tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: the Aldi brand Warriors, Billy Donovan’s dramatic theme music, OKC leaning into the teardown, giving James Harden too much thinking time, good times to get fired, never outshine your owner, the smartest guys in the room, beers in the exit meeting, bankrupting the Knicks, Heat culture, Zoom trophy presentations, tenuous lab metaphors, previewing ECSF game 7, questioning the entire premise of death, Marc Gassed-old, saying the right things in a contract year, believing in your plan until it’s time to change your plan, if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em, half-baked in Colorado, Pat Bev loves him some Euroslander, convenient asterisks, undeserved smugness, bootleg Big Bash, The Unmentionables, are Seven being advised by Jorge Messi, delivering on your KPIs several years late, the EPL is back?, gambling responsibly, oh-oh-oh O’Brien, booing basic humanity, loss leaders, boring your wife with yet more Heat culture takes, peak Pat Riley, picking your battles, hook turns, Giannis’ next team, Beeso in the bubble and the end of western civilisation. 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 welcome official cheesy 80s hair metal correspondent of the pod Adamhfoto to discuss in what possible universe is Poison’s Open Up And Say… Ahh! a classic (hint: the year 1988) as well as new albums from Cable Ties and the Casanovas. Also: yet another band playing Chuck Berry, going for a Slash, classically trained pianists, not well ‘ard, every rose, audience participation, watching your mates’ cover bands, the most relatable of all the axe gods, Phil Rudd drum solos, de-probbo’d Chili Peppers, all about that bass, TdF leadout guys, kebab fights, unsuccessful reunions, Finger vs Gurge, contravening the Trade Descriptions Act, self-inflated delusions, redneck cops getting owned, hairspray and riffs, burning down Flame Trees, punishing covers bands playing hipster album cuts instead of the pop hits you actually want to hear, Gen Z’s Gambler, Clementine Ford starts a punk band, Bobby Less, baggy Roberto Carlos style ’02 fits, meeting your Waterloo, back shop works burgers, Dude perfect, seven great years, learning to count in Denmark, classic Sledges, Lloyd Webber coke dreams, slow sad string covers for movie trailers, Who’s Got The Rona, score draws, unstable isotopes, which witch is which, it’s tricky to write a rhyme to write a rhyme that’s right on time it’s tricky, taking dubs and tape deck target demographics. What have we become indeed. Next week: All Them Witches, LA Witch and Tricky have new albums to share with you (and us). 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 in NBA playoffs and adjacent sports-related content: Sound as ever, Your Mate, low door frames, sick stalefish 720 combo dude, ego whispering, the Wally Effect, multiple Jacqueses, are there only five good coaches in the NBA, mindmelding with Kyrie, revisiting JKidd in Brooklyn, revisiting nothing from Bud’s previous playoff failures, Just Plan A Harder, stitching the bits together, whiny superfans, learning in garbage time, 0.5s is an age in the NBA, taking the Boston out of Boston, Jaylens and/or Jaysons, Brad has a type, Giannis and Jimmy, that Bucks GM Of The Year award isn’t aging well, CP3rd acts, overcooked Nuggets, Manscape series, K (and) Pop, the Mavs’ next move, Lu lives matter, I should RoCo, faulty priors, early Sarver vibes, confounded expectations, ratings hysteria, grim game 7s, fun with chalk, Dennis Denuto areas, Captain America meets Pinocchio, sitting by the river waiting to see the heads of your enemies float by and Scott Foster drive-bys. 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 Luka State, Drab City and Naked Giants. Also: white boy rap, one word reviews, RIP AOR, where in the world, frosted tips, kissin’ Cousens, American cheese, saving syllables, triphop aesthetics, trying to fall in love, recreational sadness, bleep off, $2 shop Black Mirror tropes, contractually obligated mentions 2020 style, talk about... pop music, failed interventions, targeted niches, other feeds are available, naked but’s, unwanted Cure, blame the second guitarist, Dragons Den for joker albums, Cuban Heal(ing)s, following stock trucks, rudey nudey style allusions, DIY album art, conservative Christian hysteria, the Minister for Cheesy Rock, more white boy rap, full pyro, winding up Metallica fans, some things are good that are actually bad, last gasps of hairspray, hey dude don’t call me dude, lizard people, show us ya Nasty, cut the interview, bad outros, self backpats and going out on a high note.

