POP-A-LOOZA: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! The Dandy Warhols, "We Used To Be Friends"

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is another chapter in the ongoing saga of The Greatest Record Ever Made!, this time fixing its gaze upon "We Used To Be Friends" by the Dandy Warhols.

An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. This piece--about the Dandy Warhols, Veronica Mars, and people who used to be friends a long time ago--has careened in and out of the blueprint for my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). The song's not mentioned in the GREM! project's most recent proposed Table of Contents, but it will be included in the next update of my plans for the book. I confess that my emotional tether to the chapter's real-life memories of discarded and/or expired friendships has made me flip-flop again 'n' again about putting it in the book.

But our emotions are a huge part of our connection to the music we love. Our favorite records don't live in isolation. Each one has a story to tell. Those stories are not just the accounts of who made the record; they're also the tales of our reactions to what we think we hear, and what we think it means to us. 

This particular story still makes me sad, decades after the fact. Which means I have to include it in this book I've written. Meanwhile, the story serves as the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

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