Trve. Cvlt. Pop!

Stephen Hill

Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Is a music podcast that doesn’t care about genre.

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Feb 23, 2024 · 1 hr 1 min
Ep.72: The Almighty Return of the A, B, C Box Game
Hello and welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! A POP MUSIC PODCAST! Steve and Gaz have decided to launch back into the tried and tested formula of the A, B, C Box Game that we love so much. You know the drill by now... but for those of you that don't, this is the deal; we take some overplayed songs of popular culture and decide if we would like them turned off (Box A), listen to them if they're on (Box B) or relentlessly play them FOREVER (Box C). We tackle song by the likes of ... Plus we give you another banging lost single in the segment we call Lvst. Cvlt. Pop!, and we talk about US country star Oliver Anthony going all Dixie Chicks in London this week... sort of. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Feb 16, 2024 · 1 hr 43 min
Ep.71: Usher on Roller Skates, Live Healy Watch & the Best of Fictional Musicians
It's Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, a podcast about pop music. On this weeks show we discuss what has been a busy couple of days for us over at TCP Towers. Firstly, both Steve and Gaz headed down to London's O2 to watch The 1975, Still... At Their Very Best apparently, before hooking up for a lovely Valentines day treat seeing both Black Honey AND Crowded House on the same day, we then rushed back and fired up the YouTube's to see Usher's massive Superbowl Halftime performance. It's been pretty ace. It's amazing that we got to fit anything else in, but, seeing at it is 32 years since Bart Simpson topped the UK singles chart with Do The Bartman, we look at some of the most interesting examples of fictional artists and find 5 banging songs from Teen soap characters, cartoon cats, big screen musicians played by Lindsay Lohan and Hugh Grant and... whatever Damon Albarn thinks Gorillaz are these days. We also look back at a classic Lvst. Cvlt. Pop! from UK soul-pop nearly men JoBoxers. Ooooohhh it's a good show! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Feb 9, 2024 · 1 hr 29 min
Ep.70: 5 of the best... Band Performances on Talk Shows
Welcome to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, a full on podcast about music innit. This week marks the 60th anniversary of the legendary performance by The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show on the 9th of February 1964. So, we decided to celebrate by looking at some of Gaz's favourite performances by bands in the years since. We go from art-pop with Wogan to glam rock with Jimmy Kimmel, stopping off for novelty grunge hits on Letterman and greasy rock and roll on TFI Friday along the way. We also have a quick chat about the recent Grammys and MOBO awards and pay tribute to the late Wayne Kramer of The MC5, who passed away this week. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Feb 2, 2024 · 1 hr 58 min
Ep.69: January 2024 Album Reviews
Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt Pop! where we look at popular music in a podcast format. This week Steve and Gaz are looking at all of their favourite releases from the month of January. We review new music from The Smile, Fakear, Future Islands (who Steve also saw in concert this week), Black Grape, Sleater Kinney, Unlearn the World, Keyon Harrold, Sprints, Ulysses Owen Jnr and Generation Y, Josiah Soren, Leaf Dog and Bolts of Melody. There is also a quick chat about Depeche Mode live for the third time in a week (there is a reason, trust) and we introduce our new feature Lvst. Cvlt. Pop! with a 1990 UK rap banger that you may well have forgotten about. And we slag off Green Day, because, why not! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Jan 26, 2024 · 1 hr 47 min
Ep.68: The Best Covers by Boybands... Ever!
Welcome back to another Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a pop music podcast. VERY pop this week as Steve and Gaz enter the murky waters of cover versions by Boybands, a tricky place to navigate, as, in the main, boybands covering other people's songs get quite the bad rap. But we've had a good 'ol nose around and have come up with five each that we think are worth your time. From Take That and East 17 here on our own shores, to Boyz II Men and New Kids on the Block on the other side of the pond, there are some gems to be discovered... and some that might just be nostalgia on our part. There is also a report on Bring Me the Horizon's recent O2 show, two nights of Depeche Mode's UK tour and we also pay tribute to esteemed music journalist Neil Kulkarni, who passed away this week. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Jan 19, 2024 · 1 hr 11 min
Ep.67: The 5 Album Challenge with Izzy Phillips of Black Honey
Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, this week Steve and Gaz have to move fast, which means there is no earworm of the week (wait till next week though! YOU'LL LOVE IT!) and we only get a couple of minutes to talk about the Coachella line up and why one of us is VERY excited by the return of No Doubt and the other one... well, he's threatening to leave before the encore. The reason for our haste? We're joined by a special guest in Black Honey lead singer and guitarist Izzy Phillips, who has taken our five album challenge mere weeks before her band heads out on their Inclusive Extravaganza tour, which culminates in a huge show at London's Kentish Town Forum. We look at massive albums from Pixies, T Rex, Blondie, The Spice Girls and Nirvana. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Jan 12, 2024 · 1 hr 53 min
Ep.66: The Stuff We Missed in 2023 Catch Up
Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a lovely music podcast. On this weeks show Gaz is back! YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! He and Steve look back at some of the releases that we missed throughout 2023, they're good too! We look at the releases from Peter Gabriel, Aesop Rock, Green Lung, Boygenius, Buck 65, Doseone & Gel, Troye Sivan, McKinley Dixon, The Hold Steady, Baxter Dury, Meshell Ndegeocello, The Lions Daughter and Resovwaar Dogs... If that isn't enough for you, we also talk about Mark Crossley from the 1991 Nottingham Forest FA Cup Final team. What's not to like?! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Jan 9, 2024 · 1 hr 13 min
January Album Challenge Catch Up: 1st-9th
Oi! YOU MAN! It's a little bonus catch up of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! the music podcast, where we're having a little January challenge! Steve, Sam and Gaz all have to listen to an album that they have never heard before on each day of the month of January. That's 93 albums in total you know! Wanna see how they've been getting on?... well, you can't, as this is a purely audio medium. Sorry about that. You can listen though! Here we briefly discuss every album we've heard from the 1st to the 9th of January. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Jan 5, 2024 · 1 hr 48 min
Ep.65: This Month in Music... January 1991
Hello, yes, Happy New Year, welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, a bloody great music podcast actually mates. On this weeks show Steve is joined by Sam Sleight, who tags in for Gaz, who is feeling a bit poorly right about now. GET WELL SOON GAZ! Steve and Sam discuss the events that took place across the month in January of 1991; which included a mad decision from The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, tragic events involving AC/DC and Def Leppard, Richey Manic showing the world that he was 4 Real and Iron Maiden scoring their only ever UK number one hit single with Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter. We also big up some bangers from LCD Soundsystem and The Blow Monkeys and wonder why Green Day have suddenly gone all political! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Jan 2, 2024 · 11 min
January Album a Day Challenge
Hello and Happy NEW Year! We're starting off 2024 with listening to an album we haven't heard each day throughout January. Here's at least some, and hopefully all, of the details. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 22, 2023 · 2 hr 30 min
Ep.64: It's the Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Christmas Extravaganza, with very special guest... Mark Tremonti!
In the words of Noddy Holder, IT'S CHRISTMAS... yeah, we did do that. Ssssssorry about that. It's our last podcast of the year, so we've decided to take the many festive songs of the time and place them in Box A, Box B or Box C... if you don't know what that means, well, we tell you in the show. Also, who is that at our door on a cold December night?! Why, it's only Alter Bridge and Creed guitarist, and solo artist in his own right, Mr. Mark Tremonti. And he comes bearing the gift of his latest album; Mark Tremonti Christmas Classics Old & New. Mark gives us the lowdown on the holiday season at the Tremonti household before revealing his five favourite Christmas songs of all time. It's a right laugh! God bless us... Every one. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 18, 2023 · 1 hr 25 min
Trve. Crvp. Pop! Ep.10: Trve. Clvff. Pop! Cliff Richard - Cliff With Strings - My Kinda Life
Welcome to Trve. Clvff. Pop! podcast, where we rank all of the most recent albums released by Sir Cliff Richard, part of the Trve. Crvp. Pop! podcast, where we search for the very worst album ever made, part of the Trve. Cvlt. Pop! podcast... which is just a music podcast basically. On this years show we look at Cliff With Strings - My Kinda Life, the 47th studio album from rake thin crooner, fat shamer and knight of the realm Sir Cliff Richard. It's basically a load of Cliff's songs, but with some orchestration on it! AMAZING! This might not have been such an event of a podcast if Cliff hadn't recently decided to call out Elvis Presley as a big fat disgusting blob recently, causing ire up and down the land in doing so. But, if we're honest, we're glad he did! We look at the furore, the album, the aftermath and we deep dive into the life and times of the legendary Lance Tankard... honestly. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 12, 2023 · 2 hr 19 min
Ep.63b: The Top 20 Best Albums of 2023... EVER!... Part Two
Oh hi again, you've decided to stick around for this Trve. Cvlt. Pop! special have you? Nice one. If you have just joined us, Steve and Gaz are currently half way through their own individual top 20 albums of the year list. We finish of the final 10, with a specific top 5, as well as chatting about the best songs of the year and a few of the things that weren't so good. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 12, 2023 · 1 hr 56 min
Ep.63a: The Top 20 Best Albums of 2023... EVER!... Part One
Welcome to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a music podcast. This week Steve and Gaz start the countdown for the very best albums of the year, with 10 album each from their own personal top 20 releases of the year. There is also chat about the best gigs and the best EP's that took place over the last 12 months. The second part, with the full countdown is on its way. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 8, 2023 · 2 hr 53 min
Ep.62: Sam's and assorted guests fave albums of the year... EVER!
