The BALLS Podcast | tripping balls (a music podcast)
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BALLS After Dark.170 Nobody asked for this
March 07, 2019 07:21 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThis week: new albums from Puppy and Jessica Pratt, and a potted history of the Amen Break. Also: Not that kind of goat, Deathdeathdeath Amwayamwayamway, Chineweeze Democracy, MJ drivebys, musical building blocks, Amen brother, Centre for International Metal, MOAR SCREAMING, Pat Malone, San Franstinko, red flags on the Goldie, an elegant sufficiency of minutes, social media testicles, drizzle soundtracks, HI HO, minimum standards, Dutch grime, shouting at Spotify support, AJ Magnay: some fol...
BALLS.193 Maxi Headroom
March 03, 2019 04:57 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBThis week on the BALLS podcast: Respectable opinions, losing to the Magic, late nite Jazz, Piston happy, blow up the Suns, words are hard, the rookie class, playoff distractions, OKC vs anyone, Carl Hooper's Spurs takes, a week with Bielsa, when coaches and front offices feud, Chelsea's big decision, system coaches, Boston on the block, DEY TERK ER JERBS, the return of Zion, double terrible, the Australian men's cricket coach is apparently a small child, the real winners of SL in SA, you can...
BALLS After Dark.169 Stop sending me Norwegians
February 27, 2019 21:43 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBThis week we don't see eye to eye over Blood Red Shoes and get a bit Dr Seuss with the Gentleman's Dub Club. Also: stop drinking and start paying attention, a brief history of NWOBHM, the other end of Britpop, scene labels, alphabetical disorder, fourth album Garbage, Straya under Smudge, getting punished in KL, I'm A Scientist Get Me Out Of Here, dubdubdubdubdubdubdubdub FLASH! AAH-AAAAHHHH!!, you be the judge, half-baked concepts, pining for the fjords, boring legacy acts, NSW's war on liv...
BALLS.192 Bogans from Wangaratta cosplaying as Russell Westbrook
February 23, 2019 06:16 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBNBA All Star weekend and the playoff picture, why college basketball is trash, we fix ODI cricket (no not like that), why is AFLX and Kaep gets paid to go away. Also: Networking opportunities, Logo Lillard, the most skilled player in the NBA, truth in journalism, Ky's two annoying dads, Scott Foster and the burden of problematic coincidences, the race for eighth, quick-burning coaches vs coach-killing locker rooms, playoff LeBron, Clippers free agents, Kangz v Dubs, useful idiots, the King's...
BALLS After Dark.168 G'day Bruce
February 19, 2019 20:13 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBThis week on the After Dark it's a classic album special featuring 1982 NWOBHM epic The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden, and amateur 80s metallurgists Adamhfoto and the Doc. Also: Faith in time signatures, you're the voice, talking about Pink Floyd, what exactly IS a classic album, mutual metal interests, garage days revisited, brand new heavies, lineup mythologies, missing links, Metallica starter kits, crazy prog, horizontal tastings, the Beeso is strong in you, playing to your strength...
BALLS.191 I'm a fixer. I fixed it.
February 17, 2019 01:50 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBDoc and Adamhfoto on the NBA playoff picture at the All-Star break and how to fix both the BBL and the A-League finals (by cancelling them). Also: failures of umedgenation, betting irresponsibly, the Lakers' run in might get them run over, Collins class, for whom the Dell tolls, IT's long shadow, the new Sixers, the Heat's ceiling, Masai making friends, Giannis goes solo, value judgements, LeBron vs the Dubs, Boogie's next bag, NBA TV series, Thunder brewing, Dame time, should the Lakers tan...
BALLS After Dark.167 Misogynist alcoholic rubbish
February 12, 2019 23:30 - 32 minutes - 30 MBThis week on the After Dark we crack one open with the boys by ourselves accompanied by new albums by FIDLAR and Spidergawd. Also this week: Retox, getting in the sea, Brexit album titles, slacks in the mosh pit, sax offending, '00s Foos, limited tricks, DAAS before class, homage vs ripoff, never listening to lyrics, being older than you sound, Latin rock tropes, sticking to your knitting, Serena shouts out Dookie, cancelling Oz hiphop, the unlimited power of the internet, half of last year'...
