tripping balls.412 Setting aside the Kingsmill of it all

The BALLS Podcast | tripping balls (a music podcast)

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)
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