tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week’s new albums: The Living End  | Say She She | Snõõper

Also: Country pubs and rail trails, digital cleanliness, backloaded takes, this song is not profound, the two kinds of Taylor discourse, the last good website, failed segues, Beeso re-reads bios, Baggio copped worse for less, AI summaries, UN resolutions against the proliferation of the word ‘punk’ in music genres, everyone’s a diacritic, egg vs chain, picture photos, last on the to-do list, Jordan on the Wizards, Covid year feelings, a series of demands, first obnoxious mover advantage, Piastri pessimism, 2014 Souths winning the 2025 comp, a womens CWCup-date, badly-aged Bathurst takes, NASCAR-shaped blobs and horse boxing.

5:56  The Living End

13:36  Say She She

21:21  Snõõper 

24:27  Next week’s picks

31:03  After Dark

Next week: Olivia Dean | Rocket | old Skunkhour from back in the day

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This week’s new albums: Playlunch | Queen Rodeo | Bass Drum Of Death

Also: Beeso hates your children, the Aunty Donna effect, PNW climate soundtracks, vibe dependency, future JJJ faves, garage bands on GarageBand, stealth mic’ing, drops without builds, Spotify genre or new hop varietal?, more slide whistle, ten cent beer disco demolition night, stopped clocks, jetskis mitigate against creativity, the algorithm says you’re washed, DJ Napster, getting thrown out of Angus & Robertson, short notice offers, GC Indy > Singapore GP, the Bart Simpson defence, self-policing karma, Playlunch innings, era corrections and glory hunting fails.

1:01 Playlunch

6:52 Queen Rodeo

10:06 Bass Drum Of Death 

17:33 Next week’s picks

27:27 After Dark

Next week: Say She She | Snõõper | The Living End

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This week’s new albums: Faithless | TV Death | GHOSTWOMAN

Also: good old Collingwood forever, bring your kids to work day, Death Stranding 3 Juventus 4, chronological fails, Marmite vocals, unacquired tastes, big noise and big gestures, Jesus and the Mary Chain, it’s the vibe, haunting the group chat, annual assignments, get in on the ground floor, the very definition of a joker album, the future is in the future, Rash predictions, Ange vs Nuno, and just out here having a crack vs just out here cracking.

2:32 Faithless

7:40 TV Death

11.44 GHOSTWOMAN 

17:29 Next week’s picks

23:12 After Dark

Next week: Queen Rodeo | Bass Drum Of Death | Playlunch

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This week’s new albums: The Beaches | The Beths | The Hives

Also: homeopathy, chicks can be guys too, apologetic swag, Tarantino source material, Denny Green albums, straw polls, bad places to get music recs, Sons of Gallagher, on them things, depression diptyches, respectful listening, anti-social media, NFL Bluesky, festival acts vs stadium acts, never use an interlude, pub rock phylogeny, the Al Michaels Affair, Uncle Dennis, Beeso capes for management over labour, unhelpful defences, Ban Hammer v. Smoking Gun, failing at spotfixing, Belichick’s nepo era, and people of America: shoosh.

Timestampy goodness:

00:00 Intro

01:12 Beaches

08:56 Beths

15:22 Hives

21:27 Next week’s picks

28:00 After Dark

Next week: Faithless | Ghostwoman | TV Death

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This week’s new albums: Pendulum | Dinosaur Pile-Up | Nunchukka Superfly

Also: the full Hetfield, legacy confirmation bias, outlap heroics, resolutely turn of the century, lamb chops play-along, jungle revivals, what killed triphop, big noises and teenage sneering, guiltiest pleasures, living through the worst versions of every ‘00s genre, great modern cover albums, volume shooters, celebrity karaoke vehicles, you can’t stop the music, Jerry A. of ‘80s Portland punks Poison Idea (not THAT much of a celebrity I will grant you), new horizons in boomer communications, orange you glad we didn’t pick this album, they have a lyric that is almost exactly this but somehow I'M the crass one, the enemy of creativity, a touch of the ‘tism, Beeso kills off 2000s TV actors, drama in Dallas (series 2), Eurobasket cases, shop windows, Lando v Oscar and qualified successes.

