Your Brother Should Know

May 13 2024

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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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WTF is Your Brother Should Know, anyway?

Dec 19 2023 2 mins

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, formative album at a time.

Pixies: Doolittle – the best guitar album of the 80s, really?

Dec 31 2023 46 mins

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.

The Cure: Disintegration – the most depressing album ever?

Dec 31 2023 45 mins

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).

Daft Punk: Random Access Memories – does it hold up 10 years later?

Dec 31 2023 48 mins

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.

Supertramp: Crime of the Century – where pop means prog

Dec 31 2023 44 mins

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?

The Strokes: Is This It – the last truly great indie rock album?

Dec 31 2023 45 mins

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?

The Stranglers: Rattus Norvegicus – should this album be cancelled?

Dec 31 2023 44 mins

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…

Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters – masterpiece or meh?

Jan 31 2024 41 mins

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...

Tori Amos: Boys for Pele - the ultimate break-up album?

Mar 08 2024 41 mins

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.

The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang – forget Hackney Diamonds already

Mar 31 2024 39 mins

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 ...