The BALLS Podcast | tripping balls (a music podcast)
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tripping balls.216 Stealing every third car in Gladstone
March 26, 2020 04:12 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBThis week: new ambient electronica from Tycho and Swedish garage filth from The Goners, tripping balls, beige Nissans and white Landcruisers, it’s gotta be red, Wheel of Goon, pulp fiction covers, Swedish Ronseal, the problem with your band, grim endings, the Geoff Harvey Orchestra, self-backgrounding, self-advocating, cut and move, high-end hold music, tiny desks, what makes a good album (hint: not a compilation playlist from an energy drink reality show), strictly commercial, recent classic...
BALLS.243 The Stingy and Battery Show
March 23, 2020 00:12 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBThis week: THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN! Community access ESPN radio, the Blighted Potato’s next job, the most ‘A-League’ A-League game in history, the most ‘Australian internet’ Australian internet in history, everything always feels like the Simpsons, it’s only the last four minutes of the quarter that’s a Covid risk, filming without fans, charity game cliques, toilet paper keepy-uppy challenges, being kind to gamer basement nerds, eRacing demarkation disputes, sideline interview security theatre,...
tripping balls.215 ALL RIGHT NOW
March 19, 2020 00:56 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBThis week on The Podcast Formally Known As BALLS After Dark: new albums from metal OG Ozzy Osbourne and Sydney indies Crocodylus, belated rebrands, the Chinese Democracy of hip hop, kicking over tentpoles, has anyone checked on 007, Covid’s worse enemy, Rik Mayall’s Backbreakers, bizarre collabs, boomer death songs, vocal tics, late era Lara, stay away from Post Malone, using up all your ideas, shouting your own name during sex, tight support acts, yes-anding incoherence, playing both kinds o...
BALLS.242 The ugliest guy in the boy band
March 14, 2020 04:55 - 38 minutes - 35 MBThis week: Everything is cancelled, both sides discourse, we know we say the the NBA playoff picture looks set but now it *really* looks set, getting mutual, the Brett Brown Experience, the Joey Fatone Experience, overrating Dray, the next Nets coach, the Kidd’s alright, owners ruining teams, Daryl needs to say less, the James Dolan of the west, the RickyBobbyfication of the NBA, Rudy for DPOY (he stopped the entire league), the saddest arms race, using Covid to litigate your pet causes, pivo...
BALLS After Dark.214 Slow your Grohl
March 11, 2020 01:51 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBTripping Balls? Yes, we're rebranding BALLS After Dark. Shouts to us for only taking five years to come up with a better title for our music podcast. This week: new albums from Norwegian metallurgy enthusiasts Kvelertak and French desert stoners Slift, finding joy, Dogdirt Weekly, shouty Dave, the Beeso Method, interfering with farm animals, return of the Protracker guitar sample, for domestic consumption, learning Norwegian in a week, space man, 1am farm drunk, 72 minute singles, having you...
BALLS.241 South Beach is undefeated
March 07, 2020 09:07 - 42 minutes - 39 MBThis week: Having skin in the game, AB flashbacks, mutual interest, theory < practice, the Dubs' MVP, outsourcing your Google searches, rhyming 'worse' and 'dispersed', leaning into the bit, Godzilla attacks, everyone is 6-4, things we said in earlier media commitments, more Bucks than the Bucks, I don't wanna be here, Bam goes HAM, ugly s(c)heds, Triple J, who actually benefits from losing a first round series against the Lakers, Pau'll fix it, Cuban sanctions, the most unnecessary all-deca...
BALLS After Dark.213 Chicken comes from a can
March 05, 2020 09:23 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBThis week: new albums from Leeds art-rock fumblers Mush and NZ-Detroit beats-n-bars collab the Leonard Simpson Duo, Tunes With Friends, Blunted styles, intercontinental ballistic missives, hairy organs, carryover champions, impressions of impressions, translations of translations, bad saxophone, quid bro quo, metalsome kids, French grime, self-perpetuating cliches, losing it in weird ways, classic album eps from 2015, loose cousins, yes we canned, fallen stars, dead ends, Joey Wrong, belated ...