*One of said 'Moe problems' being it was actually Lenny who said 'please don't tell anyone how I live', but tbf misquoting ancient Simpsons bits is as core a tenet of gen X culture as complaining about the Hottest 100, this is how WE live

Next week: The Beaches | The Hives | The Beths

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This week’s new albums: Dojo Cuts | The Unknowns | EPs from Lammping and Cult Python

Also: make Australia 1982 again, written warnings, oversouled, don’t phake the phunk, recycling last week’s shownotes jokes, shouty chookpen renovations, tapas plates, forever 1996, House music, Britpop vibes, live fact-checking, newsletter rusted-ons, your gig guide for two weeks ago in Milton Keynes, sound of the funky drummer, second-level filtering, side-project side-projects, giving up after two weeks, Brentford’s big year, knowing your level, Maximising your final years, last week of school vibes and this week in poultry husbandry.

Next week: Pendulum | Dinosaur Pile-Up | Nunchukka Superfly

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This week’s new albums: The Black Keys | As December Falls | NO CIGAR

Also: Mid maxing, the kids are alright, self-service, Marmite 90s U2, black and white comparisons, losing everyone early, punk phylogenetic trees, not that close, great truckin’ songs have a renaissance, binary scales, mid-oughts everywhere except where it should be, Find My Flatmate, coming up next: Tonia Todman, drummer exchange programmes, Vine Inch Nails, musical tapas, full Fab, EPL round 1, owning the owners and the weird accent Clasico.

Next week: Dojo Cuts | The Unknowns | EPs from Lammping and Cult Python

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This week’s albums: new Hotline TNT and Skinner Brothers | old (and new) Hilltop Hoods

Also: Minimal viable product, meaningless terminology, doing too much, like and subscribe, front-loaded nostalgia, Em bits, Uncle Beeso’s Story Time, growing old together, SIX60 drivebys, 25 years in, say no to (some) drugs, shouts to Koolism, being objective vs being objectionable, on the cusp of a nosebleed, why try, protect the algorithm, we have Max Martin at home, dust cover blurbs, MKG > MGK, preloading in Nottingham, emo is not a dirty word, Lantanaland Clasicos, and the lowest-imaginable rent version of World Series Cricket.

Next week: The Black Keys | NO CIGAR | As December Falls

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This week’s new albums: Public Enemy | Kokoroko | NODEGA

Also: wintering in Beenleigh, that JJJ Australian all-time H100: it could have been worse?, Oz hiphop’s diversity hire, failed segues, the disease of more, never go full Duckett, the rise and fall of activist hip-hop, offline translation, only getting what you give, conversation stoppers, prioritising the bit, self-explanatory vibes, the first Foos approach, not enjoying not enjoying things, MS Paint covers, before they were famous, stuff you could do with CDs, the Patton-Hutchence nexus, Kaden Groves: destined to be more than just a dude who looks like a ripped Young Mendo, Montmartre forever, the art of racing in the rain, unpaid Defector promotions and failed second endings.

Next week: new Skinner Brothers and Hotline TNT | old Hilltop Hoods (so old it’s out of print and not on streaming)

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This week’s new albums are from Panic Shack | Benjamin Booker | His Lordship.

Also: who he play for, VPLs, neurodiverse ranting, it’s over for Beeso, overpromising and underdelivering, Brett Suede, dead climbers and deranged bikers, salt and vinegar chips, two wrongs make a wronger wrong, distrusting Substack, revenge of the colonised, Brooklyn Vegan recs, American country slush, Triple J’s engagement bait hundred, DDOS’d by normies, go listen to early Sabbath, deleting unnecessary sequels from your head canon, Trey Parker: welcome to the resistance, the Simpsons renaissance noone saw, Tour jerseys, that’s in Queensland, Athletic v Defector, going full Merckx, ice cream for dinner, good writing gets you into sports, three weeks of pointlessness and Dame Home Time.

Next week we are joined by: NODEGA | Kokoroko | Public Enemy 

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