Be Your Own Pet (album)

Be Your Own Pet
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
Damn Damn Leash EP
(2005)
Be Your Own Pet
(2006)
Summer Sensation
(2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic75/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Austin Chronicle(7.8/10)[3]
Blender[4]
Robert ChristgauA−[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. 1 2 Allmusic review
  2. "Be Your Own Pet by Be Your Own Pet". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. "Page Not Found - The Austin Chronicle". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  4. "Be Your Own Pet by Be Your Own Pet". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  5. "Robert Christgau: CG: Be Your Own Pet". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  6. "New CD's". The New York Times. 5 June 2006. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  7. NME.COM. "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet - NME.COM". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  8. Pitchfork Media review Archived February 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  9. "Album Reviews". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  10. "Be Your Own Pet by Be Your Own Pet". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  11. "Catching Up With... Be Your Own Pet :: Music :: Features :: Paste". Pastemagazine.com. 2008-08-05. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
  12. "Punk + Prose + Austin + Blood + Guts". Cannibal Cheerleader. 2008-08-01. Retrieved 2012-01-09.


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