tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: new albums from Even, Lisi and Warbly Jets. Also: you make me sick I make music, dramatic beats vs actual beats, Hennessy on a XXXX Gold budget, u wot m8, straight outta Goodna, a product of its times, 2017 wasn’t such a crap year after all, the last interesting U2 album, melancholywobbles, deep in his bag, suspension of disbelief, Fisher-Price My First Beats, Frogstomp to Neon Ballroom, this is not a tribute, abrasive high-energy output, all cheese all the time, shouts to la niña, the worst part of early parenthood, getting your rig out for no reason, sledging time, lying about your age, fit but you just know it and taking it to the grave.

Next week: Birdz, gloo and the Darkness (and not Wolfmother, but if you want to give that a crack don’t let us stop you). 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: Plastic Clasićos, #stillintheleague, Mick Hancock energy, 15-and-3 boring, WELCOME TO!, I’m New Yorkin’ here, reversing into victory, being hated by stats, tractor sponsors, RUOK, subtweeting Porzingis via pod, max contract tiers, are Sacramento always 11th in the West, immovable Walls, being sick on your shoes, CA breaks the habit of a lifetime, that escalated quickly, hogs out of work, power-ranking algorithms, brown ale and pies, peak Mullins, 1994 Canberra in Kangaroos jerseys and five post-ironic Cougars thanks. 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: new albums from Hollie Smith and ’68, and Electric Six unlock their inner RSL covers band. Also: two kinds of (other people’s) music, more brass than class, the Guardian’s lost-and-found section, Squires on the A-League, tears before bedtime, the Boss can’t count, un-Googleable bands, coherence of purpose, things we can do without, Doc’s favourite album of 2017, Ladyhorse, I’ve been to Goodna but I’ve never been to me, A Very Paul Kelly Christmas, Staffo’s Patreon yarn with Ash Naylor, lord of the flies, lawnmower fuel and shamlessly shilling for contra. 

