Pet Your Friends

Pet Your Friends
Studio album by Dishwalla
Released August 22, 1995
Recorded April 1995-September 1995
Genre Alternative rock, post-grunge
Length 53:40
Label A&M
Producer Andy Kravitz, Mark Mazzetti, Phil Nicolo, Dishwalla
Dishwalla chronology
Pet Your Friends
(1995)
And You Think You Know What Life's About
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Pet Your Friends is the debut album by American alternative rock band Dishwalla. It was released in 1995 on A&M Records. The album produced the hit single "Counting Blue Cars" (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 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 version of "Counting Blue Cars" which featured an extended bridge 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.[2]

Track listing

  1. "Pretty Babies" (Dishwalla/Kolanek) – 5:30
  2. "Haze" (Dishwalla) – 4:21
  3. "Counting Blue Cars" (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)
  13. "It's Going To Take Some Time" (Carol King/Toni Stern) - 4:17 (UK Bonus track)

Personnel

Chart positions

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
1997    Give                     Adult Top 40               No. 26

References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Bucky the Deer." Life. p. 53. 23 August 1948.
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