Be Your Own Pet (album)
| Be Your Own Pet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | March 27, 2006 | |||
| Genre | Noise pop, garage punk | |||
| Length | 33:27 | |||
| Label | XL, Ecstatic Peace! | |||
| Producer | Steven McDonald | |||
| Be Your Own Pet chronology | ||||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 75/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| The Austin Chronicle | [3] |
| Blender | [4] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B[5] |
| NME | 8/10[6] |
| Pitchfork | 8.2/10[7] |
| PopMatters | 7/10[8] |
| Rolling Stone | [9] |
| The Skinny | [10] |
| Spin | [11] |
Be Your Own Pet is the debut full-length album by American band Be Your Own Pet, released in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2006, and in the United States on June 6, 2006.[2]
Background
"Ouch" was inspired by George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead.[12] 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.[13]
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
- ^ "Be Your Own Pet by Be Your Own Pet". Metacritic. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- ^ a b Phares, Heather. "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet". AllMusic. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ Schroeder, Audra (June 16, 2016). "Be Your Own Pet". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ Phillips, Amy (July 2006). "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet Review". Blender. Archived from the original on August 26, 2006. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ Greenblatt, Leah (June 2, 2006). "be your own PET". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet". NME. March 24, 2006. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- ^ Raposa, David (June 6, 2006). "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ Raper, Dan (June 6, 2006). "be your own PET: be your own PET". PopMatters. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ Sheffield, Rob (March 20, 2008). "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 10, 2008. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- ^ Hurley, Caroline (March 17, 2006). "Be Your Own Pet - 'Be Your Own Pet'". The Skinny. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ Aaron, Charles (July 2006). "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet (Ecstatic Peace/Universal)". Spin. p. 82. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ "Catching Up With... Be Your Own Pet :: Music :: Features :: Paste". Pastemagazine.com. August 5, 2008. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
- ^ "Punk + Prose + Austin + Blood + Guts". Cannibal Cheerleader. August 1, 2008. Archived from the original on September 19, 2008. Retrieved January 9, 2012.