tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: Upbeat Jazz, Portland General Hospital, sheds vs skeds, having an existential crisis in the middle of a pandemic, coaching around stars, Andrew Wiggins: lockdown defender, Bud’s intransigence, constant fiddlers, coaching conservatism, garbage since Wally, shots at Nathan Brown, Beeso’s midlife crisis, sex without land, a wet sack of blancmange, Kanye Irving, that dude who shouldn’t be in charge of a friend group, get off my lawn energy, the state of the association, flatmates in Philly, development coaching, Doc doubles down, the snow game in Canberra, terrible final day bowling plans, batting static, front office twitter crowdsourcing, fracture points, deserving to lose, first impressions last and hungry hungry head coaches. 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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103 new albums, two top five lists and a generous excess of Knife Party IPA: yes folks it's time for the tripping balls 2020 Album Of The Year special, counting down our favourite albums from all the new music we've reviewed on the music pod this year. Also mentioned in dispatches: opening remarks, appreciating the good, earning all caps, darkness in the sunshine, joy as a tiebreaker, Paul’s Boutique for washed GenXers, having the time, algorithmic nonsense, fun in the time of coronavirus, button pushing synergy, doing a good job of a bad job, Canadian phases, deep in his bag, where is your brain, starting points, vibe bias, really really, inappropriate injury rehab, hors catégorie albums, highly commended, speculative Hail Marys, quarterly reviews, being a month behind the zeitgeist, which witch is which redux, mid-90s grunge aesthetics, pointlessly damp, don’t believe the hype, legacy rescue jobs, joker stretches, on-air production meetings and being unable to stop the rock. Next week: three-album runs. Yes, only a month behind the zeitgeist (look, we were on leave.) Recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has the full archive of all the new music we’ve reviewed this 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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In the spirit of crappy sequels to ideas which played out and were played out 8-10 years ago, a blockbuster trade hit the NBA which sent one of the league’s true superstars across the country to a new team. Yes, Dante Exum is now a Houston Rocket. And in the spirit of absolutely original ideas in NBA podcasting, Doc and Beeso are here to argue over the winners and losers of The James Harden Trade (not that James Harden Trade, this one). Also: Chrome sucks, Brooklyn cliches, rough times in the restaurant business, better be home soon, the inherent pointless futility of trying to psychoanalyse Kyrie A. Irving, leave excuses, scouting layoffs, wins pool admin, trying to do internet at the same time as talking, bought not built, Sabonis vs Jokic, pour a little out for Nurk since he can’t do it himself for a bit, the Philly Shake, winning by staying home, Cleveland blocks, contract year Dante, paying youth rates, sucking cheaply, everyone’s a winner baby (not you Jacque Vaughn), Sixers psy-ops, the Draymondisation of Ben Simmons, directing traffic, Denver vs Dallas, seven minutes on the Bol, is everything Tilman Fertitta’s fault, test cricket is for mind boomers, laughing at Melbourne, your teammates think you’re a knob and 99% Ineffective. 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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It’s our traditional Small Sample Size Masterpiece Theatre episode as we massively overreact to emergent trends from a handful of games of the new NBA season. Also: being bad at opening beers, who are these people, congratulations to the Western Conference Champion Phoenix Suns, forgot about Dray, grownup supervision, who worries you, lads it’s the Clippers, bad faith Steph legacy arguments, the Efficiency Landscape, everybody needs somebody, wins pool draft regrets, Nugs-Raps synergy, box scores vs impacts on winning, dad fights, institutional stench, expansion, pacing the East, Dante’s infernal injuries, mentioning the Knicks, oversharing with your boss, bearded Dions, the Waterboy, valet service, score-first-last-and-always guards, the 82nd best player in the NBA, advocating violence as a coaching methodology, performative bin-kicking, clustering around .500, previewing next week’s tripping balls Album Of The Year episode and bonus third test coverage. Apologies for Doc’s variable mic quality this ep, we’ll be back to just having trash content instead next week. 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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Our final new music review ep of 2020, featuring new albums from The Nude Party and Model Child, and a look back at the Black Sorrows’ Hold On To Me.  Also: exile from Main Street, performative self-destruction, trapped in 1980s amber, cardboard kicks, alternative Christmas playlists, rays of sunshine, Doc’s long shortlist, three-album top fives, built for Reverse Patreon, other people’s AOTYs, other unwanted diseases from the Northern Beaches, unicorn faves, safety first, Venn overlaps and hammock season.

Have a great holiday break - we’ll be back in mid January with our Album Of The Year Special, because what kind of two-bit organisation of frauds and charlatans wraps 2020 in November.

