''Pet Your Friends'' is the debut album by American

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band

Dishwalla Dishwalla is an American alternative rock band from Santa Barbara, California. The band's name comes from a Hindi term for a person providing satellite TV to a neighborhood (" dish" + walla). In a '' Vox'' interview, lead guitarist Rodney Brown ...

. It was released in 1995 on

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. The album produced the hit single "

Counting Blue Cars "Counting Blue Cars (Tell Me Your Thoughts on God)" is a song by American alternative rock band Dishwalla from their 1995 A&M Records album '' Pet Your Friends''. It is their only hit song, peaking at number 15 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and to ...

" (the second single off the album), which was a Top 40 favorite. The album's fourth single, "Charlie Brown's Parents", was 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

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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 ''

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'' cover. The cover story talks about a seventeen-year-old girl who became friends with a friend's pet deer while swimming one day.Bucky the Deer
" ''Life.'' p. 53. 23 August 1948.

Track listing

Personnel

;Dishwalla * J.R. Richards – lead vocals, keyboards, piano, organ, Hammond Organ, Roland Juno 60 * Rodney Browning – guitar, backing vocals * Scot Alexander – bass, backing vocals, tabla, bells, Roland Juno 60 * George Pendergast – drums, percussion, backing vocals ;Additional personnel *Ian Cross - Asst Engineer *Andy Kravitz - Programming, Additional Production, Engineer *Bob Ludwig - Mastering *Phil Nicolo - Programming, Producer, Engineer, Mixing *David Young - Executive Producer *Dishwalla - Programming, Producer *Eric Flickinger - Assistant Engineer *Michael Lavine - Photography *Dirk Grobelny - Engineer *Mark Mazzetti - Executive Producer, A&R *Sunja Park - Art Direction *Tulio Torrinello, Jr. - Assistant Engineer *Jone Pedersen - Cover Model *Jon Brenneis - Photography

Track listing

Personnel

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