Favourite bass lines

Don't know about you, but I like it when a song has a pronounced and memorable bass line. Mine:

Queen's "Under Pressure" (more or less the same as Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby")

Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust"

Bon Jovi "Keep the Faith"

Yours?

Alex

Bass lines? Isn't that a fishing term?

Radiohead - Idiotheque :coolguy:

Olive Me - Nofx

Wildflower - The Cult
Love Removal Machine - The Cult
Sun King - The Cult

Sweet home Alabama by Lynard Skynard probably the most memorable to me. Thats the only one I can think of at the moment.:bloated:

Originally posted by jgillham
Sweet home Alabama by Lynard Skynard probably the most memorable to me. Thats the only one I can think of at the moment.:bloated:

Saw Sevendust do a cover of that song in concert, was awesome...


My favorite basslines off the top of my head... I'm sure there's ones I like better, but these are the only ones I can think of right now:

Beastie Boys - Gratitude (this one actually isn't sampled)
RATM - Clear the lane
Sting - My One And Only Love (Beautiful song!)
Bob Marley & teh Wailers - No woman no cry
Primus - Tommy the cat (can't have a baseline thread without mentioning Les Claypool)
Sublime - What I got
Leftfield - Final Hit (I think that's the name... it's off the Trainspotting soundtrack)
Tool - Jimmy (I think... from the Aemema album. I'll find out and edit the post tomorrow)

The Police - Every Breath you take (incidentally Juliana Hatfield did a cover but everything with a guitar )

My fav bass line is Longview by Green Day.

Anesthesia by Metallica ;)

"Blood suger sex magic" by the Chilli Peppers.
Infact anything by the Chilli's has a great Bass line, Flea is a bass god.

"Stand by Me" is a real classic, and one of the first songs to be popular with a strong dominante bass line.

Best ever bass lines:

The fretless slap bass break in You Can Call Me Al (or whatever) by Paul Simon on Graceland

Boning in the Boneyard by Fishbone.

I would also have to agree with ci5ic about Tommy the Cat, but unfortunately only from memory - I think I've lost the cd :(








.... and Queen's "Under Pressure" (more or less the same as Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby") :huh: :huh: excuse me??!?!??!?! :huh: Ice Ice Baby was a sample of Under Pressure. Dunno how you get "more or less the same" out of that.

uriah heep songs have some nice melodic bass
But my fav one's are:
Dream Theater - Erotomania
Black Sabbath - War Pigs

surprised no one has mentioned hotel california....hate the song, love the bassline.

Sevendust- Xmas Day...my perfect song. I've listened to it at least once, every day for the past several months, and it still sends a shiver through my body. That song is so incredibly haunting and beautiful.

Slap bass provided by P-nut (311) Victor Wooten (Bela Fleck) or Jaco Pastorius (Too many to name, including Weathervane)

Alice in Chains- No excuses

Originally posted by Steel
Anesthesia by Metallica ;)

aka Pulling Teeth :)

But Steel! I'm dissapointed in you for not mentioning...

Burton Years:
Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow
Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Metallica - Call of Ktulu

Newsted Years:
Metallica - My Friend of Misery
Metallica - The God that Failed
Metallica - Bleeding Me
Metallica - King Nothing
Metallica - Wasting My Hate
Metallica - Devil's Dance

Most of these songs have either a alot of Bass present in the melody or are lead by a Bass tone.

Also dont forget the Load/ReLoad albums were heavily influenced by both Kirk Hammet and Jason Newsted. Lars and James basically let them play what they felt like.

... See what you made me do... I've gone off and rambled... sorry folks! I'll stop! :D


Also lets not forget
Primus and Ozzy's Cover of the Black Sabbath song... Nativity in Black (NIB)

:ylsuper :ylsuper

Originally posted by moondog
.... and :huh: :huh: excuse me??!?!??!?! :huh: Ice Ice Baby was a sample of Under Pressure. Dunno how you get "more or less the same" out of that.

That's exactly what I meant. It was sampled, so the main bass line is more or less the same as in Under Pressure.

