Best Basslines

crumbschief

I did some more thinking today,better not do that too often.

You Give Me Something - Jamiroquai
Down At The Doctors - Dr Feelgood
Funkin' For Jamaica - Tom Browne
Can't Get Used to Losing You - The Beat
Gimme Some Lovin' - The Spencer Davis Group

lostboysaint

As I said before, you don't have to like the music but Bernard Edwards has one of the most sampled and inspired bass lines in Good Times. In fact that bassline can be argued to have inspired a whole new musical movement as it provided the backdrop for so much early rap and hip-hop. He has many, many others to his credit as well in all kinds of genres. Top player.

MichaelW

who can forget
dum de dum dum de dum de dum
dum de dum dum de dum de dum

and the more funk oriented
wah wah dum de dum de dum
wah wah dum de dum de dum

eskimo Joe

lostboysaint wrote:

As I said before, you don't have to like the music but Bernard Edwards has one of the most sampled and inspired bass lines in Good Times. In fact that bassline can be argued to have inspired a whole new musical movement as it provided the backdrop for so much early rap and hip-hop. He has many, many others to his credit as well in all kinds of genres. Top player.

Lostboysaint, don't forget that bass line was copied by Queen for another one bites the dust. I don't think ther has been a more harmonious use of the bass and guitar than Bernad and Nile had.
I also didn't know the last album the full Chic line up played on was Madonnas Like a virgin

rick_chasey

Always really liked Airbag.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgE29oRPhrI

dmclite-3.0

The Breeders, Cannonball.

mingmong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2GVjuXrxM

Dillinja: The Angels Fell

This blows the roof, off!

thiscocks

^ no actual bass on it though!

mint sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTzCW6WCdmk

Also really like Keith Jones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LBzf1_pGrw

o/p post also v nice!

declan1

The intro to this sounds awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfILg4mJAG0

dynamicbrick

MingMong wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2GVjuXrxM

Dillinja: The Angels Fell

This blows the roof, off!

Pffft...

If you're gonna put up DnB, at least give us something to upset the neighbours with;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWYBhYEdb4o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIOipNA1gQ4

I could go darker, but the geriatrics will decry it's not real bass

markos1963

shed76 wrote:

anyone heard of Jack Bruce?

I have! My dad and Jack were best mates in a jazz band in Glasgow in the late 50's(appartently Ginger Baker couldn't get much work as he was considered a poor player!)

byke68

Cornershop - Sleep On The Left Side
The Sugarcubes - Some of the remixes on the Birthday EP
Early PIL and their production on Adamski's Back To The Front + remixes

Anyone got any favourite double-kick bass drum tracks? Frost out of Satyricon is awesome!
Dig by Mudvayne for starters.........

crumbschief

Ah,well byke68 i was also thinking along similar lines with the double bass.

Stray Cats - Runaway Boys was the first i thought of,but hey let's not stray,ha

Barrydeek

Big shout for Tina Weymouth on Psycho Killer, Talking Heads. I don't know what it is, but girls look cool on bass.
http://youtu.be/l5zFsy9VIdM

Nancy Luger

Indeed they do . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLZvJ_rt ... jUpgLBIPKQ

declan1

Nancy Luger wrote:

Indeed they do . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLZvJ_rt ... jUpgLBIPKQ

I wouldn't exactly call that a great bass line.

Nancy Luger

Barrydeek wrote:

Big shout for Tina Weymouth on Psycho Killer, Talking Heads. I don't know what it is, but girls look cool on bass.

Nancy Luger wrote:

Indeed they do . . .

declan1 wrote:

I wouldn't exactly call that a great bass line.

C R I N G E . . . . . . . did you COMPLETELY miss the point on purpose?????

PMSL

Katz

Muse Hysteria

Brassknocker

Nancy Luger wrote:

Barrydeek wrote:

Big shout for Tina Weymouth on Psycho Killer, Talking Heads. I don't know what it is, but girls look cool on bass.

Nancy Luger wrote:

Indeed they do . . .

declan1 wrote:

I wouldn't exactly call that a great bass line.

C R I N G E . . . . . . . did you COMPLETELY miss the point on purpose?????

PMSL

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Psycho Killer - Tina Weymouth, that's a great bassline AND she's pretty cool, the Subways? .... that's really not a great bassline... and she's not very cool (whoever she is).

...Kid's today eh? PMSL, OMG, YMCA, RSVP etc

Hysteria? Agreed! - now that's a great bassline!

Alain Quay

Really hate to say it as certainly not a band I like but 17 seconds of great bassline in
U2 & BB King, When Love comes to town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38_dBew9YT0
1 minute 40 to 1 minute 57.

Also Neil Young On the beach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKgj1FNToWY
Like the 1960s have ended and I'm, so depressed...

Nancy Luger

Brassknocker wrote:

??
Psycho Killer - Tina Weymouth, that's a great bassline AND she's pretty cool, the Subways? .... that's really not a great bassline... and she's not very cool (whoever she is).

...Kid's today eh? PMSL, OMG, YMCA, RSVP etc

Hysteria? Agreed! - now that's a great bassline!

Cool story bro

but Psycho Killer is pretty pedestrian, and the bass very rudimentary. Great? No. and no way on earth is she cool, that rank jabber looks like she knits tea cosys in her spare time. Now no-one is suggesting the Subways bassline was good, great or anything else. But Charlotte Cooper NOT cool???? ho ho time for the pipe and slippers Granda, you wouldn't know cool if it sat on ya face. Muse . . . lol .

andy_f

Nancy Luger wrote:

Brassknocker wrote:

??
Psycho Killer - Tina Weymouth, that's a great bassline AND she's pretty cool, the Subways? .... that's really not a great bassline... and she's not very cool (whoever she is).

...Kid's today eh? PMSL, OMG, YMCA, RSVP etc

Hysteria? Agreed! - now that's a great bassline!

Cool story bro

but Psycho Killer is pretty pedestrian, and the bass very rudimentary. Great? No. and no way on earth is she cool, that rank jabber looks like she knits tea cosys in her spare time. Now no-one is suggesting the Subways bassline was good, great or anything else. But Charlotte Cooper NOT cool???? ho ho time for the pipe and slippers Granda, you wouldn't know cool if it sat on ya face. Muse . . . lol .

I don't think Charlotte is very cool but she can come and sit on my face and prove me wrong if she likes.