Your Brother Should Know
Your Brother Should Know
YBSK
Dave and Rob didn’t share a childhood, so they’re sharing the music that shaped them instead
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?
May 13, 2024
40 min
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 ...
Mar 31, 2024
39 min
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.
Mar 9, 2024
41 min
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...
Feb 1, 2024
41 min
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?
Dec 31, 2023
45 min
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.
Dec 31, 2023
48 min
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).
Dec 31, 2023
45 min
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?
Dec 31, 2023
44 min
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.
Dec 31, 2023
46 min
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…
Dec 31, 2023
44 min
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