Do Something Pretty's We Used To Be Friends review
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Do Something Pretty fanzine
We Used To Be Friends
by Andy Robbins
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If I had to chose three things I liked about the 1980s, on the spur of the moment, I’d choose The Smiths, robotic dancing and Grange Hill circa Zammo, Rolly and Gonch. Great days!
Admittedly I wouldn’t have plumped for Duran Duran, but The Dandy Warhols must be given credit for avoiding the Toyah Wilcox influence. Imagine how shit that would have been.
Instead they’ve hauled Nick Rhodes aboard the good ship Warhol to sprinkle some of his chart magic on their increasingly commercial sound.
After tasting the sweet taste of success thanks largely to a mobile phone advert, The Dandy Warhols are clearly not about to disappear up their own arses with a free jazz workout and a bag of smack.
‘We Used To Be Friends’ is a fantastically breezy and catchy pop song that takes off largely from where ‘Bohemian Like You’ left them – rooted somewhere near the upper reaches of the singles chart if justice has anything to do with it, which it never does.
Courtney Taylor-Taylor still sounds as cool as fuck, singing a chorus that wipes it’s skinny ass on pretty everything else parachuting into the hit parade, even if his haircut has finally reached the levels of crapness it always threatened.
The Dandy Warhols still rule, okay.
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