tripping balls (a music podcast?)

In which Beeso and the Doc talk International Beer Day, death to pseudocraft, keep doing what you're doing, a bit too much perspective, licking wookees, What's Wrong With Steve, Live at the Greek, sub-winery, original signals, triphop geography, not quite massive, now available in two-stroke, they don't make 'em like that any more, gendering albums, return of the Mac, beastie modes and the particular intricacies of making mixtapes in the CD-R era (go make your own 80 min playlist on Spotify and show us how easy it is). This week it's a end-of-Double-Dragon-esque brofight with the Black Crowes' Chris (Robinson Brotherhood) and Rich Robinson (The Magpie Salute) throwing down, while we discuss triphop's philosophy of drug use as it relates to artistic endeavour and/or the Sneaker Pimps' 1996 debut. Next AD (in two weeks' time): Dizzee Rascal, Meg Mac and our classic album is the Beastie Boys. All of them. Until we figure out whether they actually made a *classic* *album* or not. Also on Spotify: the After Dark playlist (current, former and future review albums) and our 2017 After Dark Mixtape (fave review tracks of YTD).

In which Beeso and the Doc return to talk last week tonight, cricket's pay deal, idea-flogues, board stupid, the workers united never being defeated, AFLW vs NRLW, picking outside your pool, putting it out a bit, no I said FIGUREhead, Stephen Moore Stephen Moore riding through the land, Ben's Mowing, Kyrie vs The Man, the Uncle Drew League, leaving home (life was never good to me), hung up on the first ring, coaching humblebrags, Mamba mentality, the real plus-minuses of Real Plus-Minus, ESPN's early season NBA win projections, the predictive worth of late season runs, Swag value, Omny Casspi, Thibs being Thibs, the Seven Second Spurs, Neymar gets paid: chaos ensues, one and a half way players, crunchy mammals, vale Les Murray and everyone's favourite hit segment (literally) HHRBFDRTW. 

In which Beeso and the Doc are off this week, so instead here's a classic After Dark from our pre-Omny/iChoonz days (Oct '15) featuring new from Lana del Rey (timely) and the Prodigy, and Oasis' Definitely Maybe as the (very) arguable classic. Also contains a bonus After-After-Dark #BaeOfPigs special, because that was a thing which definitely doesn't date the ep completely. You can find all our pre-Omny content (up to Balls.44 & After Dark.35, Feb 2016-ish) on Beeso's blog Lantanaland. Original shownotes:

BALLS After Dark.21 Now available in two stroke

Original release: October 1, 2015

In their 50th podcast Beeso and the Doc review the Number One Album in Australia, talk the scientific application of ultraviolence, ketamine and paint thinners, one trick ponies and cow tipping, why the Doc never was a Cornflake Girl, music to neck yourself to, kickstarting hearts, anger management, Ibiza Parklife, BLOOOZE EXPLOSION, Noelling in the bushes, great overrated indie anthems of the 90s, the Doc goes off on one, sport gets in the way, Beeso is very white, and the Bae Of Pigs invasion. This week's reviewables were Lana del Ray's Honeymoon and the Prodigy's The Day Is My Enemy, with the Doc nominating Oasis' Before They Were Stars effort Definitely Maybe for classic discussion. On next week's ep: Villainy, Ivan Drago and Dire Straits. Next week's and this week's releases are on our #BALLS Spotify playlist.

In which Beeso and special guest, sports writer Erin Riley, have a reasoned and intellectual discussion about the changing landscape of women's professional sport and the dearth of analysis and nuance in the Australian sports media marketplace.* This week: Shrubsole's spell in the Women's World Cup Final, The Cricket War II: Cricket War Harder, Erin's Michael Bevan Rant, will AFLW kill Olympic women's sport in Australia, Beeso is a complete amateur, fighting over juniors, netball numbers, college education, sloppy seconds, taking credit, Kyrie Ablett Jr., the AFL fan dichotomy, the pointlessness of parochial code feuds, Australia's Great Sandy Desert (of decent sports writing), losing the lottery, vale SBS Zela, Erin's forthcoming piece on the AFLW State of Origin, and fine dining in western Sydney and the death of WEC. Read more from Erin at erinriley.com.au or follow her on the Twitterggghhh at @erinrileyau. Hear less from the Doc by listening to this episode of BALLS, or Beeso's foodie pod Cheeeeesy (this week: sakè and whisky. Very #onbrand.)

