This week: we’re off to Neville Neville Land as tripping balls’ Official Metallica Correspondent Adamhfoto joins the Doc to look back at the the Black album on its 30th birthday, the accompanying Metallica Blacklist all-star covers collection, and new stuff from Polish Club. Also: Christian sucks rock, OK boomer, apostrophe apologies, H100 strays, problematic parties, the end of the podcast, FOAD here’s Wonderwall, grenading your own legacy, pariahs in period, the Brown Hornet, doing it live, first-team all-NBA game ops tunes, harpsichord hate, even flow, starting fives, everybody hates Lars, recycled devices, show tunes and spaghetti westerns, the new guy, justice for Jason, alternative Rock classics, learn to count with Phil Rudd, trying to out-Metallica Metallica, Portugal power-rankings, algorithmic attention-seeking, inappropriate horns, Bob breaks the fourth wall, songs to get arrested for, and a hard earned thirst needs a big nose beer. Next week: Beeso’s back from the bay for new RÜFÜS DO SOL, Parquet Courts and the Sore Losers. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BALLS with Dr Yobbo and Beeso

tripping balls.286 You can’t spell SLANDER without LARS

This week: Adamhfoto and the Doc on week 1.5 of the NBA, the T20 World Cup and taking absolutely no joy from the absolute state of Manchester United. Also: Beeso on background, Russ wins (then loses), ruining Looney Tunes, tractor receipts, Brooklyn’s big 1.25, old Wizards, Lawler’s law, the running-hot of the Bulls, Joel’s hard minutes, the seven-win Bobcats, nice days to go to the pub, giddy over Giddey, Chef Delly, separating compost, podcast recommendations, the Patty Mills Experience, Grizzly Adams, Cleveland rocks, scoring depressions, SexLand, the bizarro-world bottom of the West, substitute teacher energy, Grade Cricketer areas, the BALLS Clasićo ain’t what it used to be, where in the world is Patrick Beverley, football meat pies durries beer and King Gee, middle-east geopolitics, Davey Dum Dum finds form?, the Ben Stokes Bat Signal, Vegas Elvis areas, what happens when your marketing manager runs your football club, mission-critical systems failures, five year streaks, Paul Pogba’s entire Man U career in a 15 minute cameo off the bench, our comprehensive La Liga coverage, Supercars wearing a groove in Eastern Creek, we talking about practice, Danny Ric’s promotional considerations, Adam picks the two best GPs of the year to watch, save Albert Park from Save Albert Park, whither Australian 1500m swimming and bronzing up. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BALLS.302 Still Australasia’s most Knicks-positive NBA-adjacent podcast

This week: new albums from Alabama 3, Twelve Foot Ninja and Dazy. Also: grime hat-tips, cletuses on acid, clearing out for iso, 90s TV one-hit wonders, BSB updates, Patton recognition, alternative timeline greatest hits, magazine freebies, sharing a brain, narcolepsy, Xzibit memes, long-list entry requirements and gin-neric drinking practices. Next week: no man is an island but Beeso's off on one for the weekend so Parquet Courts, RÜFÜS DO SOL and the Sore Losers will have to wait for his return. Instead: regular third wheel on the TBP tricycle, the Godfather of Grime and our Official Metallica Correspondent Adamhfoto joins the Doc to establish whether the thirtieth anniversary remaster of the Black album has absolutely ruined it (or whether releasing a 15 hour super duper deluxe version did that automatically) and whether any of the covers on the Blacklist are worth a spin. Also: new Polish Club.  Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

tripping balls.285 ¿Por qué no los dos?

This week: It’s smallest-possible-sample-size-theatre as we continue a tradition like no other (apart from the tradition of previewing the season in the first place) by massively overreacting to each NBA team playing one game of basketball. Possibly two, if you’re lucky. Also: the worst view in the sled dog pack, describing memes, the unexpected psychological impact of having the entire world think you’re trash, disgusting chefs, the point of Russ, loud idiots of Dubs Twitter, disrespect my agency, might Robert Sarver have a reason to expect not being around in a few years, playing like you have a lit dart hanging off your bottom lip at all times, Who’s That Mavs Executive, Kyrie for Ben, pulling seven years of receipts, DC slander, sing when you’re winning, Exum planet dust, basketball is good, wasting your prime, worst timeline Kyrgios, important meetings and bad templates. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BALLS.301 Every action has an equal and opposite overreaction

