"Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2/"Lost And Found" - DJ Shadow

A quick and simple one today. A classic rock song from fellow Irishmen U2 and their album War. U2 were the soundtrack to my formative years and even now when I hear this song it still gives me goosebumps.

It's very easy slag off U2 these days, especially St Bono, as he tries to save the world whilst sipping tea with Bill and Melinda. It's easy too, considering U2's output of late, to forget what a raw, fresh and edgy (I gotta stop these crap puns) and hugely influential band U2 were. Back then U2 were loud and in your face, with Bono delivering sharp, acerbic, politically-charged lyrics over the Edge's spaced-out, brilliantly textured guitar sound and the driving rhythm and bass of Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen.

U2 were never afraid to experiment though, shedding their new wave skin and going back to the Blues in Rattle and Hum, collaborating with ambient maestro Brian Eno and super-DJ Paul Oakenfold during their Zoo phase and drafting abstract headnodder Howie B as producer for their (in my opinon last good) album Pop.

"Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2


Larry Mullen's classic drum break was later to find itself sampled and chopped up by DJ Shadow as the basis for "Lost And Found". I first head this track on 1994's Mo Wax Headz compilation, which also featured DJ Krush, Nightmares on Wax and Autechre. This is the definitive trip hop album, before Mixmag even coined the phrase, and has had many a spin on my decks I can tell you. :)

"Lost And Found" - DJ Shadow.