SIMPLE bass lines that make the song...

[ProfGumby]

I just wanted to be the 32nd person to post Everyday People by Sly and The Family Stone.......


Seriously, great song but, well....

As to my actual contribution to this thread...

The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Zombie - The Cranberries
Low Rider - War

Simple bass lines, and they make the song

 

[Phoderlead]

substitute- the who

 

[Ray C Parrish]

I don't know if this is easy enough to qualify, but we have to get a shout out to the prog guys. And since this is one of the only prog band/songs to get radio play lets add it......

YES - Roundabout

The bass line during the verses is the whole song!

 

[Thomsen]

Lady Madonna by Beatles is a nice beginner song

 

[bassman03]

Come As You Are - Nirvana
No One Knows/Longview - Green Day
Carousel - Blink 182
Californication - RHCP

 

[fretlessman71]

How did I forget:

Lovecats - The Cure
Superfreak - Rick James (although the song content really isn't viable for my 13 yr old students)

 

[PasdaBeer]

thin lizzy - dancing in the moonlight

 

[CatastrofyBunny]

Whoever You Are - The Brian Jonestown Massacre

 

[crijan]

Toadies - Tyler

 

[Ocin]

The Cure has already been mentioned several times, but let me just add a few from their earlier albums:

Subway Song
A Forest (obviously)
Secrets
The Holy Hour
Other Voices
Faith

... and there are many more examples from their later work. Love a band that puts their bass up front very often.

 

[CDuff]

Stir It Up - Bob Marley and the Wailers

It was the first bassline I learned and still one of my all-time favourites.


.....although.. I love the guitar solo so much (not to mention Peter Tosh's harmonies) that maybe the bass doesn't exclusively MAKE the song but you have to expect a thread to lose it way slightly after 13 pages

 

[Dvidae]

I will Survive - Cake

 

[UncleBalsamic]

Hit me with your rhythm stick - Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Oh wait...

 

[Yvon]

let's goove - Earth wind & Fire

 

[Obe]

I don't know if this is easy enough to qualify, but we have to get a shout out to the prog guys. And since this is one of the only prog band/songs to get radio play lets add it......

YES - Roundabout

The bass line during the verses is the whole song!

In that vein, how about Thela Hun Ginjeet by King Crimson?

 

[JazzBass Love]

Happy Jack by the Who?

To be perfectly fair, Keith Moon's drumming also helped to make this song...

 

[FrostFire]

Ob-la-di Ob-la-da by the Beatles, if it hasn't been posted.

 

[Hoover]

Not sure if anyone's mentioned these already -- and I'll be damned if I'm gonna read 13 pages of a thread to find out! -- but the first tunes that come to mind are

- "The Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground. Bassline is just a single repeating gliss up & down: DOOWWW-WEEEOOOW, DOOWWW-WEEEOOOW, DOOWWW-WEEEOOOW, etc.

- "A Dream Within A Dream" by The Alan Parsons Project. Bassline is just one note: DONK (rest) DONK (rest) DONK DONK DONK (rest).

 

[Tom Howland]

Taxman-Beatles.
Politician-Cream
Mystery Train-'Elvis"
How Many More Times-Zepplin
It An't Over Till It's Over- Lenny Kravitz

 

[Obe]

Not sure if anyone's mentioned these already -- and I'll be damned if I'm gonna read 13 pages of a thread to find out! -- but the first tunes that come to mind are

- "The Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground. Bassline is just a single repeating gliss up & down: DOOWWW-WEEEOOOW, DOOWWW-WEEEOOOW, DOOWWW-WEEEOOOW, etc.

- "A Dream Within A Dream" by The Alan Parsons Project. Bassline is just one note: DONK (rest) DONK (rest) DONK DONK DONK (rest).

The Humpty Dance!! Tried playing that all the way through, my finger nearly bled, need flatwounds for that, or more practice time. Now I just use the pitch shift on my processor