BALLS.240 Embracing your washededness
March 01, 2020 07:09 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBThis week: throughlines of the pod, class of 1987, He Got Healthy, Mamba work ethic with Bron talent, academy kids, big man on campus, running on one leg, Shaq’tin the WNBA, the wheels fall off NZ rugby (you hate to see it), kids are Messi, Australia’s WT20 weight of expectation, childcare is expensive, live from Cuckfield, an outlier in a sport of outliers, the last spot in the west, our Presti for GM of the year shout sounded better before the Thunder lost by 47 to Giannis, Mike Conley is s...
BALLS After Dark.212 Amigas para siempre
February 26, 2020 22:23 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBGuest host Adamhfoto is in to talk La Roux and EDM, Protracker nerds, raiding Pinball Dreams for samples, no that’s *Stunt Car* Racer, killing more than the Somme, Carmen Sandiego meets Football Manager, the most inexplicable game in the history of gaming, Sensible Soccer origin stories, shake it off, it turns out getting shot hurts, loot crate culture, corporate pinkwashing, it doesn’t get better, next week’s After Dark, high speed Australian internet, very giga, and lifestyles of the old a...
BALLS.239 OK Boomers
February 22, 2020 02:53 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBGuest host Adamhfoto joins the Doc to discuss dunking on Chance the Rapper, pride comes before a Fall, taking All Star seriously, the final-quarter STB index, Why Is He There All-Stars, the Rodman Ending, one-shot kills on Goldeneye, revisiting our NBA Wins Pool draft episode, Gladstone all over, mistakes were made, keeping it Real, Dame’s big games, catching bears, the Dubs’ lack of dubs, you are what your record says you are, are the Clippers the new Kangz, trying to describe memes always w...
BALLS After Dark.211 Listen to more Fu Manchu
February 19, 2020 23:29 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBThis week: new albums from La Roux and Desert Colossus, soothing sounds, if you like that there’s this, Gravity X turns 15, desert origins, Fu fighters, bulk jam, ya girl Elly, capturing the 80s, Maximum Martin, get your Rox off, the worst of the 90s, Sack-her DJ, stealth solo acts, Two Dads, making picks on LSD, Leeds are falling apart again, conversations about beige bands, racist boomer Alexa, past U2 is a different country, the Vedder-Dylan impersonation matrix, performatively depressed t...
BALLS.238 Jimmy Butler: Sith Lord
February 16, 2020 07:57 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBThjis week: everyone’s getting fired so why not, Knicks coaching dream team, this is an intervention, Bring Your Brother To Work Day, the NCAA business model, MATHS!, Jimmy uses the dark side of the force, weird definitions of pure pleasure, unexpected Pippo Inzaghi, Russ’s new position, the Sixers get a W, double-choke opportunities, Conn-ical Ali, Kawhi gets his lunch taken, Dame votes Booker to the ASG, look at moooiii, the Lakers’ ceiling is the minutes LeBron sits, everyone sucks, Gianni...
BALLS After Dark.210 This is the BBC
February 13, 2020 05:08 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBThis week on the After Dark: new albums from Bombay Bicycle Club and Dune Rats, BBC sessions, Neverclear, Sesame Street goes rogue, Clusterstruck, Faith No More no more, cash considerations, the most Washed Gen X tour ever, fried chicken punishers, DIY JJJ, time-travelling radio playlists, curb your enthusiasm, too many clothes for Duran Duran and going double Dutch. Next week: La Roux and Desert Colossus. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along wit...
BALLS.237 Rough trade week
February 08, 2020 03:39 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBThis week: Spring break for NBA nerds, anti-tank defences, DLo for Wiggins, doer-uppers, thanks Daryl, 3-&-D wings without either, correcting your errors, arrogant frontrunners, Marcus Morris in LA, rehabbing in Portland, young bodies heal quickly (shouts to Regurgitator), getting the runaround, bonsai Rockets, repetitive strain injuries, Morey and MDA go all-in, slumping Mavs, maintaining continuity, bring back the flying wedge, no lead is safe against the Raps, boomer theories about bad ra...