This week: new albums from Yizzy, Shihad and the Bronx. Also: the Godfather of Grime, lived experience, bringing the troopz like AFTV, apologetic beef, problematic accents, self-aggregating, highlights specials, trying to avoid starring in Adele, 35, getting barred from West Auckland, The Pacifier Experience, no pretenses, Sunset Strip hair farmers, how music normally works, why would you want to do that, death metal font, Rolling Stone’s 500 worst albums, Dave Graney’s suit recommendations and time-travelling sausage manufacture. Next week’s new albums are courtesy Dazy, Twelve Foot Ninja and Alabama 3 Queensland Reds 6. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

tripping balls.284 Raging against the dying of the light

Happy 300th birthday, BALLS Podcast. We got you our annual NBA season preview slash wins pool draft, in which Doc, Beeso and Adamhfoto draft every team in the NBA and make iron-clad predictions as to their fate this season, on the basis of facts, stats, next-gen analytics, feels, vibes, jokes, moral objections and long-held grudges. Whoever's teams win the most games across the 2021-22 regular season gets the glory, bragging rights, internet klout, and most importantly of all, free booze. Shouts to anyone who gets all the team music drops. We'll be back next week to massively overreact to half a week of actual NBA basketball. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BALLS.300 Don't drink ethanol from a sprintcar: our NBA season preview

This week: new stuff from Amyl and The Sniffers, CHVRCHES and Calva Louise. Also: our plan to save modern EDM, getting maggoted, Marmite areas, start as you mean to finish, fine lines, sniff tests, obscure WA politics references, bilingual bangers, DIY Rage, more Doubt, Spanish swearing, learn to play the Bogut way, the great Avril replacement, MECHA-STREISAND, closing loops, do godfathers outrank princes, deluxe EPs, Dave Graney's hiding place, getting pepperoni grease out of linen suits, anger management and substance abuse as a personality trait.  Next week’s new albums are courtesy Yizzy, Shihad and the Bronx. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

tripping balls.283 The best dressed chicken in town

We’re here, we’re back. This week: The Cavs-era Shaq of podcasting, giving Diana Taurasi her flowers, Sarver gonna Sarver, four years late on doing your due diligence, workers compo scams, JR Dangerfield, can sports and politics journos jobswap, Kyrie’s season predictions, Leeds trails, state-sponsored piracy, Baudi Barabia, no time for joyless Bonds, Beeso digs chicks, Australia gets caught, Dan Lebecky, Ben for Boban who says no, Spurs on hold, chasing the entire Northwest, Bones on the skins, a truck full of big bags, players union priorities, preseason form and a big offseason move. Next week: our annual NBA season preview/wins pool draft. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BALLS.299 Sound of the funky drummer

This week: new albums from Rudimental and Chubby and the Gang, and a classic from A Tribe Called Quest. Also: more M1 chat, spokey-dokeys, last week tonight, the same stuff, Your Mate, double concept albums, bad bad not good, chubby checker, this is hardcore, room-borne elephants, evolution not revolution, feel the beat drop, jazz and hip hop, consensually gross, a shot in the dark, a bit too nyeaahh, Vlad Chiriches, matter of fact I got it now, post-ironic cheese, UK tuna imports, new MCU superheroes, score check, the decline and fall of empire, Ben Simmons vs Sid Fogg, we remember a guy, and it turns out that antivaxxers: not ideal. Next week: new stuff from CHVRCHES, Calva Louise and Amyl and The Sniffers. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

tripping balls.282 Viva la evolución

This week: new albums from Alien Weaponry, Jungle and Andy Cooper. Also: parking the bus, reverse jinxes, being pro-creep, The Matrix 2.1, light and shade, emo faffage, macron confusion, self-parodying monarchs, disco strutting, controlling your energy, getting upset at randomness, cannot and/or will not stop, primary producers, government names, all downhill, a busy day at the record store, Kool-Aid entrances, not talking to your friends, improving Coolangatta, te reo for kids, earning the tag, pre-emptive bullying and blazers in Brisvegas.  Next week: new albums from Rudimental and Chubby and the Gang, we complete the set of classic 24 September 1991 releases with A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, and Doc might even have his mic on the correct setting. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

tripping balls.281 Dad raps, parked buses and pre-emptive bullying

This week: new albums from Little Simz, Drapht and Meatbodies. Also: novel anxiety, gathering no moss, things of that nature, Therapy?, too much salt, degrees of difficult, Paul Simon areas, never being to me, self-help apps, new-age Bond themes, no swag, a little bit terrible, reading the room, dearly depahhhted, outside help, stacks and bricks, edited highlights, seemed like a good idea at the time, prog flog, Craig vs Moore, heavily polished, alley days re-revisited, Spotify in confusing two different artists shock, this is your fault, firing from both ends, psychedelic counterpoints, Kendrick slander, I don’t have time to feel bad about this, jungle weaponry, inventing something new, legacy mountain, humming index, 60% new content, getting the band back together, vegan barbequing, recapping very old jokes in very bad ways, scab league avoidance, no news is no news, don’t sell work stuff on eBay and gender equality. Next week: new albums from Jungle, Alien Weaponry and Andy Cooperand not Shihad. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