BALLS.190 Planes, Trades and Automobiles
February 10, 2019 23:27 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBRemodelling your bathroom with hammers, top fives, buyout vultures, Team All-Length vs Team All-Tampering, New Trolleans, Boston Beeso, Big Baller bounceback, KD v NY, fearing the deer, solving problems with money, Pacers not punting, your Jaysons and your Jaylens, Fultz needs Magic, lowballing the Pelicans, cryin' for Zion, *very Ringer voice* is AD actually good?, selling to Seattle, capitalism is BS, full book(er) value, the anti-Harden (soften?), successful basher-upperers, Nets revenge ...
BALLS After Dark.166 We like to party
February 06, 2019 00:46 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBThis week: Beeso goes Full Munter on a Monday at the Prodigy, while the Doc relentlessly clowns two generations of Hottest 100 voters on the line and on the mic. Also: stretch goals, the new Nissan XXX-Trail, the punk rock of dance, drummer rest breaks, Prodigious clipping, everything is Ric's, coming down the river, annual relitigation, the perils of popularity, the moratorium on tastemaking, if it's too loud you're not old enough, 80s thrash metal in a foreign language, expecting unlistena...
BALLS.189 The Doc Rivers Decision Tree
February 01, 2019 08:47 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBBREAKING: Knicks fandom, fridge magnet motivational quotes, people on drugs, parking fines, filling in forms, Sreeky's 'shop, AD2LA, let he who is without drama cast the first subtweet, NFL castoffs do not a NBA organisation make, betting on the Brow, peak absorbancy, consistent inconsistency, RIP the Beard's unassisted points streak, in praise of the Pelicans (?), firing Jason Kidd immediately, NOLA saves Seattle, Adelaide saves OKC, Thon the way out, AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE, editorial meeting...
BALLS After Dark.165 Nihilism and potatoes
January 31, 2019 07:59 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBOn our first new music show of 2019: John Garcia and the Band of Gold by the eponymous former Kyuss frontman and DIVINE BIKER LOVE by angelic milk (St Petersburg goth-glam-weirdos with a very loose understanding of the correct use of capital letters). Also this week: Weezer's wheezer, disposal procedures, vocal whinges, clubhouse leaders, Novichok and roll, keeping score, Indie Temple areas, konmari your life, FROWIN' SHAAAAPES, getting off-chops with your dodgy uncle, the first Livid, Hotte...
BALLS.188 NBA, NBA, this is you
January 27, 2019 05:05 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBThis week: Beeso van Gundy hates Jimmy Butler and the Lakers (who should tank), the Dubs start trying, Steph (falls over) Better, keeping Boogie, offensive Dray, All Star-ters, will somebody please pass James Harden the ball, the Twilight of the Day of the Zombie Grizz, get well Dipo, Kawhi buys a house, being two years away from being two years away, world economic comedy, D-Wade's jersey exchange tour, upbeat Jazz, Jingles wants a week off, the Arjuna Ranatunga School of Captaincy, more of...
BALLS.187 Throwing the book at Cricket Australia
January 20, 2019 08:24 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBIt's our Sandpapergate-themed summer book club special, featuring a deep-dive into Geoff Lemon's Steve Smith's Men and Gideon Haigh's Crossing The Line as they and we dissect the absolute state of Cricket Australia - plus things you may have missed in the NBA and Beeso's Leeds play I Spy in the English Championship. This week: Legacy disappointments, Gonzo Geoff, the final word from The Final Word, forensic accounting, Kangz XI, Smudged captaincy, white line fever, pride goeth before a fall,...
BALLS After Dark.164 2018 Album Of The Year
January 17, 2019 02:54 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBIt's our After Dark Album Of The Year for 2018, in which we sort through the eighty-odd new release albums we reviewed on the pod last year and pick a definitive* top five, plus our favourite legacy artist, Oz/NZ and classic albums of the year. This week: previously on ADAOTY, critical skills, making work for yourself, Konmarangie, why is VB, unnecessary relistens, confound variables, rethinking the classics, party consumable concept albums, stupidity is my wheelhouse, histrio-Nicks, do you ...