BALLS After Dark.209 A guild of middle-aged woodworking enthusiasts
February 06, 2020 03:08 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBThis week on the After Dark: new albums from from the Courteeners and The Good The Bad & The Zugly, our Top 10s of the 2010s album playlist, I ain’t going back to that mill, Thai gorillas, grime will tear itself apart again, crossover winners, social stratification by media choice, melted Goths, court out, a time when all was brown, CORTINA FACTS!, how to get popular, your fave could never, larger training groups, January blues, write about what you know, very much our areas, old as Dirt, Ron...
BALLS.236 Mamba out
February 02, 2020 22:10 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week: we farewell Kobe, draft All Star rosters, preview the Super Bowl and determine the logistics and efficacy of hiding behind a baby. Also: Sixers hypothEltoncles, the Timberwolvezzzzzzz, the Knicks’ big night, Kobe's complicated legacy, not expecting to make 30, media insider therapy sessions, Jordan cosplay, Olympic Kobe, the eternal outsider, LeBron vs Kobe, the Andrew Johns of NBA mentorship, vale Mr Peanut, unique tributes, fake All Star snubs, glorified Globetrotters runs, heari...
BALLS After Dark.208.2 Ten years gone: top 10s of the 2010s (part 2)
January 30, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBPart two of our After Dark special (part one is available here), featuring our top ten albums of the last ten years, sun-drenched sugar hits, Bae of Islands, disappointingly prescient, painting your ceiling, good for parts only, how Swede it is, the most of this sound, DIY dance instructionals, Joe Ingles colour charts, D-Rose for MVP, the five year rule, spirit silverbacks, curbed enthusiasm, veteran mentorship, Lavar Beeso, relatable content, like everything else worth saying TISM said this...
BALLS After Dark.208.1 Ten years gone: top 10s of the 2010s (part 1)
January 30, 2020 03:55 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBPart one of our After Dark special featuring our top ten albums of the last ten years, weird niche Venn overlaps, Big Kev areas, The Billie Eyelash ASMR Hour, the last days of CDs, Win95 insta skins, 1990s albums of the week, splitting hairs, Oscar obsolescence, discovering new music, reordering old music, #FreeJanet, work whistlers, first and last tracks and Gen X punishers. Part two available here. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please...
BALLS.235½ Leeds are doing the thing (stop doing the thing Leeds)
January 28, 2020 21:03 - 6 minutes - 6.23 MBNo new NBA pod this week (vale Kobe) but here’s a mini-pod on Leeds doing the thing, West Brom and West Ham, the hard reset of relegation and the Sunderland Vortex. Coming soon: our After Dark Top 10s of the 2010s album special. Get more BALLS and After Dark via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and tell us your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BALLS After Dark.207 Contractually Obligated Album Of The Year 2019 Special
January 23, 2020 03:54 - 57 minutes - 53 MBThis week: our annual AOTY special, featuring Beeso and the Doc’s top five albums of 2019 from releases reviewed on the pod last year, along with our Oz and NZ AOTYs, favourite legacy albums and general thoughts on the year just passed. Also: Dry Six Days In January, ambling pre, blaming the world in general for your poor choices, picking stuff you like, no loylety, manufactured intensity, hard crossovers, let’s do five, who’s got next, Raleigh New Zealand, Norwegian wood, cheap kills, protes...
BALLS.235 Solving crimes with a talking helicopter
January 19, 2020 21:06 - 59 minutes - 55 MBThis week: I'm on the Night Hawk (and I'm ready to crash and burn), turning up, heroism in futility, counting the wrong thing, lost storylines from forgotten cities, Melo > Memphis, marketing the stars, engineering Giannis to the Bay, big markets vs small markets, not here for photo ops, the backfiring supermax, coaching cosplay, the Jim Dolan of the NFL, the OC (not that one), tiers in the West, flying Pelicans, Memphis Fizzlies, what's Mike Conley doing and/or for, the Skate Instructor, eig...
