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Favorite Bass Lines
Post your favorite bass lines here, my personal favorites include
C'mon C'mon- The Von Bondies Under Pressure- Queen Lasso- Pheonix Always- blink-182 Californiacation- Red Hot Chili Peppers Even if your favorite isnt a classic share it here |
Good thread idea... I have way too many to count and narrow it down, but lookin forward to seeing others post.
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Niacin - Swing Swang Swung
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So many good ones. These were the first that came to my mind...
Love is the Drug - Roxy Music Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane How Many More Times - Led Zeppelin The Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin My Generation - The Who The Real Me - The Who Taxman - The Beatles Paperback Writer - The Beatles Come Together - The Beatles Hey Bulldog - The Beatles Money - Pink Floyd These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra Stand By Me - Ben E. King The Beat Goes On - Sonny & Cher Coup - 23 Skidoo Pusherman - Curtis Mayfield The Guns of Brixton - The Clash Nice N' Sleazy - The Stranglers Roundabout - Yes Riders on the Storm - The Doors Sitting on the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's |
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Is the first thing that comes to mind besides the Guns of Brixton. The whole rhythm section on this is so tight its almost sexual. actual sexual honestly my favourite bass line of all time. Nobody does it better, not even GoF |
Heavy influence on my recorded approach to bass. |
Bauhaus - "Kick in the Eye" was the first one that came to mind.
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I can't believe I didn't think of this one in my previous post...
The Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia - YouTube |
Marvin Gaye - Heavy Love Affair
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After I bought my first Bass (and learned how to play a bit), I started 'hearing' bass lines more. This tune really surprised me:
Mike Rutherford is kind of underrated if you ask me. Can't forget some Billy! Talas stuff is good, but here's some fresh: |
One of the very best
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The solo. The solooooooooo. |
Smash that down ya!
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also this song! |
My fav bassline ever is in 'I want you back' by the jackson 5 and my 2nd fav is probably this one..
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Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire
Fantastic Voyage - Lakeside Good Times - Chic Slide - Slave Stomp - The Brothers Johnson Get The Funk Outta My Face - The Brothers Johnson Skin Tight - Ohio Players Glide - Pleasure School Boy Crush - Average White Band Dazz - Brick Flashlight - Parliament ( Bernie Worrell Mini Moog bassline) Something - The Beatles Still - Rufio |
^Boris the Spider is definitely fookin tight
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Message in a bottle by the police has a great bass.
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A pretty simple bassline but there's something about it that just carries the song, especially on the "la, la, la-la" parts:
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I like funky standout basslines in bigbeat songs
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NoMeansNo - Rags and Bones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppR6LcGnkUY Gang of Four - Ether https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7sNfbprnKU Choking Victim - 500 Channels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIOsw2wK4os That Slap Bass solo in Maximum the Hormone - Uehara (Futoshi).(1:20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCUAzLFTlBU#t=80 Maxmum The Hormone - Black Yen Power G-Man Spy (starts at 0:26, 1:35 is the better part): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWweZ515x2Y |
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Sampled to great effect in this: |
Grand Funk Country Road also Inside Looking Out.........Numerous Black Sabbath songs. Supernault, Iron Man etc.
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Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood has an excellent bass line
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David Wm. Sims is a God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtDO_oRaXlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqWwB1M3J7k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdhRNEyQe3M Debbie Googe is a Goddess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc1DZ2k31w8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztnutktJP7M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9qLnmEN7S8 and Todd Ashley is unbelievable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkIsf9LCiII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gt8jriYrRc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI4KI8l-4ec ^nobody plays bass like this....and it's really a shame |
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Say what you will about the song, this bass line is money:
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Godsmack - Immune
!!! - All My Heroes are Wierdos Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song Rammstein - Asche Zu Asche Rammstein - Der Meister Metallica - Eye of the Beholder Megadeth - Poison Was the Cure 311 - Misdirected Hostility 311 - DLMD Sublime - April 26th 1992 |
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
I love this song's funky slap bass line, so simple but distinctive. I like the song, too, but the bass line is what really stands out: Below is a cover of the bass line, showing how it is played using the slap and pop technique, which "involves slapping the lower two strings with the bony part of the thumb and popping notes on the higher two strings by pulling the string until it snaps against the fingerboard, producing a percussive sound" (Wikipedia). The guy obviously feels cool playing it. And who wouldn't! |
The bassline of this song plays constantly on my mind. |
The opening bass line is addicting.
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Higher Ground (Red Hot Chili Peppers Version)
The Whale Song (Modest Mouse) Analog Kid (Rush) Jerry Was A Racecar Driver (Primus) My Name Is Mud (Primus) TV Party (Black Flag) I Am The Walrus (The Beatles) Do I Wanna Know? (Artic Monkeys) Rapper's Delight (Sugarhill Gang) I can't think of anymore at the moment |
Of all the many Joy Division and New Order songs I could mention here this is my favourite Peter Hook bass line. It's infectious. |
Anything by Pete Trewavas.
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I can't post links yet but check out...
Harvey Mason - Groovin You |
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