tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: Barely legal, how’s your fathers, the 1980s are over, title whiffs, weird nerds, pantomime audiences, ripping flares, catching a Kenworth, big ’n’ chunky, the Celtics are bad and should feel bad, the next Boogie Cousins, the last Boogie Cousins, the Superduper Max, Buzz City buzz, the ghost of Caris LeVert, Americans cannot language, Rodeo clowns, institutional competence, Jim Ratcliffe’s vanity project(s), fixing the America’s Cup, one-make Datto racing, test recaps longer than the actual test, Kyle Jamieson gets the bag and loses his marbles, seriously though the guy who left the hat trick ball and got bowled should find a new career, the FVV of NZC, Tiger stacks his truck and logo no-gos. 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 You Me At Six and Mush, and a rudey nudey style 1991 classic from Prince. Also: not as advertised, Snyder cuts, six word reviews, the AU Falcon school of art, reviewing last year’s model, Beeso gets confused, push the little daisies and dance like a duck, poll dancing, Smash Hits 1989, For International Listeners, Mike Patton’s normie band, 6am sex albums, covering yourself, logistical support, Still Happy Gilmore, old people talking about the music that was important when they were young, early ‘90s erotica, pre-millennium tension, as advertised, NWOBHM areas, Florida Man, February lulls, no through roads, critical disconnects, contractual obligations, pivoting from video, drunk at 1.0x speed, ad skipping, unsponsored endorsements and too many podcasts. Next week: Kid Kapichi, Tash Sultana and Four Fists (a listener joker/classic submission from 2018). Speaking of 2018, here’s that Kimber ep from when Doc was overseas. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has our 2021 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: Rugby stans and stands, South Beach on Struggle Street, Melo’s midlife crisis, winning 20 from 21 “is really hard to do in the NBA”, packing Porter’s bags, cut price Delly, vague familiarities with Australia, captain’s picks, pre-emptive soft tissue injuries, Tony Davis, covid luck, large washed gentlemen who might like to live in Denver, hot wings, .500-adjacent teams, uninspiring Celtics, big two-and-a-halfs, Nil-waukee, the only person on the internet hating on Ben Simmons’ 42 point performance, vintage Seth Curry, the Raptors figuring it out, shouts to Mick Simmons, C is not for cookie, Dray’s diatribe, drummer jokes, Hollinger’s ludicrous MVP takes, shooters’ gyms, terrible colour clashes, Portland’s prospects, jinxing Kyrgios, reckless endangerment of a large lump of silver, pitched racism, cancelling various cricketers for klout and taping up tennis balls with Bobo Vieri. 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 Foo Fighters, Madlib and The Dirty Nil. Also: let’s dance, manipulatively anthemic, Triple M baggage, pass marks, essential Daveness, marking time, HR issues, the drawer under the sink, convenience samples, interesting cul de sacs, genre fluidity, what’s my name again, the most hairmetally of all the punks, explaining 90s rave culture, Tooheys Red is never a good choice, 3D routines, the algorithms are converging, a Very Special #DocReadsBios, cut the Snyder, Andy’s organ, dance commander, new romantics, better than MJ, swag surfing and Eddie’s special word. Your man Dave’s quite good on the latest Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend also. Next week: new albums from Mush and You Me At Six and a classic from Prince. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has our 2021 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: Neymar narratives, football hipstering on a budget, Steph Season season, West ASG guards, Washedington, Greek NBA references that don’t relate to Giannis, alternative universe Ben Simmonses, second only to MJ, a good All Star to miss, anthem culture wars, voting returns, the continuing bewildering popularity of Kyrie Irving, bald white guys, the Jalen Brunson Rule, Grindr for Jesus, briefly not terrible, Portland keep doing the thing, international call-ups,  legends in the club, having the worst thing on the menu named after you, do Utah have another gear, nightmare 1-8s, send moar picks, Timmy Goodtimes’ MVP strawpoll, Timberclowns, Weekend at Brady’s, not rating the ratings, the South Qld Crushers win the Superbowl, original Falconry, one-sided Brisbane derbies, jinxing Kyrgios, Colin’s feels, rat cunning and bastardry, home and away, Kohli Ewing Theory and no selecta. 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 Sleaford Mods and Nancy, and one (or two) you may have missed last year from Sault. Also: British variance, points for concept, Patton does T-Rex, unregistered counselling, east Midlands geezer hiphop, Stockdale Award frontrunners, better on paper, production crossover, group projects, disco jams, middle aged white guys, back of the shed demos, fix it in post, analogue dirt, the outer limits of joker acceptability, Dave’s True Stories (now available in an actually readable format) and music suitable for toilet breaks. Next week: new Madlib, The Dirty Nil and Foo Fighters. