Catchiest bass lines?

[Uribam]

Most of Sublime's stuff is pretty catchy. On a side note I accidentally figured out that I will posses your heart bassline the other day at practice/songwriting. It's fairly easy and fun to play as it is catchy.

 

[theory028]

Black Label Society - House of Doom
Apartment 26 - Give Me More
Savage Garden - I Want You (they have some cool bass parts in a bunch of their songs)
Papa Roach - Lifeline (I love the break where it's just singing and the bassist comes back in with a grindy slide)
Mana - Rayando el Sol
The Mars Volta - Roulette Dares

 

[Alexander]

In honour of MJ, I'll have to say Billie Jean...

 

[RHFusillo]

Band of Gold - Freda Payne

Beat me to it. Bob Babbitt on bass.

Another one is "Stand by Me" by Ben E. King and Leiber and Stoller (as mentioned in post #15)

 

[midbass]

Sade - Hang on to your love
Michael Jackson - Get on the floor
Jamiroquai - Alright
Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots
Cheryl Lynn - Got to be real
Chakha Khan - Ain't Nobody

 

[Hawaii Islander]

Geezer Butler, Hand of Doom - Paranoid album by Black Sabbath


On another note: Does anyone know of a source of recorded bass lines (only) for these and other examples to use as a reference for learning new bass lines? It would be great to hear the bass lines to many of these songs isolated/seperated from the rest of the mix.

 

[Bryndog]

If you want me to stay - Sly and the family stone
Moondance - Van Morrison
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder

+1 for Santeria - Sublime
+1 for Low Rider - WAR

 

[Auzzie-Phoenix]

Garbage- Push It
Poe- Angry Johnny
Cake- Never There
Goldfinger- Superman
The Refreshments- Mekong
Streetlight Manifesto- Everything Goes Numb
Save Ferris- Come On Eileen (ska cover of Dexy's Midnight Runners song)

 

[lousybassplayer]

Cake! I had almost forgotten them

How about "Frank Sinatra" and "I will survive". Great bass work on most of their stuff, but those two are catchy like nothing.

 

[Auzzie-Phoenix]

wow... I know it's a weekend and all but you'd think more people would have come up with their picks for catchy basslines... unless we picked all the good ones.

 

[Brick Top]

Fools Gold - Stone Roses
Bin Caught Stealin - Janes Addiction
Suck My Kiss - RHCP
Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club(Talking Heads)
Lullaby - The Cure
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
Is She Weird - Pixies
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Peaches - Stranglers
Look of Love - ABC

 

[Bluesy Soul]

I want you Back - J5

...Everlasting Love - Love affair

Wilton Felder's part in "I Want You Back" is simply a masterpiece--and from a guy who is known as a saxophonist (Jazz Crusaders), no less!

"Everlasting Love" is also a great song and has a great bass part; but the best version--and the best bass part, IMHO--are Carl Carlton's original, on which the mysterious Dennis Belfield played the bass part. Unofrtunately, it's not mixed as prominently forward as Felder's part in "I Want You Back".

Belfield has done tremendous work with Chaka Kahn ("Tell Me Something Good" is his), the Hellecasters and others; but it's difficult to find out anything about him.

Bluesy Soul

 

[lowendfriend]

Hendrix....Manic Depression
Cream....Sunshine of your love
Albert King/Hendrix/Cream.....Born under a Bad Sign (Minor Pentatonic)
Miles Davis Quintet (Paul Chambers)....So What?
SRV (Shannon).....Crossfire
The Doors (Jerry Scheff)...LA Woman:Riders on the Storm....
The Doors (Lonnie Mack)....Roadhouse Blues
The Fabulous Thunderbirds.....Tuff Enuff
Four Tops (Jamerson?)....Can't Help Myself/Bernadette/
Temptations....My Girl (classic major pentatonic scale!)
Frank Zappa/MOI....The Gumbo Variations
Golden Earring.....Radar Love (intro)
Beatles....Day Tripper
Rolling Stones...Satisfaction (catchy, right?)
Sam & Dave....Soul Man
Sister Sledge....We are Family
Parliament....almost anything
Warren Zevon....Werewolves of London
Wilson Pickett...Mustang Sally/Funky Broadway

 

[B man]

More Catchy Bass Lines

Ram Jam - Black Betty
Pink Floyd - Money
Pink Floyd - Time
Kansas - Carry on My Wayward Son
Commodores - Brick House
SRV - Mary Had a Little Lamb
SRV - Couldn't Stand the Weather
U2 - New Years Day
Fleetwood Mac - Say You Love Me
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin With Disaster
Joe Satriani - Echo
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Rush - Leave That Thing Alone

 

[vladnatrix]

Every Time You Go Away by Paul Young

One of the best bass lines ever IMHO. I listen to it every day trying to play along. (and i fail...)

Can you please help me with a link to the TAB. I just can`t find it.

 

[Ripper]

Cake's cover of war pigs
Primus- DMV
NIB (whichever version... sabbath or primus)





7 Nation Army

 

[JazzBass Love]

Excellent choices. The only ones I can think to add are:

Bad Company - Feel like Makin' Love, Can't get enough
Primus - John the Fisherman
YES - Siberian Khatru
James Gang - Funk #49

 

[faust23]

peace sells

 

[JohnMCA72]

"Gallows Pole" - Led Zeppelin

JM

 

[two fingers]

I have no idea who played it but I've always thought the bass line to Elvis Costello's "I Write The Book" is really catchy (I'm not even sure I got the name of the song right).