tripping balls (a music podcast?)

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss Mike Patton sex music, melting test patterns, magic flaps, the spy who phoned in from the cold, a really good question, experiential filler, anthems for washed broke GenXers, symphonic goth, bring the beat back, hydraulic failure, peaks and valleys, Fourmyula #1*, the dominion forever, resignation letters, more of what you hate, the other one, reset your presets, YMMV, family court father's day, Don't Think and worldwide sandstorms. This week's new albums were by UNKLE and Saskwatch while Tame Impala's InnerSpeaker was the Doc's classic. Next week: Sasquatch (see what we did there), Filthy Friends and the Presets' Apocalypso (2009). That and previous review fodder are the After Dark album playlist while our favourite tracks of the year to date are on the 2017 After Dark Mixtape.

*Nature wasn't actually the first local #1 on NZ charts, but it was a hit for both the Fourmyula and the Muttonbirds 20+ years apart and was voted the greatest ever NZ pop song in 2001. Obviously Wandering Eye hadn't been released yet, much to the chagrin of cafe owners nationwide. 

In which Beeso and the Doc talk BALLS and Boon, #OzPod2017, the world's greatest web series, Missed It By That Much, homeopathic dilutions, Twiggy's end game, we're not talking about the NBA, storms in Houston, the LA Not-Rams, another Tony Martin, shouts to our Cantabrian listeners, amplified polarisation, thank you for not footballing, getting mental illness ironically, Michael Sam 2.0, Heritier Lumumba: a name you'll never forget, the Melbourne Storm of the AFL, the death of Origin, apologies to Dave Warner, carried by the GOAT, bowlin' darts ay, HHRBFDRTW, may the best man win?, Desmo Dovi discovers himself, the Redlands badlands, the best coach you've never heard of, the game's greatest thinker, the face of the Gold Coast, the Lakers are not good at this stuff, the aliens, splitting hairs, second best in the west, Beeso hates on MDA, properly rating PG-13, IT in the Players Trib, IPA snowflakes, Euro qualifiers, Australia vs America and a load of CONMEBALLS. Ep background image stolen from here.

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss being on the red, too fast for love, Weekend At Tammy's, dot dot dot, hello 1975, perfect storms, overusing the porcelain, one trick Thibs, ultimate muzak, spot the Seppo, Sunday coffee music, the unbearable triteness of hipster album titles and kicking it live.

This week's new albums were Queens Of The Stone Age's Villains and that '70s band Sheer Mag's Need To Feel Your Love while Moby's Play was our classic. Next week: UNKLE, Saskwatch (as distinct from Sasquatch) and Tame Impala's InnerSpeaker (2010). All of those are now on the After Dark album playlist along with the winner of last week's Beasties Classic Album Royal Rumble (spoilers.) Our favourite tracks from AD-review albums are on the 2017 After Dark Mixtape.

Background music (previous After Darks referenced this week):
AD.87 - Rated 'R' by QOTSA (classic album)
AD.68 - War Stories by UNKLE (classic album)
AD.15 - Currents by Tame Impala (new album review)
AD.09 - Sorry I Let It Come Between Us by Saskwatch (new album review)

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss voting for Pedro, Mal Beck, 2020 visions of the Kyrie trade, why the Knicks need a FanTV channel, buying in a seller's market, Barcenal and Arselona In Crisis, the Week in Wood, Bangers can smash, people are idiots, Stevo Keef, faction too much friction, AB with less talent, a new entry for the BALLS Podcast drinking game, Kimber on Edwards, which bank?, scoop news, building fewer roads, Dizzee deletes Lewis' number, Sky falling for NZ rugby?, Twiggy Forrest planning to make a small fortune (out of a large one), scrums, sportswomen of the year, is it over?, shouts to Danny, more than you are and vale Mike Cockerill.

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss TayTay getting dragged, listening to Motörhead, new model Macs, Tim goes country, it's a free podcast, not made for me, new-old stock, clapping back at the Godfather, work experience track ones, collab-oral damage, why Americans hate grime, the hidden hand of EDM, storytime with Diz, inequality and all that sort of stuff, Royal Rumble, the Doc's unexpurgated PhD thesis on the back catalogue of the Beastie Boys 1986-2011, Leisure Suit Jerry, woke communication, mapping boroughs, the pointlessness of Walmart, honourable mentions, failed psychics, Paul's (Has It All), apologies to Ugly Duckling, splitting hairs, consensus sequences, shouts to Molly Lambert, absolute burglars, Done By '01 and the BALLS After Dark Complaints Resolution Service. This week we reviewed new albums from grime originator Dizzee Rascal and Strayan soulstress Meg Mac, as well as debating which of the Beastie Boys' back catalogue deserves to be called classic (we'll add the consensus #1 to the After Dark album playlist in a week or so, to help you dodge spoilers.) Our 2017 After Dark Mixtape is also a thing. Next week: QOTSA are Villains, Sheer Mag Need To Feel Your Love and Moby got some Play back in the day.