*The Doc was disqualified from any and all reasoned and intellectual discussion about women's professional sport on the basis of this tweet alone ref. the result of yesterday's Matildas-USWNT game. He will return at a later date, as will our regular motorsport correspondent @bernietb, who has no idea who 'Matt' is.

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss not being At The Drive Thru, nominative determinism, "hard" "rock", chucking a mono, RIP old mate from Linkin Park, not being the man, not being funny, Twitter tolerance, judging depth, novelty movie podcasts, weaponised Baz Luhrmann, unmet challenges, Beeso ill-advisedly attempts to reinvent our tried-and-true once sober/once drunk testing methodology, for those who hate our old man hiphop content: here's more old man hiphop content, Hairy Mary, the high point of Golden Era rap, the somewhat contrived misadventures of Tony Hawks, improving Aerosmith, chasing Beasties, cheesy riffage, self-indulgence, fighting crowes, the anti-Wu Tang Clan and may you live in interesting tunes. This week's new albums were by emo-screamo Melbournians Alpha Wolf and AD.100-era Albion Love Den faves Future Islands; the Doc's classic this week was Run-DMC's Tougher Than Leather. (1988), who provided the ep intro this week. Next week it's the poddy of brotherly love, with new projects from the Black Crowes' Chris (Robinson Brotherhood) and Rich Robinson (The Magpie Salute) facing off; Beeso's classic is from late-90s trip-pop act Sneaker Pimps. Also on Spotify you can find the After Dark playlist (current, former and future review albums) and our 2017 After Dark Mixtape (fave review tracks of YTD) as well as After Dark.100's 2017-to-date and 2015-16 best-of album playlists. 

In which Beeso and the Doc talk Roxstarters, selling high, mobilising billions, buying local, rich guy exceptionalism, Beeso eerily foreshadowing his Suns' aimless pursuit of Kyrie twelve hours before it hit the news, the Antipelicans, geographical allegiances, Welcome to New Jersey, Marvel Jerky, sleeveless not in Seattle, Gay conversion, standing still = going backwards, the endBA?, relatable #content, South Africa stay on brand, KP goes home, Halo hell no, crosstown rivals, shouts to Aeon Flux, reasons to like GWS, celebrities vs loyalists and TBA production meetings. Bonus: secret testing footage of F1's Halo.

In which Beeso, the Doc and special guest Adamhfoto get into After Dark 101 course prerequisites, RUOK, unhappy endings, the rock revival revival, running out of good ideas, never Beeso, never bagpipes, bootleg Buena Vista, doing it for the #content, Muse's muse, hair metal family trees, Open Up And Say Ehh, diabetes, suspension of disbelief, arguing with scoreboards, lumpy sugar, Beeso talks to kids, tough times = great art, the horrors of the past, the world's worst Def Leppard cover band, cat updates from Phil Jamo, the oral history of Walk This Way, getting the skits and guests agreeing with other guests. This week's new albums were from Polish Club and the Hot 8 Brass Band. No points for guessing who picked that one. The classic: Hysteria by Def Leppard (the original, not this shitty Spotify cover.) No points for guessing who picked that one either. Title track: Pour Some Sugar On Me (In The Name Of Diabetes). Next week's albums: Future Islands, Alpha Wolf and Run-DMC (and we're) Tougher Than Leather. Elsewhere on Spotify: Our regular new + classic album review playlist and our 2017 After Dark Mixtape, as well as AD.100's 2017-to-date and 2015-16 best-ofs. For more on the back story of Beeso's unnatural aural predilections, check the end of BALLS After Dark.10: More Brass Than Class.

