Be Your Own Pet (album)

Be Your Own Pet
Studio album by Be Your Own Pet
Released	March 27, 2006 (UK) June 6, 2006 (USA)[1]
Genre	noise pop, garage punk
Length	33:27
Label	XL Recordings, 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[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Austin Chronicle	(7.8/10)[3]
Blender	[4]
Robert Christgau	A−[5]
New York Times	[6]
NME	(8/10)[7]
Pitchfork Media	(8.2/10)[8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
Uncut	[10]

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

Background

"Ouch" was inspired by George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead.^[11] 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.^[12]

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. Allmusic review
2. "Be Your Own Pet by Be Your Own Pet". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
3. "Page Not Found - The Austin Chronicle". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
4. "Be Your Own Pet by Be Your Own Pet". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
5. "Robert Christgau: CG: Be Your Own Pet". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
6. "New CD's". The New York Times. 5 June 2006. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
7. NME.COM. "Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet - NME.COM". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
8. Pitchfork Media review Archived February 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
9. "Album Reviews". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
10. "Be Your Own Pet by Be Your Own Pet". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
11. "Catching Up With... Be Your Own Pet :: Music :: Features :: Paste". Pastemagazine.com. 2008-08-05. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
12. "Punk + Prose + Austin + Blood + Guts". Cannibal Cheerleader. 2008-08-01. Retrieved 2012-01-09.