tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: new albums from U.N.K.L.E. and Ayron Jones, and ZZ Top’s 1983 classic Eliminator (vale Dusty Hill). Also: for who for what, you done messed up A-A-Ron, Mr Big areas, Doc probably meant forgettable, Bruckheimer soundtracks, country conventionality, 85 minute car chases, Uncle Arthur, Stevie Wonder’s organ, wallpaper*, old blues bands, southern remits, bottle cages, goin’ 50, nods from the old heads, alternative jokers, non-deluxe versions, unnecessary covers, coming attractions, know your Nas’s and doing the doo. Next week: new albums from Nas, Ty Segall and one you might have missed from Faithless. 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: getting sucked into the Olympics, NBA free agency, Messi leaves town and Vale just leaves. Also: middle distance tactics, Col de Lantanaland, pointless iso’ing, free agent shenanigans, creative blocks, it was always going to end like this, pulling the receipts, the next generation of Boomers, a big week for old people, betting markets, the Lakers’ free agency, Beeso’s Westbrook hate continues unabated, Beeso’s Knicks hate continues unabated, Betty Davis eyes > Derrick Rose knees, bullish on Chicago, the rapid take economy, the Last Dance effect, Miami Avarice, Woj’s sausage, brand values, Sean Marks gets a go, the washed centre exchange programme, Pels WTF, Ball bounces, the Knicks are competent?, cheeky Nandos, Covid free agency, Beeso’s Delly hate continues unabated, Dante’s peak, podcasts are audiobooks of news stories, free to a good home, four-year group chats, Joe Ingles is expiring, turns out the Dubs prefer Iggy in that Iggy role, inexplicable Akubraing, Kawhi opt out?, the purpose of Knicks cap space, vale Vale’s MotoGP career, getting thrown down the road, transcendent GOATs, Messi contractual situations, farmers’ leagues, BeIN-sponsored retirement homes, shouts to the Tillies, remonstrating in the backline, cheap titillation, not in the mood, Brisbane’s 2032 pitch, desert-based onanism, SPOD, one-man gay wars, white-anting the Hungarian anthem, Shed-bastion Vettel, Red Bull’s decades of flute-like behaviour and the search for anyone who has played for Manly who wasn’t an objectionable human being. 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 Red Fang, Greentea Peng and SAULT. 
Also: shouts to Sludge II, feeling like 1992, this is fine, whisky misters, unobjectionable content, violent cuisine, day-after triphop, mushroom records, on a heater, chemistry experiments, post-credits sequences, punishing Seppos, Rachel gets racial, not you Mike Skinner, if you can’t be good, inventing time travel, Ronin 1 Liverpool 0, dudes who think they’re Prince, ROFLcopter, presidential erasure, how to identify different members of ZZ Top from very far away, and loser talk.

Next week: new albums from U.N.K.L.E. and Ayron Jones, and a 1983 classic in the form of ZZ Top’s Eliminator (RIP Dusty Hill).
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 NBA draft, Russ to the Lakers, Simmons to... somewhere?, thrusting coaches, waltzing Matildas and inoffensive Boomers. Also: Pushing dominoes, Simmons trade destinations, centres and running backs, draft what now, Perksploitation, picking for resale value, do OKC ever plan to build a winning team ever again, getting away with it (all messed up), overvaluing top three picks, can the Knicks be trusted with cap space, full of fourth options, walking into Memphis, various biases, Shams v Woj, the depths of Ipswich, a bunch of countries, #NeverTweet, deathriding the USWNT, app with a capital Cr, Twitter stream spoilers, FIBA > NBA, the Boomers are cooked, SLO jams, weightlifting kinks, running for the bus, Vieirable success, comedy news panel shows, hole-istic approaches, Gladtobeback, weird thrusting men, punishing bigfoot thinkpieces and England’s going home. 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 Tigercub, Troy Kingi and an Asian fusion experience from TEKE::TEKE. Also: putting the production meeting in the podcast, soft centres, disproportionately large riffs, cheer up, be still, flat spots, wall-to-wall Mumford, yes Beeso is listening in reverse track order again, death (death), banger afterthoughts, decolonising our history, if you don’t like this wait six months, this is not Guitar Wolf, shining lights on the hill, ‘well that’s a thing’ isn’t an arts review, white Kayne and/or Konye fans, third person bios, 1.15 listeners, this is your captain howling like a dying banshee, act now, two white guys sitting in a basement, being taught by TISM, editorial decisions by the production team, getting nailed in the bits, clouds of chloroform, the decline of clubland, Roofers Du Sol, poncing about in the loungeroom throwing shapes to old man bands, #yourwelcome, school punishment, and accidentally inventing things.

