"We Used to Be Friends" is a song by American alternative rock band the Dandy Warhols. It was released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Welcome to the Monkey House, in May 2003. The single did not chart in the United States but peaked at number 18 in the United Kingdom and entered the top 50 in Australia, Ireland, and Italy.
Content
The song bears a similar intro riff, chord progression and vocal melody to that of a Feeder song "Day In Day Out", and the band listed Grant Nicholas as co-writer to avoid a lawsuit.
Reception
NME praised the track, describing it as "a synthetic chatter of robotic handclaps and tweaky guitar fuzz, creamed off with a squeaky-clean chorus delivered in alarming falsetto".
Cultural references
The song is known for being the theme song to the TV series Veronica Mars, and was also notably featured in episodes of The O.C. and Wonderfalls, as well as the FIFA Football 2004 soundtrack. It was also the theme song to Australian reality series My Restaurant Rules, and was featured as background music in the LucasArts video game Thrillville: Off the Rails.
In 2011, Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional covered the song on his album Covered in the Flood. Alejandro Escovedo recorded a new acoustic version for the soundtrack of the 2014 film adaptation Veronica Mars. Chrissie Hynde covered the song for season 4 of Veronica Mars.
Track listings
7-inch vinyl "We Used to Be Friends" "Minnesoter" (Thee Slayer Hippie mix)
DVD "We Used to Be Friends" (video) "Bohemian Like You" (Boston Dave mix) "Minnesoter" (Thee Slayer Hippie mix) An introduction to the Dandy Warhols
Charts
+ Chart (2003) Peakposition
Release history + Region Date Format(s) Label(s) United Kingdom May 5, 2003 Parlophone Australia May 12, 2003 CD Capitol United States August 4, 2003 Triple A radio August 11, 2003 Alternative radio
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