In which Beeso, the Doc and special guest Adamhfoto discuss getting Peevered off, expiring contracts, Andy Murray: Feminist Icon, basking Sharks, Holden Cup basketball, Lonzohotakeapalooza, the oral history of NBA Jam, salary cap strawmen, Ron Burgundy gets paid, coach Kobe, parla Ingles-y, $200M is not a large amount of money (?), twenty year beer bets, Game of Zones, four more years boys, Oily Lakers Guy, CasualSpace, high Delleverage, Lions tour takes, the ARU recruiting the finest young minds of a generation, Swans vs GWS (in which Adam trashes Sydney AFL fans for being bandwagoning arrivistes), Seatless Stadium, (radio)active support, motivation > preparation, Jahson Thurston, Rooney does it for the kids, down with this sort of thing, Ninja Washed, the other Kevin Bartlett, the more punchable Woj, boxing is tops and the future of American football.

On a very special gigantism-enhanced 100th episode of BALLS After Dark, Beeso and the Doc welcome Special Guest Star Albion Love Den to compare favourite albums of the year to date and of the last couple of years and argue about a legendary Brisbane band's comeback album, in amongst discussing the road to woke, how new music is(n't) dead, changing taste profiles mid-stream, algorithm is a dancer, royal bloodletting, the disease of more, Lorde of this world, ALD's back catalogue, vale FasterLouder, Beeso sit iniuria, country matters, winery tours, songs about going to the pub, the sound of Napalm in the morning, Baptists of fire, intermission (aka it's not plagiarism if it's a tribute), no original parts, geographical soundtracking, very Fleetwood Mac areas, Brisbane Sound ≃ Dunedin Sound, don't screw the crew, shouts to Angourie, polar opposites, why (...why?), lighting the place on fire, the elusive genius of simplicity, the double-edged sword of time and place, if you're not first you're last, navel-gazing whinge-pop, fragmentation is diversity, undiscovered classics, Beeso's lunchbox, mushroom festivals, extreme sub judice, Theophilis Thistlethwaite, Bunga Bunga, vale the (actual) Albion Love Den, and the Go-Betweens need an actual go-between. No new albums this week, but our favourite albums of the year to date and of 2015-16 (as namedropped in this pod) have their own spoilerriffic Spotify playlists. Also on Spotify: Our regular new + classic album review playlist and our 2017 After Dark Mixtape. This week's classic, selected by ALD, was the Go-Betweens' The Friends Of Rachel Worth (intro track: German Farmhouse therefrom). Next week: Polish Club, Hot 8 Brass Band... and a certain heavily-produced pop album by a certain NWOBHM-lite poodle rock act which means a certain Rockwiz tour guest vocalist must be making his triumphant return to a certain l̶o̶w̶-̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ po̶d̶c̶a̶s̶t̶ competing media platform. Sadly*, aforementioned heavily-produced pop album by aforementioned NWOBHM-lite poodle rock act isn't on Spotify, but here's its Classic Albums episode overdubbed in Russian, because The Internet. Thanks to everyone who's joined us on the road to 100 episodes - what a long, strange journey it's been.

In which Beeso and the Doc proclaim the Knicks are back, offer one key tip for NBA franchises in free agency, talk frontloaded rubbish, net migrations, treading water westward, The Biggest Losers, North West (not Kim's kid), Rocky Gobert, the unintentional comedy of NBA AU, defensive boards, taking less, Dirk owns, not for profit, reading for racists, not that kind of doctor, free agency bargains, retiring Miami's #1, suburban ennui in Sacto, the downfalls of being accidentally good, conference calls, player vs team fandom, why Denver?, trade of the week, firing Gatland, competitive CTE, the Margaret Court Award for the Most Cooked Discourse in Professional Sports, the importance of journeymen, the closest league in the world, The Peto's Elbow and seeya Sherliggett.