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10-09-2001, 06:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: The Dark Side Of the Moon | | | Songs with Bass as main instrument
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Hey Guys,
What good songs can you think that have the bass as the dominant or lead instrument? Heres a couple:
Come Together - Beatles
Money - Pink Floyd
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Stand By Me - Ben E King, various
What else?
Jim |
10-09-2001, 06:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: glasgow | | | hey lizard king, how about great bass intros, all the best debut albums start with em, the doors, bleach, rage against the machine...?? more bass is needed, by the way.. can you do anyhting? |
10-09-2001, 06:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Sweden | | | Ben Harper - Fight for your mind (live)
Victor Bailey - Kid Logic
Victor Wooten - Overjoyed
...and surely at least a hundred more...
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10-09-2001, 07:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: In my basement under a bare bulb writing angry letters to the man somewhere in Canada | | | Schism by Tool
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10-09-2001, 07:29 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Melnibone | | | Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk |
10-09-2001, 07:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Richmond, VA | | | Pretty much every song ever written by The Descendents
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10-09-2001, 09:46 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Oslo, Norway | | | 'Dazed and confused' - Led Zeppelin
'Peaches' - The Stranglers
'Fashion' - Bowie
'Diamonds on my windshield' - Tom Waits |
10-09-2001, 09:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pleasanton, CA | | | "Naveed" by Our Lady Peace |
10-09-2001, 05:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Mantua NJ, US | | | everysong by the Supertones
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10-09-2001, 06:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Overland Park, Kansas | | | Dave Matthews Band - Crush
Pink Floyd - Money
Led Zeppelin - Lemon Song (I don't know about main instrument, but it's powerful in this song) |
10-09-2001, 06:20 PM
|  | Workin' hard at hardly workin'. Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Appleton, Swissconsin | | | "Big Bottom" by Spinal Tap is one that pops right into my head. Also, GWAR's "Sick of You."
EDIT: Any song by Type O Negative. |
10-09-2001, 06:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Overland Park, Kansas | | Wow, Hategear mentioned GWAR?! I didn't see that one coming!  |
10-09-2001, 08:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Chapel Hill, NC | | A Lot of my band's songs 
-KB |
10-09-2001, 09:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Los Angeles | | | Any song by Green Day or AFI
Van Morison - Brown Eyed Girl |
10-09-2001, 11:16 PM
| | Workin' hard at hardly workin'. Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Appleton, Swissconsin | | Quote: Originally posted by Bassline1414
Wow, Hategear mentioned GWAR?! I didn't see that one coming! | It surprised me too! |
10-10-2001, 01:03 AM
| | formerly James Hetfield | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Melbourne, Australia. | | | Crash Corse In Brain Surgery By Metallica
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Re-invented for the 5th time over.
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10-10-2001, 01:09 AM
| | Workin' hard at hardly workin'. Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Appleton, Swissconsin | | Or "Crash Course in Brain Surgery" by Budgie.
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10-10-2001, 04:24 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | | "24 Hours" - Joy Division
"Blue Monday"- New Order
"Sons of Pioneers" - Japan
"Permafrost" - Magazine
"School Days" - Stanley Clarke
"Word Up" - Cameo
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10-10-2001, 06:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Columbus, OH | | "Bang on the Drum All Day" - Todd Rundgren
"Rock On" - David Essex
"The Fish" - Chris Squire
"William Tell Overture" - Manowar
"Knock on Wood" - the original
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10-10-2001, 06:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin | | | Sorry but Schism suxors. I've been playing 3 years and I could come up with some that changes around more. I mean it'd be a great intro, but not repeating throughout the whole song. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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