My Top 1000 Songs #999: Bohemian Like You

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

"Bohemian Like You," off 2000's Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, has a little of everything that makes the Dandy Warhols so ridiculously fun. Built on a reliable, classic Stones riff, with some distinctly 90s vibes (that fuzzy bass sounds like something off an Elastica record); and yet another in a series of amazing videos from one of the last bands serious about making great videos. But most of all it's got that savage generational snark, a pointed jab at the gainfully unemployed and casual hook-up culture, saved from mere meanness by some genuinely amusing lines. "So what do you do? Oh, yeah, I wait tables, too. No, I haven't heard your band 'cuz you guys are pretty new..." 

Live on Jools Holland 2003:

Live 2014: