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.

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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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Live from the fringes of the Hottest 100 top ten, an old-school After Dark micro-ep on dissing the Alley, craft beer v Triple J H100s, mediocrity was the winner on the day, yay for Ye, nostalgia is a sometimes food and these are definitely some times, Beeso’s last Hottest 100 voting slip, not doing your homework, 2016 vs 2017, the top ten always sucks and predicting the #1. 

Next week: our Album Of The Year top five countdown for 2021. 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 (now 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: not seeking feedback, K.F. Rambis, extremely hot seats, having friends in high places, Ponzi schemes, post-Nuggets AI levels of washed, the Magic exist and are a basketball team (allegedly), the Phoenix-OKC continuum, Facu I won’t do what you tell me, at sixes and sevens, mediocrity sandwiches, the Miami cavalry, the good cruciate ligament injury, live production meetings, pitching USA vs World All Star, whither the sketchy Euro guard, the Seville derby, preparing for a post-Perry future, the_coach_defender has logged on, off-brand Batman villains, Virat loses the plot, three-test Ashes series, shiny Green takes and post-ironic GOATage.

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: our end-of-year 2021 album clearance special featuring Urthboy, Turnstile, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Bat Fangs, the Drippers, Pist Idiots and JASSS.

Also: beach v pool, inner-urban troubadours, a very Australian Christmas, Eric Bana with a polystyrene hat, green onions, hardcore history, other people’s lists, an album too late, lack of consensus, coastal elites, Motörhead filth, flat spots, PLU12, crowdsourced bios, foreshadowing the AOTY episode, decomposing composers, the end of groupthink, moments of zen, Little Kenz, pining for nonexistent nostalgia, Motor Ace’s one song, speaking it into being, Doc’s long list, binning off January, depth vs peak, theory vs practice and the Year of the Album. 

tripping balls is back in two weeks with our Album Of The Year special, counting down our top five new releases of 2021 from the 100 we reviewed this year. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff 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 and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet.

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Happy 2022! This week: recognisable basketball, England expectorates all over themselves and taking absolutely no joy at all from India losing to South Africa. Also: Beeso the pool boy, Bananaman, Hoosiers, making the leap, cold as ice, new jerseys, designed for bingo wings, leading the league in spite, the Knicks win something, the difference between Trae and Luka, asterisk teams, multilingual answers, peer support Patty, Daryl Moron, Ja crashes Klay Day, experimental Jazz, UD40 but make it functional, the Frosty Lahood Guarantee, ambient gamechangers, the next host of Top Gear Australia, the new South Africa, WTC maths, the dumbest man alive, who do you think you are I am, live wicket reactions and acclimatising to Australian conditions. 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 in new music: 1977 funk-soul from Silk Sonic, ancient Delta blues from Buffalo Nichols and we're-still-not-quite-sure-what-this-is from Bicurious. Also: Not bad not bad not good, in defence of Andy Paak, more plastic than a Netflix F1 fan, I like your old stuff better than your new stuff, tiny desks, continuation specials, lacking the dirt, Canned Heat ≠ Canned Heat, oh the BLUES blues, shoes optional, dentition also optional, it’s it (what is it), sliding off your brain, narrator: that’s a yeah nah on the lyrics, A Very Gravy Christmas, Horses punishers, #RapperDad: The Saga Continues, Nice Mics Records, inconsistency at the top level, doing things to your stereo, missing our quota, growing to appreciate Scandinavian violence, the Celebrant Rifles and a stop to hammock time.

Next week: EVERYTHING MUST GO - our end-of-year 2021 album review clearance special featuring Turnstile, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Bat Fangs, the Drippers, Pist Idiots and Urthboy’s new Christmas album. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff 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 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 Christmas Day G-League Showcase, the return of Iso Joe, endangering the bag, getting paid out, one game below mediocrity, this year’s best offense in history, betting on the green team, mayonnaise enthusiasts, 100 life-changing minutes, Stauskas??, running at washed Webcke, Scooter McBraun, stay in school kids, reanimating Kyrie, reanimating Kyrie-for-Dame, the Cavs are still here, the Blazers are still bad, previewing the Xmas Day Schedule-Subject-To-Change, prime Baileys hangover hours, Jimmy Junior, welcome to Boshington, shoelace subtweets, a weird time to get serious, the Bermugabba Triangle, Kimber on the weirdness of Jos Buttler, top order filth, a day off the Green, #NeserMustPlayBetter, fake plastic fans, Netflix seasons, Hollywood endings, purists don’t buy enough merch, Mercedes’ DTM karma and the seasonal indispensibility of roast potatoes.

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This week: Birdz, gloo and the Darkness (plus bonus Wolfmother, if you’re into that sort of thing). Also: fake work getting in the way of actual work, domestic model Subarus, polished to a dull sheen, amateur carpentry, bars over beats, 80s Oils areas, garage to bedroom flow, jokes over everything, serious legitimate musical theatre, Japanese synthwave, concepts on concepts, Ronseal Stockdale, the successful negotiation of very low bars, horse partitioning, half hour delivery guarantees, make-or-miss algorithms, particularly zeitgeisty, Bootsy v Muggsy, the blues is the blues, never saying no, Brest screening, leaving the single off the album, Spotify Half-Wrapped, quarantining your kids’ terrible music off your account, talking over generic Casiotone, dad rap tags, throwing hands at Verzus, magnetic cheese, we talkin’ bout practice, insipid Canadian disses, ridiculous claymation violence, seasonal nut allergies and a snapback for the diss track. 

Next week: Buffalo Nichols, Bicurious and an evening with Silk Sonic. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff 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 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 triumphant return of the BALLS Motorsportnerdpod with Dr Yobbo and Bert Handsome, because where else would you get your cutting-edge racing insights ref. last weekend’s Bat Thrust 1000 and this weekend’s F1 final-round crashtacular, but from a talking plastic dinosaur and cartoon dog respectively. Featuring live (to tape) coverage of Oscar Piastri’s F2 title win, Ashes first test reaction, Rossi's future, a LOT of Christian Horner slander, the plot of 9 Songs, and Dylan Groenewegen? for some reason?? Subscribe rate review.

ALSO: 2001 HRT throwbacks, hating Pink Sydney, daddy issues, why everyone under 30 should be banned from public discourse, instant karma, moments of zen, S5000 at Bathurst turns out to be about as good an idea as everyone thought, don’t go camping with Doc, big Boost Guy energy, the wrong year to do the Erebus doco series, in defence of instagirlfriends half your age, live mixology, Adelaide divorces, the David Brent of F1, he youth are stupid, self-sledging, 1994-95 areas, treading water, making a Glenn Dix of yourself, sportscar free agency, outsourcing your overheads, the sneakiest of sneaky silvers, positioning yourself for LMDh, carpark Scalextric, Dodgey deals, reverting to type, more hog chat, are we still talking about that movie, correcting Tilke’s first drafts, antipodean talent, you say match fixing we say team orders, on the lash in Abu Dhabi, Mark Webber career advice < Mark Webber wardrobe advice, AND IT’S HAPPENED IMMEDIATELY, how does ‘look at that’ work any better as a podcast intro though, late era career arcs, the original Verstappen Schlappen, Schenken plays the hits one last time, Expendables-spec Bathurst wildcards, ambush marketing, spoiler alerts, down with Victory Yellow, the law of inverse proportionality, hello to our Austrian listeners, you know who else was a controversial Dutch sprinter, road stages as slow TV, six hours of Sherliggett making up stuff about chateaus, celebrating too early vs celebrating too late and Belgian road worlds team goes all 90s Netherlands. Ten internet points to anyone who gets the point of the outro music. 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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