BALLS.186 Distrust the process
January 11, 2019 02:16 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBBeeso and Dr Yobbo are back from the beach with a quick one on the absolute state of it (it being the continuing omnishambles of Australian cricket, through the lens of test team selection) - Maximising Marsh, the 2012 Lakers of cricket analytics, he-said he-said, deselecting selectors, the No Futures League, the 2015 Sixers of player development, international transfers, club > country, east coast biases, getting absolutely Slatered and why we believe the children are our future. Background...
BALLS.185 More Marsh than clarsh
January 04, 2019 02:50 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBFor all you poor suckers back at work - or still posted up in the hammock watching the cricket - here's a bonus BALLS summer edition pod with Adamhfoto and the Doc on the state of BBL socials, Jazz odysseys, Ben's budget triple doubles, Dante's peak, uncooked schedules, Sixers in (the) five, homeless Raptors, stanning the standings, stagnant Marshes, Bumrah goes whooshka, Pant-a-gram, the worst captain since the Costa Concordia, foreshadowing our Sandpapergate book club, the Reject Shop Mark...
BALLS After Dark.163 Paaklife
January 01, 2019 23:59 - 1 hour - 57 MBHappy New Year! To close out the festive season we're bringing you a summer special double episode of the After Dark. First, Beeso and the Doc review new Anderson.Paak and Cookin' On 3 Burners, then argue over the classic status of Primal Scream's pioneering rock-rave crossover Screamadelica (1991). Then (from 29:15), Adamhfoto joins the Doc to review our last new albums for 2018 from the Beths and Jon Spencer (sans Blues Explosion), and preview our annual Album Of The Year ep. Also in our s...
BALLS.184 Sufficiently lit for Memphis
December 19, 2018 06:21 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBLive from an undisclosed location in beautiful Buranda, it's the BALLS Podcast. This week: tales of the tape, trampoline bounce, Virat gets shafted, AWOL crowds, flat red cards, 5-6-7-8!, native flora, "I can't understand the Suns", ghost fandom, ringchasing on a budget, #nofilter insta, Jeff is the real coaching Stan, Magic missing a trick, college emperors, you are hearing us from the future, Leeds leads, the perils of recording before Mou gets fired, expansion drafts of history, the Phoen...
BALLS After Dark.162 Making it rain
December 12, 2018 01:59 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBNew albums from Racing and Drunk Mums, a classic from Tricky, getting rejected from Penthouse Forum, nominative determinism, appreciating nuance, saw the Stooges and the MC5, whiffley, you should do more of what works, pronounciation guides, having the wrong opinions, resampled samples, music on television, I doooo love writing Green Guide letters, getting another one in, having your preconceptions reinforced, going Aceless, 2017 never happened, broken gizzards, Paaklife, Doc's 30 day song c...
BALLS.183 Draymond is a gobby Kante
December 09, 2018 07:41 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBGolden Nuggets, Timmy Good Times, this Paul Millsap bit didn't age well, choose your own a̶d̶v̶e̶n̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ diagnosis, beasts from the east, the (potential) Battle of Los Angeles, KD stays salty, Draymond Green is the YOLO N'Golo, this Chelsea bit didn't age well, the first rule of Headband Club, evil beards, making it rain, washing your hands, southeastern mediocrity, Kings Twitter is undefeated, RoCo saves Minnesota, Pop going flat, when competence is an achievement, Adam's revenge, this I...
BALLS After Dark.161 Thirty day trial
December 04, 2018 21:48 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBWith Beeso away on international duty the Doc does a stupid social media quiz and inflicts his laughably poor choices on you, the listener. As Drake would have put it, you used to call me on my self-own. Next week: new albums from Racing and Drunk Mums, and a mid-90s triphop classic from Tricky. Review albums are on our After Dark album review playlist (new stuff added to the end) while our favourite tracks of the year from AD albums are our 2018 After Dark Mixtape. Talk back to us on Twitte...
