Be Your Own Pet (album)

Be Your Own Pet
Studio album by Be Your Own Pet
Released	March 27, 2006
Genre	Noise pop, garage punk
Length	33:27
Label	XL, 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
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

1. "Be Your Own Pet by Be Your Own Pet". Metacritic. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
2. 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.