High Melodic Basslines...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYBthbXHX7o

I think we could find a lot of motownish examples

space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:34 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND-iW51idC0

space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:37 (eleven years ago) link

While The Beatles have some great bass parts, I can't think of any songs where the bass carries the melody of the song.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, March 6, 2013 1:37 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink


The Tame Impala song the OP posted doesn't exactly do that, anyway.

kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:44 (eleven years ago) link

fuck, i totally forgot mentioning michael rother. so obviously influential...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHrpxuXNY1U

cock chirea, Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:57 (eleven years ago) link

sweeeeeeeeet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31P1F1q5sGM

cock chirea, Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:58 (eleven years ago) link

groooovey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTYgGit-TYI

cock chirea, Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link

c'mon, that 4-note sliding riff on "come together" IS the song
word

billstevejim, Thursday, 7 March 2013 08:08 (eleven years ago) link

This was always my favorite of the songs that came out of the post-Rapture 'dance punk' glut of the early aughts, and I get this bassline stuck in my head from time to time ("Between Us & Them" by Moving Units):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ztFbhM5caw

Walter Galt, Thursday, 7 March 2013 09:32 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ztFbhM5caw

Walter Galt, Thursday, 7 March 2013 09:32 (eleven years ago) link

ALL of these threads deteriorate into "Basslines that I like". Yet I read them, which makes me the bigger idiot.

Three Word Username, Thursday, 7 March 2013 10:05 (eleven years ago) link

Not sure if this really fits itt but it's a killer bass line and it carries the song so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRhCk-KZbtQ

my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 7 March 2013 10:42 (eleven years ago) link

Intro to For Whom the Bell Tolls, motherfuckers.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 8 March 2013 10:31 (eleven years ago) link

chris squire owns this thread

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 8 March 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link

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.... the rest look like Dudley Sutton (Tom D.), Friday, 8 March 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link


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