So go to Metal Blade or Roadrunner records. The people that put out Cannibal Corpse's "Farked with a Knife" or Deicide's Trifixion will probably not have a problem with them.

If you are with Universal, you can only threaten to kill people explicitly if you are a rapper. Anybody holding a guitar or dressed as an androgynous goth dominatrix wearing nipple clips are only allowed to make vague references to violence and say things like "zig-a-zum-tiss-tiss" and "this is the new shiat".

Seeing as how this band dresses like the cast of that 70's show I am guessing the marketing package Universal is comfy with does not include their cute lead singer swinging axes in peoples' faces.

Is it really punk rock if you're signed to Universal?

let see... suck, extra suck, and used to be ok now suck. I would have to say that the band in question also sucks, though a simple listen will be needed.

/do you know you doesn't suck...

Glitchwerks: Is it really punk rock if you're signed to Universal?

As someone who likes Be Your Own Pet, I can say they're pretty punk rock.
Lo-fi production? Check
Lots of energy? Check
Pissed off lead singer shrieking about farking and drinking? Check

fark you and your hypocracy, Universal.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: let see... suck, extra suck, and used to be ok now suck. I would have to say that the band in question also sucks, though a simple listen will be needed.

/do you know you who doesn't suck...

//ftfm

I think every punk band from '78 to '84 would like to have a word with them.

Who?

This is sad. fark that double standard.

MindlessStonedIndulgence: Who?

Well, now you have heard about them. Publicity stunt by Universal?

Just youtubed a couple of their songs. Meh.
/Lo-fi garage sounding stuff.
//If you want chick-fronted stuff that rocks, check out Arch Enemy.

I'm just here to laugh at all the "these guys must suck because I haven't heard of them and real punk is *insert old man rant here*" crowd.

Be Your Own Pet are actually on Ecstatic Peace, which is distributed by Universal... Ecstatic Peace is Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth fame)'s record label.

Being that someone said the word punk, I feel that this is an apropriate point to remind everyone that the greatest punk band of all time is green day. Also important to remember as soon as something becomes punk, it isn't. Punk is also fashion, and has nothing to do with music. Last, and most importantly the sex pistol suck, they suck long, they suck hard, they suck like your mom.

/don't consider this a troll, I see it as a PSA
//except for the part about sucking as bad as your mom
///no one can suck that hard

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: the greatest punk band of all time is green day.

LMFAO!

Maechyll: kungfu jesus with a side of lime: the greatest punk band of all time is green day.

LMFAO!

name another punk band that has had the same level of success as green day. Hell, there are few bands in any genre that can match the success, duration and quality of green day.

I find it hard to believe their songs are more violent than some of the stuff of the Marshall Mathers LP.

Perhaps its time Universal shaved their vagina and stopped worrying about virgin ears.

They have a song called Zombie Graveyard Party. It is about eating brains.

/I just thought people should know.

Double standards in music content isn't new.


Why can't Snoop Dogg say "weed" or "joint" in a track without censor , when Eric Clapton can sing about Cocaine all damn day?

this kind of stuff pisses me off. it's not like Be Your Own Pet sells to the masses who buy their records at WalMart or anything like that

name another punk band that has had the same level of success as green day. Hell, there are few bands in any genre that can match the success, duration and quality of green day.

Best "Punk" Bands, ignoring "success," but not ignoring quality and quantity of albums. This isn't a direct scale, but:

1) The Clash = had about 4.5 great albums (if London Calling is counted as two)
2) The Stooges had three kickass albums (for their time)
3) Sleater Kinney = has 4 or so awesome albums + 1/2 a decent album
4) Rancid has 3.5 good albums
5) Fugazi - Two awesome albums, and 4 or so other pretty good ones.
6) Green Day has had only three good albums, two ok, one exceptional.
? ) Didn't ever listen to the Ramones. Probably a few good albums. Sue me.
?) Do the Talking Heads count? If so, they win. Really, they win.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: Being that someone said the word punk, I feel that this is an apropriate point to remind everyone that the greatest punk band of all time is green day.

The Clash, The Ramones, Television, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Bad Religion and Minor Threat would all like to have a little word with you.

Someone who says that Green Day is the greatest punk band ever arguing with someone who made a list of great punk bands without ever listening to the the Ramones...

Good farking god we are all doomed...

I love their song "October, First Account" which was on air for about a month on Indie 103.

