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Your favourite bass line in a piece of music

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  • The Dance or Walls Get Smaller by The Music. 


  • The opening to 'Get Ready' .. Temptations .. (by I think 'Lady' Carol Kaye)
    Middle of 'Light as a Feather' .. Stanley Clarke (Member of Return to Forever)
  • Scorpio by Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band, with Bob Babbitt on bass.
  • The opening to 'Get Ready' .. Temptations .. (by I think 'Lady' Carol Kaye)
    Middle of 'Light as a Feather' .. Stanley Clarke (Member of Return to Forever)
    I would've guessed at James Jamerson on Get Ready.


  • edited September 2019
    hawksmoor said:
    The opening to 'Get Ready' .. Temptations .. (by I think 'Lady' Carol Kaye)
    Middle of 'Light as a Feather' .. Stanley Clarke (Member of Return to Forever)
    I would've guessed at James Jamerson on Get Ready.


    legend has it that is was CK .. like you, I don't know who .. BUT this bloke says it IS Jamerson .. https://youtu.be/lFzfEI4ITS4
  • But what we do know, Lincs, is that School Days by Stanley Clarke is the jazz Smoke On The Water.
  • hawksmoor said:
    The opening to 'Get Ready' .. Temptations .. (by I think 'Lady' Carol Kaye)
    Middle of 'Light as a Feather' .. Stanley Clarke (Member of Return to Forever)
    I would've guessed at James Jamerson on Get Ready.


    legend has it that is was CK .. like you, I don't know who .. BUT this bloke says it IS Jamerson .. https://youtu.be/lFzfEI4ITS4
    still inconclusive lol .. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/carol-kaye-controversey-solved.77562/
  • Spirits in the material world
  • edited September 2019

    Any Peter Hook!

    New Order - Sunrise / Age of Consent / Leave Me Alone / Cries and Whispers
    Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours / Wilderness

    ... also ...

    Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better
    Vulfpeck - Dean Town
    Anouk - The Dark
    Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
    Pinback - Good to Sea
    Talking Heads - Sugar On My Tongue / Psycho Killer
    Franz Ferdinand - Can't Stop The Feeling
    The Cure - Screw / A Forest / Close To Me

  • Lunatic Soul - Gutter

    Anything by Mariusz Duda
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  • 25May98 said:
    The white stripes. 

    ‘We’re the red and white army’
    Yep, 7 Nation Army, White Stripes.
  • Money....Pink Floyd

    Give it away.....Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Beat me too it! 
  • Stetsasonic - Talking all that jazz.
  • Lipstick Vogue - Elvis Costello
  • Good Times by Chic.
  • Oooh ok. I recently started playing bass after years of playing guitar and much prefer it. These two bassists are the ones who really made me want to switch:

    Carlos Dengler - Interpol (I love his line on The New, a great way to end a song)
    Peter Hook - Joy Division and New Order (obviously) 

    Any more would require more time than I can dedicate to this while at work, it's too hard for me to decide :D
  • Not a bassline, but the genius that is Jaco Pastorius with Portrait of Tracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZ_1mPOuyk
  • Joy Division - She's Lost Control
    Public Image Ltd - Public Image
    Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
  • edited September 2019
    As for proper bass grooves:

     - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden and Whitehead

     - Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

     - Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell

     - Killing in the Name Of - Rage Against The Machine

     - Always Like This - Bombay Bicycle Club

     - Gentleman - Fela Kuti (though that's maybe not a real answer, as the groove is a sum of the various parts)

     - What Is Hip? - Tower of Power (also Soul Vaccination is a big boy tune)

     So on, so forth. Could keep going ad nauseam.
  • EastStand said:
    Oooh ok. I recently started playing bass after years of playing guitar and much prefer it. These two bassists are the ones who really made me want to switch:

    Carlos Dengler - Interpol (I love his line on The New, a great way to end a song)
    Peter Hook - Joy Division and New Order (obviously) 

    Any more would require more time than I can dedicate to this while at work, it's too hard for me to decide :D
    The combination of great bass lines (an octave or two higher in Hook's case) plus baritone singing is a great rock combo
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  • Incredible - M Beat feat General Levy
    Need more jungle in here.
  • PaddyP17 said:


     - Always Like This - Bombay Bicycle Club

    Tuuuuuuune!
  • Sex Machine - James Brown. 
    Played bass a group called Riot (lol) at my school, and thought this one would be easy. It was anything but. Not many notes, but it was the gaps between them that proved problematic. 
  • Nuclear Device - The Stranglers, virtually a four minute bass solo it was so loud in the mix. For those in the know, Bruce! Sheila!

    Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, the incomparable Norman Watt-Roy

    Anything by the Elvis Costello and the Attractions featuring Bruce Thomas, who fell out so totally with Costello he got a couple of withering lyrics directed at him.That was one thing, but when Costelko proclaimed his replacement was a better player, it was like Murray claiming Phil Parkinson was an upgrade on Curbs. Sorry El......


  • Incredible - M Beat feat General Levy
    Need more jungle in here.
    Trick of Technology
    Enter the Dragon - DJ Red
    Champion DJ - Congo Natty
    Long Dark Tunnel - Origin Unknown - 31 Seconds
    Leviticus - Big Bad and Heavy

    ;)
  • Town called Malice - The Jam

    Peaches - The Strangers

    Street Fighting Man - The Stones
  • Stetsasonic - Talking all that jazz.
    Sampled from :
    holyjo said:
    Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions : deffo up there 

  • Lullaby - The Cure

    And a lot of New Order/Joy Division songs as mentioned already on this thread.
  • edited September 2019
    Jessie said:
    Lullaby - The Cure

    Good shout @Jessie
  • Me and My Life - Tremeloes
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