Which Recordings would be listed in a TalkBass Basic Library?

[heath_the_great]

Haven´t seen any Wooten yet...

because he doesnt write good music

 

[TheThumb]

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Marcus Miller - Ozell Tapes
Jaco - Jaco
Led Zeppelin - II
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Chili Peppers - BloodSugarSexMagik
Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
Frank Zappa - 'Live In New York' or 'Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life'
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Muse - Origins Of Symmetry
Minutemen - Double Nickels on The Dime
Primus - Frizzle Fry
Brubeck Quartet - Time Out

 

[TOMANO]

Gov't Mule - Deep End Vol. 1 & 2
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Beatles - Rubber Soul / Revolver
Weather Report - I Sing The Body Electric

TOMANO

 

[morphineFan]

jack casady on 3/5 mile in 10 seconds, airplane, live, 1969

lee sklar/ron carter on billy cobham's spectrum. ron carter does tracks "Spectrum" (A side, 2b) and "le lis" (B side, 2b) 1973

mark sandman, morphine, cure for pain, 1993

recently saw "that 1 guy" mike silverman, plays the magic pipe, not sure i would include his album in this list, but definitely on a list of artists to see live.

i'd add john myung, from dream theatre, but i can't narrow down a specify song or disc 1992+

same for hot tuna.

 

[Eric Grossman]

Al Green's Greatest Hits
The Band - The Last Waltz
Beck - Odelay
Bob James & David Sanborn - Double Vision
Bonnie Raitt - The Best of
Brothers Johnson - Greatest Hits
Carole King - Tapestry
Carpenters - Gold
The Clash - London Calling
The Cure - Greatest Hits
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Donald Fagen - Nightfly
Donny Hathaway - Live
EW&F - Greatest Hits
Elton John - Greatest Hits
George Benson & Earl Klugh - Collaboration
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
jaco Pastorius- Jaco Pastorius
James Taylor - Greatest Hits volume 1
John Patitucci - John Patitucci
King's X - Dogman
Maze - Anthology
Meshell Ndege'Ocello - Everything
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
The O'Jays - The Ultimate
Paul Simon - Graceland
Paul young - Super Hits
Police - Outlandos d'amour, Regatta De Blanc
Pretenders - I, II, Learning to Crawl
Queen - Night at the Opera
Sade - Diamond Life, Promise
Sly and the Family Stone - Anthology
Stanley Clarke- School Days
Stevie Wonder - Everything until "In Square Circles"
Tracy Chapman - New Beginning
Van Halen - Women and Children First, Fair Warning
Victor Bailey - Bottoms Up, Low Blow
The Who - Who's Next, Live at Leeds

Sorry for all the "Greatest Hits", but some artists just have too much greatness for one list.

 

[Neb Maro]

Well, I don't know if you're looking only for audio or if you want video too. I also don't know if you're looking for the actual bands or if covers are ok, so I'll just make one sugesstion.
On either Youtube or Google Video, you can type int he name "Felipe Solano" it'll take you to videos of this guy who covered a heck of a lot of RHCP songs. You can totally hear his bass and he covers the songs very well. Since his bass comes out so clearly, it's really helpful for those that want to learn the songs.

For groups and songs:
Stone Temple Pilots: Interstate Love Song
Stone Temple Pilots: Sour Girl
Stone Temple Pilots: Creep
Radiohead: Creep
Stone Temple Pilots: Wicked Garden
Stone Temple Pilots: Dead and Bloated
Stone Temple Pilots: Plush
Stone Temple Pilots: Big Empty
Stone Temple Pilots: Wonderful
(Man, there are so many great bass lines in STP)
Metallica: The Unforgiven
Metallica: Enter Sandman
Metallica: Hero of the Day
Metallica: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Metallica: Orion
Metallica: Devil's Dance
Metallica: Of Wolf and Man
Metallica: Wherever I May Roam (Black album. Not sure if that is exact title)
Metallica: Nothing Else Matters
Metallica: Sad But True
Metallica: Enter Sandman
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Otherside
RHCP: Californication
RHCP: Around the World
RHCP: Danni California
RHCP: BloodSugarSexMagick
RHCP: Under the Bridge
RHCP: Can't Stop
Tool: Sober
Cream: Sunshine of Your Love
Cream: White Room
Cream: Swlbar
Kansas: Carry On My Wayward Son
Kansas: Dust in the Wind

 

[hbarcat]

[Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins - The Day Fingerpickers Ruled The Earth]



An ambitious bass player can learn a LOT from this album.

