Advantages: Energetic, fast pace, good fun. Disadvantages: It's too short!
Be Your Own PET hail from Nashville, America, a place not really synonymous with producing good punk rock music… until now. The band consists of Jemina Pearl, Jonas Stein, Nathan Varquez and Jamin Orall, a group of 18-19 year olds writing about destruction ('Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle'), robbing banks ('October, First Account'), disagreements with boyfriends that end in murder ('Bog'), and you know, the dead taking over the earth ('Ouch'). ... ...ever heard before', tends to be overused. However, with this album, I mean it in all sincerity. It's refreshing to have a band that isn't trying to emulate any particular style. Be Your Own PET, are instead just being themselves, four teenagers who want to make punk music, and just generally have fun.
Finally, this album is not going to be to everyone's taste, and for some it may take a while to get used to the style. However, if you are a fan of ...
xradishx 10.12.2006
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Advantages: Brilliant Album Disadvantages: Could Leave you with a headache
This album by Be Your Own Pet is a piece of raw, punk rock brilliance.
its frantic and angry from start to finish, and full of energy. As always Jemina Pearls vocal performance is dramatic and highly entertaining, along with the heavy riff driven guitars and hectic drums, all this combined makes for an interesting sound.
i'd say the song that sticks out for me the most is "Fuuuuun" it just caputures what this band is all about in one little snippet ...
bebop12 11.09.2008
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Advantages: A great blend of music styles Disadvantages: The only possible one is that some songs are a bit similar
...We Will Vacation You Can Be My Parasol just like the other tracks
11. Let's Get Sandy (Big Problem) a quick 58 second track with humorous lyrics 12. October First Account a slower tempo than the other songs but fit s in perfectly
13. Love Your Shotgun garage rock
14. Fill My Pill garage rock
15. Ouch garage rock
Okay you get the general idea of the album (garage punk rock meets indie) Be your own pet was formed in 2002 at the Nashville school ... ...never outgunned album)and you get Be Your Own Pet
This album really is like a mix of punk rock and indie, at this point id really recommend this cd, I did not think I would enjoy this but im wrong im really enjoying this... If your feeling a bit sceptical about this album at this point listen to it first before buying, music shops have ways for you to preview music, so do music shops online, just listen to a few snippets of tracks, you will be surprised, ...
AndyLyne 19.05.2006 (22.05.2006)
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