“Bohemian Like You” by The Dandy Warhols

"Bohemian Like You" is the strutting heart of the Dandy Warhols' third album, Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, and it went out as the record's second single on July 11, 2000. Courtney Taylor-Taylor wrote it after watching a woman roll up to the traffic lights outside his apartment, and the song keeps that lazy, sidelong, checking-you-out energy all the way through, sung with a smirk by a guy who knows exactly how cool he's trying to look.

The riff is pure swagger, a greasy, loose-limbed guitar lick from Taylor-Taylor and Peter Holmström, with Troy Stewart adding slide guitar, Zia McCabe on bass and keyboard, Brent DeBoer on drums and backing vocals, and guest Erik Gavriluk leaning on the organ. David Sardy produced it with Taylor-Taylor and mixed it, keeping it dry and trashy in all the right places.

It hit number seven on Billboard's Triple-A chart, went top five in Greece and Italy and all the way to number one in Portugal. In the UK it stalled at 42 first time round, then a Vodafone ad gave it a second life: re-released in October 2001, it climbed to number five.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.