It’s our 250th (ish) Music Episode Spectacular, in which Beeso and the Doc review brand new albums from Dennis Cometti, The Money War and Magick Mountain, before we pick our personal top five Most Influential Albums of all time. Also this week: Right Said Fred are nutters, Spotify Wrapped is a joke, bogan self loathing, the entire point of punk rock, hating the CBD, snap crackle and thud, Greybeard stout reviews, boldly insipid, straight burglaries, taunting Sweden, podcast albums, excessive fuzz, doom metal power pop, do one, new old stock, give ‘em a taste of Kiwi, melancholy feelings, an album of clown music, accurate first drafts, it’s too loud and you’re too old, early influences, rambling storytelling, Thatcherite labour policies, back-to-back Jacks, cringe picks, the importance of late ‘80s smash hits compilations in a regional new music desert, two for one deals, heavy to the core, reappreciating Nirvana, albums doing numbers, Hey Hey it’s Saturday Night Palsy, Machiavellian scheming, non-existent albums, Skinnys vs Butter Beats, cruising the mean streets of Lismore, Monsters of Roxette, moments of discovery, triphopping into dub, garage days revisited, man’s not hot, also receiving votes, coming down off heavy benders, misunderstood geniuses and clocking music. Next week: new albums from Kruder & Dorfmeister, Cut Off Your Hands and Dick Move. Those and other recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with the full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our tripping balls 2020 mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist 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.