The regulars return to prosecute the cause of Beeso for Blues coach, why aren't the Walkers candidates for the Titans gig, who is Rick Alderman, four in fives, League Pass packages, time-slipping Twitter, trading Kyrie for IT + Crowder + the Nets pick*, Kyrie and Brad, timelines and trajectories, paying overs for IT, D-WADE TO THE CAVS (is a thing World Wide Wob probably made up), various Jaylens, mana, the Cavs front office appear functional, Suns SOS, forever young, there's always one idiot, old sprinters, FX in full effect, joining the Joyride, Semenuk's 89.8 straight out of the gate and the power of scoreboard pressure, I like big jumps and I can not lie, Polish randos, Julie Anthony hair, patron saints of the BALLS Podcast, unwashed balds, LCFC and LFC, Barca's massive overpay and an unexpected and frankly unsustainable amount of Ligue Un (pronounced Leg Urn) analysis.

*Which may be annulled by IT having a bung hip, so get in and listen while our #content is still remotely legitimate

The Doc and In Case Of Emergency Break Glass guest host Adamhfoto get into pouring one out for their lost recording, man hands, That Band You Be, bywords for beige, pub rock, polite kids, nuanced violence, Dimebag vs douchebags, disaffected white angst, 14 going on 40, wedding anthems, vulgar displays of punning, tiki torch tiki tours, the evolution of metal, when your heroes fall, therapy? (not the band), Popallica, listen all a' y'all it's the wine list and take me to the river. 

This week's review albums were the new one from the  Strypes and a vulgar display of Pantera. Beeso and the Doc are back next week when we'll review new Dizzee Rascal and Meg Mac. Check out the After Dark album playlist for all that and more. Also next week: the Beastie Boys Classic Album Royal Rumble: eight albums enter, one album gets added to the After Dark playlist. Our 2017 After Dark Mixtape is also a thing. 

Postscript: Pantera frontman makes fascist salute? I did nazi that coming

With Beeso on injured reserve, the Doc is joined by a very special guest host for a BALLS mini-sode on NBA scheduling, Kawhi and Kyrie, massive overreactions to the first week and a half of the EPL, the absolute state of domestic cricket, the end of Australian rugby and encouraging the practice of riding bicycles around and/or off things. Beeso and the Doc will be back next week, unless one or both of them contract cholera, mange, dropsy, the clap, hard pad or athlete's head.

After Dark is off this week, so instead enjoy this 'From The Vault' special (previously unavailable on Omny/iTunes) featuring Beeso and Ozi Batla (The Herd, Astronomy Class, Wild Colonial) having an entertaining and thinky chat about the past, present and future of hiphop. Batla's pick of Diamond D & The Psychotic Neurotics' Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop (1992) is the classic.

STOP PRESS: Beeso's on Injured Reserve for next week's ep so we're breaking the glass on emergency guest host @adamhfoto who'll join the Doc to talk new Strypes and old Pantera (the logical extension of Adam's Def Leppard fandom?) It's all on the playlist, so there's that. Lurgy willing, Beeso will be back next week when we'll have Dizzee Rascal, Meg Mac and the Beastie Boys Classic Album Royal Rumble: eight albums enter, one album leaves.

Original AD.23 shownotes:

BALLS After Dark.23 With the hippin' and the hoppin' and the bippin' and the boppin'

Original release: October 16, 2015

Yes yes y'all it's an After Dark Hiphop Special, in which Beeso and guest host Ozi Batla get into some good times and classic memories from back in the day when Beeso ran a couple of Brisbane music venues and did his bit to promote the nascent Noughties Oz hiphop scene, of which Batla's troupe the Herd were in the vanguard. Or the Tarago. In the process Beeso and Batla review Diamond D and the Psychotic Neurotics' Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop, a slept on classic (which explains the creases). They also get to mad scientists of recording, Sell Out With Me Tonight, losing your edge, it's the vibe, Batla's solo album Wild Colonial, the importance of time and place, why don't we get Kendrick Lamar, where's the fun in modern hiphop, why can't Beeso remember which classic album we did last week (hint: it definitely maybe wasn't (What's The Story) Morning Glory), why every head loves Roots, digital versus physical, and Batla's Mexican food biz. Other Batla-related adventures can be found at elefanttraks.com.

Other archive eps in which Batla joined us to talk NBA (BALLS.07 Cool story Glenn), AFL (BALLS.31 No Buddy to love) and tunes (BALLS After Dark.02 Bigger balls than the original) are available elsewhere on the internets.

In which the Doc and guest host @bernietb discuss why friends should never let friends Richmond, needling the needlers, the Western Farce, nuking WA: the case for, carpark Scalextric, the FUTURE Future future of Formula E and Le Mans, Toyota to DTM (is a thing we just made up), come for the food..., Hondaaarrrghhh, Kevin Magballsen, New-E, viva A1GP, rose-tinted Sierras, the past ain't what it used to be, old rich guys, trust British tourers (sure can), Maro out here making mistakes all weekend, the Rockenfeller Shank, online brands and nuking WA: the case against. Then, in something that probably should have been an After Dark except we ended up talking about much the same stuff: sledging the dead to save print media, bringing the kiddies back to stock car racing, the 1999 CART World Series, trying not to die in race cars, bad F1 ideas, bad Tilke ideas, racing turkeys, abandoned Tilkedromes, down on the farm, weird Spanish Bathursts, Force Not India, bad Welsh accents, Buemi goes buerko, spectacle and narrative, how Hermann gets hired and you picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel.