i dunno which one it is, but the song with the best bassline has to be something by Yes circa ~1970. it pretty much has to.

"jungle boogie" by those guys with the name, that one has a great bassline.

"tell me something good" as per the poll in C/NC right now, that one slays.

"groove is in the heart" is pretty cool.

"green eyed lady" is certainly well up there.

what about that one song by Dianogah, y'know, the one with the bassline?

toomanyhelicopters wrote:i dunno which one it is, but the song with the best bassline has to be something by Yes circa ~1970. it pretty much has to.

heart of the sunrise?

In no particular order -

The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?
Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
The Breeders - When I Was A Painter
Diana Ross & The Supremes - My World is Empty Without You
Mercury Rev - Young Man's Stride
Slint - Glenn

There are far too many to choose from..!!!

nirvana - "lounge act"

"moby dick," "the ocean, "black dog"- "what're you sayin' little man, you don't like zep?"

"peaches"- the stranglers

lots of things by new order/joy division

lots of things by the jesus lizard

lots of things by the birthday party

Some of my favourites have already been listed, here are some others I like.

Big Black - Deep Six , Its that bass line that made me buy my first musical instrument (bass guitar)

Bl'ast - In my Blood

Gary bartz - Celestial Blues

Johnny Clarke - Come Back To Me



christ on a bike I forgot to mention the behomoth Wingwalker




Is Dave wm Sims doing anything these days?

anything by yes ( chris squire ) especially "roundabout" ( is it this one too many helicopters ? )

Taxman - The Beatles

What You Give Is What You Get - The Jam

and many, many more classic hits from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's

Duran Duran "Rio"

Rush "Digital Man"

The Police " Spirits in the Material Morld"

Hoover "electrolux"

As previously mentioned, just about anything by Peter Hook gets my vote. At least the Joy Division and New Order stuff. Revenge and Monaco, not so much (though "What Do You Want From Me?" by Monaco is a great song). Hump that bass, Peter Hook!

Same goes for Jah Wobble in his PIL days (I haven't really investigated his post-PIL stuff, though I'm sure some of it is worthwhile), especially "Poptones".

Bruce Thomas from the Attractions did some neat stuff, as did Tina Weymouth.

It's too hard to decide, and I'm forgetting a bunch of stuff.