tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: new tunes from Spoon, Mild Orange and Eddie Vedder.
Also: Matters arising, the ‘It’s not that bad’ defence, Official Positions, perfect for what it is, crashing into a tree, Cornell-Vedder duets, prohibited ideas, Dunedin’s Own, Shin-mery, electronically reinforced, Sad Indie Girl Summer, stop making Karens, helmet chat, you can’t beat the system, misgendered chemistry, vale the Arena, a tradition like no other, Beeso gets trolled by the Hoods, never give ‘em a window and it’s weird how doing a music podcast for seven years makes people think you’re opinionated and judgemental about music. Luckily our infamous Desert Island Discs two-part drunkcast from 2016 is lost to the mists of the internet so noone can ever challenge us on our assertion we were actually nowhere near as drunk and obnoxious about everyone else’s choices as we thought oh no wait dammit. 

Next week: new Midnight Oil, Methyl Ethel and a double-EP joker from Khruangbin + Leon Bridges, all of which you can find on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we reviewed last year (2022 version coming once we listen to enough stuff to start a mixtape.) The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email

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This week: The big wet, tanking the wins pool, adult fantasy, researchers with agendas, holding up a barn door, are there votes in the Nets fanbase, Cleveland this is for you, the age of nepotism and failsons, California’s Toowoomba, second chance draws, the Baby Blazers were a thing (briefly), the Zion Precedent (not a Robert Ludlum plodder), Marathon Man, Jim Ratcliffe’s inadvisable slacks, the antithesis of everyone, rewarding bad decisions and appalling behaviour, South African travel advisories, DNP-racism, the only decent dude in F1, never escaping the clown you were at 19, never escaping the ghost of the GOAT and why Kobe was an untalented sociopathic hack. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: Adam and Doc defend/celebrate/obfuscate their problematic faves in the form of bollox-disregarders the Sex Pistols and Californicators the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Also: Skinner dipping, people used to listen to the radio, homeopathic dilutions, Sports Tonight outro montages, pivoting to popularity, rock spiders, too much sun, separating optics from reality, the Backstreet Boys of ‘70s punk, doing the same thing slightly differently over and over again, excess and wombling about, do it for the #content, old bands: you don’t need to release new stuff to tour your old stuff, Choirboys catching strays, there’s far too much of it about, the lone arranger, legacy act white whales, two weeks in 1991, the last time U2 tried anything, getting what you pay for, Win95 launch music, surprise Pinkerton and adult contemporary smoko time.

Next week: new tunes from Spoon, Mlid Orange and Eddie Vedder, each of which you can find on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we reviewed last year (2022 version coming once we listen to enough stuff to start a mixtape.) The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email

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This week: Prioritising chaos, life at 1.5x, the sham dunk contest, Bob The Builder 2’s, do it live, no stars, ups and downs, tanking for both Brons, last stop Washedington, one and done, questionable Facebook watch histories, midseason for most (not you Knicks), the pointlessness of predicting playoff pairings, serious title contenders don’t get dusted by 50 by Boston, John Farnham cosplay and other weird fetishes, bring back the Stackhat, unhelpful endorsements, option two please, Marnus goes on Shark Tank, childhood trauma, Adam jinxes the Suns (disclaimer: CP3’s 6-8 week thumb injury was announced between recording and posting), player-coaches, death on ice, Ukraine in the membrane, Snowy Zoi, luge for beginners and lake chat. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: we unbox our first 2022 delivery of new albums from Blood Red Shoes, Yard Act and Eels. Also: large number inspo, being on twitter too much, Questlove agrees with us, albums of garbage, performative sadness, extremely northern, Cockerian belligerence, sportspod outro Easter eggs, feeling seen, wrong pronouns, the drugs do work, not realising how good we had it in the late ‘90s, RINGZZZ culture, “indie pop doesn’t necessarily have to be bad”, dominating every room and ancient oils.

