Pet Your Friends is the debut album by American alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Dishwalla

Dishwalla

Dishwalla is an American alternative rock band based out of Santa Barbara, CA. The band's name comes from a Hindi term for a person providing cable television to a neighborhood...

. It was released in 1995 on A&M Records

A&M Records

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. The album produced the hit single "Counting Blue Cars

Counting Blue Cars

"Counting Blue Cars" is a song by the alternative rock band Dishwalla that appears on their 1995 album Pet Your Friends. It was Dishwalla's only hit song, making it onto the Billboard Hot 100 in 1996...

" (the third single off the album and only one to gain widespread success), which was a Top 40 favorite. However, the song also caused the group to gain somewhat of a one-hit wonder

One-hit wonder

A one-hit wonder is a person or act known mainly for only a single success. The term is most often used to describe music performers with only one hit single.-Characteristics:...

 status because of it. Still, the album's fourth single, "Charlie Brown's Parents", was quite popular at concerts, although it was not a very successful single in terms of sales. An acoustic

Acoustic music

Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...

 version of "Counting Blue Cars" which featured an extended bridge

Bridge (music)

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 was also popular on radio.

The image used for the cover of the album is taken from the August 23, 1948 Life Magazine cover. The cover story talks about a seventeen-year-old girl who became friends with a friend's pet deer while swimming one day.

Track listing

1. "Pretty Babies" (Dishwalla/Kolanek) – 5:30
2. "Haze" (Dishwalla) – 4:21
3. "Counting Blue Cars
   Counting Blue Cars
   "Counting Blue Cars" is a song by the alternative rock band Dishwalla that appears on their 1995 album Pet Your Friends. It was Dishwalla's only hit song, making it onto the Billboard Hot 100 in 1996...
   
   " (Dishwalla/Kolanek) – 4:51
4. "Explode" (Dishwalla) – 3:02
5. "Charlie Brown's Parents" (Dishwalla/Kolanek) – 5:15
6. "Give" (Dishwalla) – 5:25
7. "Miss Emma Peel" (Dishwalla) – 4:06
8. "Moisture" (Dishwalla/Kolanek) – 5:23
9. "The Feeder" (Dishwalla) – 3:58
10. "All She Can See" (Dishwalla/Kolanek) – 3:45
11. "Only For So Long" (Dishwalla) – 2:58
12. "Interview with St. Étienne" – 4:27 (hidden track
    Hidden track
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    )
13. "It's Going To Take Some Time" (Carol King/Toni Stern) - 4:17 (UK Bonus track)

Personnel

• Ian Cross - Guitar, Engineer
• Andy Kravitz - Programming, Producer, Engineer
• Bob Ludwig - Mastering
• Phil Nicolo - Programming, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Jim Wood - Keyboards
• David Young - Executive Producer
• Dishwalla - Programming, Producer
• Eric Flickinger - Assistant Engineer
• Michael Lavine - Photography
• Dirk Grobelny - Engineer
• Rodney Browning - Guitar, Vocals
• Mark Mazzetti - Executive Producer
• Sunja Park - Art Direction
• George Pendergast - Percussion, Drums, Vocals
• Brian Lee - Mastering
• J.R. Richards - Organ, Piano, Keyboards, Organ (Hammond), Vocals, Roland Juno 6
• Tulio Torrinello, Jr. - Assistant Engineer
• Jone Pedersen - Cover Model
• Jon Brenneis - Photography
• Scot Alexander - Bass, Keyboards, Tabla, Vocals, Bells, Roland Juno 6

Album

1996 Pet Your Friends The Billboard 200 No. 89
1996 Pet Your Friends Heatseekers No. 1

Singles

1996 Counting Blue Cars The Billboard Hot 100 No. 15
1996 Charlie Brown's Parents Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 24
1996 Counting Blue Cars Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 2
1996 Counting Blue Cars Modern Rock Tracks No. 1
1996 Counting Blue Cars Adult Top 40 No. 5
1996 Counting Blue Cars Top 40 Mainstream No. 4

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