tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: Adam joins the Doc for an Other Peoples’ Classics ep featuring Smashing Pumpkins and Transvision Vamp. Also: emergency guest hosts, Girlclumsy’s legit Spectre hate, noone listens to double albums, The Most Profound Lyricist Of Our Generation, teenage angst, Christian re-writes, who are you calling a can’t, night and day, director’s cuts, suspicions confirmed, not listening to our AC/DC takes, a bit too much information about Doc’s 80s pop crushes, sax crimes, missing the zeitgeist, the ASMR queen of 1988, grab bags of ideas, pop ain’t easy, stanning Bros, Your Mates, Smash Hits ’88, significant cringe, previewing our 250th ep conceit, Countdown Revolution, them’s drinkin’ words, TayTay v2.0, gateway drugs, the internet is made of randos, watching other people play video games, furniture reviews, Full House crushes, live pianisting and Frank Zappa: Problematic Fave.

Next week in tripping balls.250 we ask what’s the five albums that’ve been most significant in forming your music taste? Plus new albums from Magick Mountain of The North, and a WA double play of The Money War and Dennis Cometti. 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: Doc and Adam on basketball in the time of coronavirus, Bam gets paid, it’s not socialism when it’s corporate welfare, getting used to luxury, the cuzzy from Gizzy, the Lakers are a year-to-year proposition, Klayless Dubs, Kendrick Perkins’ wifi issues, security theatre, Saraton theatre, blaming cover bands for Covid, Birthday Party punishers, WIBBLE, pointlessly blokey secondary channels, rejecting your trash reality and substituting my own, c’mon Fox Cricket c’mon, the biggest bunch of bastards under the sun, bum chins, pointlessness is the point, hanging out with the cool kids, dirty Diego vs salty Shilton, why does anyone want to rewatch Australia-Iran 1997, Afrikaans Language Corner, horse racing coverage, periodic professionals prepared for potential hubs, Shikhar Shikhar (ummm baaooup baaooup), ball Zampaing, offspin down under, stealing money from the IPL, finding your hands, annoying Helen Clark, playing like you’ve been in a hotel room for two weeks, Kyle Jamieson hooping it, Deano’s weird hinges, improbably fast 50s, deep-diving random mid-2000s Australia-NZ series and Beeso’s Quarantine Cooking Adventures. 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 reviewing new albums from AC/DC, Matt Mays and White Denim. Also: showing some mongrel, kids album energy, give Jurassic Joe his flowers, Pokemon is a gateway drug to evolutionary palaeontology, factchecking the Fauves, killer-to-filler ratio, Stiff competition, thinking you were washed at 30, the album of a year, the Bond films of hard rock, doomsday riff repositories, prosthetic eardrums, the genius of simplicity, sledging Birmo, maple syrup and melted butter, rotating tropes, morning sickness, Basils are faulty, cycling to a GnR concert, replacement Axls, very loud noises in a concrete box, good bands on bad nights, sitting down on the job, competitive woodchopping, so you’re saying there’s a chance, appetite for Appetite and extended Rain periods. Next week: Adam joins for an Other Peoples’ Classics ep featuring Smashing Pumpkins and Transvision Vamp; then when Beeso gets back from international duty we’re smashing new Magick Mountain and a WA double play of The Money War and Dennis Cometti. Those plus our 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 NBA-adjacent podcasting: famous Dicks, TLC were 29/30ths right, player Denvelopment, everybody wants a piece of the transaction, the Bucks stop being good at front officing, the Serbian John Johnson, out-stupidering the KANGZ, the decline of fleecable GMs, the better Curry brother, Daryl's burner phone, rest in power Klay’s Achilles and/or the Dubs’ title hopes as currently constituted, shouting at chairs, what’s a pinball machine grandad, sympathy for billionaires, expensive Holidays, narrative-led owners, various West teams playing musical point guards (and OKC somehow ending up with all their picks), AAU blood feuds, bloviating clowns, a man hurling a watermelon into a bin, the fugly new Maybach, I took that as disrespect, gonna take my horse to the old valley road, can’t wait to find out how this is Klutch’s fault, east is east and west is west, divisional rivals, the Raptors are Tampa-ing, from the 36ers to the 76ers, like a proper store-bought one, Josh Greens, Rip City RoCo, awkward workplace reunions,  McIntyre play-ins, Kennard’s make your job easy, co-owning the 2025 draft, hairy Johnsons, ripping off the Suns Valley jerseys for your touch team, the bright lights of Beenleigh, imported team identities, Brisbane’s enormous erection, location spotting, Vancouver grizzling, inviting yourself into craft beer group chats and getting thirsty on main. 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 The Pack a.d., Fuzz and Bee Bee Sea, craft beer corner, screaming against a hurricane, remember when the Dollop was funny, PNW aesthetics, it was indeed fun while it lasted, DJ Letterkenny, our new segment: Doc guesses about TV shows he doesn’t watch, violence against photocopiers, caught by the fuzz when I was still on the Fuzz, Italy’s leading Britpop act, skipping the prequels, the Ronsealiest, feeling it in your bones, 70s speakers were basically heavy carpentry, hey you get off my algorithm, TISM road safety campaigns, posthumous axework, old new Top Gear, The Amazing Racists, The Maize Runner, world famous in Canada, Iggy rides the bus, completely cactus, maple syrup and Timbits, taking it to the grave, rude covers, heyyyy ‘rona, and our usual high-level US political analysis. Next week: A NEW ALBUM FROM AC/DC. