Be Your Own Pet (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Be Your Own Pet
Type = studio
Artist = Be Your Own Pet


Released = March 27, 2006
Recorded =
Genre = Indie rock, punk rock
Length = 33:27
Label = XL Recordings, Ecstatic Peace
Producer = Steven McDonald
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:azfuxqudldte link]
*"The Austin Chronicle" (7.8/10) [http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2006-06-16/music_phases2.html Link]
*"Blender" Rating|4|5 [http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/beyourownpet/beyourownpet Link]
*Robert Christgau (A-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=5500&name=Be+Your+Own+Pet link]
*"New York Times" Rating|4|5 [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/arts/music/05choi.html?pagewanted=all Link]
*"NME" (8/10) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/be-your-own-pet/7895 link]
*Pitchfork Media (8.2/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/36670-be-your-own-pet link]
* "Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/10435439/review/19060043/be_your_own_pet Link]
*Ultimate Guitar (7.3/10) [http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/be_your_own_pet/be_your_own_pet/index.html link]
*"Uncut" Rating|4|5 [http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/beyourownpet/beyourownpet Link]
Last album = "Damn Damn Leash EP" (2005)
This album = "Be Your Own Pet"
(2006)
Next album = "Summer Sensation"
(2006)

"Be Your Own Pet" is the debut full length album by Be Your Own Pet, released in 2006.

Background

"Ouch" was inspired by George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead". [http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/08/catching-up-with-be-your-own-pet.html] 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". [http://www.cannibalcheerleader.com/2008/08/look-back-in-anger.html]

Track listing

#"Thresher's Flail" – 2:07
#"Bunk, Trunk, Skunk" – 1:28
#"Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle" – 2:06
#"Wildcat!" – 1:23
#"Adventure" – 2:32
#"Fuuuuun" – 1:20
#"Stairway to Heaven" – 1:45
#"Bog" – 2:18
#"Girls on TV" – 2:29
#"We Will Vacation, You Can Be My Parasol" – 2:03
#"Let's Get Sandy (Big Problem)" – 0:58
#"October, First Account" – 2:59
#"Love Your Shotgun" – 3:00
#"Fill My Pill" – 3:26
#"Ouch" – 3:26