Your Brother Should Know
Dave and Rob didn’t share a childhood, so they’re sharing the music that shaped them instead
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Episodes
Monday May 13, 2024
Monday May 13, 2024
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?
Saturday Jul 13, 2024
Saturday Jul 13, 2024
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.
Friday Aug 09, 2024
Friday Aug 09, 2024
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?
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
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.
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
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 album to his melody-hugging brother. Meanwhile Dave realises he can in fact be talked into liking a band, as just maybe what he thought was a dog, is really a star…
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.