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Greatest bass lines in popular music



Brighton TID

New member
Jul 24, 2005
1,741
Horsham
Just listened to U2's Bad with top quality headphones. The bass line is just sublime; minimalistic and perfect. Adam Clayton (not that one!) takes complete ownership of the song.
 












KZNSeagull

Well-known member
Nov 26, 2007
19,691
Wolsingham, County Durham
Goodbye Toulouse - Stranglers
Dreams Never End or Procession - New Order
Primitive - Killing Joke
Or, as Royal Blood play everything on a bass, anything by them!
Plus loads of others too numerous to mention.
 












Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
31,724
Brighton
Just listened to U2's Bad with top quality headphones. The bass line is just sublime; minimalistic and perfect. Adam Clayton (not that one!) takes complete ownership of the song.

Underrated bassist.

The bassline in Lemon is gloriously dubby:

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Also pretty much everything by Carlos D on Interpol's first (Turn On The Bright Lights) and second (Antics) albums.
 








Buzzer

Languidly Clinical
Oct 1, 2006
26,121
and big mention to the original drum and bass outfit, Sly and Robbie. Robbie Shakespeare's bass in Grace Jones' Compass Point Sessions version of Love is the Drug is a thing of beauty.
 








Surf's Up

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Jul 17, 2011
10,147
Here
Turn the volume up and listen to the bass line in "Go Deep" by Janet Jackson
 


Surf's Up

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Jul 17, 2011
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The base lines in the Kamakiriad album by Donald Fagan are also a bit special as are those in Jack Bruce's "Songs for a Tailor" album.
 






JCL666

absurdism
Sep 23, 2011
2,190
WTF?

Obvs it has to ....



 



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