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Trve. Cvlt. Pop!

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

Jan 05, 20241 hr 49 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 ★

Jan 02, 202411 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 ...

Dec 22, 20232 hr 30 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 s...

Dec 18, 20231 hr 25 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, 20232 hr 19 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 12, 20231 hr 57 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...

Dec 08, 20232 hr 53 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 pas...

Dec 01, 20231 hr 59 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...

Nov 27, 20231 hr 17 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.....

Nov 24, 20231 hr 35 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!...

Nov 17, 20231 hr 40 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 d...

Nov 10, 20232 hr 23 min

Ep.57: October Release Round Up

Welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! the music podcast. This week Steve and Gaz are at it again... when we say "at it" we meant rounding up a big 'ol load of releases from the past month. Firstly, blimey, there is a new Beatles song to talk about, who saw that coming?! We also look at the latest releases from Casisdead, The Gaslight Anthem, The Rolling Stones, Sufjan Stevens, Creeper, DJ Shadow, Barry Can't Swim, The Menzingers, Crosses, The Streets, Muriel, Paramore, Duran Duran,...

Nov 03, 20231 hr 44 min

Ep.56: Whaawerealltaraboot? - Slash Leaves Guns 'n' Roses

Welcome back to another lovely Trve. Cvlt. Pop! podcast. Steve and Gaz have been a pair of busy bees this week, heading out across the country to see live performances from Madonna, Discharge and Quicksand, together at last, and listening to long forgotten one hit wonders from the 80's and still putting out music one hit wonders from the 90's. But the real reason we're here it to take you back to exactly 27 years ago and retrace the steps that led to one of the most shocking departures from a ba...

Oct 27, 20231 hr 47 min

Trve. Crvp. Pop! Ep.8: Kevin Rowland - My Beauty

Welcome back to another search for the very worst album of all time, yes, it's Trve. Crvp. Pop!. Steve and Sam are back and are looking at My Beauty, the second solo album from former (and current) Dexy's Midnight Runners frontman, released on the 21st of September 1999. Rowland was one of the biggest stars in music in Britain in the 1980's, but after Dexy's split in 1987 he spiralled into depression and drug addiction and decided to quit music. After a spell living on the streets Rowland signed...

Oct 24, 20231 hr 16 min

Ep.55: The Alphabet of Atrocities (A-D)

Hi everybody! Welcome back to the most excellent music podcast Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Hey, don't say we never listen to you, our loyal listeners, as this week Steve and Gaz have taken one of your suggestions from a few weeks ago and turned it into an entire podcast. This week we begin to count down our own personal A-Z of Awf... I mean, the Alphabet of Atrocities (other music based A-Z rant podcasts are available), starting at the start, obvs, with the letters A through to D. So, will Steve bring up A...

Oct 20, 20232 hr 5 min

Ep.54: Boxing Up the Anthems

Welcome back to another Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a lovely music podcast! On this weeks show Steve and Gaz have taken a number of your suggestions from our social media channels of big, huge, massive, anthemic, popular songs and sorted them into three different boxes; Box A for "Never let this song darken my ears again!", Box B for "I'm not putting it on personally, but if it comes on then I'll enjoy it." or Box C "THIS SONG IS THE GREATEST! STICK ITON LOOP FOREVER!". If you've ever wanted to know where ...

Oct 13, 20231 hr 36 min

Ep53: September Album Catch Up Bonanza

Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! an actual music podcast. On this weeks show Steve and Gaz catch up with all of the music they listened to over the month of September and tell you what they thought of it. There's chat on new tunes from Joey Valence & Brae, The National, The Armed, Killer Mike, Harms Way, Diddy, Ash, Cannibal Corpse, Mahalia, Snow Wife, Hundred Reasons, Corrine Bailey Rae, Blood Command, Harms Way, Baroness, Steven Wilson, Grrrl Gang and RJ Archer and the Painful Memories. Pl...

Oct 06, 20231 hr 33 min

Ep.52: The Mount Rushmore of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! part I (Prog, Funk & Punk)

Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a very nice podcast about music. This week Steve and Gaz begin a journey into musical excellence as we make a Mount Rushmore of TCP for as many musical genres as we possibly can. It's a simple concept; each hosts picks five artists they think define said musical genre and we discuss to the death until only four remain and take their place on the coveted Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Mount Rushmore. We're going to do it with ALL the genres, but start this week with three; Prog...

Sep 29, 20232 hr 48 min

Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Review: Code Orange - The Above

Welcome back to another Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Reviews, where we take one recently released album and review it. Simple. On this Episode Steve is joined by Sam to look at the new album from Pittsburgh hardcore turned metal band Code Orange, The Above. After we all went mad for 2017's Forever and 2020's Underneath, there is a lot of pressure on Code Orange to keep their hot streak going. Does their fifth album manage to do so? We'll tell you here won't we. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★...

Sep 27, 20231 hr 19 min

Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Reviews: Kylie Minogue - Tension

Welcome to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Reviews, where we hyper focus on one new album that we think is worth your time and talk about it... and about British radio presenters from the 1980's... although not always that second bit. On this podcast we look at the brand new, and 16th, album from Australian pop legend Kylie Minogue, Tension. Kylie has been having a pretty decent time of it recently, in the aftermath of her 2020 lockdown album Disco she moved backed to her native Melbourne, a...

Sep 26, 202351 min

Trve. Crvp. Pop! Ep 7: Crosby, Stills & Nash - Live it Up

Welcome back to another Trve. Crvp. Pop!, the spin off podcast where we search for the worst album ever made. This week Steve and Sam are looking at Live it Up, the third album from US folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills and Nash, released on the 26th of June 1990. We actually don't know much about CSN, as will become apparent throughout this podcast, but what we do know is that David Crosby was a loveable loony, and his jail time, disregard for authority, drug addiction, lack of wanting to part...

Sep 25, 20231 hr 13 min

Yvur. Cvlt. Pop!: Take That - Progress

Hello everyone, welcome to Trve. Cvlt. Pop. Here is an old podcast from the past that was originally released as part of our exclusive content at patreon.com/trve.cvltpop on Take That's 2010 album Progress. You can sign up there to suggest an album and we will do our best to accommodate that, or you can just listen to the many exclusive podcasts we have there. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Sep 23, 202345 min

Ep.51: The TCP Birthday AMA Extravaganza Podcast with Too Long a Title... Really, Way Too Long

Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a music podcast that is about to celebrate its first bloody birthday! Aah! That's nice innit! It's at this time that we, that's Steve, Sam and Gaz, all get together and tackle your questions, each, every and all of them, in a full "Ask me anything!" episode. Steve even does some actual editing out this week too! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Sep 22, 20232 hr 26 min

Ep.50: "New York, The Aftermath"

Welcome to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a podcast about music. This week, in the direct aftermath of the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, Steve and Gaz look at issue 871 of Kerrang! magazine, the first issue to be released after the event, and take a look back at what the immediate reaction from the music world was. We look at the cancelled tours, the songs dropped from radio and TV, the changes artists had to make to upcoming releases, the songs that were inspired by the even...

Sep 15, 20232 hr 17 min

Ep.49: A Brief Conversation into Never Ending Whatsapp Voicenotes

Hey there, yes indeed, it's Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a podcast about a load of musical things. This week Steve and Gaz listen to, talk about and review some new music from Slowdive, Empire State Bastard, Ashnikko and... well, it's actually not new music from Grandaddy, but one of thought it was was ages... we review their B-sides collection. There's also chat about Steel Panther popping up on America's Got Talent, internet scamps pretending to be in Sleep Token and we pay our respects to Smash Mouth fro...

Sep 08, 20231 hr 22 min

Trve. Crvp. Pop! Ep.6: AC/DC - Fly on the Wall

It's another look at the world of the worst albums ever made, as we present another Trve. Crvp. Pop!, searching for the most awful moment in the history of music. This week, Steve and Sam are rating and ranking Fly on the Wall, the 10th studio album from hard rock legends Ac/DC, released on the 28th of June 1985. The 80's had been kind to AC/DC initially, their 7th album Back in Black was one of the biggest albums ever made, shifting 25 millions copies in the US alone. But as the decade wore on,...

Sep 05, 20231 hr 28 min

Ep.48: The #Cancelled Episode

Welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a music podcast. This week we are going slightly darker than usual, as Steve and Gaz discuss their relationship with certain problematic artists. Steve picks five songs that he no longer listens to, discusses the reasons for ditching them and how outside issues can effect your enjoyment of a song or how the behaviour of an artist can negate the power of a song that you formerly loved. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★...

Sep 01, 20231 hr 49 min

Reading Festival Sunday Review

All... well, not all, some... SOME of the things that happened on Sunday at the Reading Festival. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Aug 28, 202353 min
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