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“We're Going to Be Friends” by The White Stripes
From the album White Blood Cells (2001)
“We're Going to Be Friends” by The White Stripes appears on 8 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2020 and 2026. It was first released in 2001 on the album White Blood Cells. Its best result is #276 on the KXT 917 Song Countdown. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,760 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Tucked into White Blood Cells, the White Stripes' 2001 album, "We're Going to Be Friends" is Jack White alone with an acoustic guitar, singing a small, sweet folk song about the start of a school year and a boy and girl who pair up in class and out of it. The girl is Suzy Lee, who keeps wandering through the band's catalog: she gets a song of her own on their self-titled album, and Get Behind Me Satan is dedicated to her.
White produced it himself and mixed it with engineer Stewart Sikes. The video is as bare as the song: Jack and Meg White on a couch dumped at the curb outside their house at night, Jack strumming a Framus guitar while Meg, with midnight rolling around, actually sleeps beside him.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1657 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 771 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2024 | 355 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 943 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 387 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 392 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs | 800 |
| 2025 | 334 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 276 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
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