Songs with great bass lines

[BOZ]

i'm talking about rock/pop music, and bass guitars (or uprights, for that matter!)

you know, something with a memorable beat. something that's going to get you to play "air bass" when you hear it instead of just air guitar or air drums.

a few off the top of my head from some of my favorite bands:

Led Zeppelin - How Many More Times
Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
Pink Floyd - One of These Days (I'm Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces)

 

[IronWolf]

Easy!

(Anesthesia)-Pulling Teeth - Cliff Burton of Metallica bass solo on the Kill 'Em All album.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Gratitude by The Beastie Boys

 

[trancejeremy]

Hotel California from the Eagles. That would be the number 1 song, I'd think. A roommate in college blew out the subwoofer in his car playing that.

One Slip from Pink Floyd is probably my favorite, though it's also just one of my favorite songs.


I would say most Who and Led Zeppelin songs, really. Queen, too. And Ned's Atomic Dustbin, simply because they had 2 bass players.

Ramble On in particular from Led Zep...Won't Get Fooled Again by the Who...A Kind of Magic from Queen

Crossroads from Cream is also notable.

A lot of Faith No More's stuff. Epic, Falling to Pieces, We Care a Lot, etc

Greg Kihn - Jeopardy

The Theme from Starsky & Hutch

King of Pain from the Police

Cherub Rock from Smashing Pumpkins

Time Stand Still and Red Barchetta by Rush

Wild Cherry - Play that Funky Music

Gloria Gaynor - Love is a just a heartbeat away


Oh yeah, most of the songs off of U2's Joshua Tree album are great, bass wise.


(Anyway, I wanted to be a bass player myself. But I really really had no talent for it, so I took up DJing instead. Which is both easier and something I can do halfway decent).

 

[GlassJaw]

Any Motown with James Jamerson on bass. All modern bass players owe it to themselves to study the works of Mr Jamerson.

Being a bass player myself, I can get pretty heated on this topic so I won't debate any of the previous choices.

 

[thompgc]

Coverdale Page

Shake My Tree​

Whisper a Prayer for the Dying​

Rush

Leave That Thing Alone​

La Villa Strangiato​

Animate​

YYZ​

Driven​

Primus

My Name is Mud​

 

[Teflon Billy]

Groove is in the Heart by Deee Lite.

 

[RandomPrecision]

The Who - Eminence Front

Edit: For that matter, any Who song after seeing Entwhistle play. He probably played the bass faster that many guitar players play the guitar.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Yes Into the heart of the sunrise; SoundChaser, others...
RHCP Aeroplane
Pink Floyd Money; One of these Days
Ginger Baker Trio Al Amut
Retarded Elf Thelonius Punk
The entirety of Kyuss' "Welcome to Sky Valley"

er...let me do this the easy way.:

most of the songs with either a solo or primarily driven by Bootsy Collins, T.M. Stevens, Les Claypool, Doug Wimbish, Flea, Bill Laswell, Geddy Lee, Billy Sheehan, Jonas Hellborg, and of course, Jaco Pastorius.

And a second vote for The Who's Eminence Front.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Primus

My Name is Mud​

Goddamn yes! Anything by Primus. What a bass guitarist.