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Your Brother Should Know
by YBSK
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.
Episodes
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Frank Zappa: where to start, what to know
With 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 albums, eras, sounds and stylistic changes, and asks the most pressing question of all, does humour really belong in…
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S2 wrap: Scott Walker, Stevie Wonder, Flying Lotus and LCD Soundsystem hit hard… but what missed the mark?
As 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 immortal question: does your brother really need to know them? And more importantly, do you?
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Stevie Wonder: Talking Book – of course you (should) know this album already
Without 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 season two, we stretch the YBSK concept to breaking point, and celebrate one of the greatest albums ever. But the big...
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LCD Soundsystem: The Sound of Silver – Shiny happy music for millennial people
James 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.
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The Midge Ure interview: on disbanding Ultravox, joining Thin Lizzy, passing on the Sex Pistols … oh, and Live Aid
In 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 file Midge Ure: guitarist, singer, songwriter, Live Aid founder, member of Thin Lizzy, Visage, and much more in…
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Ultravox: Vienna – This classic 80s album means everything to me
This 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 electronic? Or second rate rockers, papering over the cracks with third rate synthology? Dave thinks they remain full of Western...
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Bon Jovi: These Days at 30 – a classic album, by any other band?
Bon 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 masterpiece today had it been made by any other band. Which is why, ahead of These Days’ 30th anniversary, Rob insisted his...
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Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick – solid build or concrete avalanche?
He 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. Rob did not come to the party without preconceptions – namely that 70s prog is the least sexy music in the world,...
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Flying Lotus: You're Dead! – decoding a modern masterpiece
To 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.
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Scott Walker: Scott 2 – the most absurd, overblown album we’ve encountered so far
Opium, abuse, prostitution, depression, addiction, gonorrhoea ... and plenty of pop ditties? The intrepid brothers attempt to unravel the conflicted muses (and deep Jacques Brel obsession) of Scott Walker's best-selling outing.
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Suede: Dog Man Star – the definition of a difficult second album
To 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 been inextricably entwined with the unlikely Britpop darlings, and why he probably should have pitched a simpler Suede...
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Hits/misses: what we learned from season 1 of YBSK
After 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.
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Elton John: Madman Across the Water – a not-so-secretly tortured genius?
Dave 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?
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The Gaslight Anthem: The '59 Sound – Dickens, Springsteen 'n' roll ...
No 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, discovering a hot-blooded modern rock classic so earnest it almost makes guitar music sound vital again.
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New Model Army: Impurity – the UK’s ‘crusty rock’ movement remembered
As 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 gone stale? And what was ruddy “crusty rock”, anyway?
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The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang – forget Hackney Diamonds already
In 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 unlikely argument that A Bigger Bang is, in fact, a concept album ...
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Tori Amos: Boys for Pele - the ultimate break-up album?
Dave 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 learns is all about big dicks, not sandwiches.
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Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters – masterpiece or meh?
Rob 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...
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The Stranglers: Rattus Norvegicus – should this album be cancelled?
Oo 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 silly name…
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The Strokes: Is This It – the last truly great indie rock album?
Is 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 by the ridiculously over-hyped record, and how do the band measure up live today?
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Supertramp: Crime of the Century – where pop means prog
For our fourth soul-searching summit, Dave flirts with his inner prog stan, riskily sharing the overblown opus of Supertramp’s breakthrough Crime of the Century – was not knowing it Rob’s crime of the millennium?
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Daft Punk: Random Access Memories – does it hold up 10 years later?
As Daft Punk’s party-starting throwback Random Access Memories turns 10, in episode 3, Rob gets all misty-eyed about attempting to “Get Lucky” on the dancefloor – and almost convinces Dave the album’s epic indulgences hold up a decade later.
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The Cure: Disintegration – the most depressing album ever?
In episode two, Dave wanders down a long dark night of the soul to present Disintegration by The Cure, an epic of despair and depression that Rob thankfully doesn’t have time for (anymore).
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Pixies: Doolittle – the best guitar album of the 80s, really?
In our debut outing, Rob attempts to persuade Dave that, while it was released in 1989, the Pixies’ Doolittle is the greatest album of the 90s … and Dave is only 53% convinced.
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WTF is Your Brother Should Know, anyway?
Welcome to the music podcast about more than music. Your hosts might be siblings, but they didn’t meet until Rob was 16, and Dave was nearly 30. So now, separated by 6,000 miles, the estranged siblings are making up for a lost childhood by sharing the music that shaped them – one seminal…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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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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...
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