Be Your Own Pet (album)
2006 studio album by Be Your Own Pet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
| 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] |
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
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