Pet Your Friends

Pet Your Friends is the first album by the American alternative rock band Dishwalla. It was released in 1995 on A&M Records. The album included the hit single "Counting Blue Cars" (the second single from 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 very successful in terms of sales. An acoustic version of "Counting Blue Cars" with 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 17-year-old girl who became friends with a friend's pet deer while swimming one day.

Critical reception
The Chicago Tribune noted that, "individually, the songs on the quartet's Pet Your Friends CD make for passable radio ditties, but as a whole they amount to a rock-by-numbers sleepwalk." Bass Player praised the "well-written alterna-pop tunes."

Personnel

 * Dishwalla
 * J.R. Richards – lead vocals, keyboards, piano, organ, Hammond organ, Roland Juno 60
 * Rodney Browning – guitar, backing vocals
 * Scot Alexander – bass guitar, backing vocals, tabla, bells, Roland Juno 60
 * George Pendergast – drums, percussion, backing vocals


 * Additional personnel
 * Ian Cross - assistant 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