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Nearly every "artsy" indie band lately has been a ripoff of either the Zombies, or Love. Every time I hear a good indie song with "art" themes or a storytelling motif, it's had too-close-for-comfort parallels with the two bands mentioned above. Case and point, Beirut and the Decemberists:
Elephant gun sounds like it would be right at home on Forever Changes:
And then with Mariner's Revenge song, it sounds like an oceanic ripoff of Butcher's Tale, from Odessey and Oracle, although 4 times as long, and not as good:
