Most astonishing deep bass impact on your rock records???

Burning Spear Garveys Ghost a dub of Marcus Garvey LP its the sound of Jamiacan surf music & bass is spectacular (1976)

 

U2 "Achtung Baby".

Coincidentally I only played this last night to hear it again on my current gear but also for the first time in almost 20 years. The bass on "The Fly" literally blew my mind through headphones. My fixed smile throughout became a laugh out loud moment here and there when I literally couldn't believe how freaking awesome the bottom end of the album is (the slashing guitar ain't too shabby either). It always sounded really good but now the 1991 CD sounds like almost reference material on my current setup.

 

Jaco Pastorius' amazing fretless bass on Hejira ought to be mentioned too.

 

The bass on Daddys Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car on the Zooropa vinyl reissue.

 

Mr Jon Camp's sublime bass work at the best (imo) Renaissance's song..

 

Al Stewart's Roads To Moscow (1973 UK, 1974 US) is all acoustic guitar and voice except for three electric bass guitar notes that come in two or three times in the song. Mixed up pretty loud and incredibly deep and ominous and that third, lowest note is, I think, the lowest bass note I have in any of the recordings in my collection.

A strong runner-up that instantly comes to my mind is the throbbing bass notes you hear in the outro from A Dream Within A Dream and intro into The Raven on Alan Parson Project's Tales Of Mystery And Imagination from 1976.

Another is the deep throb you hear on The Flamin' Groovies cover of Chuck Berry's Don't Lie To Me, off their 1976 Shake Some Action LP.

 

Lovely indeed - but "astonishing DEEP bass" ?

 

First song for me was U2 - With or Without You

 

Until a few months ago, I had an Oppo 93 , which was wonderful. But I since purchased an Oppo 203, and I'm amazed how much bass this new machine is pulling out of recordings I knew inside out. One of the most pleasurable experinces was re-listening to favorites off of Rhino's early 1990s CD series "Have a Nice Day". And a big shock was the amount of bass on Jeff Beck's "Truth", especially "Ol' Man River", with bass by Beck himself

 

True story- the bass notes at the end of "Don't Give Up" actually killed one of my Pioneer speakers back in 1986 !

 

There’s a couple of massive tom hits shortly after the line “I, I don’t mind.....”. In ‘Take me Home”
On Phil Collins ‘Serious Hits...Live!’ LP that always make me jump if it’s up loud enough!

White Stripes - Icky Thump
Mad Season - S/T
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin II (RL)
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
David Bowie - Blackstar
Nirvana - In Utero (2013 Remix)

All have some (very) consistent, low end slam going on.

 

Excellent work fella!

 

Elton John’s Your Song album has really deep bass on some cuts .

 

Yes. I’ve killed speakers with that one.

 

Massive Attack Mezzanine

First track is a perfect test for bass coherence in your room.

 

Carol Kaye plays bass in "Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walkin' " :

 

Everything by Morphine!

Radar!

 

Along with "Swing It Low", "The Night", "Bo's Veranda", "Empty Box", "Shadow (pts 1 & 2)" and tons of others. What a band they were.

 

Eloy: Mutiny

Great bass on this one too!

 

Anything played on a bass guitar is NOT DEEP BASS.

 

WHEN GIRLS GET TOGETHER from the Beach Boys' early 80's LP entitled KEEPIN' THE SUMMER ALIVE is crazy low. This one will work your woofer. Not sure what the instrument is, but it produces a very low frequency. I listen with flat tone controls, and it's still monstrous.

 

Crying,from the álbum Okie,by JJ Cale.

 

She played the opening bass riff for glen campbell’s Wichita Lineman.