We Used to Be Friends

"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, on 23 April 2003. The single failed to chart in the US but peaked at number 18 in the UK. The song is known for being the theme song to the TV series Veronica Mars, and was also notably featured in an episode of The O.C., the FIFA Football 2004 soundtrack and is also the theme song to Australian reality series, My Restaurant Rules. (In his appearance on Australian music game show Spicks and Specks, Courtney Taylor-Taylor expressed that he had not heard of My Restaurant Rules and did not see the connection between restaurants and the subject matter of the song.)

Background

The song bears a similar intro riff and vocal melody to that of a Feeder song "Day In Day Out", and the band have listed Grant Nicholas as co-writer.

Critical 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".^[1]

Cover versions

In 2011, Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional covered this song on his album Covered In The Flood.^[2]

Alejandro Escovedo recorded a new acoustic version for the soundtrack of the 2014 film Veronica Mars; he also appeared in the film as a street musician performing the song.

Track listing

CD
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"We Used to Be Friends"		3:20
2.	"Call Me" (Blondie cover)	Debbie Harry and Giorgio Moroder	3:32
3.	"Relax" (Frankie Goes to Hollywood cover)	Peter Gill, Holly Johnson, Brian Nash and Mark O'Toole	3:49

7" 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)	Peak position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)^[3]	18

References

↑ Louis Pattison (14 May 2003). "Dandy Warhols : We Used To Be Friends". NME. IPC Media. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
↑ Ableson, Jon. "Chris Carrabba To Release "Covered In The Flood" Solo Album". Alter The Press!. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
↑ "Archive Chart: 2003-05-17" UK Singles Chart. Retrieved 3 May 2016.

External links

"We Used to Be Friends" at AllMusic
"We Used to Be Friends" at Discogs (list of releases)
"We Used to Be Friends" music video on YouTube
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

The Dandy Warhols

Courtney Taylor-Taylor Peter Holmström Zia McCabe Brent DeBoer Eric Hedford

Studio albums	Dandys Rule OK ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia Welcome to the Monkey House Odditorium or Warlords of Mars ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... The Dandy Warhols Are Sound This Machine Distortland

Compilation albums	The Capitol Years 1995–2007

Singles	"Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" "Get Off" "Bohemian Like You" "Godless" "We Used to Be Friends" "You Were the Last High" "Plan A" "Horny as a Dandy" "Blackbird" "You Are Killing Me"

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Veronica Mars

Episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "Credit Where Credit's Due" "Meet John Smith" "The Wrath of Con" "You Think You Know Somebody" "Return of the Kane" "The Girl Next Door" "Like a Virgin" "Drinking the Kool-Aid" "An Echolls Family Christmas" "Silence of the Lamb" "Clash of the Tritons" "Lord of the Bling" "Mars vs. Mars" "Ruskie Business" "Betty and Veronica" "Kanes and Abel's" "Weapons of Class Destruction" "Hot Dogs" "M.A.D." "A Trip to the Dentist" "Leave It to Beaver"

Season 2	"Normal Is the Watchword" "Driver Ed" "Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang" "Green-Eyed Monster" "Blast from the Past" "Rat Saw God" "Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner" "Ahoy, Mateys!" "My Mother, the Fiend" "One Angry Veronica" "Donut Run" "Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle" "Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough" "Versatile Toppings" "The Quick and the Wed" "The Rapes of Graff" "Plan B" "I Am God" "Nevermind the Buttocks" "Look Who's Stalking" "Happy Go Lucky" "Not Pictured"

Season 3	"Welcome Wagon" "My Big Fat Greek Rush Week" "Wichita Linebacker" "Charlie Don't Surf" "President Evil" "Hi, Infidelity" "Of Vice and Men" "Lord of the Pi's" "Spit & Eggs" "Show Me the Monkey" "Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves" "There's Got to Be a Morning After Pill" "Postgame Mortem" "Mars, Bars" "Papa's Cabin" "Un-American Graffiti" "Debasement Tapes" "I Know What You'll Do Next Summer" "Weevils Wobble But They Don't Go Down" "The Bitch Is Back"

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Others

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