Released April 23, 2003 Length 3:19 | Format CD
7" vinyl
DVD Label Capitol | |
Writer(s) Courtney Taylor-Taylor
Grant Nicholas
Bjorn Thorsrud "We Used to Be Friends"
(2003) "You Were the Last High"
(2003) | ||
"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.
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The single failed to chart in the US but peaked at number 18 in the UK.
Content
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.
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".
Impact
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 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.
Track listing
- "We Used to Be Friends"
- "Minnesoter (Thee Slayer Hippie Mix)"