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Your Brother Should Know

YBSK

Music

Frequency: 1 episode/29d. Total Eps: 22

Dave and Rob didn’t share a childhood, so they’re sharing the music that shaped them instead

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🇨🇦 Canada - Music Commentary
26/09/2025
#84
🇨🇦 Canada - Music Commentary
25/09/2025
#67
🇨🇦 Canada - Music Commentary
24/09/2025
#31
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Commentary
26/12/2024
#65
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Commentary
25/12/2024
#45
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Commentary
13/11/2024
#64
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Commentary
28/09/2024
#76
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Commentary
27/09/2024
#41

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https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/255317/Review-Bon-Jovi-at-Hard-Rock-Calling
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https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts/review-bon-jovi-fails-to-hit-the-high-notes-at-abu-dhabi-concert-1.85326
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https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts/album-review-burning-bridges-bon-jovi-1.46827
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LCD Soundsystem: The Sound of Silver – Shiny happy music for millennial people

Season 2 · Episode 8

Monday, August 25, 2025 • Duration 48:46

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.

The Midge Ure interview: on disbanding Ultravox, joining Thin Lizzy, passing on the Sex Pistols … oh, and Live Aid

Season 2 · Episode 7

Thursday, July 3, 2025 • Duration 37:08

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.

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Ultravox: Vienna – This classic 80s album means everything to me

Season 2 · Episode 6

Thursday, July 3, 2025 • Duration 01:01:23

This is as far back down his personal musical memory lane that Dave can go. The enigma that is Ultravox – a proper band with an engaging thirst for all things shiny and electronic? Or second rate rockers, papering over the cracks with third rate synthology? Dave thinks they remain full of Western Promise, but will Rob find they were Passing Strangers to talent, leaving him in a Sleepwalk? And who is Mr X anyway?

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Bon Jovi: These Days at 30 – a classic album, by any other band?

Season 2 · Episode 5

Friday, April 11, 2025 • Duration 58:32

Bon Jovi’s These Days was the first album Rob ever fell in love with, and three decades later he’s convinced that this grunge-influenced left turn would be hailed as a masterpiece today had it been made by any other band.

Which is why, ahead of These Days’ 30th anniversary, Rob insisted his long-lost brother needed to hear it. Will the prog-loving poodle rock-adverse Dave fall for Bon Jovi’s uncharacteristically angsty, mid-90s masterpiece, or laugh it back to the footnotes of given-up glam metal lore?

Also, how much of this album was really down to MIA guitarist Richie Sambora, and what’s the deal with Jon Bon Jovi’s beleaguered voice today?

Notes and references

Rob’s largely positive 2011 live review: https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/255317/Review-Bon-Jovi-at-Hard-Rock-Calling

Rob’s not very positive 2015 review: https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts/review-bon-jovi-fails-to-hit-the-high-notes-at-abu-dhabi-concert-1.85326

Rob shitting on Burning Bridges: https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts/album-review-burning-bridges-bon-jovi-1.46827

Rob on seeing the band for a fifth time: https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts/wild-night-for-bon-jovi-fans-in-abu-dhabi-1.131995

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Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick – solid build or concrete avalanche?

Season 2 · Episode 4

Friday, February 28, 2025 • Duration 36:35

He finally went there. After 13 episodes doing everything he could to tangentially turn the conversation to prog rock, Dave forced his younger brother to actually listen to some. Rob did not come to the party without preconceptions – namely that 70s prog is the least sexy music in the world, listened to only by celibate Chemistry teachers in Middle England. Did Jethro Tull’s sprawling, tongue-in-cheek single-song opus change his mind? And, most importantly, who the hell is Biggles?

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Flying Lotus: You're Dead! – decoding a modern masterpiece

Season 2 · Episode 3

Monday, January 27, 2025 • Duration 47:35

To celebrate a decade of You're Dead being in the world, we unpack the frenetic fusion and genre-bleeding majesty of FlyLo's afterlife-inspired masterwork.

Scott Walker: Scott 2 – the most absurd, overblown album we’ve encountered so far

Season 2 · Episode 2

Monday, December 9, 2024 • Duration 55:34

Opium, abuse, prostitution, depression, addiction, gonorrhoea ... and plenty of pop ditties? The intrepid brothers attempt to unravel the conflicted muses (and deep Jacques Brel obsession) of Scott Walker's best-selling outing.

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Suede: Dog Man Star – the definition of a difficult second album

Season 2 · Episode 1

Thursday, October 31, 2024 • Duration 01:06:29

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…

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Hits/misses: what we learned from season 1 of YBSK

Season 1 · Episode 13

Friday, September 6, 2024 • Duration 23:07

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.

Elton John: Madman Across the Water – a not-so-secretly tortured genius?

Season 1 · Episode 12

Friday, August 9, 2024 • Duration 41:54

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?

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