What is your favorite bassline?

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by Larry Mal » Thu Jun 07, 2018 5:29 pm

Bootsy Collins with James Brown on this motherfucker right here also.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by StevenO » Thu Jun 07, 2018 6:18 pm

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Shit, I could do this all day. Here's another favorite of mine, James Jamerson on Marvin Gaye's "Right On". Jamerson weaves an ever-changing bass line throughout the song, it's contrapuntal, driving, percussive, all at the same time, he drives the song and dances around it... fucking amazing.
I think that's the late, great Bob Babbitt on that track. But it's excellent playing as to be expected! :-*

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by Larry Mal » Thu Jun 07, 2018 6:26 pm

StevenO wrote:
Thu Jun 07, 2018 6:18 pm
Larry Mal wrote:
Wed Jun 06, 2018 5:50 pm
Shit, I could do this all day. Here's another favorite of mine, James Jamerson on Marvin Gaye's "Right On". Jamerson weaves an ever-changing bass line throughout the song, it's contrapuntal, driving, percussive, all at the same time, he drives the song and dances around it... fucking amazing.
I think that's the late, great Bob Babbitt on that track. But it's excellent playing as to be expected! :-*
My fault- thanks for the correction.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by Venice Lockjaw » Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:30 pm

timtam wrote:
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Also Peter Hook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnM9X0IgUmg
I love that song. I love the bass playing too, definitely would’ve suggested it if you hadn’t already.

The first song that came to mind was Bombast by The Fall. I don’t own a bass, but I’d buy one just to play this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdw4o5dCBQ

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by BlixaFan » Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:42 pm

Larry Mal wrote:
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Also, the bassist with Talk Talk is a great player, probably everyone knows this song, its bass line is excellent.

But there's also this motherfucker as well. Great song, great bass line.

Talk Talk is a great band.
fuck yeah!! Talk Talk! i only recently began to appreciate them, but excellent band!

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by aliendawg » Thu Jun 07, 2018 8:14 pm

Wow! Thank you for all the recommendations! Didn't know this thread would get so active haha

I'm really digging a lot of these tunes. I made sure to give them at least a quick listen and Already provided a spotify playlist with all of them!
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by shadowplay » Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:42 am

Weirdly the two that spring to mind are both double bass. I could probably jump down any number of great post punk bassline rabbitholes but these two just elbowed their way in.

Red Snapper - Lo Beam which little more than a bassline.

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda not so much a bassline as massive tectonic wobble.
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probably the first thing that I play when trying out a bass!
Mine is I guess totally uncool but my test out basslines are Boney M - Daddy Cool and Rasputin

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by daemon » Fri Jun 08, 2018 5:10 am

Oh man, so many....
Kudos to The Fall choice! And I just discovered that Alice Coltrane recently, holy crap. I picked up my bass just to figure it out it was so damn entrancing.

Tom Robinson (Sector 27) - Can't Keep Away, this one is just all over the place, love it.
The Smiths - Barbarism Begins at Home, same thing all the way through, but why mess with a good thing?
Shellac - WIngwalker, so menacingly awesome
NoMeansNo - Big Dick, Canada's other great bass-heavy band

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by Sauerkraut » Fri Jun 08, 2018 5:59 am

Not my favourite, though he's a great bass player, but I thought I'd share this cause it's funny to hear slap bass in this context

This is one of my favourites

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by aliendawg » Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:05 am

Sauerkraut wrote:
Fri Jun 08, 2018 5:59 am
Not my favourite, though he's a great bass player, but I thought I'd share this cause it's funny to hear slap bass in this context

This is one of my favourites
hahahaha i never thought i would hear slapping in a radiohead song ever
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:48 am

BlixaFan wrote:
Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:42 pm
Larry Mal wrote:
Thu Jun 07, 2018 5:04 pm
Also, the bassist with Talk Talk is a great player, probably everyone knows this song, its bass line is excellent.

But there's also this motherfucker as well. Great song, great bass line.

Talk Talk is a great band.
fuck yeah!! Talk Talk! i only recently began to appreciate them, but excellent band!
I think there was a thread a while back about bands everyone seems to like whose appeal is totally unfathomable to you. Talk Talk definitely fall into that category for me. What am I missing? What exactly is appealing about their sound/songs?

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:58 am

I used to be quite impressed by John Morrow's bass playing. Fans of Simon Gallup and Peter Hook will find themselves in their comfort zone listening to the likes of Vengeance and 1984. He's at his most show-offy on Notice Me.

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by daemon » Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:53 am

UlricvonCatalyst wrote:
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I used to be quite impressed by John Morrow's bass playing. Fans of Simon Gallup and Peter Hook will find themselves in their comfort zone listening to the likes of Vengeance and 1984. He's at his most show-offy on Notice Me.
Hell yea, NMA is amazing, and still putting out great albums. That first album is something special. I believe it's Stuart Morrow, though, unless his friends call him "John"?

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by mizbiz » Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:13 pm

I'm surprised I haven't seen this yet:

Duran Duran - Rio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3W6yf6c-FA

I remember being mesmerized by this bassline before I could even play any instrument.

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:44 pm

daemon wrote:
Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:53 am
UlricvonCatalyst wrote:
Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:58 am
I used to be quite impressed by John Morrow's bass playing. Fans of Simon Gallup and Peter Hook will find themselves in their comfort zone listening to the likes of Vengeance and 1984. He's at his most show-offy on Notice Me.
Hell yea, NMA is amazing, and still putting out great albums. That first album is something special. I believe it's Stuart Morrow, though, unless his friends call him "John"?
I was writing purely from a now failing memory, and, remembering that the Spanish guitar solo on 1984 was credited to 'Juan Morro', figured his first name was John.

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