Name Bass Lines That Make The Song Work

[PackardGoose]

Schism- Tool
The Real Me- The Who
Soul To Squeeze- RHCP
Driven- Rush
The Big Money- Rush
Good Times Bad Times- Led Zeppelin

 

[Eric Perry]

..."Ain't No Stoppin Us Now" - McFadden & Whitehead (Disco was nothing without great bass lines)...

Great line! My band did that tune when we did the occasional wedding. Loved playing it.

 

[Lady Kayri]

Few more to add:

Back Chat - Queen
Millionaire's Waltz - Queen
Crossroads - Cream

 

[thobbinghotrod]

Lowrider by War

 

[Uncle Ernie]

Metallica's One

Now, seriously, what about Bootsy's line in Deelite's Groove is in the Heart?

 

[Kindofblue]

Paul Chambers - Softly as in a morning sunrise...

alright preety much anything by jaco,chambers,mingus,garrison...etc

 

[Chad Michael]

Oooh, remembered another one:

Mr. Mister - Broken Wings.

The classic Yamaha DX7 bass sound!!!

My additions to the list:

Superstitious - Steve Wonder (Stevie's bass line played on clavinet, and somewhere TB's own Jon Packard has a clip of his band playing this song.)

Too Hot - Kool & the Gang

Le Freak - Chic

 

[markorbit]

Rock On by David Essex. Not sure who played bass.

I think that was Herbie Flowers.

 

[bassist 4 life]

Metallica's Outlaw Torn would totally crumble without Jasons bassline

 

[jim777]

I'm trying to think of a Joe Jackson song that wouldn't fall apart without Graham Maby's bass....nothing coming. So many of JJ's tunes are bass centric (and why not?).

 

[David Jayne]

Anyone mention "silly love songs" by McCartney and Wings?

+1,000,000. The bass part IS the song. Brilliant.

 

[Gabriel51]

+1,000,000. The bass part IS the song. Brilliant.

Yep!!!!

 

[SkylineFiver]

A Good Man In A Storm - Level 42

 

[Basstard79]

Tony Levin's beautiful bass line on Peter Gabriels 'Don't Give Up'.

Definitely yes! Tony Levin's a genius, that's all I have to say here.

Hysteria- Muse.

Oh YEAH Chris Wolstrenholme plays some fantastic bass lines and this one is a primary example. I'd add Hypermusic to that, too.

Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
London Calling - Clash
(...)
Nice n Sleazy - Strangliers

I definitely agree here... I love Nice'n'Sleazy

But heyyy... There are more. Namely:

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
Eddie Brickell and the New Bohemians - What I Am

Both John Deacon and Brad Houser are so underrated. They deserve more recognition!