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"The Playboy Mansion" is the 9th track on U2's 1997 album Pop. It has a loungy break-beat vibe. Howie B describes the process of recording it: "Well, we approached 'The Playboy Mansion' with a bit of a hip-hop attitude; and it worked really well. On that track, the rhythm track is two loops of Larry playing, and he's also playing live to those loops. So at some points, there are three drum kits going at once, in quite a controlled way – the arrangement is particularly interesting. The track started off as a live jam, and then we took that and programmed it up. Larry went off into a side room and made some sample loops of him playing his kit, and gave the loops to me and Flood. It was the same with the guitars; there's a guitar riff which comes in in the verse and chorus, which is a sample of Edge playing."
There is a sample of The Turtles's "You Showed Me", a 1960's pop hit in the track.
Playboy Mansion is one of the few songs on Pop that features programmed drums, despite appearances. Howie B explains: " 95 percent of the drums on the record are 'real'. There are just the odd moments where you can hear loops; and it's fairly obvious where. 'The Playboy Mansion' is one of the places where people will say; 'OK, they've had a different attitude to recording here'. But on all the other songs, the drums are live."
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