 

[hbarcat]

Ooops. I forgot the correction:

Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins - The Day Fingerpickers Took Over the World

 

[hbarcat]

Included in my list of "best albums for playing along with the bass":

Pink Floyd - Animals
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Beatles - Abbey Road


And these "best of" albums:

Rush - Exit...Stage Left
The Police - Every Breath you Take, The Singles

 

[CHILDISHGAMBINO]

Primus - Frizzle Fry
The Roots - Come Alive
The Reverend Horton Heat -The Full Custom Gospel Sounds of
Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman I'm a Machine
Buck 65 - Secret House Against the World
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley and The Circus Leaves Town
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Sublime - 40 oz to Freedom and Sublime

 

[david_bassist]

Is this sposed to be essential albums, or essential bass albums, or essential albums that are also essential bass albums?

Oh and is owning practically the entire Metallica catalogue really that "essential"?

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Boris/Merzbow - Sun Drenched Snow Cave.
Boris - Pink (not exactly drone, but still good)
Earth - Pentastar: In the Style of the Demons

I'd recomend the Pentastar album over the other 2. Even though it's slow, it grooves like a mothershutyomouth! And yes, there's bass on those

 

[Worcester]

Minutemen - double nickels on the dime
(this album will make you happy.)

 

[Blackbird]

Is this sposed to be essential albums, or essential bass albums, or essential albums that are also essential bass albums?

Oh and is owning practically the entire Metallica catalogue really that "essential"?

The original idea was to list albums with good music, period.

I don't know about others, but I can't stand listening to a good bassline if the rest of the song is crap. It all has to go together.

IMO, of course.

 

[daveyfunk]

the whole meters catalogue and while we're there we may as well add the infinite james brown tracks...also, a bit more of a cuban flavour with buena vista would be nice

 

[chris_nairn]

the whole meters catalogue and while we're there we may as well add the infinite james brown tracks...also, a bit more of a cuban flavour with buena vista would be nice

+1 on the Meters and for some really great fun, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley by Robert Palmer. The Meters were his band on that album.

 

[TheThumb]

Mothership Connection!

 

[Maaak]

Ooops. I forgot the correction:

Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins - The Day Fingerpickers Took Over the World

+1
Incredible stuff.

 

[FatCity]

Govt Mule- Dose
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath
Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Nuthin' Fancy
Jefferson Airplane- Volunteers
Grateful Dead- Live Dead
Guns n Roses- Appetite for Destruction
Iron Maiden- Killers
Duran Duran- Rio
Spirit Caravan- Dreamwheel
Rainbow- Rising
Rolling Stones- Let it Bleed
The Beatles- Abbey Road
Icarus Witch- Roses on White Lace
Trapeze- Medusa
Deep Purple- Burn
Wings- Wings over America
Cream- Disraeli Gears
The Police- Zenyatta Mondatta
Whitesnake- Live...In the Heart of the City

 

[mulepods]

John Paul Jones isn't getting enough coverage here.

The live album "The Song Remains The Same" is amazing. Without Page's multiple guitar tracks, Jones is relied upon to really fill the space. His bass parts are incredibly tasty. I dare say that Jones and Bonham are the highlight of that recording.

The two most important tracks are:

1. Whole Lotta Love: features several cool breakdowns with great bass grooves

2. Dazed and Confused: after Page stops playing with his bow the band improvises on some very funky progressions, and Jones lays down some very tasty bass parts.