Most recognizable song that starts with bass?

[Nino Valenti]

I'm under pressure to say Ice, Ice Baby

 

[Rune Bivrin]

"Another one bites the dust", without a doubt. "Under pressure" possibly. The rest are for bass players only, in my opinion.

 

[Ed Goode]

"Bad Luck" - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes .....

Ronnie Baker playing a cookin' bass line .....

 

[DWBass]

"Bad Luck" - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes .....

Ronnie Baker playing a cookin' bass line .....

Oh hellz yeah! I forgot about that one! How about Disco Nights (Rock Freak) by GQ!

 

[ryco]

Another one for the oldsters

We Gotta Get Outta This Place - The Animals

another one for Eric = Lowrider

 

[!Rob!]

"Barney Miller" theme song

 

[redstrand]

"My Sharona"

 

[ulrich]

Sweet Emotion
Money

 

[Flintlock]

Hysteria

For that matter, quite a lot of the famous Muse songs start with a bass guitar.

 

[lunarpollen]

We Gotta Get Outta This Place - The Animals

ah yes that's a good one

hey, doesn't the Byrds "Eight Miles High" start with bass?

a couple of tunes that almost qualify but not quite (i.e., the bass is not unaccompanied but is the the most noticable thing at the very start): the Who, "Boris the Spider" and "Happy Jack"

 

[CosmoReverb]

Howzabout Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"

 

[Jazzdogg]

What Is Hip?

 

[skidrawk]

What Is Hip?

Doesn't that start with snare?

 

[Matt Till]

Don't think it's been mentioned, "Hand of Doom" by Sabbath. My band King Bowman (who has strong Sabbath roots) played a gig, got asked to encore. We were going to play an original, the singer came to the mic and said in a British accent, "This next song is called 'Hand of Doom'" and he didn't know that I new the bass riff, so I jokingly went into... the crowd went crazy. I stopped and said, "Uh, we don't really know that." And we went into our song.

 

[DWBass]

What Is Hip?

Uh....nope! Sorry, no bass intro, my brother!

 

[Jazzdogg]

Uh....nope! Sorry, no bass intro, my brother!

My bad Guess it's just one of those songs that's instantly recognizably because if its bass line.

 

[Baryonyx]

"Town Called Malice" by The Jam is up there!

 

[MudKricket]

classical thump jkjk

my favorite would have to be peace sells by megadeth even though when live, it starts with the bass kick, well actually i guess it starts with bass either way.

 

[PeppermanL2K]

"Under Pressure" for sure, but I would think "Another One Bites The Dust" would be more obvious.

There ya go!

 

[Baird6869]

Naveed - Our Lady Peace.

Big hit in the late 80's in Canada and a song I still love gigging. In fact I played it at a show on Saturday night.

Never Again - Nickleback.

I HATE playing this song and HATE Nickleback but the low C and D played on the B string is unmistakable.