat storylines, I totally meant to do that: the Joe Mazzulla story, showing your working, Naz Reid Appreciation Night, is ‘charlataneous’ a word, the West Big 3, the Raps’ tactical tank, the worst month of NBA discourse, RIP G-League Ignite you were not quite good enough for this world, booing Delly, Boomers in Paris, the OKCystem, whither the white American NBA star, billionaire socialism, I’m still Wemby from the block, DPOY conversations, Olympic qualifying and jinxing the winzzzz pool.

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This week: old dogs, old tricks from Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Pulp fan fiction from Yard Act and SoCal fuzz from Meatbodies. Also: a message from our sponsored, unifying principles of Britpop, slipping into adult contemporary, more fluid than Jeff Beck, Wolfmother 4 Liverpool 3, live from the EPS, who needs lyrics, necessary psychedelia, lists of indeterminate length or purpose, the OWOBHM, the green zone, drinking for content and the ol’ check 1-2.

Next week: The Black Crowes | Judas Priest | Talk Show
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: in a Very Special Big Round Number Episode of the BALLS Podcast, Doc, Beeso and Adam draft the most significant sporting moments of our lifetimes.

If you want to help create more memories like this, donate to help Beeso’s Phillippines mixed open kids make it to the World Cup in Manchester this year.

Also: frontrunners versus lovable losers, overvalued offspring, order for chaos, DIY stadium renovations, being there, bad investments, regrettable calls, replacing your divots, a man who could make a Nissan Patrol look like a Barina, Fat Cat and friends, grave injustices, actually I’ll think you’ll find Obelix was the big one, staying true to yourself, substandard bearers, blind faith, the house always wins, Shubman ‘Peter’ Gill, forever jail, the juice isn’t worth the squeeze, methadone and EPO, four game nights, weird flaps, the greatest performance under pressure in the history of the universe, comments from the supercoach, defining national characteristics, pre-emptive karma, maybe eat a salad, Super League with bone saws, old John Clarke bits, Nige learns on the job, competing for second, packing it, losing it, Top Gear casualties, getting maroonpilled, diesel-powered cricketers and topless lawn bowlers.

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This week: new albums from DARTZ, Sheer Mag and Mannequin Pussy.
Also: Insert Amen Break Here, subverting the bogan paradigm, inappropriate kiddie choirs, troubling Venn intersects, two years behind being two years behind, high pitched whining, labouring to carve out discernably singular positions, evangelical lyricism, enjoying the noises, release date randomness, early year optimism, metallurgy experience, no accounting for takes, teenage rebellion, holy communion and ending on a positive.

Next week: Meatbodies | Yard Act | Liam Gallagher & John Squire
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: pretending to have watched classic movies, one short, whose line is it anyway, regrets in Milwaukee, nightmares in Boston, redrawn axes, end-of-clock grenades, Naz has bars, having That Guy, ironing fruit, lacking respect for your authoritah, the best ability, the Red Bull civil war, a full tradies breakfast, last in first out, chasing Grant funds, young dumb and full of bad takes, stay in school kids, Patty in Miami, predicting who will get to knock out Boston in the early rounds, Gordon Hayward Nights, ruining NZ v Oz, the end of Pep v Klopp, MLS sabbaticals and being uncancellable.

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