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Final Solution by Pere Ubu

Supremes - My World Is Empty Without You

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That Ex DVD that Jem Cohen did has tons of great stuff on it.

I think about these basslines a lot -

Lightning Bolt - 13 Monsters

PIL - Poptones, esp. the Peel Session

Television - Little Johnny Jewel

the Index - Eight Miles HIgh

Shellac - Shoe Song

Minutemen - Black Sheep


Oh yeah, and that guy beating ass on Steve Wonder's "I Wish." Who played on that?

I'm not a very big fan of them, but that little bass part on "She's So Heavy" by the Beatles is pretty great.

"Wait a Minute" by The Wipers has a good bassline.

Also,

"Blood on the Moon" by Chrome; It's a simple chromatic sequence, but the time signature and the hypnotic repetition form the foundation of the song.

A dozen great basslines off the top of my head:

1 "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You" - Funkadelic
2 "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" - Marvin Gaye
3 "Albatross" - Public Image Ltd
4 "N.I.B." - Black Sabbath
5 "Sex Bomb" - Flipper
6 "1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)" - Jimi Hendrix
7 "Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa" - Sly Stone
8 "Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)" - The Birthday Party
9 "This Year's Girl" - Elvis Costello
10 "Ace of Spades" - Motorhead
11 "Dirt" - The Stooges
12 "Sexy Sadie" - The Beatles

PIL "memories", birthday party "six inch gold blade", big black "i'm a mess" hm.. and many, many more.

six finger satellite - The Place Where Humans Go
june of 44 - Anisette
shellac - House Full of Garbage
led zeppelin - How Many More Times
sleepytime gorilla museum - Powerless
jesus lizard - Monkey Trick
call me lightning - Asses to Ashes
minutemen - The Anchor

...in no particular order. All these make me happy.