Greatest Bass Riffs

[sumdummonkey]

Queen - Another One Bites the Dust

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away

Devo - Satisfaction (Not the Stones version)

Primus - Tommy the Cat

Harry Nilsson - Jump Into The Fire (it was featured in the film Goodfellas)

[Tzar]

the god that failed - metallica

[sumdummonkey]

Led Zeppelin - Dazed And Confused (gotta love that angular thing John Paul Jones does in the bridge).

Yes - Does It Really Happen?

[Whatitis]

Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) - Cliff Burton

Low Rider - War

Almost everything Les does.

[abcdefz]

"You Can't Hurry Love" - The Supremes
"Don't Do It" - The Band (The Last Waltz version)
"Three Days" - Jane's Addiction
"Taxman" - The Beatles
"Dry the Rain" - The Beta Band
"The Maginificent Seven" - The Clash


...and it probably doesn't qualify as a "riff," but:
"The Real Me" - The Who

[n/c]

The Clash - LONDON CALLING & GUNS OF BRIXTON !!!!!111111111

[yeahwho]

All my bass belongs to my man James Jamerson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jamerson).

[mickill]

Rain/Paperback Writer - The Beatles
The Joker - Steve Miller
Good Times - Chic
A Message From The Meters - The Meters
Under My Thumb - The Stones
NIB - Sabbath

[yeahwho]

Rain/Paperback Writer - The Beatles

Paul was one hell of an amazing bass player for his time, those are great choices, I like his work on Sgt. Pepper, especially Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Mr. Kite. Sort of a Keith Moon on bass approach. He was in the same song, just had a different beat.

Fucking Stoner

[mickill]

Yeah, Come Together and Dear Prudence are further evidence of his originality/skill as a bass player. I think he sort of popularized melodic bass playing.

[Ally Al]

town called malice - the jam
the grunt pts 1 & 2 - the jb's
what so never the dance - the house guests

i forgot taxman by the beatles and fools gold by the stone roses, infact anything by the stone roses, mani is a fucking animal

[camo]

sorry for being unoriginal but my fave bassline to play is grattitude:D

[Drederick Tatum]

A Message From The Meters - The Meters


basically throw a dart at a list of Meters tracks and you've got a great bassline.


I think I made a thread a while back about how despite Paul Mcartney being a pussy, he was a great bass player. I always think of Old Brown Shoe when I think of his bass work. he just gets such a great sound.

[Ally Al]

the crunge - led zeppelin

[abcdefz]

"Take Out Some Insurance" - Jimmy Reed

[mickill]

basically throw a dart at a list of Meters tracks and you've got a great bassline.
Unless it's anything post Fire On The Bayou.

[Drederick Tatum]

well, that's a given really. it started immediately too, Trick Bag is fucking awful. Disco Is the Thing Today?!! fuck off.

[TurdBerglar]

ummm


hardroad - black sabbath

[TurdBerglar]

no shelter - ratm


espescially the short solo

[TurdBerglar]

the lemon song - led zeppelin

[TurdBerglar]

sober - tool

[TurdBerglar]

mexicola - qotsa

[TurdBerglar]

would? - alice in chains

[TurdBerglar]

down on the corner, i heard it trought he grapevine - ccr

[discopants]

Joy Division- Transmission

[Ally Al]

well, that's a given really. it started immediately too, Trick Bag is fucking awful. Disco Is the Thing Today?!! fuck off.


but dude, disco was the thing back then. I'll give you Trick Bag wasn't the best meters album but it was still good, plus the cover was top notch. Maybe you should put their decline down to touring with the stones :D

i'll also add entrow by grahma central station to this list, well anything that larry graham played on basically

[EastcoastJL]

Here's 4 of my favorite & somewhat obscure bass riffs:
"Little Green Bag"- the George Baker selection (opening track on the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack)
"Big Shot"- the English Beat (the last 20 seconds of the song where the guitar drops out & you just hear the bass riff is great)
"Bandages"- Crackerbash (watch the Seattle documentary Hype! and it's the first thing you hear. A cool little bass riff in Drop D)
"Buena"- Morphine (Mark Sandman created a lot of cool bass riffs with his 2-string slide bass. This is probably my favorite)

[saz]

fools gold-stone roses

[skra75]

Queen - Another One Bites the Dust

Harry Nilsson - Jump Into The Fire (it was featured in the film Goodfellas)

fuck yes.

I'd like to add 'Kool & the Gang - Hollywood Swinging' to this list.
and 'Chic - Good Times'. Solid gold

[skra75]

down on the corner, i heard it trought he grapevine - ccr

oh yes, those too.
Parliament - Flash Light

[Drederick Tatum]

I'll take Funkadelic-One Nation Under a Groove for 30 points.

[Drederick Tatum]

Sly and the Family Stone-Sing a Simple Song

you'd have to be an albino not to dig this.

[minorthreat]

Happy Mondays - Dennis & Lois

Parliament - Give Up the Funk

Stevie Wonder - Superstition (the part where it imitates the badass clarinets)

Jamiroquai - Dynamite, Alright, Deeper Underground etc.

[bassdriver]

FUGAZI - waiting room
NIRVANA - come as you are
LOU REED - walk on the wild side
BEASTIE BOYS - sabotage
RATM - bomb track

and almost every bassline that FLEA ever played......

[scotty]

Not necessarily the best, but the good ones I can remember right now:

Free Your Mind (and your ass will follow) - Funkedelic
Bug Powder Dust - Bomb the Bass
Lowrider - War
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
Groove Is In The Heart - Dee-lite
Sir Psycho Sexy - RHCP
Come Together - The Beatles
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin

[Bopadopalous]

The theme song to Knight Rider.

[TurdBerglar]

hey hey what can i do - led zepp

[TurdBerglar]

demon cleaner - kyuss

[ericlee]

Profits of Doom- Clutch
Dawn Patrol- Megadeth
DMV- Primus
Tom Sawyer- Rush
Orion- Metallica (almost all Cliff Burton days of Metallica songs)
one song from Tool 10,000 days, can't remember the name off hand.

[HOTWIFE]

Guns N Roses~Sweet Child o' Mine

[minorthreat]

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

you know you love it

[abcdefz]

"My City was Gone" - The Pretenders

[Guy Incognito]

Cannonball - The Breeders
I am the resurrection - Stone Roses
only one i know - charlatans

[EN[i]GMA]

Cavern by Liquid Liquid. I've probably said this 50 times, but it's true.

If it was good enough for Grandmaster Flash, it's good enough for me.

[TurdBerglar]

kindergarten - faith no more

[Shinmeiryuu]

Queen's "Dragon Attack" hand an excellent bass solo.


Even though I'm a bass player, my taste for basslines may not be very good.

[TurdBerglar]

maria - ratm

[Johnny Railroad]

u + ur hand - Pink (y)

[Johnny Railroad]

all the bass-stuff from Satanic Surfers rocks !

but the greatest its too difficult to find ....

[icy manipulator]

Jamiroquai - Dynamite, Alright, Deeper Underground etc.

(y) for sure

[TurdBerglar]

american life - primus

[Calimero jr.]

Tool - Schism
Primus - too much to choose from
Ride - Leave Them All Behind
Pixies - Tame

[Guy Incognito]

anything by the stone roses, mani is a fucking animal


(y)

Mani is a legend:
some of his stuff he did for primal scream is even better - exterminator is mani's finest hour

Hello, Al btw - not been on here for yonks. 1-0 haha

EDIT: First posts for months and was just reading this thread, replied to ally's post from ages ago not realising - then carried reading the thread to find that i had already posted my fave bass riffs last time i was here!

The Hello and the one nil still stands, Ally.

[BangkokB]

My Last Words
the end of Countess Bathory
Bytor vs Snowdog
Dirty Movies
Lost Due to Incompetence
Cheap Sunglasses
Eulogy
Badlands
Turn Me Loose
Revelations
Holiday in Cambodia
Bootzilla
Sweet Emotions
I Love the Dead
Emotions in Motion
Black w/ N.V. (No Vision)
Pusherman
Space Truckin
The Humpty Dance
If You Want Me to Stay
Typical American
Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me?)
Miss You
Disciples of the Watch
Kill on Command
Push Comes to Shove

[abcdefz]

I can't believe we missed

"The Magnificent Seven" - The Clash

[yeahwho]

This guy James Manning is no slouch on the Low Notes.

Here he is with Billy Preston (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UBBLTOUMZE&feature=player_embedded) getting funkaaaay on Outta Space!