BALLS After Dark.160 Insurge Gainsbourg
November 29, 2018 02:08 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBThis week: new albums from Muse and Resin Dogs, revisiting the Prodigy's Fat Of The Land from 1997, plus Hey Botham!, clapbacks without comebacks, it's all gone Pete Biltong, B-grade movie soundtracks, the tide is out on synthwave, pop bowerbirding, time and motion, Darkness and light, the Doc's Insurge story has a point (honest), Gentlemen's Dog Club, song 2, our notorious Desert Island Discs II episode, twisted firetwirlers, unreasonable fanboiz, stylistic choices, repeated Mantras, Katch-...
BALLS.182 We are professionals and we know what we're talking about
November 24, 2018 02:57 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBManagement retreats, the Ranadive-Divac Perpetual Trophy, palace intrigue, the Pat Howard Principle, Atlanta nightlife, sometimes basketball happens, Vince 25K, zombie canon, SEGABABA road rash, something to prove, #StephBetter, glu(t)e guys, the twenty-one million dollar men, the Wizards magically make their fans disappear, trading places, Hay-ward you like to be traded, Agent Kobe, CLEVELAND THIS IS FOR YOU, Ms Alyssa, getting on the shard in Western Sydney, Legacy's legacy, immigrants get...
BALLS After Dark.159 White White Bread
November 21, 2018 23:46 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBNew albums from '90s rave punks the Prodigy and nascent Novacastrian metallurgists Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, a genuine hip-hop classic from Cypress Hill, plus Jabba the Couch, nobody cares, intellectual lyrics, legacies lost, Where's Keef?, yours or theirs, getting outshined by your older siblings, you make me wanna kill again, everything is the Choirboys, aggressive mediocrity, Estonian rally navigators, RIP Spike Lee, Little Athletics, NBA City jersey power rankings, I HAVE CASH ...
BALLS.181 All four one
November 18, 2018 09:03 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBStories of the week, the Spurs are worriers, the Clippers raise a banner, Dray's last play, #StephBetter, Boogie down, light years, Dray and Jimmy, motivational speaking, full shade, other bits of the Butler deal, whither Fultz, the $2 Shop Ariza, Jazz get clapped, outperforming your numbers, Dante's peak, Melonoma treatment, appreciating Vince, owners vs labour, Beeso's holiday in Kobestan, see the bal hit the ball, tests of the new regime, Gideon's new edition, scope creep, lack of perform...
BALLS After Dark.158 Seger Genesis
November 15, 2018 03:59 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBAdamhfoto joins the Doc to review new albums from The Living End and RÜFÜS DU SOL (their caps) and a preposterous classic from The Darkness, plus never forgetting Elefants, twenty years a Prisoner, spit and Polish, Aldi-brand Bragg, the absolute state of it all, justifying winery tours, throwing shapes in Vietnam, Beeso and Ace on dance music, joining the club, desert inland discs, Seger master systems, padding up, find location, doing something, classic synchronicity, Big Dark Out 2004 (the...
BALLS.180 Sheep stations of the cross
November 11, 2018 03:01 - 1 hour - 98.6 MBONE HUNDRED AND EEIIIIGGHHHTEEYYYYY. A special double ep of the BALLS Podcast in which our regular racing correspondent Bernie/Matt joins us to talk extremely indoor supercross, spinning your wheels, Supercars in summer, Formula 1 is Hanoi-ing, is W-Series a revolutionary step in equality or the Handmaid's Racing Series, THE GRAND FINAL OF OUR GAME, Australian monopoly, Canberra's one contribution to Australian motorsport history, does Class 1 mean it's better quality, Super GT podium etique...
BALLS After Dark.157 Highway chile
November 07, 2018 23:20 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBWith Beeso dashing to the airport in pursuit of a plane, it's a miniature travel-size-toiletries edition of the After Dark, featuring new albums from Tom Morello and Paul Kelly, a very 1995 classic from Everclear and Beeso sounding like he's being broadcast through a busted set of airline headphones. #OnBrand Sorry about that, needs must etc. Also this week: motorway patrol, American electronica, going for a Slash, middle school Skrillex, let's hear it for the girls, solid state stairwells, ...
BALLS.179 Live via Racecam
November 02, 2018 12:42 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBSentient lumps of coal, making the correct noises, Earl of Dukes, Luesing your job, Houston's problem, broken records, get Iggy a fifty-burger, general soreness and precautionary rest, D-Rose and C-Ron, noone can stop anyone, celebrating mediocrity, net ratings, building dysfunction, Luka as advertised, we're in Kansas for some reason Toto, Just PatBev Things, Rapdiculousness, big hands I know you're the one, lack-of-Pacers, close and late, Portlano The Man, schedule alerts, start as you mea...
BALLS After Dark.156 You can't just make the same noises
October 31, 2018 02:29 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBThis week: new albums from from Clutch and Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, a classic from Bob Marley and the Wailers, plus beer drinkers and hell raisers, living with Bob, hitchhiking with Thor, #NotAllAustralians, slow and steady, blaming the originators, a charitable 1.6, van Vleet me in Temecula, Dunkwave City, yes that's the joke, narrator: he did not edit all this, Maryland crab cakes, in the cans versus on the cans, sausage fests, pro-rel in the workplace, Daniel Johns is not here for yo...
BALLS.178 Kawhi'i Five-0
October 26, 2018 07:49 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBBurying the Leeds, asking for directions, numbers never lie (except when they do), just enough data to get yourself into trouble, 5-and-Oh Canada, DC Talk Too Much, OKC are now 0-4 since we recorded this, mediocre Jazz, misfiring Rockets, the Dwightbola virus, Scrapheap Challenge: Philadelphia, correct usage, trolling SVG, Blake's 50, early Pace, vanishing Magic, the Cavs are now 0-5 since we recorded this, western movers, Point Davis, Steph's #NBATwitter game (for the record it was 11 made ...
BALLS After Dark.155 Expecting very little and still getting disappointed
October 24, 2018 08:55 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBThe Old Firm of Beeso and Yobbo return with an old-school edition of the After Dark, reviewing new albums by Jungle, Thundamentals and The Crystal Method, and a pair of BLUES EXPLOSION classics (Orange and Damage.) Also: Morning Glory in full effect, bringing the Heat, Ace Chemicals, some-killer-some-filler, there's no Keef in 'team', half the ideas and noone to say no, laying cable, the BLUES EXPLOSION drinking game, owning the room, Maradona 1986, men with beards that play riffs, Visit Sca...
BALLS.177 Small Sample Size Theatre returns for another season
October 22, 2018 04:12 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBAdam joins the Doc for verballing Beeso, lots of points, what Steph and Jingles have in common, winning with math, testing the water, NBA twitter is undefeated, Kings socmed office > Kings front office, Anti Laker Blazer Club, vale Paul Allen, gangs of New York, Gibraltar: Champions Of Europe, transitive properties under the hammer, the Jimmy Butler Experience, Stauskas?, the Zapbutler film, Torontyes, Sixers have no shot, passing to the open man, Boban 007, giggling Goran, foreign swears, h...
BALLS After Dark.154 Better Living Through Chemicals
October 17, 2018 01:50 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBBeeso welcomes friend of the show Dan aka Ace McWicked from NZ's leading politics/culture/tunes/fast food podcast At The Drive Thru for an After Dark Chemical Dependency Special on the master works of masters of the drop the Chemical Brothers. Also mentioned in dispatches: Carly Rae, Hov and Ye, Mobb rule, Wild Colonial humblebrags, legacy schmegacy, singles ready to mingle, five-album runs, further-less, eleven minutes of noodling, being better than your influences, surrender monkeys, pushi...
BALLS.176 Draft Kings: our 2018-19 NBA Season Preview and Conference Draft Beer Bet Thingy
October 14, 2018 08:15 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBWith less than a week until the NBA regular season tips off, it's time again for our annual BALLS Podcast NBA Season Preview And Conference Draft Beer Bet Thingy. After two years of Beeso showing all the draft acumen of the Sacramento Kings (with the championship record to match) we've shaken up the format by inviting friend of the show and self-confessed only-person-on-Earth-who-gets-all-their-NBA-takes-from-our-podcast Adamhfoto as third wheel/wrinkle/banana on our third annual draft speci...