Be Your Own Pet (CD)
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Four friends (3 dudes, 1 femme) get together in Nashville basement and compare notes. Likes: caffeine, spicy food, T Rex, Television, bicycles, Iggy & the Stooges, skateboarding, Afri Rampo, sea horses, Velvet Underground, asthma inhalers, Animal Collective. Dislikes: boredom, posers, posers, boredom, flat tires, runny eggs, lameness, boredom. Actually boredom's pretty cool cuz then you can SMASH IT! Be Your Own Pet smash through it all. Jemina Pearl's voice is a wild wonder whipping through the motorcycle guitar thrash of buddy Jonas Stein and landing on the wicked beat/note interplay of rhythm monsters Nathan Vasquez (bass) and Jamin Orrall (drums).
| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | |
| 1 | Thresher's Flail |
| 2 | Bunk Trunk Skunk |
| 3 | Bicycle Bicycle You Are My Bicycle |
| 4 | Wildcat |
| 5 | Adventure |
| 6 | Fuuuuuun |
| 7 | Stairway To Heaven |
| 8 | Bog |
| 9 | Girls On TV |
| 10 | We Will Vacation You Can Be My Parasol |
| 11 | Let's Get Sandy (Big Problem) |
| 12 | October First Account |
| 13 | Love Your Shotgun |
| 14 | Fill My Pill |
| 15 | Ouch |
| that dude jeff
- Brooklyn, NY, USA |
| Whatever happened to listening and reviewing music based on how it sounded, not on how old the musicians were (or weren't) or who they fucking sound like? I saw BYOP at the Insound party last year with Chin Up Chin Up and Rahim and they fucking destroyed. They might be young, and the hype might be gigantic, but this stuff is refreshing. It's not nearly as shitty as pop-punk these days and you shouldn't call it indie just because Thurston put out the record on Ecstatic Peace. Just call it good. Play it for the half-hour and shut up already. Leave the bickering and finger-pointing to the bloggers and Spin Magazine. | |
| luke
- nashville, TN, usa |
| I haven't even heard this album. Do I even need to? This band sounds like a lot of bands, but they are 12 years old, so everyone thinks its special. | |
| Chris Morin
- Saskatoon, , Canada |
| When Be Your Own Pet took the indie-rock world by storm, the epicenter of the band's buzz was their youth. At the time of their album's release, the band's median age was something like 17.6. Usually such hyped up prodigies are often forgiven for their indiscretions, no matter how slight, and in this respect, Be Your Own Pet is no different. Trapped in a teenagers body can be trying, but BYOP still manage to make music better than most people. However, their adolescence can still be spotted like a bad case of acne from a mile away. On the debut CD, BYOP do manage to craft a kind of punk rock that might be refreshingly foreign to most. Unfortunately, most people are going to focus on the vocals, a snarly croon highly reminiscent of Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O. But beyond the femme fatale obviousness, BYOP crank out amped up anthems for both the all ages and the bar crowd. There are still a few snags on this album that cannot be overlooked, mainly how every song appears to begin with the same kick drum thud. However, if this CD catches you with at least one of the many hooks and barbs, you're going to be stuck on it for a long time. Be Your Own Pet are relatively new to this game and still have some growing up to do. Hopefully this band can stick around a little after they've grown up; the world of adults can be a frightening place. | |
| Peter Pendergrass
- Greensboro, NC, USA |
| I give this album a C- because it is not woth the hype. Seriously. Nothing this band does is amazing, they're 17, and they totally ripped off the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Go back to high school. Sure, some of the songs, A FEW, are catchy, but for the most part it's just mindless guitar riffs and Jemina Gulch (is that right?) doing her best riot grrl/Karen O. | |
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