Next week: Lisi, Warbly Jets and Even bring the new new. 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 Mitch Marsh Apology Hour, doing your homework, Kiwi bunnies, cold opens, oh the humanity, get some -> go again, masterclass theatre, refusing to learn from any of your previous experiences, reps with Steph, fun in Denver, that escalated quickly, good things coming, Grayson Allen narratives, scaring .500, residual Westbrook regret, badly-aged #NBA75 picks, ineffectual thrashing, punching tomato cans, unmemorabull, huffing paint, showing your working, main vein blame games, weird hogs, convenient timing and the takes must flow. 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 the Doc on solo yolo fomo, playing to stereotypes, the absolute statelessness of BBL, Morris Minor recalls, Nets game attendees in ‘bandwagon fans’ shock, Christmas Klay, An Warriors, bullish on Chicago, doing the intro, guerilla radio, Olympic bumps, insert ‘allegedly’ gif here, Covid is undefeated, we have vaccine at home, Morey isn’t Klutch, ludicrous MVP chants, the decline and fall of the Sexland empire, the worst of the west, the aesthetic appeal of lower scoring, flailing and failing, #ThirdQuarterDubs, today’s magic number is 37, gateway podcasts, pulling out Staples, 2015 CWC final redux, never go full Lendl Simmons, chlamydia v syphilis: the final battle, Shihad Afridi, Marsh or die, I am not my brother’s allrounder, The Shane Watson Experience, Warnie goes of(f), JL time (shouts to Can’t Bowl Can’t Throw), Carl Hayman doesn’t want to forget, Marnus Langerschagne, blaming Marto, be more constructive with your feedback, the Sorkinisation of Aunty Cindy, Australia-Uruguay III: This Time It’s Personal, Mooy money Mooy problems, inconveniencing the Seppos, Genk Action and finger-spinner feuds. 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: new RÜFÜS DO SOL, Parquet Courts and the Sore Losers. Also: gin-related news, low ceilings, chunky bits, avoiding festivals, Metallica have a lot to answer for, singer-songwritery, it seems like we’ve been doing this for a very long time, well well, failing to capture the zeitgeist, grid walk shenanigans, tour to survive, yes somebody made a documentary about the Fauves, is it 1998 again, desk jockeys, and my music taste has been slandered (my groceries just gone). Next week: new albums from Hollie Smith and ’68, and Electric Six go all Garage Inc.. 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: retired PMs shut up and go away challenge, not being able to pronounce your new best friend’s surnames, dig your own grave, sticker shock, common enemies, early rookie takes, failed assists, DORT, hiring coaches which resemble your mascots, diagnosing Dallas, throwing guards at the problem, never trust anyone with two surnames and no first name, blaming Stan, panic-building, coaching matters, New York absolute state of mind, players-only meetings, ransom notes, sustainable trends, the essential pointlessness of international T20, thumb wars, Super 12 throwbacks, overused tweet joke of the week, unpopular specialists, vibes guys, Semenuk doing Semenuk things, homeopathic immunization and the other Davey Dum Dum. 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’re off to Neville Neville Land as tripping balls’ Official Metallica Correspondent Adamhfoto joins the Doc to look back at the the Black album on its 30th birthday, the accompanying Metallica Blacklist all-star covers collection, and new stuff from Polish Club. Also: Christian sucks rock, OK boomer, apostrophe apologies, H100 strays, problematic parties, the end of the podcast, FOAD here’s Wonderwall, grenading your own legacy, pariahs in period, the Brown Hornet, doing it live, first-team all-NBA game ops tunes, harpsichord hate, even flow, starting fives, everybody hates Lars, recycled devices, show tunes and spaghetti westerns, the new guy, justice for Jason, alternative Rock classics, learn to count with Phil Rudd, trying to out-Metallica Metallica, Portugal power-rankings, algorithmic attention-seeking, inappropriate horns, Bob breaks the fourth wall, songs to get arrested for, and a hard earned thirst needs a big nose beer. Next week: Beeso’s back from the bay for new RÜFÜS DO SOL, Parquet Courts and the Sore Losers. 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: Adamhfoto and the Doc on week 1.5 of the NBA, the T20 World Cup and taking absolutely no joy from the absolute state of Manchester United. Also: Beeso on background, Russ wins (then loses), ruining Looney Tunes, tractor receipts, Brooklyn’s big 1.25, old Wizards, Lawler’s law, the running-hot of the Bulls, Joel’s hard minutes, the seven-win Bobcats, nice days to go to the pub, giddy over Giddey, Chef Delly, separating compost, podcast recommendations, the Patty Mills Experience, Grizzly Adams, Cleveland rocks, scoring depressions, SexLand, the bizarro-world bottom of the West, substitute teacher energy, Grade Cricketer areas, the BALLS Clasićo ain’t what it used to be, where in the world is Patrick Beverley, football meat pies durries beer and King Gee, middle-east geopolitics, Davey Dum Dum finds form?, the Ben Stokes Bat Signal, Vegas Elvis areas, what happens when your marketing manager runs your football club, mission-critical systems failures, five year streaks, Paul Pogba’s entire Man U career in a 15 minute cameo off the bench, our comprehensive La Liga coverage, Supercars wearing a groove in Eastern Creek, we talking about practice, Danny Ric’s promotional considerations, Adam picks the two best GPs of the year to watch, save Albert Park from Save Albert Park, whither Australian 1500m swimming and bronzing up. 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: new albums from Alabama 3, Twelve Foot Ninja and Dazy. Also: grime hat-tips, cletuses on acid, clearing out for iso, 90s TV one-hit wonders, BSB updates, Patton recognition, alternative timeline greatest hits, magazine freebies, sharing a brain, narcolepsy, Xzibit memes, long-list entry requirements and gin-neric drinking practices.

Next week: no man is an island but Beeso's off on one for the weekend so Parquet Courts, RÜFÜS DO SOL and the Sore Losers will have to wait for his return. Instead: regular third wheel on the TBP tricycle, the Godfather of Grime and our Official Metallica Correspondent Adamhfoto joins the Doc to establish whether the thirtieth anniversary remaster of the Black album has absolutely ruined it (or whether releasing a 15 hour super duper deluxe version did that automatically) and whether any of the covers on the Blacklist are worth a spin. Also: new Polish Club. 

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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