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1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I am struggling a bit...  We Didn't Start the Fire doesn't seem to go below E and 95% of Like  prayer doesn't have bass in it (although what there is is simple and fun).

Just listen carefully. Almost whole chorus is based on open E, low D and low C. 

We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel
Give Into Me by Michael Jackson
Human by Human League 
2geter by NPG
Two Hearts by Phil Collins
Gettin Away from It by Electronic
Many Santana last 4-5 albums songs are with a lot of low notes 
Devil's Pie, Lady, Higher by D'Angelo
Last album of Daft Punk - Random Access Memories - lot of low notes by Nathan East and James Genus. (Especially Nathan play a lot of low accents in his bass lines). 
Lot's of modern soul, R&B and Pop music have a lot of low notes too. It's hard to list. Maby because most of the songs don't need nothing below low E
Well that's for sure. Those songs without those low rumble notes don't exist. But for me I don't like how those low notes interfere with a band. Most of the time it doesn't work and sound at all. But some songs sound good with notes below E. 

I know this from my personal experience that most of the songs sounds good in standard tuning. Just a couple of times maby MD's wanna low Eb or D in one or two songs but that's it. That's why I still don't have 5 sting bass. Just tune down when I need some lower notes. But that's just me And I played everything from punk, rock, blues, funk, reagge and everything between. 

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John Deacon of course I remember when I heard Liar bass solo when I was 6 or 7. Immediately knew that playing bass is what I wanna do in life :