Next week: new albums from Greentea Peng, Red Fang and a limited-time offer from SAULT. 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: EURO 2020, the NBA Finals, the Olympics and the relentless stupidity of rugby league. Also: we didn’t have that, the new #WengerOut, Scott Foster is inevitable, second nation army, being cool for a few years, mutual sentiment, full nihilism, mismatched timelines, not your dad’s England, burning the room, the CP3 finishing school, tedious box-score watching analysis, Giddey goat, undeniable flaws, just generally avoid Sacramento, football becomes basketball which becomes football, the Suns’ next step, Doc’s next team, how late can an ‘allegedly’ come and still be legally OK, basketballing hobos, winning the right way, there’s a bit of Stugotz in everybody, asterisks: the gall, trusting in Ange, shopping Dame around the league, indentured servitude, keeping your friends close, Olympics coverage?, embracing your inner boomer, the Jingles finishing school, too old for Brisbane 2032, shop windows, reasons to stop the podcast, reasons to talk about rugby league and aging out of thirst. 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 MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC from Czarface x MF Doom and Stöner, and an all-star Gang Of Four tribute album. Also: basket cases, getting your wife to stop talking to you, comic books and wrestling promos, backward music opinions, impending doom, coastal elites, influences’ influences, not great man, a look you haven’t heard, ‘umlaut’ doesn’t actually have an umlaut, doing it live, lowered expectations, nancy boys, go folk yourself, mixed reviews, avoiding social media, anyway here’s the new Wonderwall, dead kills, Nashville: it’s not just Cletus music, it’s soccer Moses not soccer Jesus for soccer God’s sake, spoilers: he did not manage to report in from the road that week, and boy did these sporting takes age well. Next week: new albums from Tigercub, Troy Kingi and a (very) joker from Japanese-Quebecois fusion experience TEKE::TEKE. 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 in sport: burying the lede and USA Basketball, Cole world, why possession isn't nine tenths of winning football games, tricky tiki-taka tactics, immobile strikers, misguided clamouring, But It's England, chancers and frauds, a very long runup to Beeso's Suns victory lap, insane in the midrange, compulsive switch-flickers, crowbarred F1 coverage, draft chat is BS, you can't win anything with Kidd's, one Crowder's ours, ceiling setting coaches, controversial handicapping approaches, Giannis goes supernova, Messi finally gets to be Argentinian, girt/soil/toil, building to the next World Cup, subtweeting Simmons, cut price d-d-d-Delly and passing up shots. 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 joins Doc to talk albums from Jacob Collier and the Blue Stones. Also: remixing Beeso, being paid to go away, spending too much time in your bedroom, ya big jessie, containing multitudes, gifted child syndrome, Protracker nerd evolution, leave it alone son, playing for your own pleasure, all night long, what’s a CD grandad, Ed Hardy shirts, double the complexity, print is dead, too white for this, alphabetised covers, doing what it says on the tin, absolutely skithouse, Maroon 5 strays, call now, secret Canadians, build it from the riff up, and amen (break) to music (music music). 

Next week: Beeso returns with new music (music music) from Czarface + MF Doom and Stöner, and a grab-bag all-star Gang Of Four tribute 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 with Doc and Adam: lacking sizzle, sad Batmans, Eurocops, getting disowned by your grandparents, I saw the sign, taking the last day off, desperately pandering to weird people, better sources of NZ politics coverage than us, Beeso takes winning well, young adult fiction plotlines, piles of guys, Wrongdanovic, pre-work Euros, several different versions of Burnley, thirty years of hurt plus inflation, getting cooked by a guy named after a Star Wars B-character, the world coding championship, incomprehensible regional cultural traditions, Nascars at the Gold Coast Indy, jumpy trucks, the calibre of person who succeeds in a year like this, the Blazers’ trail of destruction, Dame Time To Go Somewhere Else, skeletons in your closet and/or suitcase, dysfunctional NBA franchise power rankings, pre-asterisked seasons, goat poo, long live old man midrange, Pat Bev goes full Pat Bev, Australian boomers are best avoided, the Doc jersey curse, laughable options, the Dubs never needed KD, too old for Space Jam, the Palace v Derby County of NBA finals, our regular update on the Absolute State Of Origin, lockdown curtain-twitchers and Giannis hosts Countdown. 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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