Your favourite bass line in a piece of music

LennyLowrent · September 2019

Out of the many, I would like to kick this off with 3.

1. Air on G - J.S.Bach
2. So What - Miles Davis
3. Papa was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations

holyjo · September 2019

Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions : deffo up there

SoundAsa£ · September 2019

Money....Pink Floyd

Give it away.....Red Hot Chili Peppers

i_b_b_o_r_g · September 2019

Butcher Blues - Kasabian

i_b_b_o_r_g · September 2019

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel

thenewbie · September 2019

The Chain - Fleetwood Mac (cliché I'm sure but there we go)

Halix · September 2019

Dear Prudence - The Beatles

Algarveaddick · September 2019

Big Noise from Winnetka - Bob Crosby's Bobcats.

SuedeAdidas · September 2019

Everybody dance - Chic
She’s a super Lady - Luther Vandross
Down in the tube station at midnight - Jam

DaveMehmet · September 2019

Don’t look any further - Dennis Edwards
My Generation - The Who

BalladMan · September 2019

Girls and Boys - Blur

Chunes · September 2019

Bow womp womp wop wow - bow wicka wow womp da wow - bow womp womp womp womp wicky da wow

Big_Bad_World · September 2019

Urban Shakedown ft. Debo - Arsonist - Some Justice '95

daveaddick · September 2019

Summertime Blues-The Who live at Leeds

Six-a-bag-of-nuts · September 2019

I wanna be your man. - The Rolling Stones
19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones
i want you back- The Jackson Five
I want you (she's so heavy) - The Beatles
Bouree- Jethro Tull

Six-a-bag-of-nuts · September 2019

Jumping Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones

Daarrzzetbum · September 2019

So many to list, in terms of bassists; Bernard Edwards, Mark King, Victor Wooten and of course Marcus Miller.

AddickUpNorth · September 2019

The bass riff intro on ‘Waiting Room’ by Fugazi always makes my spine tingle.

Bangkokaddick · September 2019

Another for Bouree by Jethro Tull: the late Glenn Cornick whom I saw many times with his subsequent band Wild Turkey.

Yours Is No Disgrace - Yes. Wonderful bass-work by the greatest prog bass player, alsonow dead, Chris Squire

CharltonMadrid · September 2019

The Real Me - The Who. Amongst all of Entwistle's incredible bass lines, this is a complete monster.

RodneysMiddleName · September 2019

My favourites are probably She’s Lost Control Again -Joy Division and the bit in the middle of Sabotage by the Beastie Boys that Fighting Talk on radio 5 use.

Karim_myBagheri · September 2019

Aquarius (Let the Sunshine in) by The Fifth Dimension

it really comes in on the second half of the song from 2mins 18seconds

https://youtu.be/06X5HYynP5E

rananegra · September 2019

Age of Consent - New Order
Le Freak - Chic
Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

Jints · September 2019

So many, I love a bassline

I Wish - Stevie Wonder
Money - Pink Floyd
Come Together - Beatles
Use me - Bill Withers
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division
Come as you are - Nirvana
Busstop - Fatback Band