Jemina Pearl Makes Solo Debut In Brooklyn
Those of you afraid Jemina Pearl's post-Be Your Own Pet "legacy" would be capped by her cover of "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" with the ever grim Thurston Moore should likely stop worrying about things like that, but can also rest assured the gal has more Karen O stage antics (+ Karen O hair), pop punk up her sleeve, and leather pants on her legs. Pearl played her first post-BYOP live show over the weekend at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg, opening for the Fluid. The song "So Sick!" comes with some it's-good-to-be-back stage banter.
Someone posted the complete set list. It's unclear how many of these are covers:
01 "Band On The Run"
02 "No Good"
03 "I Hate People"
04 "After Hours"
05 "Nashville Shores"
06 "So Sick!"
07 "Heart Beats"
Posted at 9:46 AM by brandon in Video
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | Jemina Pearl
its a shame that thurston moore gave his stamp of approval to her or BYOP, because without it this girl and her joke of a band would never have gotten the media attention or credibility that they did.
at the risk of sounding like a completely jaded asshole, it astounds me that anybody over the age of 19 or 20 buys into this as anything but trend-following hipster bullshit.
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just to clarify, i legitimately love byop, especially jemina pearl's lyrics. "becky" and "the kelly affair" were probably my favorite songs of last year. they're fun, funny, energetic, catchy... i don't know what's not to like.
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Trend following? Just because you don't like them doesn't make that true. BYOP was one of the most fun bands I've seen live, and for that matter, put out a couple of really good albums. Really, it just seemed like four kids playing really sloppy punk and having a good time while they did it. And that's a lot more endearing than watching, oh, say, four bearded jerks singing about sex being on fire. Fuck that.
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I heard she was terrible live on Saturday, and this proves it.
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I wouldn't describe BYOB as trend-following or hipster at all. If anything, they seem to be subjected to more snark than praise by the usual hipster set. If I had to put them into a group I'd say they had much more in common with the teenage, XS t-shirt wearing Warped Tour kids than late twentysomethings wearing v-neck sweaters and listening to Grizzly Bear.
That's what I enjoyed about them. For someone that usually listens to that self-consciously arty stuff, it was nice to listen to a bunch of kids blaring out short punk songs without a care in the world.
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Looks like guitar dude is losing some strings.
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i love pretentious assholes who hop on stereogum to leave instigating comments.
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I'll throw some more BYOP love into the ring. Sometimes it's just fun to listen to kids make fun music. I think they got too much hate.
That said, I'm a bit disappointed that her solo stuff seems to be in the same vein. I thought she'd try something different...
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People seem to either really LOVE byop or really hate em...me I totally loved them...I loved their wild, untamed - yeah, sloppy - sound...that's a big part of what made them so cool...who the F wants to hear the same boring tired old 'precise' every-note-and-drumbeat-in-place TAME BLAND pop-'punk' (ha) sound...kim ON...and the debut album is KICK-ASS, "Bunk Skunk Trunk" and "Bog" being especially great but I love it all...I love Get Awkward too even tho' it ain't quite up to the debut's briliance...anyway, great to see Jemina finally doing something - you rule!!
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i completely agree with the love/hate view on byop, and i absolutely loved them. they didn't take anything to seriously and made great garage punk music. so many bands fall victim to being to serious *cough emo cough* that there sound was really refreshing to me
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