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has all the new albums we reviewed last year and our tripping balls 2020 mixtape of our favourite tracks from those albums. The full list of all the new and classic 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: Slim Dusty x Tommy Raudonikis, double booked, Boof’s bowling plans, saturation cheese toastie coverage, What Kind Of NBA Fan Are You, Rodney McGruder slander, Warriors twitter, beatswriter, something to We Believe in, Officially Worried, Narrator: he did not in fact hate to say he told us so, All Star voting, loser Luka, constitutional crises, the value of leftover Curry, paying for what you can measure, the Efficiency Landscape, Doc cannot read graphs, Balling out, tale of rooks, Nets memes, stick vs parked car, the N-Be-Frayed, shake your moneymaker, industrial disputation, Pinto maths, doing stuff you don’t want to for money, the NFL get their Covid Bowl in, securing the bag, Sacto stays salty, Gronk is less stupid than he looks, Beeso guesses Doc’s all star picks, communal Celtics, spot-alteration methodology, mid-West mediocrity, Gordon bleugh, your man actually plays for Den Bosch but it’s not as though that gets in the way of the joke, Pink Sydney superfans, being known for the bit, not talking to bowlers, surviving India and saving world cricket a lot of unnecessary admin. 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 first new albums of 2021 from Aaron Frazer and Here Lies Man, and a new/old/classic/best-of joker from the KLF. Also: short shortlists, A-A-Ron, getting your hour back, complete flutes, NOW YOU LISTEN TO ME, understanding where you come from, walls of sound, know your bangers, revoltingly stupid songs, scaring the kiddies, telling your own story, CV news tickers, too much attention, some old crap Doc wrote, Atari teenage nerdout, self-populating playlists, score draws, albums you might have missed, socialist art-punk turf wars, Allan Frazer’s test career, our listeners have three-album thoughts, the Australian KLF, plus an old-school After Dark hitting pirate radio on Twitch, Letterkenny on TSN and why not everyone should pivot to video. Next week: new 2021 freshness from Sleaford Mods and Nancy, and a 2020 throwback from Sault. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has the full archive of all the new music we’ve reviewed last year and our tripping balls 2020 mixtape of our favourite tracks from this year’s albums. The full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod since the beginning, 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: Unprecedented times, chasing in race 8, Jinglin’ Joe left open drains a trey, old fat men inserting themselves into the narrative, nobody circles the wagons like the… Utah Jazz?, In-N-Out Nuggets, cooked Heat, cooked sentences, Wiggy Wiggy in the wild west, The Process demands justice, the point of point guards, for whom the Beal toils, regime change in Washington, turning ignorance into content, filthy casuals, Ja bless, Brooklyn or bust, vestigial Balls, instant gravity, the middle of the west is deeply mediocre, Fake Patty, the Al Horford Experience, hard deletes, ex-games, X-STREAM camerawork, putting the X in Netflix, tonight’s drinking game word, we do not Stan the ARU, unjustified and ancient and the Other Heat. 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: can we agree on ten artists that had a run of three genuinely classic albums in a row? #NotOffSeasonFiller Also: notes app apologies, the zeitgeist, not in those shoes, not in this conversation, go speculator, justifying to the unwashed, ten years gone, going to war, LA residencies, not good podcasting content, breaking format, encroaching washedness, you are here, reheated leftovers, entry points, sitting in a closet shouting into a bin, farting into a polystyrene cup, technological reproducibility, sending one in, problematic individuals, bad photocopies, black and white, national conversations, stadium misery, legacy whoopie cushions, into the FUTURE Future future, angry Brexit punk, plot devices for Chats songs and how to write a #1 pop song. Next week: new albums from Aaron Frazer and Here Lies Man, and a new/old/classic/best-of joker from the KLF. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has the full archive of all the new music we’ve reviewed last year and our tripping balls 2020 mixtape of our favourite tracks from this year’s albums. The full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod since the beginning, 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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