Songs With Great (Good) Bass Lines

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What are the songs you feel have great (or just good) bass lines? Here’s my list (in no particular order):

  1. I Wish/Stevie Wonder
  2. Wait For Love/Luther Vandross
  3. Your Secret Love/Luther Vandross
  4. Fallin’/Switch
  5. Give It To Me Baby/Rick James
  6. Super Freak/Rick James
  7. Mary Jane/Rick James
  8. Gorgy Porgy/Toto
  9. Pamela/Toto
  10. Broken Wings/Mr. Mister
  11. Close To You/Maxi Priest
  12. Dreamin’/Christopher Williams
  13. New Jack City/Guy
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How do you write bass lines?
SERIOUS: Do you like jazz?
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#3

Kano - I’m Ready
Massive Attack - Black Milk
Joy Division - No Love Lost
Loefah - Horror Show
Bloc Party - Luno
Hanadensha - Sun / Sex
Bongwater - Obscene & Pornographic Art
United States of America - Hard Coming Love
LiD (aka the MK Ultra Experiment) - Free Energy
Aphex Twin - XMD5A
Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Flying Mountain
Aretha Franklin - Baby I Love You
120 Days - Sedated Times
Com Truise - I Dream for You
Prince Far I - Homeward Bound
Black Sabbath - A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning
Ohm - At Giza

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#5

Queen/Bowie - Under Pressure

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#6

Bloody hell.
Anyway,

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#8

Every generic downtempo/psybient track ever.

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(EDIT: Under Me Sleng Ten - YouTube just spotted @Fin25 already dropped Sleng Teng.)

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#12

No particular order off top of my head

  1. Hip Hop Be Bop - Man Parrish
  2. Gwen McRae - All this love I’m giving
  3. Model 500 - No UFOs
  4. Charles B - The lack of love
  5. Dennis Edwards - Don’t look any further
  6. EWF - Boogie Wonderland
  7. MJ - Thriller
  8. PSB - West End girls
  9. Bob Marley - Jammin
  10. Harry J Allstars - Liquidator

Plus tons I can’t think of (no coffee yet) plus most of those listed already!

A bit of a sucker for 80’s jazz/funk/soul stuff like Loose Ends, Shalamar, BB&Q band, Joyce Sims etc too.

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#13

This has two great basslines:

It takes about an hour to come in, but it’s worth waiting:

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#14

So many. Few of my favorites

Beatles - I want you
Radiohead - 15 step
Led Zeppelin - Ramble on
Cream - Badge
NIN - La mer
Air - La Femme D‘argent

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Finger style bonanza

No list would be complete without some Pino

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#16

1.Groove is in the heart - Deelite
2.Fools Gold - Stone Roses
3.Five - Lamb
4.Le femme de argent - Air
5.Royksopp forever - Royksopp
6.Gratitude - Beastie Boys
7.Add it up - Violent Fems
8. Johnny kick a hole in the sky - Red hot chilli peppers

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#17

Staple Singers - I’ll Take You There

Can’t beat Motown for simple yet tasty basslines.

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