espsummer
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top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 13, 2014, 08:15
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i could not get "another one bites the dust" out of my head in the last hour and checked the unsung forum to see a post about the best bass players of all time. I remember one day a co-worker telling me that he had just read this pretty exhaustive survey about the "best bass lines of all time" and Another One Bites the Dust was number one. We had a good laugh about that. I'm not a Queen fan myself, we just thought it was funny. Nevertheless it is perhaps one of the most memorable bass lines of all time. And so i address this to the forum. I'm not even gonna list any but i would think New Order would score well in this department.
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konaman
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Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 13, 2014, 08:22
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Chic Good Times
Beatles Come Together
for starters....
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IanB
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Edited Feb 13, 2014, 16:47
Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 13, 2014, 08:43
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Sucker for a melodic line and some subtle under-pinning ...
Fingerprint File
Love To Love You Baby
Baby I Love You So / King Tubby Meets Rockers Up Town
The Man In Me
plus
The Real Me or maybe Mr Big to represent the balls-out rock side of things
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caldervalium
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Edited Feb 13, 2014, 09:10
Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 13, 2014, 09:01
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I'm going through a kinda minimalist phase at the mo, so I noninate
Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Can - Mother Sky
Wire - Drill
King Crimson - Formentara Lady
and one 'busy' one
Bogshed - Slave Girls
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hallgeraet
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Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 13, 2014, 09:06
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Can - You doo right
Can - Halleluwah
David Essex - Rock on
love the slight bendings and the echo effect
Lou Reed - Walk on the wild side
catchy as hell and unforgettable
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caldervalium
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Edited Feb 13, 2014, 09:10
Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 13, 2014, 09:09
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I suspect Holger's work with Can may get quite a few mentions in this thread, even though 'plonks' might be a better description (and no, that is not a criticism).
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hallgeraet
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Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 13, 2014, 09:25
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Holger's plonk sound is great, reminds me a bit of the Meters' bass player.
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stray
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Edited Feb 13, 2014, 10:09
Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 13, 2014, 10:08
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'Twist and Crawl' - The Beat.
'Poptones' - PiL.
'Vengeance' - New Model Army.
'Headphonics 1/0' - Ryoji Ikeda.
'Fahren' - Pole.
Deliberately plucked the least obvious but really special bass lines from my head. I could probably list a good dozen dub related ones alone that could arguably be 'best'.
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grufty jim
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Edited Feb 13, 2014, 13:44
Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 13, 2014, 13:41
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Too many to mention, but Psycho Killer by Talking Heads is always the first one that jumps to mind when I think about classic bass lines.
EDIT: And while I'm on the subject of Talking Heads, the bass on Once In A Lifetime is pretty special too. In fact, Tina Weymouth is responsible for some truly classic bass lines.
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Moon Cat
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Edited Feb 13, 2014, 13:54
Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 13, 2014, 13:53
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Aerosmith - Intro and bits of "Sweet Emotion"
Sisters of Mercy - "Lucretia My Reflection" for wide-screen goth power
Intro to "Little Green Bag" (Resevoir Dogs choon)
The Smiths - "Barbarism Begins at Home" Andy Rourke should've got a credit on that song!
Lou Reed - "Walk on the Wild Side" Obvious maybe, but you know...
Prob think of more later and change me mind later!
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