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Your favourite bass line in a piece of music

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  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    The Dance or Walls Get Smaller by The Music. 


  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    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)
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Scorpio by Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band, with Bob Babbitt on bass.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Lincsaddick 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.


  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    edited September 2019
    hawksmoor said:
    Lincsaddick 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
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    But what we do know, Lincs, is that School Days by Stanley Clarke is the jazz Smoke On The Water.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Lincsaddick said:
    hawksmoor said:
    Lincsaddick 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/
  • snowinberlin
    snowinberlin Posts: 807
    Spirits in the material world
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    edited September 2019
    GreenWithEnvy said:

    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

  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Lunatic Soul - Gutter

    Anything by Mariusz Duda
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,989
    25May98 said:
    The white stripes. 

    ‘We’re the red and white army’
    Yep, 7 Nation Army, White Stripes.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,079
    SoundAsa£ said:
    Money....Pink Floyd

    Give it away.....Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Beat me too it! 
  • WoodsideValley
    WoodsideValley Posts: 229
    Stetsasonic - Talking all that jazz.
  • Addickhead86
    Addickhead86 Posts: 1,148
    Lipstick Vogue - Elvis Costello
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    Good Times by Chic.
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    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
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    Not a bassline, but the genius that is Jaco Pastorius with Portrait of Tracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZ_1mPOuyk
  • church-lane
    church-lane Posts: 934
    Joy Division - She's Lost Control
    Public Image Ltd - Public Image
    Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    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.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    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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  • jamesking93
    jamesking93 Posts: 289
    SE10Addick said:
    Incredible - M Beat feat General Levy
    Need more jungle in here.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,737
    PaddyP17 said:


     - Always Like This - Bombay Bicycle Club

    Tuuuuuuune!
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    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. 
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    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......


  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    jamesking93 said:
    SE10Addick said:
    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

    ;)
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    Town called Malice - The Jam

    Peaches - The Strangers

    Street Fighting Man - The Stones
  • Phantom_User
    Phantom_User Posts: 655
    WoodsideValley said:
    Stetsasonic - Talking all that jazz.
    Sampled from :
    holyjo said:
    Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions : deffo up there 

  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    edited September 2019
    Jessie said:
    Lullaby - The Cure

    Good shout @Jessie
  • RedJohn
    RedJohn Posts: 597
    Me and My Life - Tremeloes
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,865
    I think fleas amazing but certainly not what makes that band great.

    I fail to really appreciate bass.

    You need it but you don't really appreciate it or ever see it as the soul focus of a song.

    For me, it will just always be something in the background.

    I have "the lol fear"

    Worried I'm going to be out on the piss tonight. Wake up hungover and this post has 20+ "you idiot" lols

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