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The melvins "june bug"
Uzeda "this heat" (one note, but awesome nonetheless)
Suicidal tendencies "subliminal"
The standard "a year of seconds"
Husker du "the terms of psychic warfare"
The thrones "coal sack"
Magnetic fields "the dreaming moon"
firehose "sometimes"
lungfish "vulgar theores" or "sands of time"

"Fool's Gold" Stone Roses

Fugazi: Bed For Scrapping
Hoover: Eletrolux
Can: Moonshake
Yes: South Side of the Sky

Pillars by Sunny Day Real Estate
Downside Up by Peter Gabriel
You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon

I may get laughed at for this one but i really love
the bass line from "Imaginary War" by Jawbreaker

and believe it or not the first bass line I ever learned way back yonder
"Believe" by Dig

and I guess for my cool answer

"Mama Gina" Shellac

I could go on and on about the song itself but i love the bass work in this song

Laughing Hyenas- Here We Go Again

Tons of James Brown, but Take Some/Leave Some and Mind Power definitely come to mind.

'bout time someone said something. i was actually thinking i might be the first one to mention vern after 11 pages.

fuck yeah, unwound is the main reason i started playing bass. then came joy division and big black, the birthday party. his hero is gone.

also - i can't believe i haven't seen aston barret or robbie shakespeare mentioned. c'mon people...dub. it's all bass!

al cisernos. i don't think i've seen his name mentioned yet either.

and major kudos to the dude who mentioned "sieve fisted fine" by fugazi.

and lungfish. almost anything.

and "out on the tiles" - led zep.

"i'm a woman" - the shocking blue.




but to summarize:
unwound rules.
want bass? any fucking song on any record. too many to list. but i will say the bass line on "said serial" from their 7" on troubleman just fucking slays.


my worst post ever. my apologies.



-joshua...

stipendlax wrote:Anything played by Vern Rumsey.

That is one solid dude.

Distortion Felix - I'm an Athlete.


Everything off of that album

Don't know if anyone's said it, and in no way is this to be construed as an endorsement of the band, but Give It Away by the Red Hot Chili Peppers has an awesome bass line. Yeah, I know. But it's still a cool bass line.

Grandmaster Flash's White Lines. The version the song has is Sugarhill Gang's session bassist covering the Liquid Liquid song.