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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.

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...?

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!

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. 

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, Sampha, Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist and Bad Rabbits.

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 band that happened in rock during our lifetimes; when Axl Rose kicked Slash out of Guns 'n' Roses. We look back on the madness, the drama, the solo projects, the creative differences, the GnR "Yoko Ono", the terrible covers and the chance meetings by swimming pools that all coalesced into one of hard rocks biggest ever bands falling apart... they made up though, it's all fine now, you might have heard about it. 

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 to Creation Records, home of Oasis, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and, of course, 3 Colours Red, and released a set of covers, with the lyrics changed to reflect his recent struggles. It should have been a triumphant comeback, but Rowland decided to portray himself on the front cover wearing a dress and lingerie, much to the confusion of the UK music press, and then turn up fully made up and in a dress at the Reading Festival in 1999 a month before the album was released. It was a disaster and completely overshadowed the music on My Beauty. Rowland, it was reported, only sold 500 copies of the album and he became the punchline to many a joke at the time. But, 24 years on, does the music stand up?

Originally uploaded to patreon.com/trvecvltpop on the 15th of October 2022.

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 Alestorm AGAIN? Will Gaz double down on his shameful opinion of Blondie? Will our hosts say "STOP GETTING THE 90'S WRONG!" at a certain radio station? Yeah. Yeah, they will. There's other stuff too though. 

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 we stand on pop punk classics, England football and cricket anthems, grunge bangers, huge hip-pop tunes, the definitive 90's power ballads, and more, this is the show for you.