Massive Attack – ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ (Oakenfold remix)
This song gets picked quite a lot by people as their favourite track now. And there's a whole Soul Music podcast about it, which I listened to the other day, but it only reached number 13 in the charts. And I think that says a lot about music, in that you can never tell what music is going to last. This came out in 1991, when I was a teenager. At the time, I had a sense of music being shit – this is the time of 2 Unlimited and Ned's Atomic Dustbin. I remember having arguments with my school friends about why indie music was so bad and why so much house music was so bad. And this, at the time, for me felt like a classic. It just felt like it's always been around. And it's a song that's kind of grown; I've appreciated it more and more the older I get, I've never got bored of it. It still feels fresh. Although having said that, I played it to my niece, who's in her 20s. I said this still sounds like it was recorded today, and she said it sounded like it’d been recorded in 1931... So maybe that's just me. I think Oakenfold added something to it, too; the bass line is much better.