Three Days - Jane's Addiction
Get Up And Jump - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anything Primus
Anything Rush
True Dreams Of Wichita - Soul Coughing
46 & 2 - Tool
Cannonball - The Breeders
London Calling - The Clash
No One's Leaving - Jane's Addiction

Richard Davis' bass on Astral Weeks is sublime. It transforms The Way Young Lovers Do from a sappy song to a classic track.

evil - interpol, so amazing

John Entwistle!
 

Unless I missed it, I'm very surprised nobody has mentioned The Real Me by the Who. That's the first song I always think of when bass is mentioned.

The whole Metal Box album by Public Image Ltd. is filled with brilliant bass.

Jah Wobble is one of the reason I started playing bass. I remember hearing First Issue and being blown away not by the guitar but by the dub bass. Metal Box is also filled with great dub bass, Swan Lake & Memories.

FFFFFUUUUCK YEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!a

Ok i was torn about whether I should post the actual video for the song or the ols sk00l skate video where I first heard it so here's both

Firehose - Brave Captain


Natas Kaupas in Wheels of Fire

one of my favorite skate parts ever.

Yeah some of the shit he's doing seems ridiculously outdated, but other things like all the no comply based tricks are ill as fuck. Seriously have you ever seen anyone else do a one-footed 180 powerslide?

yeah god bless Natas, he's pretty responsible for things in skating today that are almost a standard but back then were unheard of.

Rodney Mullen is responsible for 90% of the tricks in skateboarding today and he's 47 and still tearing it up harder than anyone in the sport (last non-bass related post from me I promise).

yes of course, but Natas deserves a little bit of credit at least. hell, not a whole lot of people were doing wallrides and grinding down handrails before he came along.


(and yes this last non-bass related post from me too)

New Order like Joy Division always made prominent use of the bass by using it to carry the rhythm, so you get alot of great bass driven songs like Age of Consent.

Here's one for now:

^such an underrated song, one of my favorites on Lateralus, and yes, a great timbral combination of acoustic, electric, and harmonics-laden bass guitars. Songs like "46 & 2" and "Schism" would also fit in well here for their memorable basslines.

im quite surprised that no one mentioned incubus... at least the old incubus had some really great bass lines like psychisilocybin or are you in

True dat. Peter Hook is the best.

my personal favourite runs a little counter to the busy lines most people drop in threads like these. all of 6 notes but such an amazing feel

^My favourite Jane's Addiction song (though I've only heard that one album).

Lady Cab Driver by Prince has some nice funky bass work, as do many other Prince tracks. Can't YouTube link them though, obviously.

Something - Beatles (McCartney)
Old Brown Shoe - Beatles (McCartney, or Harrison)
Silly Love Songs - McCartney & Wings
If You Want Me To Stay - Sly & The Family Stone (Larry Graham)
Roundabout - Yes (Chris Squire)
Yazoo Street Scandal - The Band (Rick Danko)
Up On Cripple Creek - The Band (Danko)
Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing - Marvin ***e & Tammi Terrell (James Jamerson)
Cissy Strut - The Meters (George Porter, Jr.)
Coyote - Joni Mitchell (Jaco Pastorius)
400 Years - Wailers (Aston Barrett)
Magnificent Seven - The Clash (Paul Simonon)

I can't find any more songs by this band on youtube, but i really dig their bass player. He's got a pretty unique style.

Prog really does a great job of showing off virtuosity on all instruments. The couple tracks posted are some highlights of the bass.

a few more candidates
 

My list below starts with song name, followed by artist and bass player in ().

"And Your Bird Can Sing" - Beatles (Paul McCartney)
"Got to Get You Into My Life" - Beatles (Paul McCartney)
"Octopus's Garden" - Beatles (Paul McCartney)
"Dreaming from the Waist" - Who (John Entwistle)
"Heaven and Hell" - Who (John Entwistle)
"Calodonia Mission" - Band (Rick Danko)
"King Harvest" (Has Surely Come)" - Band (Rick Danko)
"Stage Fright" - Band (Rick Danko)
"Police and Thieves" - Clash (Paul Simonen)
"(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" - Clash (Paul Simonen)
"Hitsville UK" - Clash (Paul Simonen)

IMHO, Paul McCartney and Rick Danko played melodic and memorable bass on almost every Beatles and Band song, and did so without showboating or upstaging the song. I consider McCartney to be the most melodic rock bassist, the great James Jamerson notwithstanding. I specifically cited the superficially superficial song "Octopus's Garden" to show how well McCartney served the song, regardless of its significance. Both are/were excellent musicians and vocalists whose contributions and talents were not limited to the bass. McCartney in particular contributed lead guitar to several Beatles songs, notably "Taxman", which was somewhat ironically written and sung by George Harrison, the Beatles's nominal lead guitar player.

PG

This has to be one of my favorite songs on bass. question: What is the bass players name on Wonders single Do I Do?

The Prodigy's smack my bitch up has good bass in it

my favourite bass-driven track is Primus' Jerry was a Race Car Driver

mind the god awful quality... stupid youtube.

Radiohead basslines are cool, they are warm and groove oriented. Tool had awesome basslines, the dude used a delay pedal mostly. So many great bass songs out there, could fill up page after page.

Some Massive Attack





Turn your bass up good and loud.

Haitian Fight Song - Charles Mingus

As expected, nobody mentioned a non-hit by a very underrated band.
Great White - Mista Bone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NjDmFKZJ6w

Anything by Iron Maiden, Korn, Rage Against The Machine and Faith No More

A bit of a necro bump here, but I'm looking for tunes to play in my car (I just got a new stereo that bumps pretty hard). Preferably something close to these:





I'm really out of touch with the techno dub stuff so any help would be appreciated.

Note for Batlord: Don't worry, I drove through the hood blasting Napalm Death, and Slayer when I first installed it.

Oooops, yeah this is in the wrong thread.

Here's a valid contibution to it: