Best basslines ever

Love THE STRANGLERS version LIVE of WALK ON BY......... "Let's Go For A Stroll In The TREES" ACE BASS

Rocket Mick wrote: Love THE STRANGLERS version LIVE of WALK ON BY......... "Let's Go For A Stroll In The TREES" ACE BASS

yea ace bass.hanging around,nice n sleazy also have great bass starts

Just thought of some more:

Bauhaus, "Kick in the Eye" Breeders, "Cannonball" Blondie, "Atomic"

Not the best, but amazing playing with fretless bass. Dalis Car, The Waking Hour-album(Peter Murphy ex-Bauhaus vocals, Mick Karn ex-Japan bass).

perhaps moving this thread into Music for Pleasure..

bass brilliance --101 -- yay Wasim !

Too funky.

I never thought much of George Michael, DC, but you might be onto something there. Deon Estus is pretty underrated...

Love Buzz by Nirvana

AMAZING bass all the way through

off the top

Age Of Consent Crystal Vanishing Point

Have you checked out "YYZ" by Rush yet, Wasim? I do love the rhythm section of Gang of Four too. Worth checking out if you haven't already.

Please may I add the Mark O’Toole bassline, from Frankie Goes To Hollywood's cover of War (the fourth track on the Welcome To The Pleasure Dome album).

I decided to very, very loosely borrow the bassline melody for a reinterpretation of mine:

http://uk.geocities.com/empresstouch/newgolddream.htm

TPK Sunrise Crystal etc.

Marc wrote: Have you checked out "YYZ" by Rush yet, Wasim? I do love the rhythm section of Gang of Four too. Worth checking out if you haven't already.

Any one in particular? Not checked out Rush yet.

Currently learning America by Yes with my teacher. I'm compiling a folder on my mp3 player just called "Bass". Going to try to slowly get the tracks people have mentioned in this thread.

Wasim wrote:

Marc wrote: Have you checked out "YYZ" by Rush yet, Wasim? I do love the rhythm section of Gang of Four too. Worth checking out if you haven't already.

Any one in particular? Not checked out Rush yet.

Currently learning America by Yes with my teacher. I'm compiling a folder on my mp3 player just called "Bass". Going to try to slowly get the tracks people have mentioned in this thread.

I'm not a big fan of Rush but YYZ is a great instrumental track. Worth checking out. Yes are ok, but I need to hear more stuff.

Empress Touch wrote: Please may I add the Mark O’Toole bassline, from Frankie Goes To Hollywood's cover of War (the fourth track on the Welcome To The Pleasure Dome album).

I decided to very, very loosely borrow the bassline melody for a reinterpretation of mine:

http://uk.geocities.com/empresstouch/newgolddream.htm

Unless you've heard them play it live, all you have heard is a fairlight...no bass on the record I'm afraid. A shame cos O'toole is a funky fucker.

Steve Campbell wrote: A shame cos O'toole is a funky fucker.

Adding one myself

Mayor of Simpleton - XTC

mogwai - yes! i am a long way from home broken social scene - stars and sons tortoise - magnet pulls through yo la tengo - moby octopad

If that bassline on the Frankie Goes To Hollywood cover War was a fairlight, I'm guessing the superb bassline intro on The Murder Of Love (the second track from the immensely euphoric 1985 Propaganda album A Secret Wish) was something synthetic too.

But well worth noting.

The Sisters Of Mercy - Driven Like The Snow & Lucretia My Reflection

Goth-tastic, kiddies!

Snorri xxx

Empress Touch wrote: If that bassline on the Frankie Goes To Hollywood cover War was a fairlight, I'm guessing the superb bassline intro on The Murder Of Love (the second track from the immensely euphoric 1985 Propaganda album A Secret Wish) was something synthetic too.

But well worth noting.

Fraid so :( Probably the self same fairlight since twas the same production crew by and large.

Having heard both tracks live (war in the flesh and MOL on mp3), both Mark O'toole and Derek Forbes kicked the piss out of the synthetic versions. To be perfectly honest I cannot 100% say it's a fairlight, it COULD be a synclavier as well, but lesser samplers of the era like Emulators are unlikely. The bassline on propaganda's Frozen faces 12" that i mentioned still has me beffled, the actual sound is very synthetic, but thephrasing sounds impossible to achive on a keyboard.....it could be a roland synth bass but I doubt it.

The dead giveaway of any sample/synth bass sound (in the case of the slap bass we're talking about it is probaly a synthetically adjusted sample), is that every note has exactly the same attack, no real bass sounds like that, no two notes in a row are absolutely identical. I do not think there is ANY real bass on Pleasuredome...tho at the time I believed it all :D If you ever hear the original FGTH demo of Two tribes, you will har how good Mark really was....you know the little xylophone/vibe happy melody thing in the background when and after Holly sings "listen to the voice sing"?...that was originally played on the bass, and FUCKING GROOVY it was too.

Snorrimon wrote: The Sisters Of Mercy - Driven Like The Snow & Lucretia My Reflection

Goth-tastic, kiddies!

Snorri xxx

Don't forget Marian

Age of Consent! White Lines- Grandmaster Flash Another One Bites The Dust - Queen Hazel - Cocteau Twins Primary - The Cure Bassline - Mantronix

Christopher Owens wrote:

Snorrimon wrote: The Sisters Of Mercy - Driven Like The Snow & Lucretia My Reflection

Goth-tastic, kiddies!

Snorri xxx

Don't forget Marian

Or Possession.

Yep, Possession's already on there. Good song, vocals sound like a monster out of Scooby Doo ;)

rats by pearl jam

bass is ammmmmmmazing i love playing it

Campbell: 27/03/2006. 3:45:18AM. 'no real bass sounds like that, no two notes in a row are absolutely identical.' right.

Monty: 27/03/2006. 3:42:47 PM. the disclosure is that JD/ NO are exempt from this. .

New Model Army - lots of the early stuff, but especially My Country, Notice Me...

Snorri xxx

With or Without You - U2...simple but classic.