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“We Used To Be Friends” by The Dandy Warhols

From the album Welcome to the Monkey House (2003)

“We Used To Be Friends” by The Dandy Warhols appears on 23 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 2003 and 2025. It was first released in 2003 on the album Welcome to the Monkey House. Its best result is #13 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #91 alternative song of 2003 and #1,583 alternative song of all time.

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11stations
#13best position
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2003–2025years charted

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The Dandy Warhols opened the campaign for their fourth album, Welcome to the Monkey House, with "We Used To Be Friends" in May 2003. Nick Rhodes co-produced it with Courtney Taylor-Taylor and threw in synthesizer, and the result is glossy, strutting power pop: clipped robotic handclaps, fuzzy guitar from Taylor-Taylor and Peter Holmström, Zia McCabe on keys, Brent DeBoer on drums, and a chorus that leaps up into falsetto. NME was smitten.

The intro riff, the chords and the vocal melody sat so close to Feeder's "Day In Day Out" that the band credited Grant Nicholas as a co-writer to head off a lawsuit. It never charted in America but reached 18 in the UK, and television gave it a long second life: it became the theme to Veronica Mars and turned up on The O.C. and Wonderfalls.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2003 58 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003 106
2003 48 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003 101
2003 97 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON CFNY Top 102 Songs of 2003 102
2003 82 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2003 99
2003 55 102.1 The Edge Dallas-Fort Worth, TX KDGE Top 102 Songs of 2003 102
2003 19 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2003 103
2003 13 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 2003 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2003 1955 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1955 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1944 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 316 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 333 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 111 WYEP WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade 913
2009 343 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 340 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 332 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 329 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2013 850 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) 885
2014 331 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2022 881 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s 907
2024 791 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years 1049
2024 967 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century 1055
2025 605 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century 909

Also listed as: We Used to Be Friends.

Charting alongside it in 2003

Best songs of 2003 →
  1. 1Seven Nation ArmyThe White Stripes
  2. 2Like a StoneAudioslave
  3. 3Bring Me to LifeEvanescence
  4. 4Somewhere I BelongLinkin Park
  5. 5Times Like TheseFoo Fighters
  6. 6Weak and PowerlessA Perfect Circle

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