Desert Island Discourse

WE MADE IT TO EPISODE 50 Y'ALL. Can you believe it? We certainly can't—like most amateur podcasts started in times of immense unemployment, we sort of assumed this was going to sputter out after a couple of months. But NO. We've defied the odds, and to celebrate this arbitrarily momentous occasion (counting the B-Sides we actually have something like 78 episodes, but who counts the B-Sides?), we're discoursing about one of the bands that brought us to this accursed island in the first place: Talk Talk Talk Talk are one of those whose reputation wildly varies depending on who you talk to. To most of the world, they're the one-hit new wave band behind that one No Doubt song where Gwen Stefani gets executed; to Britain's most pretentious musicians, they're a legendary art-rock institution; and to everyone who ever recorded with them, they're the devil. But to Andrew and Max, they represent connection, a band that fostered that one of those beautiful moments that this podcast is all about: when a stranger brings