Next week: we’re on Melbourne lockdown with new Cable Ties and Casanovas, plus a most post-ironic classic in the form of Poison’s Open Up And Say… Bleaaaahh! (as the Mad magazine parody probably would have gone. Rest in power, king.) 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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Shut up and dribble? That's a big no on both. The basketball is off and Beeso is off on one - Kenosha, Christchurch, Sky News fash, militarised police, Bucks stopping, justice for Breonna Taylor, enemy combatants, Queensland cops, Aldridge and Amick, white supremacy, just a game, and just saying what everyone is thinking. The absolute state of everything eh. Tacked on the back because Doc insisted on doing a sports podcast: Messi divorces, Citeh squad goals, Nate McMillions, expensive autographs, Agent Seibold, the best team in Queensland, the real victims of silencing, actual basketball?, bubble bursters, second waves, RUGBA LEAG, the Guardian’s business model, Maradona runs and Okocha stepovers, Valencia’s fire sale, Kappa jerseys and Leeds strips (of various descripts.) 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 LPs from Melbourne-LA indie type Jess Cornelius, old-school Scandi metallurgists Lucifer and shouty upstate NY garage monkeys THE BOBBY LEES (their caps). Also: Teflon music, full brains, two year old timestamps, a lot of this, ridiculousness, Poison’s information service, McDonalds cheeseburgers,SORRY FOR SHOUTING, the reason this podcast exists, Zack White, suboptimal flatmates, mowing over extension cords, deaf magnetic, 100 years of LOUD, troll AOTY picks, new contractual obligations, earning your stripes, bungling through time and space, she’s a man, when Eric eats a banana a fantastic transformation occurs, Doc reads Guardian profiles, even better than the real thing, your list is invalid, prisoner of society and/or the moment, priorart, washed baseball fans and classic album After Darks. Next week: new albums from Naked Giants, Drab City and The Luka State. 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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Week one of the playoffs: 4-5 smackdowns, distrusting the waveform, Empires striking back, waving to the fans, keeping score, getting a split on the road, Euroskeptic NBA  twitter, idiot green blogs, ripping flares, Darko shadows, Boston West, Messi to Everywhere, the Broncos of La Liga, getting these jokes off, return on investment, Barca’s accidental genius, trading for Simmons, rewriting LaMelo’s back story, marriages of convenience, Anti Laker Blazer Club, Mal Meningaing, worse than doing nothing, in your feels in your Notes, the Bucks’ exhaust port, is rugby league too stupid for analytics, delusions of exceptionality, the Miami Heat of the NRL, the Man Citeh of the NBA, powdered chalk, defensive liabilities, potting Conley back into form, turns out AD is good, coach-on-coach violence, step-back hairlines, Uncle Bron, manscaping podcasters, the talent drain the AFLW deserves, not wasting Luka, the ousted Gentry, coaching the weird and difficult, it’s already next season somewhere and don’t hurt the GOAT. 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 In Hearts Wake, Hockey Dad and !!!, cheesy offshoots, worst of both worlds, cackhanded symbolism, reliable crowds, staying off the everything, toddler tantrums, dedication to the bit, intimate sympathy, This Is Actually Hardcore, sugary snacks, mostly harmless, rotation fillers, asterisk takers, I see what you did there, algorithm is a dancer, #makuthink, passengers on heroin, bad Batman good soundtrack, miss me with the interpersonal dramas of superheroes, Clone High II: Clone Higher, rotisserie chooks, the James Williamson story, punished with Raw Power, neauw meausic, Scandinavian effery, sad indigents, facing traces, picking bands for the bio, leaden metaphors for geographical distance, selling out your premise, imaginary friends, trying real hard and audio explosions. Next week: new LPs from Melbourne-LA indie type Jess Cornelius, Germano-Swedish old-school metallurgists Lucifer and shouty upstate NY garage monkeys THE BOBBY LEES (their caps). 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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The NBA playoffs begin here: day drinking, previewing Lakers-Blazers before there is a Lakers-Blazers, can’t stop won’t stop, Clips playing 4D chess, sweet home Arizona, going home happy, fake news, LaMarcus Oldridge, Wingstop, Simmons for Beal or for bits, living with the Point God, Jazz Nuggets is Scandinavian noir, bringing back jacksie, the green website has bad podcasts, Al Horford: legend at the bank, Raptors-Bucks, trying stuff that makes you look stupid, Atalanta’s run, Bielsa’s Leeds, not watching Nets-Blazers, not letting Dame cross half-court, broke back McCollum, 154 for 3, Murali vs Warne, #StephWashed, the Carmelo narrative, as good as it gets, defence is tiring, small sample size theatre, series picks, Ron Mueck references and all-Bubble teams. 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: short sharp shocks from the Buoys and Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, is Pulp’s This Is Hardcore a classic, gender identification, paying by the minute, good bones, range rovers, late for the zeitgeist, hashtag sick of winning, not getting the joke, cocaine fever dreams, rejected premises, performance reviews, hot thoughts, meetings that should have been emails, clunky segues, Pitchfork's very Pitchforky top Britpop albums list, alternative universe Be Here Nows, charity bin escapees, class comedy, punishing left wingage, aged care, objectively correct takes, dealing with fame, coming round to viewpoints you already held, time is a flat tyre, thrift shop David Bowies, grunge commonalities, never go full HR, old dudes at the pool, tears of a clown, unsearchable band names, pipeline masters, the next Unit and we’re all someone’s daughter and/or someone’s son. Next week: new albums from Hockey Dad, !!! and In Hearts Wake. 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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