BALLS After Dark.206 Corporate sucks rock
January 04, 2020 09:13 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBThis week: our final new albums of 2019 courtesy Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard and Welsh noisemakings' Pretty Vicious. Also: what firetwirlers do in a total fire ban, boring end-of-decade arguments, did imaginary dragons write this list, guest host Flipper, making a Foo Fighters album, college sports should be cancelled, college rock may well have been, Georgia v Alabama, the colour and the sound, heavy foreshadowing, things you might have missed, 81 not out, stealing sunshine, the best Chr...
BALLS.234 Calling your own number and getting voicemail
December 30, 2019 07:13 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBFrom a netherworld outside time and space we close out 2019 with Boxing Day basketball, Pat Bev comparisons, breaking up the WWWWWWarriors, the Tilman Fertitta of Serie A, swirling solar chaos, being dedicated to dumb maths, either/or but not both, Sam Hinkie ain't walking through that door, Thibs declines to stop collaborate or listen, Cavs West, getting upset on Christmas Day, responsible grownups in Denver, Luka back doing Luka things, handicapping the Iggy Sweepstakes, Conley for CP3, rev...
BALLS After Dark.205 A Very Ballsy Christmas
December 28, 2019 07:21 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBThis week: new albums from self-reflecting Scientologist Beck and Warrnamboolian warriors Airbourne, the perils of in-store radio, facts vs feels, do something nice for yourself this Christmas, breaking: AC/DC aren't like Radiohead, complexity through simplicity, last of their line, the Wolfmother effect, who's got next, Tame Impala B-roll, everlasting nothing, Spidey Bells, scared of bird attack, Scandicanadians, end of year cowards, Tone Deaf hiphop takes, better social commentary than Slow...
BALLS.233 Suit you sir
December 22, 2019 08:34 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBThis week: we get feedback, Edgar Wright’s greatest scene in TV history, Eastern promise, the middle of the west is middle of the road, Chris Paul Suit Hire, trading for Love, James Dolan in ‘capable of competency’ shock, Bucks-Lakers was almost great, Giannis’ warmup routines, the Joe Ingles Appreciation Society, sticking with the Sixers, getting Tim Donaghy’d out of a title, Holiday (Celebrate), the Mavs don’t need Luka, KAT and barracking for your take, how about this Heat, endangered Rapt...
BALLS After Dark.204 Overrun by Scandiwegian garage filth
December 12, 2019 06:52 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBThis week: new albums from Gardna and Deaf Radio, Spotify Wrapped SZN, is RTJ4 about to drop at Xmas and bollox everyone’s end-of-year lists (spoilers: no), remedial reading for bad AOTY reckons, do you care if the thing you like is popular, wombling free, voice of the Beyhive, the end of consensus, we’re on to Cincinnati, baseline metrics, brain injuries, *visits Wellington once*, it’s the intro to intro, a long time between sessions, Albarn-Frischmann relationship minutiae, Beeso continues ...
Balls.232 Fix Your Internet Bro
December 09, 2019 22:39 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBThe Griff Cup, the Melo Experience (now touring Portland), feeling happy for millionaires, craft beer corner, strip club MVPs, ranking cricket venues by fish fingers, the social media testicle, hawks redux, live firing drills, release dates, European tropes, a decent Lakers coach ?!?, onward Christian soldier, professionals vs children and the new joint NZ and Australian TV show, Fix Your Internet Bro. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (plea...
BALLS After Dark.203 Floorless victory
December 05, 2019 07:57 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBThis week, live from Lantanaland: new Fat Freddy’s Drop and L7, whiskey in the jar-o, NZ's national band, money for old jam, washed at wineries, when you’re more of a Samantha, dating while Gen X, making vital connections, Courtney Hole, narrator: he did not record an add-on the next day, the downsides of podcasting in person, pushing buttons, Wayne Gardna, reciprocal rights, avoiding old people, Coldplay saves the regional newspaper industry, legacy o’clock, Celine’s DIY pyro and extinct mow...
