Pop songs with good basslines?

[Fassa Albrecht]

I completely randomly heard Slam Dunk Da Funk by the boyband 5ive just now (yaay nostalgia) and I never realised how good the bassline is. It's a funky little slap-bass number.

Anyone know of any good pop songs with good basslines? Preferably recent ones but anything is good.

 

[megadan]

Anything produced by big name producers in sessions towns and good studios will probably have a good bassline like that. Record companies can afford to hire pro bassists to play on their boytoy records, it's just another part of producing a shiny plastic commerical record to get played on the radio.

 

[Danny Fox]

The bassline to Girls and Boys by Blur was pretty cool
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[MNAirHead]

Rio
Lady in Red
Every Time You Go Away

 

[tribus]

broken wings by mr. mister

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[retardedpossum]

too shy - kajagoogoo was a monter line.

 

[stratovani]

The Smiths - This Charming Man

 

[LittleGiant]

check out the beatles... any song will do.

but 'hey bull dog' has a genius riff

 

[BuiltToSpill17]

The cover band I'm playing with does "Harder to Breathe" by Maroon 5 and I'll admit, I enjoy playing it quite a bit:



You can definitely funk it up with some ghost notes, and throwing in hammer-ons/pull-offs makes it even more fun to play.

 

[Christian Waiau]

Pink's Fun House album has some nice lines... I think tony kanal played on some of them in the studio.

 

[scrunks11]

Sophie Ellis Bextor-Murder On The Dancefloor
quite a funky line. kicks in about 25 secs. play with mega bass turned up otherwise it is quite hard to hear.

 

[danihammer]

The noisettes - don't upset the ritme is a simple but cool one.
Never forget you too btw =)

 

[darthkgrim]

Rio
Lady in Red
Every Time You Go Away

+1 to Rio by Duran Duran
Great John Taylor bassline.

 

[wagstaff]

Pokerface has a good bass line to it

 

[JulienJeff]

The bassline to Girls and Boys by Blur was pretty cool
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+1 (1st that came to my mind)

 

[ack]

+1 to Rio by Duran Duran
Great John Taylor bassline.

Agreed.
"Last Chance On The Stairway" from the same Rio album has a killer bassline.

 

[Space-Man]

The bass playing on "Close to You" by The Carpenters is really good.

 

[Kink Rimson]

I suggest Spacehog's In The Meantime. Bit of a one hit wonder back in the day, the bassman's married to Liv Tyler now

 

[michael_atw]

Most stuff by Michael Jackson at any point in his career.

 

[Drop-the-One]

The cover band I'm playing with does "Harder to Breathe" by Maroon 5 and I'll admit, I enjoy playing it quite a bit:



You can definitely funk it up with some ghost notes, and throwing in hammer-ons/pull-offs makes it even more fun to play.

+1

The reason that song does it for me though is the space inbetween the riffs.