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DuploLicksDuploLicks Frets: 273
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Listening to Jagged Little Pill & the bass on You Oughta Know kicks. Funky and stands out well in the mix despite it being a busy track. The whole album is worth a listen, I was surprised after not listening to it for 20 years. 

Any other (commercial) songs where the bass is having a blast & you can lock onto it?
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  • OffsetOffset Frets: 13888
    Pretty much anything Mick Karn played on, but I'll go with I Second That Emotion for the purposes of this thread.
    Currently for sale: https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/247085/pro-ject-essential-ii-turntable
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 15374
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    In a classic rock blues format then Free - Mr Big - Live version even better and remember they were still kids when they wrote/recorded/played these songs

    Chic/Bernard Edwards 

    The Who - Can you see the real me

    There of course 1000's of great tracks but those 3 will do for now
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  • lustycourtierlustycourtier Frets: 3499
    You Oughta Know is flea on bass (and Dave Navarro)
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  • stratman3142stratman3142 Frets: 2247
    guitars4you said:

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    Chic/Bernard Edwards 

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    Yes anything by Bernard Edwards.

    I've been getting into bass again and learning some of his basslines, which are incredible. WTF is going on with 'Everybody Dance', he seems to have come up with a whole new way of playing the bass to do that one :), by strumming with his first finger. I'm starting to wear the skin off my first finger.

    It's not a competition.
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  • LionAquaLooperLionAquaLooper Frets: 1687
    Everything on Crash Test Dummies' album "God Shuffled His Feet".  Dan Roberts is extremely underrated.  
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  • hollywoodroxhollywoodrox Frets: 4626
    Duran Duran - John Taylor
      hit me with your rhythm stick 
      Paul Young  hit songs with Pino Palladino 
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 15374
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    hollywoodrox said:
    Duran Duran - John Taylor
      hit me with your rhythm stick 
      Paul Young  hit songs with Pino Palladino 
    top marks for those but even more so for Ian Dury
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  • CaseOfAceCaseOfAce Frets: 1551
    DuploLicks said:
    Listening to Jagged Little Pill & the bass on You Oughta Know kicks. Funky and stands out well in the mix despite it being a busy track. The whole album is worth a listen, I was surprised after not listening to it for 20 years. 

    Any other (commercial) songs where the bass is having a blast & you can lock onto it?
    Flea played on that song?

    and in answer to the question - Gene Simmons' bass work on early Kiss.
    ...she's got Dickie Davies eyes...
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  • RockerRocker Frets: 5104
    Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol).
    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. [Albert Einstein]

    Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

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  • bobaccobobacco Frets: 574
    edited December 2023
    Kajagoogoo - Too Shy. Nick Beggs is a fantastic musician. 

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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16654
    Maybe not 'lock on' but the delayed bass (Herbie Flowers?) on Rock On by David Essex still seems surprising on a number one hit. 1973 and it prefigures dub reggae. 
    Klaus Voorman's faux flamenco bass on the intro to Carly Simon's You're So Vain is another surprise (not least that I didn't even realise it was bass for thirty years). 
    Maybe Too Shy by Kajagoogoo with Nick Beggs' funky bass. 

    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • stratman3142stratman3142 Frets: 2247
    Bruce Thomas on Pump It Up (Elvis Costello). Another one I've enjoyed learning recently.

    It's not a competition.
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16654
    bobacco said:
    Kajagoogoo - Too Shy. Nick Beggs is a fantastic musician. 
    EricTheWeary said:
    Maybe not 'lock on' but the delayed bass (Herbie Flowers?) on Rock On by David Essex still seems surprising on a number one hit. 1973 and it prefigures dub reggae. 
    Klaus Voorman's faux flamenco bass on the intro to Carly Simon's You're So Vain is another surprise (not least that I didn't even realise it was bass for thirty years). 
    Maybe Too Shy by Kajagoogoo with Nick Beggs' funky bass. 

    Ooh snap! 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • bobaccobobacco Frets: 574
    EricTheWeary said:
    bobacco said:
    Kajagoogoo - Too Shy. Nick Beggs is a fantastic musician. 
    EricTheWeary said:
    Maybe not 'lock on' but the delayed bass (Herbie Flowers?) on Rock On by David Essex still seems surprising on a number one hit. 1973 and it prefigures dub reggae. 
    Klaus Voorman's faux flamenco bass on the intro to Carly Simon's You're So Vain is another surprise (not least that I didn't even realise it was bass for thirty years). 
    Maybe Too Shy by Kajagoogoo with Nick Beggs' funky bass. 

    Ooh snap! 
    Your others were great shouts, too. But that Too Shy bass line is a beast!

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  • rustneversleepsrustneversleeps Frets: 210
    Walk on the wild side.
    Lou Reed.
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  • DuploLicksDuploLicks Frets: 273
    lustycourtier said:
    You Oughta Know is flea on bass (and Dave Navarro)
    That might explain it. Will have to see if he’s on any other tracks. 

    Top suggestions so far. Thanks!
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  • DuploLicksDuploLicks Frets: 273
    hollywoodrox said:
    Duran Duran - John Taylor
      hit me with your rhythm stick 
      Paul Young  hit songs with Pino Palladino 
    I recognise the name Pino from the live John Mayer album. Will need to go back to that one too
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  • GJK1959GJK1959 Frets: 58
    Macca on If I Needed Someone 
    Bill Wyman on Miss You

    previously 'retsacotarts' on music radar forum
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16654
    GJK1959 said:
    Macca on If I Needed Someone 
    Bill Wyman on Miss You

     I only realised the other day that Bill was either the first or one of the first fretless bassists. So it is on tracks like I'm a King Bee from 1964. He's seen as the fuddy duddy uninteresting guy up a corner but he did some interesting things. 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • SporkySporky Frets: 30114
    Most of Curve's output - really growly, often fretless.


    "[Sporky] brings a certain vibe and dignity to the forum."
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