What's the deal with this band "Be Your Own Pet"

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I was just reading that they are something of a hot prospect and they are about 18 or something.

Anybody know anymore? Their homepage is pretty ugly http://www.infinitycat.com/byop.html

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I've only heard one song and I didn't like it one bit-contrived, yelpy vocals and standard-issue rock clatter. But maybe it's just me

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i heard the single 'damn damn leash' a few times, and it didn't seem to live up to the little ripple of hype they've been generating - not bad, but not anything to shout about. aiming for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, not quite reaching.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

my pal just saw them at SXSW and said they weren't that hot. Just one more band with a silly-ass name.

― chadly con queso (chadly con queso), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i heard the single 'damn damn leash' a few times, and it didn't seem to live up to the little ripple of hype they've been generating - not bad, but not anything to shout about.

So we should expect them on the cover of NME any day now?

― Xii (Xii), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Looking at the pix, I hate them. I can't help it.

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Looking at the pix, I wonder where the brick wall is?

― M Nolan (Severian), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:09 (nineteen years ago) link

seemed like a kinda weird thing for XL........

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link

They kind of caught my interest, I've heard one single on the radio, but it wasn't an 'oh my God that's brilliant' moment, but I'd be happy to see what they come up with.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Has XL signed them or something?

If so that's a pretty odd signing.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 10:04 (nineteen years ago) link

they signed young heart attack, so nothing surprises me now.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway, they're doing an instore at the talbot rd rough trade this saturday. fancy a west london, anna?

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link

They are pretty, and they sound like a less-frightening Yeah Yeah Yeahs. An A&R no-brainer.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Amen to Colin, add in the youth Factor and I see these guys on The O.C. in mere months.

― Yoshinorimike (Yoshinorimike), Thursday, 24 March 2005 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I am not frightened by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This is because I am very hard.

Be Your Own Pet are playing Glastonbury.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 11 April 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

The b-side "Electric Shake" sounds fantastic even though it's not innovative in any sense. I quite like her disgusted "YUGH" that she does at the end of the chorus. I've been listening to it a lot lately on a mixtape my friend made for me (who used to be in a band with Jemina at the Rock 'N' Roll Girls' Camp they mention on their page but had a fallout with her because Jemina talked trash about her...some mediocre teenage dilemma).

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

So bonus points taken off for Jemina being mean to my lovely friend...who (referring to aforementioned friend) I don't think has the capability to harm anyone since she's so sweet.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw the video for Damn Damn Leash on MTV2 and liked it. Cool (and weird) video, the song seemed pretty good and the girl is TEH CUTE. But that probably makes me a dirty old man if she's only about 16 or something. I'm only 21 mind you.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

I've been listening to the album a couple of times today and all the songs pretty much sounds the same(in a bad way). It's just simple garage rock. Nothing that stands out. But I do have a weakness for female rock voices and Jemina has a pretty wicked voice. Very similar to Karen O but obviously not as good.

I'll give the album a 6.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 14 January 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, the album is not a big deal, but 'Adventure' is a song you can fall in love with. Or I did, at least.

― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

I really like the new EP.

65% Yeah Yeah Yeahs
25% Elastica
10% Bikini Kill
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100% Fun

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Thursday, 14 September 2006 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

So it's like Matthew Sweet, then.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 14 September 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw them at bonnaroo. more energy than songs. respectable chops. the girl singer's cute and wore a billy idol t-shirt.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 14 September 2006 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i think the only thing of note about this band is that the singer is probably the rock and roll girls camp alumna to "make it."

― Godfrzej Ljang (godfrzej), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

"Adventure" is a great, great song, even if it is 80% No Doubt. The rest of their corpus is capable but pedestrian.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Not to just continue the list of bands with chick singers, but my impression was just Letters to Cleo with more crunch and better instincts. In other words, sorta great.

Also IMO "October, 1st Account" is the standout, the tracks do get samey.

― William Ryan Stuart Hamilton (Stagger Lee), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

didn't the drummer just quit? guess he wasn't capable enough

― pinder (pinder), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

man this album is so fucking good.

― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 October 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

http://drownedinsound.com/articles/3779583

http://www.history.army.mil/art/Arlington/MilFun.jpg

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 4 August 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link

Myself and the two other ppl on here who like this band already poured one out for them

― DJ Mencap, Monday, 4 August 2008 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link

They did so here...I like the singer's voice and am curious about any future projects she may be involved with

Be Your Own Pet- Get Awkward

― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 August 2008 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Totally obsessed with "Damn Damn Leash" again today after many years away from it.

Also, I recognize almost nobody at all from the first act of this thread.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link

seven years pass...

Band reunion. I kinda forgot about them too be honest.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/18/be-your-own-pet-return-diy-punk-jemina-pearl

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 20 March 2022 09:33 (two years ago) link

“Adventure” is a jam and I still hum it to myself occasionally. Great to read they’re all in good places and happy playing together again! But the story headline is wrong, no? ‘Band returns after surviving sleazy indie’ and then references the Burger Records mess as an example of the shit Pearl had to put up with in general, but BYOP were never signed to Burger. Right? If I were XL, my solicitor would be having a word with the Grauniad about now.

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 20 March 2022 09:55 (two years ago) link

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