Song With a Great Bass Line

[smillie's garden]

How can we have not had any Bernard Edwards' baselines yet?

 

[ExmouthExile]

 

[Acker79]

A couple of great bass lines in 'Under the sea' from the little mermaid, though I suppose their greatness is in the verse itself, the genius of rhyming the fish with instruments is delightful.

The newt play the flute
The carp play the harp
The plaice play the bass
And they soundin' sharp
The bass play the brass
The chub play the tub
The fluke is the duke of soul


Or as a serious response, I rather like the bass in 'Regarding Steven' by Blues Traveller.

 

[blue'n'white]

https://youtu.be/CBIRj3JW3h0

 

[Spanish Seagulls]

Thank you

 

[daveinprague]

Would be easy for me to post dozens of reggae basslines I love....but ive always loved this Soul tune from 83 by Lelah Hathaway. Relentless bass through the tune. Fairly reggae(ish) tbf.

 

[alfredmizen]

Whatever you think of the song it had a great bassline

 

[piersa]

Thunderstruck

 

[Mellotron]

Interpol.

A Time to Be So Small
All Fired up
All Of The Ways
All the Rage Back Home
Always Malaise
Ancient Ways
Anywhere
Barricade
Breaker 1
C'mere
Cut The Rope (Official Title Unknown)
Direction
Everything Is Wrong
Evil
Five
Gavilan
Get The Girls
Hands Away
Heinrich Maneuver
Leif Erikson
Length of Love
Lights
Mammoth
Mascara
Memory Serves
Mind Over Time
My Blue Supreme
My Desire
Narc
Next Exit
No I in Threesome
Not Even Jail
NYC
Obstacle 1
Obstacle 2
Pace is The Trick
PDA
Pioneer to The Falls
Precipitate
Public Pervert
Rest My Chemistry
Roland
Safe Without
Same Town, New Story
Say Hello to The Angels
Slow Hands
Song Seven
Specialist
Stella Was A Driver And She Was Always Down
Success
Summer Well
Take You on a Cruise
The Depths
The Heinrich Maneuver
The Lighthouse
The New
The Scale
The Undoing
There's No I In Threesome
Tidal Wave
Time to Be So Small
Try It On
Twice As Hard
Untitled
Who Do You Think
Wrecking Ball

Basically, imagine Peter Hook, but about 3,000 times better.

 

[METALMICKY]

Good call but so many great bass lines to choose from JJB.

Whilst technically nothing extraordinary JJB's bass tone is legendary. As for bass guitar legends I'd have to vote for Mark King and Steve Harris.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Money - Pink Floyd
Girls and Boys - Blur

The first two that jump to mind.

 

[aolstudios]

How can we have not had any Bernard Edwards' baselines yet?

Beat me to it, Bernard is the Man. Opened this thread specifically to post some Chic

 

[aolstudios]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO8YiLDbEbI

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

The late great Jack Bruce giving Clapton a run for his money on the guitar front


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gPDZ2M51XDw

Thanks for posting that. I enjoyed playing it, even though I have the DVD

Definitely one of my top two favourite bands of all time, and a lot of that is down to Jack Bruce.

The bass line of the live version of Crossroads on Wheels of Fire is pretty good, too.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

https://youtu.be/CBIRj3JW3h0

Great track with a great bass line. Norman Watt-Roy was on the Documentary about Wilko Johnson on BBC1 last night.

 

[Mackenzie]

Bass driven songs don't get much better than this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcqs5z0yEl4

....is the right answer.....

 

[darkwolf666]

Something Isn't Happening - Latin Quarter

 

[AIT76]

Keska-say?

 

[Peter Grummit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xik-y0xlpZ0

Great bass line...and The Cure's best song.

PG

 

[Norman Potting]

Don't Stop Believing - Journey. Heard on the radio last night and the bass line stood out. Very twangy.