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Be Your Own Pet (album)

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Be Your Own Pet
Studio album by
Be Your Own Pet
ReleasedMarch 27, 2006
GenreNoise pop, garage punk
Length33:27
LabelXL, Ecstatic Peace!
ProducerSteven 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[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Austin Chronicle[3]
Blender[4]
Entertainment WeeklyB[5]
NME8/10[6]
Pitchfork8.2/10[7]
PopMatters7/10[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

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"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

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No.TitleLength
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

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  1. ^ "Be Your Own Pet by Be Your Own Pet". Metacritic. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Phares, Heather. "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet". AllMusic. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  3. ^ Schroeder, Audra (June 16, 2016). "Be Your Own Pet". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Greenblatt, Leah (2006-06-02). "be your own PET". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
  6. ^ "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet". NME. March 24, 2006. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  7. ^ Raposa, David (June 6, 2006). "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  8. ^ Raper, Dan (2006-06-06). "be your own PET: be your own PET". PopMatters. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
  9. ^ Sheffield, Rob (20 March 2008). "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 10, 2008. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  10. ^ Hurley, Caroline (March 17, 2006). "Be Your Own Pet - 'Be Your Own Pet'". The Skinny. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  11. ^ Aaron, Charles (July 2006). "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet (Ecstatic Peace/Universal)". Spin. p. 82. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  12. ^ "Catching Up With... Be Your Own Pet :: Music :: Features :: Paste". Pastemagazine.com. 2008-08-05. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
  13. ^ "Punk + Prose + Austin + Blood + Guts". Cannibal Cheerleader. 2008-08-01. Archived from the original on 2008-09-19. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
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