Album · Dishwalla
Pet Your Friends by Dishwalla
Pet Your Friends is an album by Dishwalla, released in 1995. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 36 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Counting Blue Cars”, on 36 lists and voted number one once.
Pet Your Friends, Dishwalla's debut, came out on A&M in 1995, a long way from where the Santa Barbara band began. They started as a synthpop act called Life Talking, with singer J.R. Richards, guitarist Rodney Browning and keyboardist Greg Kolanek, became Dish once bassist Scot Alexander and drummer George Pendergast joined, and landed on Dishwalla after a cease-and-desist letter: a Hindi term for the neighborhood satellite-TV man that Kolanek found in Wired. A 1993 demo tape got them signed, their first appearance on record was a cover of "It's Going to Take Some Time" on the covers compilation If I Were a Carpenter, and Kolanek left around then. By the end of 1994 the album was finished.
What came out is moody, guitar-driven alternative rock with Richards' voice soaring over the top, and "Counting Blue Cars", hushed at the start and huge by the end, became the 1996 hit the band is still best known for.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Pet Your Friends on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Counting Blue Cars | 36 | #1 | 1 | 1996–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.