Best Hooky Bassline?

MTO wrote: Put the pipe down guys, the best Hooky bassline is 3 minutes into 'Round & Round' (Extended Version) where Hooky goes off, just him and the drum machine.

I guess on this website there are 2 distinct factions: the ones that prefer the dance songs and the ones that prefer the rock songs.

Er, not really

What's this extended version you speak of, and where can it be found?

Someone else (or two) said "Waiting for the Sirens' Call" and the end of "Bizarre Love Triangle," and I have to agree.

Also, "Temptation"'s is rather simple and not show-off-y, but I find it really catchy.

And then there's "Junk" by Monaco--that central melody Hook plays is great and well-timed, as is his big far-upper-end-of-the-bass finale.

In Temptation '87, the bass riff for the bridge harmonizes really well with the guitar.

It's the regular 6:50 extended version of Round & Round. It's on the CD Single and 12", man.

It has a great groove.

Thanks, found it

Just listening to that Extended R&R. I've always felt the bass in the Technique version is buried far too low in the mix. Cheers MTO.

Spooky!! Argh that track's got the best everything ever! Hooky's bass is super as always.

As someone else said, the simplest ones are best.

The intro to EGG where the bass chimes repeatedly like a sinister church bell

The Village - Hooky par-excellence

The outro to Blue Monday

Temptation - simple but sublime

Touched by the Hand of God

MTO wrote: Put the pipe down guys, the best Hooky bass line is 3 minutes into 'Round & Round' (Extended Version) where Hooky goes off, just him and the drum machine.

Oh yes, I would go on to say that this is the outstanding bit of Hooky brilliance from start to finish on 'Round And Round' whatever the mix.

My all time favourite has to be from 'Turn' (Album Version , not the one on 'Singles') (3:24 - 3:55)

Honourable mentions to TPK and Crystal

She's Lost Control in my opinion.

Sweet Lips is unlike any of Hooky's other basslines and sounds nice and funky

No mention of Let's Go until now?, if you have a video or an audio of the Leuven 85 gig, give it a listen.

Has to be either Transmission or Ceremony

AgentWood wrote: the end of BLT (brotherhood) she's lost control let's go ceremony

Nobody had, Pete! Besides 006 that is.

sorry i realised i made a big mistake on the initial post i meant the Magimix of Spooky

of course,Leave me alone varied from Love Vigilantes and vice versa. oh,righty ho get ya.On all my bootlegs,the Love Vigilantes bassline seems higher in the mix than the Low Life cut where the melodica covers the genius. I only meant LV live,not LMA.

If he's on it,then it's fuckin'brilliant,wotever it is.There's quite simply nothing else that sounds like it,& I mean the 'SOUND'! Someone wrote in an article a long time ago,'when it comes in'it's like a light aeroplane crashing into your front room'.& if the end of '1963' doesn't send you into orbit,then you're dead.But,because there is absolutely nothing else as original & it always gets me 'up',it has to be 'Age of Consent'.I thank you.....

oldmonkey wrote:

AgentWood wrote: the end of BLT (brotherhood) she's lost control let's go ceremony

Nobody had, Pete! Besides 006 that is.

whoops!

I have to agree all of her suggestions as well

And also Too Late

I like the bass lines in Love Less and Turn my way.. really sad and melancholic.. but oh so good.