Be Your Own Pet (album)
| Be Your Own Pet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by Be Your Own Pet | ||||
| Released |
March 27, 2006 (UK) June 6, 2006 (USA)[1] | |||
| Genre | noise pop, garage punk | |||
| Length | 33:27 | |||
| Label | XL Recordings, Ecstatic Peace | |||
| Producer | Steven McDonald | |||
| Be Your Own Pet chronology | ||||
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| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 75/100[2] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [1] |
| The Austin Chronicle | (7.8/10)[3] |
| Blender | [4] |
| Robert Christgau | A−[5] |
| New York Times | [6] |
| NME | (8/10)[7] |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.2/10)[8] |
| Rolling Stone | [9] |
| Uncut | [10] |
Be Your Own Pet is the debut full-length album by American band Be Your Own Pet, released in 2006.
Background
"Ouch" was inspired by George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead.[11] The title of the song "Thresher's Flail" is a reference to the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan: Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail/Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.[12]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Thresher's Flail" | 2:07 |
| 2. | "Bunk, Trunk, Skunk" | 1:28 |
| 3. | "Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle" | 2:06 |
| 4. | "Wildcat!" | 1:23 |
| 5. | "Adventure" | 2:32 |
| 6. | "Fuuuuun" | 1:20 |
| 7. | "Stairway to Heaven" | 1:45 |
| 8. | "Bog" | 2:18 |
| 9. | "Girls on TV" | 2:29 |
| 10. | "We Will Vacation, You Can Be My Parasol" | 2:03 |
| 11. | "Let's Get Sandy (Big Problem)" | 0:58 |
| 12. | "October, First Account" | 2:59 |
| 13. | "Love Your Shotgun" | 3:00 |
| 14. | "Fill My Pill" | 3:26 |
| 15. | "Ouch" | 3:26 |
References
- 1 2 Allmusic review
- ↑ "Be Your Own Pet by Be Your Own Pet". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ "Page Not Found - The Austin Chronicle". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ "Be Your Own Pet by Be Your Own Pet". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ "Robert Christgau: CG: Be Your Own Pet". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ "New CD's". The New York Times. 5 June 2006. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ NME.COM. "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet - NME.COM". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ Pitchfork Media review Archived February 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Album Reviews". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ "Be Your Own Pet by Be Your Own Pet". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ "Catching Up With... Be Your Own Pet :: Music :: Features :: Paste". Pastemagazine.com. 2008-08-05. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
- ↑ "Punk + Prose + Austin + Blood + Guts". Cannibal Cheerleader. 2008-08-01. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
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