What's your favorite "the bass playing on this album is awesome" album?

[Redhotbassist]

Without a doubt Erykah Badu's live album! Hubert Eaves IV! complimented by Poogie Bell on drum's. any bass player that thrives on hearing that tight pocket groove should give this album a listen.. every note that guy play's is just pure perfection!!

[Refeco]

Hicaz Dolap by Laco Tayfa. You should listen Nurhat Sensesli at electric bass.... He is the best.

[Steamtronic]

Originally Posted by Redhotbassist

Without a doubt Erykah Badu's live album! Hubert Eaves IV! complimented by Poogie Bell on drum's. any bass player that thrives on hearing that tight pocket groove should give this album a listen.. every note that guy play's is just pure perfection!!

Just listened to her for the first time........so much win........on so many levels.........I'm in love.......

Thank you for posting that!!!!

[wildrice]

Originally Posted by Joe Nerve

There are lots, but 2 that get little to no credit for me are:

Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
Sublime - Sublime

Not quite Blue Mask, but listening for the first time to Fernando Saunders on New Sensations (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxn_B_2XWMs) playing on the radio through POS speakers in a friend's POS AMC Gremlin, was my "Do you see the light?!" moment in terms of picking up the bass...

[Silver Blues]

I'm sure this has been said already but I'm listening to it now... but BSSM. Fantastic stuff on that album. Apache Rose Peacock is one of the coolest mellow-funky grooves I've ever heard.

--Silvie

[FloatingHogs]

OF course, any Rush album.
Sailing the Seas of Cheese from Primus. (Les Claypool is undoubtedly the best slap bass player ever)
Resident Alien by Spacehog
Dark Side of the Moon from Pink Floyd
Nevermind by Nirvana had some pretty good lines too, and Dookie by Greenday.

[JumboJack]

Berlin "Count Three and Pray"..

[bassman31783]

D'Angelo - Voodoo (Doesn't get much better then Pino's work on Untitled (How Does It Feel) So much feeling)
Chaka Khan - Funk This
James Taylor - Live (love me some Jimmy Johnson)
Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Steely Dan - Aja
Tommy Sims - Peace and Love
TOP - ***Pick any album and you'll find great bass lines
Prince - ***Same scenario as TOP
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Bass Perfection)

[StingrayDerek]

Originally Posted by CptRevell

This may be a little new for this discussion, but the newest Coheed and Cambria (The Afterman) has some fantastic bass work. His lines move in and out of the guitars. Fantastic.

Time may tell if its a classic, but I can see myself listening for the bass lines time and time again.

+1

The fill at 7:06 in Domino the Destitute is KILLER!!!

[Michelin97Bass]

Heavy Weather: Weather Report definitely... Jaco at his best

[Jhengsman]

Ron Carter on Wynton Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis
Louis Johnson on Stay With Me Tonight, Jeffery Osborne
Me'shell Ndegeocello Peace beyond Passion, Me'shell Ndegeocello
I am not sure who on Grace and Mercy, Marvin Sapp

[Lackey]

Well, I have a few. Change of pace from the general theme, hehe.

Chambers Lagrene Di Piazza - Front Page. This is a MUST have for amazing bass playing

Tribal Tech - Illicit. Willis just kills here, KILLS..

Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy. This is a fun album with a lot of cool fretless lines.


Some good calls above with Heavy Weather, One of a Kind, and the 80s Crim trilogy.

[alan_hill]

Originally Posted by TC2112

What's Going On

+1 I listen to that record, then look at my bass and think, whats the point.....

[capcom]

Altough I am both fan of Rush and The Who, can't say "Any Rush album or The who album will do" like others.

But Quadrophenia, being a concept album from start to the end, I would say the original 1973 Quadrophenia from The Who. But not the later digitally remastered version. Overplaying at its best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHXoq...eature=related

Also being another concept album from start to end I must mention 1979 Milos Forman film's "The Hair Musical Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". I would call the bass playing style there the perfect session player playing style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9PwuQeXONw

And finally 1980 Blues Brothers film soundtrack. Duck Dunn's simple yet most tasteful bass playing style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hB3eCv_FOk

[ack]

Joe Jackson's "Look Sharp" - Graham Maby's work got me hooked on bass back in the 70's.
edit: forgot The Jam - The Gift (Bruce Foxton)

[bkbirge]

Stump - A Fierce Pancake, makes that Wal bass sound like a roomful of zoo animals, amazingly unique approach
Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth, simple but super interesting lines
Herb Drury Trio - On the Right Track, Jerry Cherry was one of the great standup artists of all time IMO
Stanley Clarke - School Days, it's Stanley duh
Hancock/Headhunters - Head Hunters, that P bass is amazing in the fusion funk context, I learn something new on every listen
Brand X - Product , the cuts with Percy Jones blow me away every time
Tower of Power - In The Slot, great bass playing that stands out even in a whole discography of great bass playing

[EvilJekyll]

Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain

[Akapaz]

Listen to Tommy Cogbill and Mike Leech's playing on Elvis' "From Elvis In Memphis", fantastic.

I can say the same about Jerry Scheff's playing, live with Elvis from '69 throughout the 70's till Elvis' death in '77. The Legacy Edition of "On Stage" is marvelous.

[henry2513]

Actual Fiction - Gary Willis. Amazing, even more amazing that he sequenced the entire album except for the majority of drum tracks.

[JHandley]

Allman Brothers Live at The Filmore East!
First time I heard it eons ago I told my buddies I wanted to play bass like that someday!
It has stuck with me since.
Jeff