Best punk bass line......

i don't know that many great basslines that you'd consider punk... except just about anything by rancid... i love the bass intro to "blacklisted" off short music for short people...
goldfinger have a few fat lines, including the skankin line to "superman", or the intros to "f**k you and your cat" and "all i want"
less than jake... "johnny quest thinks we're sellouts" is punk-ska, i dunno if that counts...

anyway, that's my input, i'm sure everyone's gonna shoot me up and bring my down to chinatown, thanks to my lack of references to classic punk like "should i stay or should i go" by the clash... and yottskry12 (sitting next to me) reckons i should include "transmission" by joy division... if you weren't laughing at me before, you are now, so i'm gonna quit while i'm never gonna get ahead... and stuff.

simon a

 

so Matt Freeman is your dad, right?

 

Not really punk, but I like Sting's line from the Police's "Dead End Job". This was before they got into the reggae thing and were still trying to fit in with the punk crowd. Unfortunately, the complexity of the line probably disqualified them.

 

You can't get more punk than the Ramones, and you can't get more Ramones than Blitzkrieg Bop, albeit, it's not the most complex bassline, in fact, its probably the simplest line to play in the world, but it's still the best.

Blacklisted is good as well, so is London Calling and Whiteman in Hammersmith Palais.

I also love All of Dillinger 4's basslines, just because I love All of Dillinger 4

 

When I saw the thread title I started wondering if this shouldn't go under the "Oxymorons" thread.

 

*plays the comedy drum line*
Baum baum bing!

 

i kinda like "time bomb" by rancid, but thats almost more reggae than punk

 

the bassline in "punk by the book" in anti-flagt to me there bassist can kick matt friedmens ass!

 

Betrayed by RKL

 

the solo to "axiom" by RANCID is holy to me.i listen to that like every day.one day i will play that!maybe in a few years...go buy the RANCID 2000 cd and listen to axiom or download it,YOU WONT REGRET IT!

 

tell your dad that I love him

 

god called in sick today by AFI... Its pretty cool

 

Hehe

 

rats, jazzbo, you beat me to it, and 2 days already. lol i didn't even see this thread til right now, and I just saw the title, and said to myself, " hehe, oxymoron." but you already said it, hehe,

 

I dont understand... why is the thread title an oxymoron?? Thats not funny...

 

How 'bout Maxwell Murder by Rancid?

 

Maybe "totalimmortal" by AFI, but "journey to the end of the east bay" by rancid is quite lovely too. Heck, anything by rancid is.

 

I was gonna say that! Geeze!