Best ever basslines?

grappagreen

Babooshka - Kate Bush..

fob

Lodious

Bug Powder Dust - Bomb the Bass (Doug Wimbish)

Walking on the Moon 

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

A Joyful Process - Funkadelic 

I actually really like Noel Redding’s bass playing too

fob

Might get lolled but I always enjoyed playing Girl Afraid by the Smiths:

fob

And how has this not been mentioned?

Gchip

Hercules by Aaron Neville. 

It’s the absolute dog’s. 

Bass played (I think) by George Porter Jr of the Meters. 

guitars4you

fob said:

And how has this not been mentioned?

some great stuff on that album, but also on many SW tracks -  watch some life clips and you see a great drummer/bass player laying down a mean groove

Freebird

Less is more ...

Pablo

From one extreme to another.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPwMdZOlPo8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW_YwJNcZyY

vanlooy1

Love Cats - The Cure
Jungle Boogie - Kool and the Gang

fob

JanekLubanski

Christmas Wrapping.....The Waitresses

wellsyboy

poopot said:

Jesus you lot...

get some parliament in your life!!!!

Amen to that!!!!!

axisus

Neill said:

I don't know about "best ever" but my favourite bass line of all time is the backing on Randy Crawford's "You Might Need Somebody" by Abraham Laboriel.  You may not have heard of this guy but I promise you that you have heard him...

Superb bassist, I have many records with him on. 

thegummy

JanekLubanski said:

Christmas Wrapping.....The Waitresses

Nice!

musteatbrain

Surely we can’t be missing Disco Inferno?

JezWynd

HAL9000 said:

TonyR said:

Down in a Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam (Bruce Foxton)

Also has the greatest rhyming couplet this side of Ian Dury...

They smelt of pubs
And Wormwood Scrubs

and too many right wing meetings

Moleman

Martin Turner’s incredibly melodic and driving bass lines in Sometime World from the Argus album by Wishbone Ash. Crazily underrated and unmentioned bass player, lead vocalist and songwriter. So many great bass lines in the early WA albums, and they were really young guys at the time (like Andy Fraser and Free were).

rze99

Down in the Tube Station at Midnight. 

jdgm

Anthony Jackson with Steve Khan's Eyewitness ("Blades", "Guy Lafleur", "Where's Mumphrey"), with Al DiMeola ("Elegant Gypsy", "Casino", "Godbird Change") or just about anybody.

Weather Report's  "Cucumber Slumber" by Alphonso Johnson is a classic bassline.

Marcus Miller - already mentioned - another one of his best is "Fat Time" by Miles Davis.