This likely goes against the grain of all the stand-out bass lines, but the dub-minimalism on “Classic Noodlandingâ€

Kyuss - "Catamaran"
Tindersticks - "Patchwork"
Mogwai - "Christmas Steps"

Someone mentioned TV theme songs so, duh, Barney Miller!

Oooh, and the song Superfly

"Rain" - Beatles
The intro to "Everything's gone green" - New Order

Peter Hook and Paul McCartney are tops in my book but John Paul Jones and John Entwistle definitely deserve honorable mention. I can't decide who's better, though, Hook or McCartney?

pdc_heavy wrote:Does lowering a guitar's pitch count to sound like a bass?

god i hope so, i forgot to mention "dissect" off of "orange" by the jon spencer blues explosion. go dig that tone now. it's only rivaled by the tone in the verse of "heartbreaker."

I'll have to give another vote for David Wm. Sims of the Jesus Lizard:

Monkey Trick

Mouthbreather

Nub

The Art of Self-Defense

Slaveship

and on and on....

I've always been partial to Mingus' "Haitian Fight Song", but it sorta seems like cheating to bring it up.

Another guilty pleasure: The Who's "Boris The Spider"


And to whoever mentioned Skee-Lo, tha "I Wish" song made me feel OK about being short, way back when, but I never wished I was a baller.

"Heart Of The Sunrise" ...Yes..Still my fave, and probably why I bought Rickenbacker basses.

"I Can't Remember"...The Frogs...That's always a blast to play, even if I'm just sitting in the living room big-chair.

Let's just say this: last christmas, i recieved a bass guitar from my parents. i plugged it in, and the first three things i made a point to learn were fugazi's "Waiting Room" and Black Flag's "Six Pack." i'd have learned some Primus, but it wouldn't have sounded good. it probably still wouldn't sound good.

but my vote would be the two aforementioned, plus anything Primus.

Excluding the obvious Jaco Pastorious and Victor Wooten songs, I would say almost all of Dysrhythmia's Pretest.