tripping balls.280 Beeso Analyses Latest Little Simz

This week: new albums from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Cam Cole and L’Orange x Namir Blade. Also: Disappearing acts, concert context, old bangers, bridging sets, unjustified mu-mus, contractually-obligated playlist additions, royal punishment, humblebragging about getting to have holidays, lorazepam, stacks and straps, cratedigger origin stories, beats without bars, the world is still chaos, it’s the vibe, Layne Staley on a crackly conference call, getting mutual, dropping furniture, acronym in-jokes, critical vs commercial, near-death metal, the Ty Segall Cinematic Universe, the secret life of breaking early-00s Melbourne indie-pop bands by using their music in hipster TV dramas, hiphop bias, downing tools, the Bucs almost stop, aging strawberry dodgers, content factories, smart-casual cases, reasons not to go to parties, Beeso talks to kids, and needless to say I had the last laugh.  Next week: new albums from Meatbodies, Drapht, and most unexpectedly, Little Simz. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

tripping balls.279 Promotional considerations furnished by the Southern Hawkes Bay Tourism Board

This week: new Nas, new Ty Segall, and (near) new Faithless.  Also: times of chaos, firehose creativity, the 33rd best band of the 90s, Gen X are worse than boomers, parental fails, non-Noonans, cultural touchstones, Jack Johnson tribute acts, insomnia cures, ivermectin doesn’t work on earworms, floral arrangements, rotting tennis centres, Nike knockoffs, made in the sunshine, collaboration cancellations, Ford Fiesta racing, live to tape, Glasgaw chverchves, one-man bands, becoming overinvested in 2016, late night veganism, you had a good go at it thanks for your input, lockdown fields of view, 1989 Corollas, Mad Monday on a Tuesday, Jimmy Anderson won’t go away, Mosgiel slander, Knuckles Colony and chilled-out Tunes.  Next time: new albums from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Cam Cole and L’Orange x Namir Blade. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

tripping balls.278 Teach your children poorly

This week: new albums from U.N.K.L.E. and Ayron Jones, and ZZ Top’s 1983 classic Eliminator (vale Dusty Hill). Also: for who for what, you done messed up A-A-Ron, Mr Big areas, Doc probably meant forgettable, Bruckheimer soundtracks, country conventionality, 85 minute car chases, Uncle Arthur, Stevie Wonder’s organ, wallpaper*, old blues bands, southern remits, bottle cages, goin’ 50, nods from the old heads, alternative jokers, non-deluxe versions, unnecessary covers, coming attractions, know your Nas’s and doing the doo. Next week: new albums from Nas, Ty Segall and one you might have missed from Faithless. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

tripping balls.277 Beer drinkers and/or hell raisers

This week: getting sucked into the Olympics, NBA free agency, Messi leaves town and Vale just leaves. Also: middle distance tactics, Col de Lantanaland, pointless iso’ing, free agent shenanigans, creative blocks, it was always going to end like this, pulling the receipts, the next generation of Boomers, a big week for old people, betting markets, the Lakers’ free agency, Beeso’s Westbrook hate continues unabated, Beeso’s Knicks hate continues unabated, Betty Davis eyes > Derrick Rose knees, bullish on Chicago, the rapid take economy, the Last Dance effect, Miami Avarice, Woj’s sausage, brand values, Sean Marks gets a go, the washed centre exchange programme, Pels WTF, Ball bounces, the Knicks are competent?, cheeky Nandos, Covid free agency, Beeso’s Delly hate continues unabated, Dante’s peak, podcasts are audiobooks of news stories, free to a good home, four-year group chats, Joe Ingles is expiring, turns out the Dubs prefer Iggy in that Iggy role, inexplicable Akubraing, Kawhi opt out?, the purpose of Knicks cap space, vale Vale’s MotoGP career, getting thrown down the road, transcendent GOATs, Messi contractual situations, farmers’ leagues, BeIN-sponsored retirement homes, shouts to the Tillies, remonstrating in the backline, cheap titillation, not in the mood, Brisbane’s 2032 pitch, desert-based onanism, SPOD, one-man gay wars, white-anting the Hungarian anthem, Shed-bastion Vettel, Red Bull’s decades of flute-like behaviour and the search for anyone who has played for Manly who wasn’t an objectionable human being. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BALLS.298 The natural enemy of Kemba Walker’s knees

A rambling discussion about sport and music between two people who know little about either.

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BALLS with Dr Yobbo and Beeso

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