Your secret song

[Chris cook]

I've played at one time or another
Almost every genre of music
I'm a prog/metal/thrash bassist etc. etc.
What's the one song people would be surprised you play on bass.
It shouldn't be a song even remotely tied to your preferred genre .

Mine is
Maggie May by Rod Stewart
Bass in M. M. is greater than greater
: ?)

 

[FunkHead]

Spider Webs by No Doubt

 

[dreamadream99]

Barry Manilow. Great writer.

 

[LiptonJigglers]

Ernie: Benny Hill.
Alley Cat: Captain Beefheart
Nelly the Elephant... Toy Dolls

 

[ImTheOnlyOne]

Red Velvet's "Rookie Rookie"

A great riff on Pharrell Williams' "Happy"

 

[RattleSnack]

It would have to be something like this. Great song, by the way.

 

[Killing Floor]

I love this song so much. I don’t care what that says about me. It makes me so happy. Hearing it or playing it.

 

[Aqualung60]

 

[Old gold]

For me it would be Greensleeves. Easy to play and something about the 6/8 time makes me feel like I’m playing in a royal court (although no one would ever think about having me play anything in public).

 

[JRA]

fun fretless melody:

 

[RichardW]

My band covers classic rock and blues from the '50s - '70s. At a gig next weekend we are playing Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You." We've got a great young female singer who will kill it, and I think our audience is really going to be surprised.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Secret songs? There's one or two (myriad) …
no preferred platform, no surprises,
but I'll never kiss a Gun Street girl again.​

​

 

[XLunacy]

Mainly a rock/metal guy, with a soft spot for 8bit videogame scores.
I play this all the time (on my active multiscale 5er obviously) and I friggin love it

 

[Jeff Hughes]

"Party in the USA" and "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus. Amazing songs. So much fun to play.

Oh the irony of posting something labelled a "secret" in an online forum.

 

[Larryfales]

 

[feterpatch]

The Meow Mix cat food jingle...

 

[elpancho]

Alain Caron: Canuba

 

[Mark_G]

'Waterfalls' by TLC and 'He's the greatest dancer' by Sister Sledge. And this week, 'We don't talk about Bruno' from Encanto, because my young daughter wanted to put on a concert for my wife.

 

[Gorilla Monsoon]

Party in the USA. I giggle thinking about it, but that hook…another piece of saccharine I pull off the yootoobe is Move Like Jagger. My fav, though is probably Girl From Ipanema, the old version with Stan Getz. I could be one eye closed drunk and still play that.

 

[Bunk McNulty]

These guys were like the Beatles of the Francophone world. They sang in Creole, just to make things even more incomprehensible for English speakers. Basically unknown in the US. It's my secret song because nobody I know has ever heard of them, much less heard them. Also because Georges Decimus wears a helmet with horns.

edit: The older white guy playing trumpet is Steve Madaio, who also played with Stevie Wonder and a lot of other artists. I first heard him on a Paul Butterfield album! He died in 2019.