I'll be honest the three albums I always come back to are:
1) Every Time I Die - "Hot Damn!"
2) Norma Jean - "Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child"
3) Stevie Wonder - "Songs in the Key of Life"
Bassist wise on the first two - nothing special, just hold the root, and ETID couldn't hold on to a bassist if their life depended on it. I think it was Nathan Watts on "Songs..."? Not sure about that though. Solid playing though .
Though at the moment I'm mostly listening to Paramore, The Mamas and the Papas, Jose Feliciano and The Smiths. Though the whole Paramore thing probably isn't so much to do with their music ...