Next week: new tunes from Spoon, Mlid Orange and a Mr Edward Vedder, each of which you can find on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we reviewed last year (2022 version coming once we listen to enough stuff to start a mixtape.) The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: Finding more platforms for our unsolicited opinions, grading THAT Nets-Sixers trade, losers of the trade deadline, artisanal strip joints, enjoy the memes while you can big fella, peer support, Everybody Sucks Mode, Beeso’s contractually obliged crowbarred touch footy reference, the Ben-KD fit, the 17th best coach of all time, being Suns smart, hell NAW, KP predicts his future, When Healthy, the Pels have picks, good for parts only, let the kids compete, awkward Thanksgivings, Denver’s one fan, getting your freedom, drafting for size, run (I’m coming to get you), did this really happen, Beeso loves the East, Doc-on-Doc violence, inviting your mates to your performance review, living and/or dying by the sword, the best coaching money can buy, Jerd Dernberch terk ur jerbs, Will you please stop, keep it funky, one and a half spinners, fifty not out, the unembarrassable NFL and Rambo for old people. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: duelling early-00s jokers from Turbonegro (hat tip to Hank von Hell) and Peaches. Also: full jokerification, bands of bad takes, algorithmic recommendations, dream collabs, emergency psychiatric wards, XL-ence, Rammstein areas, horny Trent, feel the Berlin, troubling the builders, rating yourself, 2019 revisited, monkey business, Balearic munters, and their best album since their last good one.

Next week: box-fresh 2022-model-year albums from Blood Red Shoes, Yard Act and Eels, all of which you can find on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including previous years' top 5 lists) and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email

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This week: Unconventional motivation approaches, Ashes salt, 24/7 curling, fighting your boss in the carpark, not having to work for an absolute flute, JL’s next gig, pork scratchings, box score Beeso, Kawhi ka-when, keep on Grizzing, I'll kill you with a Trae, ensuring you never have to go back to work, Troel Embiid, institutional wisdom, and Morey wept for there were no muppets left to fleece, shelf half-life, getting paid to go away, love and basketball, terrible Nick Nurse cameos, damp squibs, DeAndre Organ and Monaco-spec bobsledding. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: It’s our Album Of The Year top five countdown for 2021. At last.

Also: H100 feels, Bond adventures, an album late, Kool-Aid Man entrances, Abs collabs, everything is flawed, drops > drips, more than a genre piece, distilled weirdness, it’s not his go, top 20 is not damning with faint praise, photocopier etiquette, failed crossovers, doing what it says on the label, playing spades, also receiving votes, Japanese concept albums, other peoples’ opinions, five percent more TISM, son I am disappoint, getting into psychedelics, rubber soul, being disavowed by your 21 year old self, deeply mediocre vs genuinely obnoxious, horse doxxing, jokerfication, grimy Gaga, Beeso’s contractually obligated Letterkenny reference, various abuses, scaring Norwegians and deliberately running counter to everyone else’s AOTY schedule.

Next week: a couple of early-oughts jokers from Turbonegro (as a belated hat tip to Hank von Hell) and Peaches. You can find all our review albums on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we reviewed over the year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet.

BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email

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This week: Hey now Wiggins is an all star, K-pop hostage videos, Kyle Korver strays, commiting to the bit and regretting it immediately, Russ saves the Lakers (narrator: they still lost), the Heat is/are on, manifesting a Nets-Raptors series, the East is compressed but your boy never is, Mobley mobility, everyone Loves a vet, Hawkwinned, Beal for Simmons?, wasting Embiid’s window, worst timeline BBL clashes, tiers before bedtime, a difficult week to remain Knicks-positive on Australasia’s most Knicks-positive NBA-adjacent podcast, the next Grizzlies, green and gold Giddey, Jokic haters, Drunken Master basketball, a competitive Ashes series?, replacing KD, all-out chaos, selling high on Harden, the most hilarious NBA timeline, give me my money back, Windy’s piece on Aron Baynes and the wins pool goes west. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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