Greatest Basslines of all time?

I'm making myself a compilation of songs featuring my favorite basslines.

Anyone have any personal favorites or suggestions of songs to include on my compilation?

Some selections:

White Jam - Captain Beefheart off of The Spotlight Kid. The opening bassline hooks me everytime. Not that great of a song as a whole but the first 1 minute is fantastic

Is This It - The Strokes. A more modern selection. One of the craftiest basslines I have ever heard.

Anyone else?

 

Live With Me - Stones

 

Roundabout- Yes
Something- Beatles
Starship Trooper- Yes

 

Renaissance Fair - Byrds/Chris Hillman
Woodstock - CSNY/Greg Reeves

 

Dogman- King's X
Astral Traveler- Yes
World Around Me- King's X
Martha My Dear- Beatles
Black Page- Frank Zappa
Tempest Fugit & Machine Messiah- Yes... Heck, the whole DRAMA album by Yes

 

"Baby You're A Rich Man" The Beatles
Deep and cool.

"The Ballad Of John & Yoko" The Beatles
Deep and cool.

Lots of Led Zeppelin tracks. John Paul Jones played the bass as if it were a lead guitar. Great bassist.

"Start Me Up" The Rolling Stones
One of my favorite Bill Wyman performances.

"Sloop John B" The Beach Boys
Carol Kaye with a pick...nice clicky sound. I love it!

"Massachusetts" The Bee Gees
I've always liked Maurice Gibb's lines in that song. Very nice.

"Stop Stop Stop" The Hollies
Simple and repetitive, but really nice. It drives the whole song.

"Sparks" The Who
Just about every line John Entwistle ever played was great, but this is one of my favorites.

"Reflections" The Supremes
There's tons and tons of great Motown lines, just one of my favorites. Pick your poison.

"Eight Miles High" The Byrds
Great stuff.

I could go on forever, but I'll stop here. I'm sure you'll get plenty.


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AC

(edited Carol Kaye's name for spelling twice...arghhh)

 

Bicycle Rider- Beach Boys (from Smile)

 

Some more Beatles:

- "Taxman"
- "I Saw Her Standing There" (try playing this one AND singing at the same time - if anyone dare needs proof of Macca's genius, that's it!)

Non-Beatles:

"The Real Me" - The Who (and pretty much any other John Entwistle bassline)

"She's Not There" - The Zombies

"Moondance" - Van Morrison (yeah, I know, it's just standard jazz stuff, but it fits PERFECTLY--then again, I suppose it's 'cause "Moondance" really isn't a rock song... it is jazz.)

"Reach Out (I'll Be There)" - The Four Tops

"Green Eyed Lady" - Sugarloaf

And then there was one other one which I thought of and then forgot two minutes later. Oh well. Somebody else'll probably post it and THEN I'll remember. I've got THE worst short term memory

 

Mr. Dieingly Sad-The Critters

 

Can't Help My Self (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)-Four Tops

 

Come See About Me-The Supremes

 

"The Other Side Of This Life" (Jefferson Airplane- "Bless Its Pointed Little Head")

Please Please Me; Hey Bulldog; I'm A Loser;

Sloop John B

Little Umbrellas (Zappa- Hot Rats)

Whipping Post

 

THE WHO - Magic Bus

 

I can't believe no one has mentioned "Good Times" by Chic yet! That bass riff created by the late bassist Dr. Bernard Edwards we the one Brian May borrowed from for Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust". Not only did Queen use it, but a small record label in Englewood, NJ used it for a new rap group. The historical song? "Rapper's Delight". If that wasn't enough, Wayne Vaughn used it in his disco/rollerskate classic "Skate, Rock Roll, Bounce". Want more? INXS used a variation of it for "Need You Tonight".

Another great bass line is the one on Rod Stewart's "Crazy About Her" played and produced by...Dr. Bernard Edwards!

Bassist Louis Johnson of The Brothers Johnson played some mean bass in their 1976 hit "Get The Funk Out Ma Face".

I always felt that Paul McCartney was way unnderrated as a bassist. He did outstanding work on "Paperback Writer"

The Staple Singer hit "I'll Take You There" had the groove IN THE POCKET! If there had been no lyrics, or anything else, that bass could been the whole thing and still grooved!

AWB's "Cut The Cake" also had a killer bass riff.

One more, for now, "Snapshot" by Slave. Steve Arrington's bass can't be beat there.

 

If you're into metal, Iron Maiden's "Phantom of the Opera" from their self-titled debut has some excellent basslines. The bass pretty much plays the root of whatever the guitarists are playing, but there's no denying that that main riff (the opening riff) is some excellent riffing indeed. Steve Harris = underrated genius

 

Oh, another one:

"The First Cut is the Deepest" as done by the Koobas features some more excellent bass riffery!

 

"Theme From Cleopatra" by Joe Simon

"Give It to Me Baby"-Rick James

"I Need Your Lovin"-Teena Marie

"Be Yourself"-Cameo

"Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah Yowsah)"-Chic

"Le Freak"-Chic

"We Are Family"-Sister Sledge

"You Can't Hurry Love"-Supremes

"My Girl"-The Temptations

"Express"-BT Express

 

Sunshine of Your Love - Cream/Jack Bruce

 

"Square Biz"-Teena Marie

"Lovergirl"-Teena Marie

"Dazz"-Brick

"Doin' It To Death"-Fred Wessley & The JBs

"Cold Sweat"-James Brown & The Famous Flames

"Stomp!"-The Brothers Johnson

 

Oh man! HOW could I forget? "Skin Tight" by Ohio Players!!!!

 

Human Hands - Elvis Costello (played by Bruce Thomas)
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye (played by the late James Jamerson)
I Wish - Stevie Wonder (played by Nathan Watts)
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam (played by Bruce Foxton)
My Sharona - The Knack (who played that thing???)

Many more out there, of course...

Chris

 

Almost four in the morning so I can only think of:

"Jump into the Fire" by Harry Nilsson
Pretty sure it was Herbie Flowers. Monster bass player

Ooh! One more! The live version of "Plastic Fantastic Lover"
on Jefferson Airplane's "Bless It's Little Pointed Head"
Jack Casady of course.

Last one (It's SO late but I just watched BladeII and I'm still a little too freaked out to crash):
"Machine Gun" Hendrix Band of Gypsys album. Billy Cox


OK. This really is the last one:
"One of These Days..." Pink Floyd. Waters

I'm out
Peace
Norm

 

Oh man! How could I forget:

Real Me by the Who from Quadrophenia
Ox

Hope there's no vampires in the bedroom
Special Effects in Blade II were awesome (yikes! Visual Arts post in the Music thread )

Beyond sleepy
Norm
zzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

Jump Into the Fire by Nilsson

I'm a Man...Chicago's version from the first album

Tied to the Whipping Post by The Allman Brothers