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Dave and Rob have the same dad. Only they didn’t meet until Rob was 16 ... and Dave was a lot older. That’s a lot of life to catch up on. And music – because whatever else they had in common, these long-lost brothers quickly realised they both really bloody loved music.
So, many years after that fateful first meeting – and separated by 1,000km – the estranged siblings launched this podcast. It’s super simple: every episode one brother introduces an album they love, that the other doesn’t know at all. They talk about what it means, and what it meant to them. Then at the end, the other brother selects the next episode’s subject … and, repeat.
Welcome, then, to a podcast about some music that at least one of us is convinced Your Brother Should Know. And you probably should, too.
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- Frank Zappa: where to start, what to know · 1 h 0 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 11With 134 authorized albums and counting, Frank Zappa's discography is the most intimidating in rock history. A curious agnostic quizzes a die-hard Zappa head on the essential…
- S2 wrap: Scott Walker, Stevie Wonder, Flying Lotus and LCD Soundsystem hit hard… but what missed the mark? · 25 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 10As the second season of Your Brother Should Know draws to a close, our two long-lost brothers look back on the formative albums they discussed and dissected, to answer the…
- Stevie Wonder: Talking Book – of course you (should) know this album already · 47 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 9Without realising that Rob might just have heard of the super-influential soul-funk-pop icon, Dave pitches Rob one of Stevie Wonder’s many finest moments. In our final episode of…
- LCD Soundsystem: The Sound of Silver – Shiny happy music for millennial people · 49 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 8James Murphy, cynical genius or twisted narcissist? Maybe a bit of both on the basis of LCD Soundsystem's majestic second LP, an album as shiny as it is reflective.
- The Midge Ure interview: on disbanding Ultravox, joining Thin Lizzy, passing on the Sex Pistols … oh, and Live Aid · 37 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 7In a Your Brother Should Know first, we publish an interview from Rob’s limited library of encounters with music’s great, good and mediocre. In the first category, we can safely…
- Ultravox: Vienna – This classic 80s album means everything to me · 1 h 1 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 6This is as far back down his personal musical memory lane that Dave can go. The enigma that is Ultravox – a proper band with an engaging thirst for all things shiny and…
- Bon Jovi: These Days at 30 – a classic album, by any other band? · 59 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 5Bon Jovi’s These Days was the first album Rob ever fell in love with, and three decades later he’s convinced that this grunge-influenced left turn would be hailed as a…
- Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick – solid build or concrete avalanche? · 37 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 4He finally went there. After 13 episodes doing everything he could to tangentially turn the conversation to prog rock, Dave forced his younger brother to actually listen to some…
- Flying Lotus: You're Dead! – decoding a modern masterpiece · 48 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 3To celebrate a decade of You're Dead being in the world, we unpack the frenetic fusion and genre-bleeding majesty of FlyLo's afterlife-inspired masterwork.
- Scott Walker: Scott 2 – the most absurd, overblown album we’ve encountered so far · 56 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 2Opium, abuse, prostitution, depression, addiction, gonorrhoea ... and plenty of pop ditties? The intrepid brothers attempt to unravel the conflicted muses (and deep Jacques Brel…
- Suede: Dog Man Star – the definition of a difficult second album · 1 h 6 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 1To celebrate the extended 30th anniversary release of Suede’s misunderstood masterpiece Dog Man Star, we present a suitably extended release of YBSK. We learn how Rob’s life has…
- Hits/misses: what we learned from season 1 of YBSK · 23 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 13After 12 episodes of sharing the music that shaped them, long-lost siblings Dave and Rob talk through what they loved, hated and learned ... about music, and each other.
- Elton John: Madman Across the Water – a not-so-secretly tortured genius? · 42 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 12Dave ranks Elton John alongside Neil Young and Lou Reed. Rob sees a cheap entertainer in a Donald Duck costume. Will this early LP change his mind?
- The Gaslight Anthem: The '59 Sound – Dickens, Springsteen 'n' roll ... · 53 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 11No Surrender, my Bobby Jean? With the greatest expectations, two long lost brothers play "count the pop culture references", and reconnect via The Gaslight Anthem's breakout LP…
- New Model Army: Impurity – the UK’s ‘crusty rock’ movement remembered · 41 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 10As YBSK turns 10, Dave gets all misty eyed over the first band he was into that hadn't spilt-up or died. Can he convince Rob that this thick slice of his personal history hasn't…
- The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang – forget Hackney Diamonds already · 39 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 9In the wake of the Hackney Diamonds hype, Rob remains convinced that it's 2005 predecessor is truly the Stones' final masterpiece. Meanwhile, a sceptical Dave posists the…
- Tori Amos: Boys for Pele - the ultimate break-up album? · 41 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 8Dave spent two summers in a campervan sobbing himself to sleep to the sound of Tori Amos' introspective third album. Rob only knows the one from a Gregg's commercial ... which he…
- Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters – masterpiece or meh? · 42 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 7Rob was one of the zillions who found solace in Fiona Apple's DIY masterpiece during the pandemic, but Dave says he'd rather listen to Ed Sheeran...
- The Stranglers: Rattus Norvegicus – should this album be cancelled? · 45 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 6Oo er – this is problematic … or is it? In episode six, Dave (un?)wisely revisits The Stranglers’ debut outing Rattus Norvegicus, which presents far more issues in 2023 than its…
- The Strokes: Is This It – the last truly great indie rock album? · 46 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 5Is This It? It sure is – in episode 5, the brothers discuss this millennium’s most influential guitar album, two days after Rob caught The Strokes in concert. Was Dave converted…
