ginandtacos.com wrote:nirvana - "lounge act"

I only looked through the thread to see if this was posted before I posted it myself.

I forgot...

Codeine: "Pickup Song"

Is that the bass that plays that huge swooping note on that song? God, that's cool.

Also, "Chinese Handcuffs" and "Carne Levare" by The New Year.

El Protoolio wrote:Taxman - The Beatles

What You Give Is What You Get - The Jam

These two are kinda the same bass line, arent they? Even so, youre right, it's a really good one.

The theme from the TV show "Barney Miller".

Stevie Wonder, "Too High."

ok....

"heartbreaker" is one of many zeppelin songs with great bass playing. some of the fills on the verse are terrific.

"squealer" is probably the best ac/dc bass line

no one has mentioned gang of four yet, so i'll just say _entertainment!_ and leave it at that

"yoo doo right" by can is an archetypal bass line that has been ripped off only about 1,000,000 times so far

my favorite peter hook bass line is probably "disorder." i love the weird little fills in the first half of the breaks.

I really like a lot of the simple, pummeling bass lines from the one n' only Uzeda record

My fav lately is 'Carl Sagan' by the Paul Newmans

But 'Watch Song' by The Shellacs, she is a bassline I've heard many, many times. Too many times. It's a beautiful kitten wrapped in a blue blanket, so deep in the tone, rumbling the ground as if to shake a small Iraqi child from his broken home.

TheMilford wrote:Duran Duran "Rio"
The Police "Spirits in the Material World"

The basslines in these two songs are incredible to me. Perhaps they are made incredible only by the fact that these two bands largely produced flaccid white boy pop music (with traces of fake exotica that would make even The Clash blush). But they are still incredible basslines to my ears.

I would add the bassline in the chorus of Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way" to this list. That bassline is a monster. I am always happy to hear it.

Actually, once upon a time we RANKED!!! these three basslines! Salut, RANK!!!

Let me also add that I think very highly of the terse, tense bassline played by Tim Midgett in "Couldn't You Wait?" from Silkworm's "Libertine". The bass work in this song (especially in the "Do you still think you're God?" section of the song) is incredible to me, particularly in the way it manages to be both propulsive and restrained/melancholy at the same time. Neat trick, Tim.

Does lowering a guitar's pitch count to sound like a bass? If so, "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes.

If not,

"Ain't No Right" - Janes Addiction
"I'm Free" - The Who
"Sunshine Superman" - covered by Husker Du

endofanera wrote:

El Protoolio wrote:Taxman - The Beatles

What You Give Is What You Get - The Jam

These two are kinda the same bass line, arent they? Even so, youre right, it's a really good one.

Haha! I'm glad to know someone is not only reading, but paying attention.