BALLS.231 The Cicada Filter
December 02, 2019 02:07 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBWe go LIIIIVE for the rankings of the NBA City Jerseys (good, didn't care and Oh My God the work experience kid did these), Luka Mania, Beeso sucks at this, Kyrie in his feels, keep on Knicksing, more bad teams, the American Delly Redux, The NZ Qld Origin Team and night drinking at the Gabba See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BALLS After Dark.202 Busting for ennui
November 21, 2019 08:43 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBThis week: new stuff from Bad Dreems and the Hard-Ons, Oscar buzz, letting it go, go hard early, Frozen 2: It’s The Thawed That Counts, representation matters, industrial deafness, Beasts of Suburban, old dudes making noises, Adelaide alive, short-range throwbacks, do more of that, et tu Caesar, Detroit Brock City, the first Sabrina reference in any kind of media since late 1989, we solve Taylor Swift’s career crisis, culture vs sales, Beyonce album power rankings, Unkle Shadow, fake bands wi...
BALLS.230 Balls N The Hood
November 17, 2019 09:47 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBStretch mark fives, giving up on this season before the end of last season, fitting 12 games of offence into 9 games, the Santa Cruz Warriors, PG13’s return, the worst team in the league, everybody hurts, Rockets tipping over, wraps for the Raps, most improved players, Bernie living his best life, trading away the Spurs’ problems, Orlando Magic roster deep dives, Doc reads bios, 1986 again, #ImADoctor, playing defence vs just running around a lot, CP3 doesn’t understand what a layup is, corre...
BALLS After Dark.201 You had a good go at it, thanks for your input
November 14, 2019 09:11 - 29 minutes - 27 MBThis week: new albums from Mini Mansions and Cigarettes After Sex, quality assurance, the BALLS Podcast Network, #NotAnEuphemism, committing to the bit, warding off scurvy, no bad ideas, Clippy played guitar, what did you expect to achieve here, leaning away from legacy acts, the 20th anniversary of whatever happened 20 years ago, tell ya story walking, you had a good go at it thanks for your input, interest free terms, difficult third albums, local indie ecosystems, we want the Funk, Club sa...
BALLS.229 Not of any relevance or interest to a basketball podcast
November 10, 2019 03:39 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBThis week: Beeso’s kitchen nightmares, Grandhomme designs, cricket gets publically owned, keeping the hoi polloi out, our extensive Rugby World Cup Final coverage, feeding the cable content maw, surprise packets, Portland’s centers cannot hold, everyone in the West is 5-3, all pod business is settled, nobody’s PPVing the Spurs, RINGZZZZ, Roypotheticals, replacing Kawhi, Sunny days sweeping the clouds away, big numbers in Ls, leaving you cold, angry heroball, bad Magic, basketballers on drugs,...
BALLS After Dark.200 Introduce yourself
November 06, 2019 05:01 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBYes it's another big ol' round number special on the After Dark for episode 200, in which Beeso (fresh* from riverdancing at the Riverstage with the Chemical Brothers on a school night), Adamhfoto and the Doc pick out and count down their favourite song intros of all time. Also: art installations, solving Brexit through dance music, old VHS copies of ZOO TV, hitting the Wall, twitter boomer bantz, shut up and dubstep, anyway here isn’t Wonderwall, hating bangerz, dark energy, Gen X protest mu...
BALLS.228 Regretting your choices
November 04, 2019 09:18 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBE's are good, progressive Mormonism, Rampage recap, going full Rogatkin, slopestyle stoners, canyonheroes, apparently Sweden doesn’t have big mountains, Will Pushoffski, exercise is good for you, starting to complain that there’s no rain, Atlantic echelons, peleton statistics, the Pats haven’t beaten anyone (this aged surprisingly well), being below average, browning out, offensive offensive lines, running outta Luck, Eddie and Ricky: the game’s greatest thinkers (this didn’t age as well), se...
BALLS After Dark.199 Almost scientific
October 30, 2019 03:19 - 26 minutes - 24 MBThis week: new albums from Maundz and the Neptune Power Federation, Always Late with Beeso and Dr Yobbo, doing the voice, spousal appreciation, worldwide appeal, mind-altering substances, new power generation, Forever Malcolm Young, never go full Darkness, more ridiculousness, rock bedrock, continuation specials, spare hoodies, back in trackydacks, backpackers doing cashies, not doing the voice, doing your own thing, Britishness innit, hiphop is for the old heads, live from the gutter, ‘Brisb...