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. ALTHOUGH IT MAY SOUND LIKE SOME OTHER FORM OF HEAVY MACHINERY. Also new stuff from Matt Mays and White Denim. Those plus our 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: blaming netballers for your salary cap issues, instant karma, leaving for Xmas hols straight from work, Zamboni drivers playing centreback, G-League job interviews, inexplicable Spencer Dinwiddie shade, babysitting manchildren, Daryl’s gap week, Beeso’s jimmies are Russelled, making the idiotic DLo-KAT-Booker superteam someone else’s problem, you know you’ve done badly at your job when they name rules after you, straight clipart, City Has A Meth Problem, this year’s selection of trashbag NBA alternates, one last drip of Vice juice, Dutch time trial champions jerseys, sending secret signals to tinfoil Hinkie truther Sixers twitter, from a new jersey to New Jersey, DeMar DeLaker, Timmy time is over, Nets coaching combos, hurricane panic-buying in OKC, crowdsourcing your next gig, scurrilous rumours and come-and-get-me pleas, off-the-Pacers, the entire East has one more run left, when being bad at losing is an unhelpful skill, institutional lack of wisdom, last chance reloads, walking away from explosions, full page ads ain’t what they were,  step to my Lue, content is king, Pucovski v Burns, pickup A games, convenience sampling, the rise of Shield, WBBL is on, context is king, Leeds’ rubber band snaps, Leicester’s 2015-16 legends, the Leeds-Palace xG wasn’t 4-1 bad, Zapruder film VAR and the BALLS Podcast is recorded in front of a live studio audience. 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: Westside Gunn, Goldminds, the Bill & Ted 3 soundtrack, World Series Half-Cut Taped-Up-Tennis-Ball Cricket, beats as advertised, too much disrespect for even us, blocked and reported, riches and bitches, on commission, Muse does Highlander, Gen X nostalgia cash-ins, the Stones vs Beatles of 90s high school dropout movies, Stockdale Writes Bios, parts ≠ sum, old Datsuns, Melbourne returns, struggle filters, good is great, long shortlists, playoff locations, Gizzardian output levels, Canadian indie runs, Alien Weaponkingi, Ill Lombardia, not a week for that Dead Kennedys energy, Dr Seuss rhymes and seven Skepta references or less. Next week: new albums from The Pack a.d., Fuzz and Bee Bee Sea. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our long-awaited 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: Remember The Rio Grande Mud Vipers, having airport shuttle on speed dial, the Sixers double down on their double act, soft acts to follow, hedge fund hires, we’ve got big balls, trust issues, OG Mormons, cashing out under Covid, it’s football not sockdrawer, the father-son rule jumps codes, Nurse assistants, shopping indy bargain bin, inventing modern basketball, guess we’re stuck with JVG calling NBA games, 2x speed Sarver, trading with yourself, the crazy cat lady of the NBA, all parts included (some assembly required), happy returns for Christmas, Operation Big Power Grab, there is power in a union, who needs an offseason anyway, Rashford v Boris, judging an entire generation of basketballers by how much of a munter Starbury was, pray for Nash, YOU get to coach! AND YOU get to coach!, Beeso loves that green, NZ domestic decks are a little different to Oz domestic decks, spicy drop-ins, our traditionally comprehensive Grand Final coverage, maverick premierships, Richmond’s three weird flags, and foiling super Villains. 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: Elderbrook, Didirri, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, stout for breakfast, lactose tolerance, good head, ENG101-spec homebrew, king parrot sightings, falsettohoods, making excuses, low on IBUs, Which Witch is Which II: Witch Harder, callback and response, instrumental bridges, cooking your algorithm, apologies for last week, context clues, them raps, silver spoons, improv troupe promo shots, explaining ancient Late Show bits to people who should have been watching in period, Rodney Dangerfield routines, wasted jokers, soundtracks to movies you will never watch, you had to be there, Education Department sleeper agents, Les is more (more or Les), slightly over-ripe opening lines, the TISM creative process, hating Ed Kavalee, Nortons on Norton and getting yourself relegated. Next week: Westside Gunn, Goldminds and the Bill & Ted 3 soundtrack. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our long-awaited 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: Beeso unplugged, slow news weeks, trying to get yourself fired and failing, the Thibs World Tour, playing an ignoramus on television, Ty & Kawhi, Dolan West, stripping the Rockets for parts, stanning Stan, shopping Daryl around the league, new home Chicago, executive stalker of the year, MDA’s Rox vs MDA’s Suns, luck is a skill, blowing 3-1 leads, butterfly effects, expensive tweets, not you Cleveland, AD after LBJ, letting people help you, public vs private metrics, cross-sport analytics revolutions, LOLingwood, the bad website, competitions in competition, the world’s biggest supergroup and crying over curdled milk. 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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