Our recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has the full archive of all the new music we’ve reviewed this 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: the NBA is back (yes, already) and Adam, Beeso and the Doc (very possibly several pints deep from his work Xmas party) are previewing the upcoming season the only way they know how: by drafting teams into their regular season wins pool which the Doc always wins and is incredibly gracious about as you'd expect. Also: modern currency, the East doesn’t suck as much this year, ringing your mum for career advice, every game is an away game, bubble anxiety, Beeso has issues, Pakistan kicking off, Steve Steve, making sacrifices to win, NTSC bleed, stop trying to be interesting, entire rosters of sixth men, half-cooked prospects, trading for Stuff the Magic Dragon, Bad Boys 2020, #FreeBlake, fast bowler bodies, the next Bogut, leaving LA-LA land, Doc’s heel turn, upside picks, Starbury All Stars, going for a slashie, Simmons vs Embiid in a brand new context, reliable mediocrity, reputation rehabilitation, all podcast business is settled, declaring at sunset and most influential cringe. For posterity, here's all the picks we made (spoilers, obviously). 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 Kruder & Dorfmeister, Cut Off Your Hands and Dick Move; reflections on 250, craft beer advent calendars, rejecting labels, more of the same, not in those shoes mate, time capsules, better trips home, two-drink buzzes, long shortlists, LSD, #NotAllAustrians, chopping and changing, received pronounciation, deliberately bad house bands, idiot stuntmen, homeopathic white boy funk, blank stares, three word reviews, and suddenly the stunt continues to go horribly wrong, 1989 aged poorly*, artificial Swedeners, La Rouxette, influential cellists, say that to my face, partying nude, voting below the line, stoned Dunning-Kruger as a service, variations on previous themes, Tay-Tay’s new undercard and shed-based therapy.

*The pop music of the period not the Taylor Swift album, though YMMV

In next week’s final new music review ep of 2020: new albums from Model Child and The Nude Party, and revisiting the Black Sorrows’ Hold On To Me. Those and other recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with the full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our tripping balls 2020 mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist 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 defence of boomer angst, harden up up and away, last man standing, please go bankrupt for my entertainment, Cubans and heels, difficult debuts, the least Heat Culture dude imaginable, 3.30am starts, the Lou Williams Experience, maybe you’re the problem, Christian Wood, beard lives matter, the business genius has logged on, seemed like a good idea at the time, the Breece Rude School of Medicine, Damien Hardman from half court, does Giannis ever leave, JJ’s gold watch, getting on James Harden’s Christmas list, previewing our preview pod, test series vs series of tests, fake green mambas, concussion magnets, it’s about time Shaun Marsh got an opportunity for once, the GOAT getting tubes on a glorified esky lid, pots and pans, absolutely no football taking place and yes it certainly was something (sorry Beeso). 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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It’s our 250th (ish) Music Episode Spectacular, in which Beeso and the Doc review brand new albums from Dennis Cometti, The Money War and Magick Mountain, before we pick our personal top five Most Influential Albums of all time. Also this week: Right Said Fred are nutters, Spotify Wrapped is a joke, bogan self loathing, the entire point of punk rock, hating the CBD, snap crackle and thud, Greybeard stout reviews, boldly insipid, straight burglaries, taunting Sweden, podcast albums, excessive fuzz, doom metal power pop, do one, new old stock, give ‘em a taste of Kiwi, melancholy feelings, an album of clown music, accurate first drafts, it’s too loud and you’re too old, early influences, rambling storytelling, Thatcherite labour policies, back-to-back Jacks, cringe picks, the importance of late ‘80s smash hits compilations in a regional new music desert, two for one deals, heavy to the core, reappreciating Nirvana, albums doing numbers, Hey Hey it’s Saturday Night Palsy, Machiavellian scheming, non-existent albums, Skinnys vs Butter Beats, cruising the mean streets of Lismore, Monsters of Roxette, moments of discovery, triphopping into dub, garage days revisited, man’s not hot, also receiving votes, coming down off heavy benders, misunderstood geniuses and clocking music. Next week: new albums from Kruder & Dorfmeister, Cut Off Your Hands and Dick Move. Those and other recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with the full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our tripping balls 2020 mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist 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: Safe working distances, enjoying what you have, asking questions you have no interest in the answers of, deceptively green roads, NZ-WI takes that have aged appallingly badly in the two days of play since, assumed Kayo logins, crosspromotional considerations, unpopular mates, Wall for Westbrook: the NBA’s grimmest supertrade, when burst players burst, the new Kings of the West, Silver’s biggest mistake, pointless trade exceptions, noone trusts Boston, moving back in with college mates, six versus seven, throwing your coach under the bus, Playoff P, great free agency pitches of the offseason, independent contractors, lining up to get your backside kicked every year, going win-now too early, trading into chaos, the Knicks take another L, ridiculous starting lineups, speaking the Kuzma Leap into existence, the Giannis way, the most time-effective Driver Of The Day in F1 history and taking the last couple of weeks of work off because eff 2020. 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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