Welcome back to another excellent episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! where we are starting to count down our favourite albums of the year. This week it is the turn of our very own Sam Sleight to countdown his favourite 20 albums of the year, plus his best gigs, EP's, songs, festival performances and the one thing that he really, REALLY just didn't get. It's not just Sam though, we also hear from Metal Hammer's own Rich Hobson, former Hammer editor and old school podcast legend Merlin Alderslade and the Pop, Collaborate and Listen podcasts own Dave Fensome, all of whom pick their five favourite releases of 2023. It's bloody good! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 1, 2023 · 1 hr 58 min
Ep.61: November Album Catch Up Review Bonanza
It's Trve. Cvlt. Pop! back once again to give you a big 'ol dose of music podcast loveliness. On this weeks show we catch up with a mixed bag of albums from across the month of November, with reviews on the latest releases from Danny Brown, Helmet, HEALTH, Take That, Chris Stapleton, Murkage Dave, Chase and Status, Jelani Brown, Madness, Jelani Blackman, Irreversible Entanglements, The Cortina Protocol, The Hope Conspiracy, Guided By Voices, Scream and Panic Stations. Plus we discuss the sad passing of two musical legends in Shane MacGowan and Geordie Walker, the Reading and Leeds and Hellfest line up is quickly dissected and there is live reports on recent gigs by The Prodigy, Ithaca and Don Broco. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Nov 27, 2023 · 1 hr 17 min
Trve. Crvp. Pop! Ep 9: The Chainsmokers - Memories... Do Not Open
Welcome back to our search for the worst album ever made, here on Trve. Crvp. Pop!, the Trve. Cvlt. Pop! spin off. Nice eh! This week Steve and Sam are looking at the debut album from US electro duo The Chainsmokers, Memories... Do Not Open, released on the 7th of April 2017. Who are The Chainsmokers you ask? Well, it's only Andrew "Drew" Taggart and Alexander "Alex" Pall, a pair of "musicians" from New York, who decided to pool their "TALENTS" together to create some electronic dance music back at the start of the 2010's when that sort of thing began to get popular in the USA. Their first hit was 2014's #Selfie, which was a deeply obnoxious, but weirdly popular, viral hit about how women are stupid, vacuous idiots, set to the sound of tuneless, brainless dubstep! Ugh! Well... at least they can't get any worse eh!... you might want to sit down, we have some bad news. Memories... Do Not Open is every bit as bad as its title would suggest, but instead of energy drink glugging, Spring Break-core, it is full of weepy, electro, plinky piano self-loathing and "deep" lyrical content. Somehow, it manages to make The Chainsmokers even more dislikable than they already were. Some achievement, and it makes our hosts as angry as they have ever been in podcast form for some time. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Nov 24, 2023 · 1 hr 34 min
Ep.60: Fat Shamer Cliff, Ian Wright's Birthday and the Return of the A,B,C Box Game!
It's another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! for your little ears! This week Steve and Gaz are back to doing what they do best; reducing really famous and iconic songs into categories and filing them into imaginary boxes marked A, B or C depending on how much we like said tune... YES! It's the return of the A, B, C, Box game! Everyone from Weezer to Warren G, Queens of the Stone Age to Spice Girls get their biggest hit re-evaluated. Plus there is chat about the recent Symposium and A gig in London... probably too much chat if we're being brutally honest with ourselves, we discuss the German language after a Munich Mayor spilt the beans on the probability of an AC/DC tour in 2024, muse on why Cliff Richard HATES fat people SHOCKER! Even fat people who he has made a career out of copying, he really needs our help and, weirdly, we keep bringing up football legend Ian Wright's recent 60th birthday...? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Nov 17, 2023 · 1 hr 40 min
Ep.59: The Best One Off Collabs EVER!!!
Hello, yes, it's Trve.Cvlt. Pop! the music podcast. Stephen Hill... Stephen ILL more like, Steve's ill and has dragged himself up to join Gaz to talk about all manner of exciting music based chat as he picks his top 5 favourite one off collaboration singles ever, ranging from everyone from Meatloaf to Gallows to Kylie to Faith No More to Aretha Franklin. We also chat about a pair of big tunes from Vanilla Pod and Cascada, the Grammys getting metal wrong again and a welcome return of Healy watch! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Nov 10, 2023 · 2 hr 22 min
Ep.58: The Worst of Rateyourmusic.com vs Download 2024.
Welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! You've made an excellent decision to join us. On this weeks show Steve and Gaz do something that they both said they hated only mere weeks ago, discussing the entirety of the recently announced Download Festival line up. You've definitely heard all of this before... sssssssorry about that. Still, it's not all exhausting festival chat, nah, we also have decided to to invent a #FUN new game! Steve has picked 20 of the most critically adored and definitive classic albums of all time, and found 1 star user reviews of them from Google, Amazon and Rate Your Music, all Gaz has to do is guess the album! So, who is just making music to make depressed teenagers feel special? What classic album was created by rolling a bin down a grassy hill? Which legendary pop singer is just a "squeaky voiced gnome"? And why have we all been labelling a certain album a masterpiece of socio-political commentary when it was actually "meaningless, mainstream pop pap"? You'll find out here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★