BALLS.227 The Marsh Gap
October 27, 2019 10:08 - 1 hour - 94.3 MBPat drops in to half a lantanaland to talk the Dubs getting the 2020 number 1 pick, champion clip art, firing Rockets and top five European basketball bodies. Then the Doc calls in to talk number one Suns, Boston Pride and having the body of an athlete before Pat returns powered by lawnmower fuel to pick the first test team. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BALLS.226 Who wants to look at graphs while having a hoop convo: The BALLS Podcast 2019-20 NBA Preview
October 20, 2019 04:13 - 1 hour - 91.5 MBA tradition like no other, in which Beeso, Adamhfoto and the Doc draft the teams of the Eastern and Western Conferences in a battle for NBA regular season wins, prestige, klout and the distant, often unrealised promise of alcoholic beverages at the others’ expense. Also: hot Gladstone nights, Friends with benefits, the world in union, what’s a Drummoyne, old guys and analytics, NBA Twitter’s newest analyst, rules of engagement, coin flips, Mr East Coast, notes to self, STAY OWFFF THA WEEEED, ...
BALLS After Dark.198 Here are some reckons about music
October 17, 2019 01:37 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBNew albums from Warish and Mike Patton, existential angst, we stan the Gallaghers, alternative timeline Cobain idols, eleven divided by three, arthouse vs outhouse, all we need is a smack in the face, rock and roll is where Mike hides, noone’s gonna care, played to deaf, terrible late ‘80s Eurodance hits, dirty Oz hiphop, the Doc ruins music, the Post Malone of 2003, the Chemical Dependency Brothers, albums you were probably going to listen to anyway, Something Else, it’s still 1998 in Caloun...
BALLS.225 What’s the Mandarin for ‘Streisand effect’
October 12, 2019 03:14 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBThis week with Doc and Beeso: Nancy Drew ARU mysteries, world cup draws, Chinese takeaways, mo' Morey mo' problems, Titman Frittata, chess not checkers, preseason overreactions to preseason overreactions, one year early, not trying to lose turns out to be good for winning, closing all the windows, basketball isn’t football, the Donald Sterlings of T20, big three on big three violence, revisionist Hohnstory, VicRoads do it better, reverse garbage time, Warner home vs a-Broad, Tottenham Hotgarb...
BALLS.224 Low Hanging Fruit
October 06, 2019 09:13 - 1 hour - 72 MBNewly minted Scotsman and pod All Star Jarrod Kimber rejoins the pod to talk Low Hanging Fruit, personal warm up anecdotes, going through customs in custom kit, the props of the Guardian’s OBO, T20 coaching roundabouts and being unemployed multiple times in a short period of time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BALLS After Dark.197 Playing three-minute songs in a minute forty-five
October 02, 2019 04:33 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBAdamhfoto joins the Doc to discuss new albums by filthy Scandiwegian garage rock merchants the Drippers and ageing punky brewsters blink-182, as well as things nobody has explained to Sweden, what’s a Chinchilla, Doc is bad at links, more bottom, harmony through dissonance, taking a bow, Finskt blod, Patton recognition, 28 minutes to burn, Dookie monster, over-rationalising the album of the year, the land that time forgot, nobody likes you when you’re 47, DeLonge view, being thankful, the thr...
BALLS.223 Sleepless in Queanbeyan
September 28, 2019 05:19 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBThis week Adamhfoto joins the Doc to discuss Beeso’s holiday, watching our one game of NRL for the year, late onset mesothelioma, Canberra to win, the greyhound that got the lure, getting the horn, an old-fashioned awful-off, green on green, the big big sound, twenty-three Year 12 students and Israel Folau, monsters of western Sydney, travelling fans, busted suburban grounds, the M7 derby, Cameron Smith is apparently still a thing, from Melbourne to Collingwood, I’m Aware, the_international_b...
