Most effective example of "simple is better"

[austentaciousC]

Snow Patrol-Shut your eyes

I could hear that bass line coming from a live band miles down the road and instantly recognize it. With as much Hadrien, Manring and other technical music im glued to at the moment, that bassline still makes me stop and say "yep....thats it"

aaannnndd go forum, go.

 

[AndreyR]

Pnut's bassline on "Amber"

 

[oaklandgroove]

Pnut's bassline on "Amber"

+100

 

[Peepaleep]

Paul S. Denman's bassline on Paradise by Sade.

 

[Fergie Fulton]

From the 80s, Move Closer, by Phyliss Nelson, basic single note bass line that covers a I IV V progression through the song in various permutations, and slow with it, but it's where those notes go that makes the song..talk about locked into a bass drum....great song.

 

[RBrownBass]

Pretty much anything by Tori Amos
Anything by Michael Hedges except the stuff Manring played on
Most of Leo Kottke's compositions

 

[lowendfriend]

Duck Dunn's bassline on Soul Man from the Blues Brothers album.

 

[agreatheight]

K's Choice: Not An Addict

Not An Addict - K's Choice - YouTube

It feels to me like one more note might have ruined it

 

[maguire]

Had a listen to Gish again recently by Smashing Pumpkins - the bass is simply hypnotic - throughout the entire album. Wish Darcy was still playing somewhere.

 

[steve_rolfeca]

Willie Weeks' intro to Linda Ronstadt's "Blue Bayou".

Also his line on Randy Newman's "Baltimore".

 

[maguire]

"Separator" on the new Radiohead album - does that count as simple? its excellent.

That's why I love the bass - a single whole note can give you a chill.

 

[edwardthewave]

"Separator" on the new Radiohead album - does that count as simple? its excellent.

That's why I love the bass - a single whole note can give you a chill.

+1 to that.

A few that come to mind are "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin, "So What'cha Want" by The Beastie Boys (one note actually), and "Everyday People" Sly and the Family Stone.

 

[Nofretz6]

Stanley Clarke - School Days

 

[Ben Heard]

Stanley Clarke - School Days

Wait... what?