Examples of Fretless bass in "pop" songs

Pino palladino on Paul young's "Every time you go away"- possibly my favorite fretless line ever... Pino kills on this one.

 

"King of Pain" by The Police (Sting playing). I believe this was an electric upright:



"Standing On The Corner Of The Third World", by Tears For Fears (Pino playing):



Theme from "Northern Exposure" by David Schwartz (David Schwartz playing):

 

Bakithi kills on this album.

 

Pearl Jam's Ten in its entirety (except for the 8 string on Jeremy).

 

Journey - Don't Stop Believin'

 

And a quick search revealed these:

What are some good fretless bass songs.
which linked to: Fretless guitar - Wikipedia
and Fretless rock bassist ?

 

Pino is on New York Minute (Don Henley).

Whoever played bass on Mama, I'm Coming Home (Ozzy)

Thanks- I didn't know that. Always thought it was just a really growly Jazz bass or T-40

 

They sound different.

 

Paint It Black, by The Rolling Stones.

 

Many Bad Company hits were recorded with fretless.

 

Lots of The Band's stuff Rick Danko played fretless, mostly an Ampeg scroll-head bass I believe.

A lot of classic Rolling Stones stuff was recorded on fretless, which kind of blew my mind when I read about Bill Wyman's basses and how he modified them.

 

Message in a Bottle

 

Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer" features Tony Levin on a Stingray Fretless laying down the groove. He's also playing with a pick. There is some great bass playing on that whole album titled "So"

 

Don Henley - Boys of Summer (Pino on fretless);

Pink Floyd - Hey You (David Gilmore on fretless?);

Japan - Cantonese Boy (Mick Karn on fretless)

 

Well, different things are different. I've said this before, and I stand by it still.

 

Was going to suggest Japan as well...

 

I liked this one also... once I got past those ridiculous Fairlight-ish horns...