What's your favorite synth bass line?

Don't forget all of Bernie Worrell's work with Parliament/Funkadelic! ... his most famous line, of course, is from "Flashlight."

 

Woudl the Doors basslines clasify as synth bass?? If so, check them out, there are some pretty groovy.

 

two jump straight into my head

the Eurythmics --"Sweet Dreams"
and
the Gap Band --"You Dropped the Bomb on Me"

What Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart did on that first Eurythmics album was nothing short of incredible!

 

ANother vote for "Boogie On Reggae Woman," but I am also a big fan of the UK soul/funk group Loose Ends. They had great keyboard bass jams like "Hanging on a String," "Stay A Little While Child," "Slow Down," and a great DX7 (digital basslike synth) sounding jam called "Mr. Bachelor." The last big hit with keyboard bass they had was "Don't Be a Fool" in 1991. They also used a lot a great bass guitar too. Get there Best Of CD on EMI.

 

Shalamar-My Girl Loves Me
Whispers-Rock Steady
Price-Soft & Wet
Paliament-Funkentelechy(were'd you get that funk from?)
The Dogg Pound-Lets Play House
E-40-Quarterbackin'
The System-anything they have ever made
Kraftwerk-The Man-Machine
Saga-most of their stuff
Dazz Band-To The Roof
George Clinton-Atomic Dog

 

That was a Fender piano bass.
...exact same range as the Fender bass.

Glad to see someone mentioned David Frank of The System...some of his lines were contrapuntal(like 2 different basslines happenin' at once; a bitch to cover on EB, trust me).

Others-
Greg Phillinganes (you already mentioned the classic "We Can Work It Out").
'Hawk' Wolinski of Rufus
Rod Temperton of Heatwave(if he didn't play 'em, he composed them).
Michael Omartian...like "Yah Mo B There" from James Ingram's debut, This Is My Night. Sounds like Phillinganes, pretty sure it's Omartian.

...and check out Madonna's "Into The Groove" & maybe even "Like A Prayer".

 

Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax-live

 

I played a lot of synth bass in the 80's, three of my favorites were:

Breakout-Swingout Sister
Cruel Summer- Bananarama
Into The Groove- Madonna

 

Can't fault any of the suggestions made so far. Bernie Worrel is certainly the daddy of funk synth-bass.

A classic synth line I love is 'Big Time' by Peter Gabriel.

p.s. I'm not completely sure, but I didn't think there was any synth-bass on 'Like A Prayer', I thought it was all Guy Pratt.

 

Head Like A Hole - NIN

 

...sounded like a synth to me(it's been a long while, though).

 

I used to play a Moog Rogue in a band back in the 1980's that covered lots of Prince and prince related material. I used to like "I Would Die for 4 U," I loved "Erotic City" both by Prince of course.

 

There's this one little synth bass line in "Sofa #1" (Zappa) that's only about 10 notes, but it's always really grabbed me.

 

Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out (I had to play that once on an ARP Odyssey - talk about staring at the keys)
Human League - Don't You Want Me?
Most of the Missing Persons stuff - not fancy bass work, but driving with the drums. Words, Mental Hopscotch.

 

Joe Zawinul's bass line at the beginning of Birdland while Jaco plays those crazy harmonics.

 

99 luftballoons.

someone correct me if i am factually wrong.

 

I always liked the bass line and sound of "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys - nothing ever since, but that line was great!!