11 episodes
Your Brother Should Know YBSK
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- Music
Dave and Rob have the same dad. Only they didn’t meet until Rob was 16 ... and Dave was nearly 30. 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, some 20 years after that fateful first meeting – and separated by 6,000 miles – the estranged siblings launched this podcast. It’s super simple: every episode introduces an album that one brother loves, and the other doesn’t know from Adam. Then 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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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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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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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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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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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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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…