Originally posted by RedNeck383


Metallica - Wasting My Hate
Metallica - Devil's Dance


:cool:

Armand Van helden - Little black spiders:D

Another One Bites the Dust and Longview are good, but I like:

Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows

It's a simple 2 note bass line almost the whole song, kinda like the "shark nearby" tune, lol. There's even a 5 second or so bass solo of it around the 3:37 mark. Damn I love that song, lol :D

Originally posted by Heep
Another One Bites the Dust and Longview are good, but I like:

Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows



You must have missed my QOTSA thread. :frog: :frog:






I have to say I think about 90% of the songs mentioned all have an awsome base line!


(and ales there is a differnce between "the same" and "similar" ;) )

Originally posted by Moppie


(and ales there is a differnce between "the same" and "similar" ;) )

More or less the same = similar =/ exactly the same ;)

(=/ is supposed to mean "isn't equal to")

Originally posted by Moppie
You must have missed my QOTSA thread. :frog: :frog:


Yep.

What's the frog for?

Tool - Jimmy
Tool - Forty Six & 2
Radiohead - Idioteque
Radiohead - The National Anthem
RATM - Testify
RATM - Calm Like a Bomb
KoRn - Somebody Someone (the bass solo...woah)
QOTSA - No One Knows
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
Queen - Under Pressure
The Black Seeds - Keep On Pushing (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/images/flags/New%20Zealand.gif)
TrinityRoots - Sense and cents (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/images/flags/New%20Zealand.gif)
Nirvana - You Know You're Right
Groove Armada - Suntoucher

All I can think of right now...I'm damn sure I missed something good out...

Originally posted by Toksin
Groove Armada - Suntoucher


Yeah, that's a good one too

Oh right,

The Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch :D

That's one of the best :D

Yeah, I agree with most of you on your choices. ;)

Anything Victor Wooten :devil:

Originally posted by Heep


Yeah, that's a good one too

Friends of mine did a really good cover of that song for a thing at school...came off well...always funny to see a white boy rapping :D

Maybe not the best base lines, but they definitely rock:

Radar Love by Golden Earring
Thunderstruck by ACDC

Sort of partial as they lead off my 'driving tunes' CD.

Originally posted by ales


That's exactly what I meant. It was sampled, so the main bass line is more or less the same as in Under Pressure.


Take another listen guys... Vanilla Ice's bassline is not a complete sample... he changed it up a bit (but not much), so I would say that it is not the same, but extrememly similar. Anyways, his goofy ass ruins the bassline, but the queen version is good, that's an all around great song, and for some reason, I never knew until last year that David Bowie was doing vocals on that song...

found a new favorite

Severed by Mudvayne
the start has real real nice bass to it one of the best sounding basslines ever put into a song

Rage Against The Machine- Renagades of Funk

Originally posted by Amish_kid
found a new favorite

Severed by Mudvayne
the start has real real nice bass to it one of the best sounding basslines ever put into a song
:sun:

Originally posted by Amish_kid
found a new favorite

Severed by Mudvayne
the start has real real nice bass to it one of the best sounding basslines ever put into a song

yea i like that song too, but never thought about it

Originally posted by RedNeck383


aka Pulling Teeth :)

But Steel! I'm dissapointed in you for not mentioning...

Burton Years:
Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow
Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Metallica - Call of Ktulu

Newsted Years:
Metallica - My Friend of Misery
Metallica - The God that Failed
Metallica - Bleeding Me
Metallica - King Nothing
Metallica - Wasting My Hate
Metallica - Devil's Dance

Most of these songs have either a alot of Bass present in the melody or are lead by a Bass tone.

Also dont forget the Load/ReLoad albums were heavily influenced by both Kirk Hammet and Jason Newsted. Lars and James basically let them play what they felt like.

... See what you made me do... I've gone off and rambled... sorry folks! I'll stop! :D


Also lets not forget
Primus and Ozzy's Cover of the Black Sabbath song... Nativity in Black (NIB)

:ylsuper :ylsuper

Well, i just noticed that its favorite bass lines. So those count too.
Yeah. Metallica rules.

No Doubt - Hella Good
and
Swollen Members (feat. Nelly Furtado) - Breathe

both have really electronicish but sweet bass. I could listen to both all day

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - Thriller

:lol2: