Want to get into music genres that has good bass line but don't know where to start.

Every genre has good bass lines. Every genre. Even old world oompah music. I'll bet that there's wicked bass lines in Japanese music, although I'm totally unfamiliar with the genre.

A better question is what type of music do you want to play?

 

Step 1: Listen to a tune
Step 2: Ask yourself; "Do I enjoy this bassline?"
Step 3a: If yes, congratulations, you've found a song with a good bassline.
Step 3b: If no, try listening to a different tune.

 

Phish. Here is pretty much every live concert phish has ever played free to download. Focus on Fall 97 for the best bass.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p8WKkpP-TKpO1VnQgcff6EQ&gid=7

 

For me, nothing grooves more than reggae bass lines.

 

That takes more then a lifetime just to 'get into' listening to everything. It'll take a lifetime to really master one genre.

Listen to everything, even junk on the radio. Find the genres that speak most to you, then try to 'get into' them.

 

If you don't already, listen to the allman brothers band Eat a Peach and Live at the Fillmore east. Basically any of there stuff with Berry Oakley on it (Pre 1973). He plays some really great melodic lines that flow along with the guitars and everything else. Also there last studio album, Hitting the Note with Oteil Burbridge (my personal favorite bassist) who is also on the Tedeschi Trucks Band's Revelator. Todd smallie of the derek trucks band. He is really groovy on Songlines and very jazzy and fusiony on Out of the Madness and their self-titled album.

I'm really just listing some of my favorite bands with in my favorite genre. Should be a start but if you can't get into it, no worries, just not for you. Just give everything a try and if you hear something you like anywhere explore the genre some more.

 

For good rifs and lines, I would suggest listening to Cake and Moros Eros. Everything they all play is pretty good.

 

Theres a whole lot of music out there, but heres a couple of suggestions from me that have some of my favourite basslines on....

Jamiroquai - Return of the Space Cowboy

and

Jamiroquai - Travelling without Moving

 

+1

You could do a lot worse than starting with the deluxe 2-CD reissue of The Harder They Come soundtrack.

 

Billy Joel's "The Stranger"

 

Try these:

I Want You Back - Michael Jackson
Cissy Strut - The Meters
I'll Take You There - Staple Singers
In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Bros
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
Roundabout - Yes
Get Up Stand Up - Bob Marley (any Marley really, Family Man grooves are unlike anything)

 

Punkrock:
Rancid- Maxwell murder
Rancid -Journey to the end of east bay...
Hardrock:
Tool-schism
Tool-Sober
Rock:
Pink Floyd - One of these days
Pink Floyd -Money

almost every music style has fun basslines....

Ska and Reggae have fun basslines, but rock, pop etc. also have hundreds of cool bass songs.

This might be a starter for you:

Stylus Magazine’s Top 50 Basslines Of All Time - Article - Stylus Magazine

 

The Yellowjackets. Especially the album "Blue Hats." Great album.
Also their song "Jacket Town" is just nasty how good his bass playing is. Not sure the album that one is from. Jimmy Haslip is a monster!

 

Grandmaster Melle Mel- White Lines

Grandmaster Melle Mel - white lines - YouTube

Daft Punk- Around the World

Daft Punk - Around The World - YouTube

The Smiths- This Charming Man

The Smiths - This Charming Man - YouTube

 

do what i did ... make pandora account and quick mix all of the generic stations.

I have a blues, funk, rock, classical, jazz, hiphop etc ... all quickmix... i write down songs that hit me as interesting all the time. They usually go into the personal library at that point.

 

My favorite basslines are African. Check out Sipho Mabuse, or his old band Harari. Mahlathini is pretty cool stuff too. I love the guitar work!

 

Listen to Faith No More.