As someone who just heard the banned song "Becky" 20 seconds before reading fark, I can tell you you're not missing much.

Valdes:
Best "Punk" Bands, ignoring "success," but not ignoring quality and quantity of albums. This isn't a direct scale, but:

1) The Clash = had about 4.5 great albums (if London Calling is counted as two)
2) The Stooges had three kickass albums (for their time)
3) Sleater Kinney = has 4 or so awesome albums + 1/2 a decent album
4) Rancid has 3.5 good albums
5) Fugazi - Two awesome albums, and 4 or so other pretty good ones.
6) Green Day has had only three good albums, two ok, one exceptional.
? ) Didn't ever listen to the Ramones. Probably a few good albums. Sue me.
?) Do the Talking Heads count? If so, they win. Really, they win.

You win for actually putting Sleater-Kinney on a list of greatest punk bands ever. Not too many people would do that.
/I would
//The singer of Be Your Own Pet reminds me of a young Corin, actually
///You lose points for putting Rancid above Fugazi, though
////slashies are punk

Someone who says that Green Day is the greatest punk band ever arguing with someone who made a list of great punk bands without ever listening to the the Ramones...

Ramones was ON the list. I just never listened to them much. They never had any real growth as far as I could tell, unlike Talking Heads, the Clash, etc.

You lose points for putting Rancid above Fugazi, though
I LIKE Rancid better, and listen to them more often. Even though I know they are cheesy, and write terrible lyrics. Plus they still kind of exist. It was really a toss up for me. Fugazi's last album was AWESOME (and better than anything Rancid did), but they are essentially broken up. Rancid's last album was 1/2 garbage. Rancid really deserves to be more popular than Green Day.

Talking Heads should still win, I think.

And to be fair to Green Day boy, he's sort of right. Green Day will probably end up having longevity far exceeding any other band of the 90s (except for Pearl Jam).

I bet the rockers of the 70's, 80's sat around discussing how punk and un-punk everyone was.

/you all suck
//greatest punk song ever "louie, louie"
///greatest punk album "marquee moon"
////greatest punk band ever? me.

/you all Blaud's mom sucks often
//greatest punk song ever "louie, louie""You Really Got Me" (Kinks version)
///greatest punk album "marquee moon""London Calling"

danduran: I'm just here to laugh at all the "these guys must suck because I haven't heard of them and real punk is *insert old man rant here*" crowd.

Same. I farking love Be Your Own Pet. THey are awesome. I (still, despite this bullshiat controversy) can't wait for the new album.

I've gotten to see Be Your Own Pet a few times over the past few years while they played around their hometown of Nashville (yeah Nashville!). Though I thought it was out of my "get off my lawn" daily listening, to see high school aged musicians rock their punk socks off was pretty entertaining. Wish I could have been blasting out tunes on stage at that age, I think I was collecting rocks or something.

Gangway Fathead: I love their song "October, First Account" which was on air for about a month on Indie 103.

I've heard their cover of Queen's "Bicycle Race."

It's not a pleasant experience. (pops)

Saw them open for Arctic Monkeys in Vancouver and that little pixie freakkkkked out. She was definitely strung out on something or PMS'ing. I don't really remember why she spazzed out at the crowd though because I definitely wasn't on two hits of ecstasy.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: Maechyll: kungfu jesus with a side of lime: the greatest punk band of all time is green day.

LMFAO!

name another punk band that has had the same level of success as green day. Hell, there are few bands in any genre that can match the success, duration and quality of green day.

What do any of those things have to do with "punk"? Well, quality maybe.

Name some better punk bands than Green Day? No problem, here's five off the top of my head... The Minutemen, The Damned, Nomeansno, The Descendents, Hüsker Dü. I could go on and on. Given a bit more time to think, I could probably even come up with a few who aren't from a million years ago. The point is, none of them had any real success or (in most cases) longevity, but they all far surpass Green Day in quality.

/your favourite band sucks
//like I'm one to talk

Their music sounded better when they were called the Midnight Creeps.

Oh wait, the Midnight Creeps are 100 times better than this crap!
oh and they are really punk unlike My Pet Punk Rock Project.

/they are the suckiest bunch of sucks who ever sucked!

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: Punk is also fashion, and has nothing to do with music

I've never seen such a weak troll bait so many people before. Sheesh.

Glitchwerks: Is it really punk rock if you're signed to Universal?

i like byop but they are just a second class version of the yeah yeah yeahs