be your own pet - get awkward===best album of all time
 

lol just kiddin'

no you're not.

you mean it.

SUCKS FOR THE JANITOR!

FOOD ON! FOOD ON!

FOOOOOD FIIIIIGGHHHT!!!

fucking fine album, care free rock and roll, unashamed fun- can't top their debut and early EPs though

Uh ohhhhhhh...

I've never consciously listened to this band on the basis of that piss-awful name. That is all.

the only reason why i paid any attention to this band is because of my hard on for the chick

One of my favorite albums of 08.
One of the only recent punk bands with pretty much no pretension AND the ability to upset your parents without having to rely on gruesomeness or excessive profanity to do so. What can I say, I love Be Your Own Pet and was sad to see them go.

Jonas was apparently a bit of a douchebag so 2/3 of the Turbo Fruits left Nashville to move up to NYC with Jemina to form a new band.

BYOP IS BASICALLY JUST JEMINA GUYS

better these guys than animal collective

Finally, a parody thread that works! You mean, the processed-as-fuck protoolsed-to-death-so-it-gets-a-pop-friendly-slick-as-shit-sound-even-when-it's-trying-to-be-"hard-and-it-ends-up-sounding-like-fucking-Paramore? Yes.

Man I nearly raged. The I read the "just kidding"

that chick is really hot though; she got hotter after the band broke up.

Can't rep :(

This album was okay. Stupid universal people removed 3 tracks, 2 of which being the best ones from the album, Becky and Black Hole. That ticked me off a bit. But yeah not even close to being the best album ever, haha. Nice one. They were a decent band, too bad they broke up, but they'll all move on to other projects.

like I could post a serious thread?? Me ?????

I remember when these guys broke up I was like, jumping up and down from excitement. I posted so many myspace bulletins in celebration.

That's a bit too much maybe ? I mean, they were certainly not that good and I never listen to them, but they weren't THAT bad either...
I think even if the Mars Volta splitted I wouldn't celebrate it. I mean, who gives a fuck? I don't like this band, I have other things to care about than if they do split or not.
I'd rather be sad when a band I like split

why do you care that much if a band continues to make music or not?

I still think they were just a fun pop-rock band. Who did their own thing, not even caring that it was done. Not all music has to be pushing the limits you know.

Okay. But go over to my mass of the fermenting dregs thread, download that album and then compare that to be your own pet real quick.

oh yes.
looks like an ex o' mine.

I'll download it and give it a good listen tomorrow I am too tired to assess an album right now.

Because I won't have to put up with people talking about them next time they release a new album.

Great success.

I'd shock her scissors, if you know what I mean.

Hahahaha.

Is that a copyrighted image? If not I'm going to put it on my myspace.

Fuck copyright, have you seen some of the photo's/heard any of the samples I use on MY MySpace?

Fair use, muthafucka.

Exhibit A:

best thread ever!

you
lucky
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the song "becky" is just amazing in everywhere, but yeah, they heard so many comparisons to paramore that they said "what the hey! let's try and sound like paramore!".

That would make a change from mentioning Authecre every other post, wouldn't it?

The band have only ever been recorded WELL in one case I can think of, when Steve McDonald recorded 'Bicycle Bicycle' and 'Girls On TV' for the Summer Sensation EP. If I remember, Universal/Ecstatic Peace used this superior EP recording of 'Bicycle Bicycle' when they released it as a single, instead of the earlier, poor quality recording on the album (which was strangely recorded by the same producer and engineer, huh). The drum sound is fantastic on the EP recording, the bass is nice and clear through the scratchy guitar, and Jemina does her thing as usual. If you can get hold of the EP, you should.

Get Awkward isn't really that well recorded and I would agree that the production is too 'commercial rock' sounding- I doubt they'd sink so low as using protools, though. Haters might like to think this band are idiots, but they are most definitely not.. they're in the vein of Descendents, Bad Brains, et al rather than Green Day and Limp Bizkit.

If you wanted to hear this band, you had to hear them live. Like The Sonics, or Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. They rock too hard for CDs and Wax to comprehend.



Exactly. Marty, you need to get off your elitist high horse and stop acting like you're too intelligent for rock and roll.

I am going to take a shit now.

Record it!

Or Boards of Canada.

I'd rather read about Autechre and Boards of Canada than a piss poor band like this.

boards of canada, now there's a boring band.