Your Brother Should Know

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 between. Find out from the man himself what it's like to be simultaneously Brilliant (Ultravox, 2012) and Fragile (solo album 2014), where he stands on Scottish independence, and why he turned down the chance to be a Sex Pistol. If you’re really interested, then wind back to Rob and Dave’s companion episode on the classic Ultravox album Vienna, and find out just how much they got wrong about Midge’s life.

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.

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 question, is this Stevie’s finest hour, and what should you listen to next?
 
***NOT AI art***
 
Cover image a real, big and magnificent painting by Maddy Butcher @maddybutcher 
 

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?

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 music? 
A summer special from YBSK, a podcast uniting two long-lost brothers who never shared a childhood, so are sharing the albums that shaped them today.