BALLS After Dark.196 It's such a fine line between stupid and clever
September 26, 2019 00:11 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThis week: our experiences of (the) Modern Times and Modern Pressure (by the Delta Riggs), everyone deserves music, shouts to the alphabet, Jagger cosplay, in search of a sound, Gudinski inventions, hating on Jet, so nice they used it twice, squealy audiences, performance detracting drugs, mathpunk, contrived band mashups, diversity of faces versus diversity of sound, you can’t spell grime without grim, Mercurial albums, figuring it out, doing it yourself, nobody wants to talk music with Bees...
BALLS.222 Test Match Sofa on heavy hallucinogenics
September 22, 2019 10:29 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBA warm stream of rugby, upsetting baby boomers, That Concludes Our Rugby League Coverage, Sapporo spin classes, Melbourne stays being Melbourne, livecalling bad AFL games, rings in the record book, you can’t spell playoffs without LA, beat reporter delusions, laughable losers, bringing rugby league to New York, the fine line between stupid and clever, you (literally) hate to see it, weird Western Sydney fixations, kitchen cabinets, topping out at OK, congratulations you played yourself, epic ...
BALLS After Dark.195 Beards enough for Melbourne
September 19, 2019 02:28 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBThis week: new albums from Holy Holy and DZ Deathrays, which one of the music, holy psychos, inflatable dinghy rock, it’s actually not 1976, Richard Stamos can’t hit a high F, the Doc makes new friends, owning your cheese, dance punk revolution, noise that works, Unit might not be a fair benchmark for Difficult Sophomore Albums, front-loaded music years, stopthai, not understanding American music writers, Instagram influencers, sentient meat pies, filling for time, Norway via Portland, Beeso ...
BALLS.221 The Hipster of Seville
September 16, 2019 05:19 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBWhite boomers on Maori Television, replacement level rosters, changing your holiday plans, stomping on ants’ nests with an elephant, no Smokes in New York, Eau de Colangelo, Lloyd George Knew My Father (Father Knew Lloyd George), sliding doors, enjoying the experience of being effed over, hustle and slop, Bogut’s a bad example, the trolls of Iguoldala, Beeso name-drops his holiday plans, #AlwaysWatchBetis, eyyyyy Epstein, the Bielsa model, heinous Luc Longley slander (though tbf he had a hell...
BALLS After Dark.194 Bazoongas and smoo
September 12, 2019 09:54 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBThis week: new albums from the Damned Things and Tropical Copulation Storm, dunking on stuff you don’t like, supergroups?, forgotten conversations, words you couldn’t use on the cover of Picture magazine in 1995, texting your parts, too cool for school, Gizz get real, Pacmanning through the hospital pharmacy, can’t get any let alone enough, fire and electrical, the hidden shame of Generation X, please Hammer don’t hurt ‘em, taking advice from Facebook, Noel vs Grohl, season 1991/92, Stockholm...
BALLS.220 Being coached by a sentient beanbag with Dunning-Kruger
September 08, 2019 06:04 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBEvergreen content (thanks Smudge), Maroon Free State, Fant-Asians Out, the exact opposite of evergreen content (thanks Starc and AB), Dave Warner’s car, Livingstone’s doctor I presume, tanked Mancs, missed conversions, Thursday Night Football is very Thursday Night Football, the Belichick Coaching Shrub, ancient triangles, America discovers international basketball, the Life Comes At You Fast All-Stars, flat basketball talent, not THAT Steve Smith, death to received wisdom, bolshie Balkans, h...
BALLS After Dark.193 Modern things are rubbish
September 04, 2019 22:02 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThis week: new albums from King Gizzard &c. and Jade Imagine, towards 200, too many options, our views on old Tools, banned in Queensland, an expensive way to play cassettes, Problematic Bay, the Brisbane Music Graveyard, hard bands to google, a lack of umedgination, sit down and shut up, outkicking your coverage, Beesoing 2.1, everything is a concept album, holes in the sky, tfw you’re not as clever as you think you are, starkly terrible Ben Elton novels, the perils of overanalysing the narr...