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12-21-2005, 01:26 PM
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I have been on an 80's kick the past few days and have been listening to some killer bass lines. One of my fav's is The Fixx "One Thing Leads To Another". Anybody have a favorite 80's tune to play? Sting had some great basslines too, like "Spirits in the Material World".
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12-21-2005, 02:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Finland | | Utopia's "Utopia" (1982) is full of great lines and playing by Kasim Sulton. Punchy bass sound too. Other Rundgren -produced albums from that era like Cheap Trick's "Next Position Please" and Psychedelic Furs' "Forever Now" had a similar bass tone so maybe it's not down to Kasim but still.  |
12-21-2005, 02:57 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: So. Calif. | | | The Buggles "Video Killed The Radio Star", Trevor Horn (I think) plays a great, growly, fretless line and it's mixed WAY up front...Very Cool.
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12-21-2005, 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by ThumbyAche I have been on an 80's kick the past few days and have been listening to some killer bass lines. One of my fav's is The Fixx "One Thing Leads To Another". | "Saved By Zero" & "Stand Or Fall" are other 'fun' tunes by The Fixx.
Other '80s tunes I liked playing-
"Promises, Promises"- Naked Eyes
"Rio" & "Save A Prayer"- Duran Duran
"Give"- Missing Persons
"I Feel For You"- Chaka Khan (mostly synth...translates well onto EB). Quote: |
Originally Posted by ThumbyAche Sting had some great basslines too, like "Spirits in the Material World". | ...and "Bombs Away" & "Canary In A Coal Mine".
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12-21-2005, 03:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Germany | | | When I saw this thread, Talk Talk's "It's my life" came to my mind, the bass line is amazingly catchy. |
12-21-2005, 06:27 PM
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Rocket from a Bottle - XTC |
12-26-2005, 06:08 PM
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- "Things Can Only Get Better" by Howard Jones
- "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" by ?
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12-26-2005, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom7 "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" by ? | Spin Doctors.
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12-26-2005, 11:54 PM
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12-26-2005, 11:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Olympia, WA | | | talk talk is super amazing. concept albums to the max |
12-27-2005, 12:47 AM
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+1 Too Shy
+1 Girls On Film
You guys beat me to it.
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12-27-2005, 07:28 AM
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I've been jamming to Dio's Holy Diver lately.
"Rainbow in the Dark" kicks ass! |
12-27-2005, 07:43 AM
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Fun to play and sing lead. |
12-28-2005, 04:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Finland | | | Andy Rourke played some interesting lines with The Smiths, for example in
"This Charming Man"
"The Headmaster Ritual"
"The Queen is Dead"
Other similar (at least to me) pick player is REM's Mike Mills. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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