tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week in sport: misguided enthusiasm in the group chat, the big two-v-three, who is Rick Rickleton, prioritising that money, prioritising not getting blowed up, win the stink win the match, all star game narratives, the clot thickens, no future is promised, figuring it out, around the grounds, Jacques Kallis strays, Kyrie talking nonsense, Australian archetypes, white mascots, Trez in residence, flipping off Amazon, timing your three months of good health, BANE, big-offs, Steph + Jimmy, two suns, some badly aged preview chat for the Dubs’ stomping of the KANGZ, pair of V’s, not mnemonic worthy, losing live, DPOY odds and Courtney-Love crashouts.

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This week in sport: a half-episode with half the BALLS MotorSportNerdPod, where Doc previews the upcoming F1, Indycar, Supercars, Nascar, sportscar and MotoGP seasons with one key question: should you bother watching?

Updated albums for next week’s music ep: The Wombats | Bad Bunny | Death By Unga Bunga

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This week’s new albums: Teddy Swims | Magic City Hippies | The Hellacopters
Also: Post Karcher, live from Montjuic, Doc outsources reviews to bios, pool deck vibes, time and place and frame of mind, Christmas glassware, delete option Autotune, ‘90s intro faff, consumer motoring advice, cheap tricks, carpal tunnel syndrome, vinyl freaks, stealth Christian rock, racist makeup, a lack of proper note-taking and pairs of shoes.

Next week: Charm School | Pastel | Asian Glow
Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: The Mavs traded Luka.

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This week’s new releases: The Weather Station | Delivery | Melter | Ghoulies

Also: Nextmen up, golden era DMCA, you can’t filter flat, egg punk vs dolewave, how Beeso got banned from the gym, noiuww means noiuww, vegan longbows, increased susceptibility to ads for seniors insurance and cruise holidays, drink like it’s Livid 2002, get the lemon pepper wings, albums people have heard of, lowered expectations and word of the day.

Next week: Teddy Swims | The Hellacopters | Magic City Hippies

Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week in sport: Test cricket, or whatever else is going on. Also: the 2x follow-on rule, a casual 60 over spell, you’re unfit and you’re not trying hard enough, making better decisions, Alex Hartley appreciation corner, it’s funny to watch England give up, Kuhnemann: come together with your plan, production meetings, getting weird before All Star, Jimmy and the Heat are each other, where does the Fox go, Blazers tradebait, full parachute, Spurs playing better D off the court than on, Zuck around and find out, abandoning the NFL one game early, making the honours board engraver work a second day and the Mustang Cup.

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This week: new albums from Lambrini Girls, Brown Spirits and Every Possible Way - A Compilation.
Also: running in please parse, see you next Tuesday, stacks on, buying dummies, Zach Braff strays, trading while in solvent, Jazz Odyssey, unexpected snipings, 0.01 of a joker, nanobands, algorithm and blues, audio Draino, Doc’s terrible Venn diagrams, Gen X’s boomer Hottest 100 takes, the most Channel 7 thing imaginable, Tiktok pop, #DemocracySausages, Chappell moans and training the house down.

Next week: The Weather Station | Delivery | Melter | Ghoulies
Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week in sport: having one foot on the plane while being thrown under the bus, Meth Booney, four more years girls, Pez erasure, our extensive match report from Phoenix 0 Mariners 0 (crowd 14,034), a literal MVP conversation, the world’s least likely Russ superfan, the last truly stupid owner in the NBA and getting upset at popularity contests.

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It’s our one contractually obligated nostalgiafest ep of the year, as Beeso, Adam and Doc draft our favourite albums of 1995.

Also: Guess Who, Kmart Gladstone, never try to be clever, how to get played on Triple J in 1995, veritable snipes, parenting tips, quoting Dostoyevsky, avoid at all costs, rigid niches, challenge accepted, more bangers less knobs, Betamax Amigas, horseshoe theory, hot corners, deliberately obtuse, geographically correct, sneaky desk-drumming albums, #GenXAreWorseThanBoomers, one for the content, Muse Factor prequels, too heavy or too weird, chopper PTSD, collective CD collections, confected narrative, it were all trees round here, perfect Venn intersects, the lost art of original soundtracks, lounge lizards, lightning rounds, unfocused fury, acid jazz, Chandlers Lismore, Techno Sucks, Dave’s demos, you’re only as good as your fans, remembering some guys, worst purchased albums, worst imaginable gigs, shortest imaginable long-lists, being reggaetonedeaf and handbrake turns.

Next week: welcome to 2025 with new albums from Brown Spirits, Lambrini Girls and Every Possible Way - A Compilation… of ‘90s indie covers. You can never escape nostalgia, you can only hope to contain it.

Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive including our 2024 albums, 2024 mixtape and the playlist of this episode (spoilers)
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: what it says on the tin. We're counting down our top five albums of 2024.
Also: colonial appendage swinging, bad grime and Dua Lipa, second chance draws, we heard what you said about us, process over results, midfield divebombs, gratuitous namedrops, Bobby Bragg, representative examples of the marque, finding your fastball,  Double J inflight magazines, not understanding what EDM is, falling off a cliff, less is more, more is less, backyard bands, different approaches to melancholy, not safe for all ages, period-correct solos, popping off, pure legacy, no bonus credits, everyone else’s AOTYs, Brat nuclear winter, misguided longing for shared experience, don’t get music recs from NBA writers, boomers in disguise and old school recordings.

Next week: our second annual incursion into Gen X nostalgia bait with our fantasy draft of the best albums of 1995, which is now thirty (30) years ago, allegedly.
Spotify playlists: All 2024 albums | 2024 mixtape | Playlist archive
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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