Your top 3 Paul McCartney Basslines?

[Jeff K]

With A Little Help From My Friends
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Lovely Rita

Agreed, three is too few.

I can't pick 3. Every time I try, I get frustrated. But it's hard to argue with these 3. ^ I love all of them.

A few more I've always loved:

O Darling
Come Together
Obla Di, Obla Da (Simple, yet very catchy!)
I Want You (She's So Heavy) (^ Same as above)

 

[Freez]

Hey Bulldog
Nowhere Man
Something

Honorable mention:
Almost everything on Sgt. Pepper

 

[Freez]

BTW, Taxman (great bass line) bass is played by George...

Are you sure? I think Paul played bass and lead guitar on that one...

 

[funkinbottom]

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[ajpaul59]

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Very innovative bass line in you won't see me... Forgot about that one...

 

[Ric5]

With a little help
And you bird can sing
Hey bulldog

BTW, Taxman (great bass line) bass is played by George...

I used to think that as well ... but I think it was Paul on bass and Paul also overdubbed the lead guitar in the solo.

 

[harlon]

Runner Up:
Getting Better is interesting mostly because of the way McCartney treats the choruses.... It isn't an arpeggiation of the chords, but rather it is a melodic figure that descends through the chords - and because it is also the bass line, it changes the way we hear the chords in this passage. It's a very classical-esque contrapuntal bass line.

Getting Better was probably my runner up, too. Outstanding playing.

 

[Ocean Man]

You Never Give Me Your Money
I Saw Her Standing There
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

Runners up: everything else on Abbey Road.

 

[Marley's Ghost]

Getting better
Taxman
Come Together

and dozens of others.

I remember getting my first quality stereo system in the early 70's, putting on my Beatles records and having my world rocked by Sir Paul's extraordinary playing. I ran out and got a Ric, and the rest is history...

 

[woodyng]

Pick only 3!? It can't be done...too...many...great..basslines...oh the humanity!
Well,ok,Coming up,goodnight tonite,my brave face for some post-Beatles choices....not necessarily all that complicated,but the bass parts really help make the songs.
But really ....all of them!

 

[Bigjohn]

Abbey Road - the whole album is a bass masterpiece (Something, Here Comes The Sun, Mean Mister Mustard, I Want You (she's so heavy) ... Maxwell's Silver Hammer ... )
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Paul often laid down some of his best lines on John and George's songs.

 

[Tom Howland]

Just three ???

Hey Bulldog
Rain
Drive My Car

 

[Kmonk]

Are you sure? I think Paul played bass and lead guitar on that one...

There were several interviews published in the 1980s where George Harrison commented on Paul's bass lines and lead guitar playing on Taxman.

 

[GLEN18INCHSPICA]

Glad someone said Mr. Kite. I learned that a year ago & since forgot it. I was amazed by the inventiveness of that one, I would never have come up with anything remotely close to that bassline myself.

 

[Biggbass]

Drive my Car
With a Little Help from my Friends
Smile Away

 

[bill reed]

There were several interviews published in the 1980s where George Harrison commented on Paul's bass lines and lead guitar playing on Taxman.

the bass master book has Paul McCartney playing bass!!!

 

[htt]

9 oh 9
penny lane
come together

 

[SirMjac28]

All My Loving
I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Kansas City/ Hey,Hey,Hey,Hey

 

[harlon]

I've enjoyed reading all the opinions and discussions. I'm at the stadium and Paul comes on in a few hours! We're at the stadium grill/ bar and they're playing all Beatles songs and the whole place is singing along. Good times!

 

[TC2112]

Dig a Pony
Abbey Road Medley
Rain