'Tales From Monographic Oceans': a freewheeling journey in a stretch of sea, cutting through the isthmuses of some discographies
(Mike Scott/Waterboys vs. Karl Wallinger/World Party 46, 29)
'God makes them, then pairs them up.' Then, unfortunately, they end up 'splitting apart' (Unfortunately? Fortunately!) The too-similar (talented) yet too-different ones who met and then parted ways, choosing to do 'their own thing', that is: Great British Music in all its forms and derivations (rock but also wave, pop but also soul, singer-songwriter folk but also traditional, Beatles but also Patti Smith, Springsteen but also Prince...)
The Waterboys - The Girl Who Slept For Scotland