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
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 (June 2, 2006). "be your own PET". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved November 14, 2018.
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 (June 6, 2006). "be your own PET: be your own PET". PopMatters . Retrieved November 14, 2018.
9. 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.
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. August 5, 2008. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
13. "Punk + Prose + Austin + Blood + Guts". Cannibal Cheerleader. August 1, 2008. Archived from the original on September 19, 2008. Retrieved January 9, 2012.