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NME: Greatest basslines


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That was a last-minute-on-Friday-whack-something-out-and-lets-go-to-the-pub piece if ever I saw one. Still, makes you think don't it?

Honourable mentions to:

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (perpetual motion redefined)
This Charming Man (Andy Rourkes Finest Moment in a career full of Fine Moments)
Chameleon (is Synth Bass allowed?)
Mayor Of Simpleton (Colin FREAKIN' Moulding)
Burlesque (there's nowhere near enough love for John Wetton round these parts)
Free Will (Definitive Geddy)
Ozone Baby (John Paul Jones whips it out)

And others.

That was fun....

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Great bassline on Music for Chameleons...Pino Palladino wasnt it?
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It certainly was, yeah. The dvd menu is Alan jumping around to the track, as you mention. But it is cleverly looped and all sub menus match up. Its a work of art.

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Rhythm Stick
The Real Me
Rio
Mr Big
Come Together
Town Called Malice
I Wish
Pump It Up
Wherever I Lay My Hat (or any of Pino's stuff from the first 2 Paul Young albums or Go West)
Red Rain (Sledgehammer, Big Time, Don't Give Up. Us is an absolute bass gold mine)

Oh the list is endless.

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After all the comments I was expecting something truly awful, but actually it's not that bad. At least half the tracks deserve to be there. I'd have gone for some more synth/sequenced bass like "Der Mussolini" and "I Feel Love", but that's just what I like...

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[quote name='jaydentaku' timestamp='1339965060' post='1697017']


I particularly like the way that Flea is the first thing you see, yet he isn't actually included. Which is fair enough, but Daft Punk and Interpol (?) is.

awesome
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I quite like his efforts on You Ought to Know - Alanis Morissette. Sp?

10 greatest bass lines? What makes a great bass line? I'll YouTube all those tunes tonight as I don't recognise a lot of them by name :(

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[quote name='WHUFC BASS' timestamp='1340016795' post='1697558']
You mean you had some respect for them in the first place ?
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Ha well I remember as a young teenager buying it in the run up to Leeds festival to try and figure out who would be playing. I say buying, I mean borrowing, I was always more of a Kerrang reader - though that's another weekly that's gone down the pan, around the time of the first wave of american emo bands (shudder shudder).

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[quote name='Lewk' timestamp='1340018782' post='1697597']
its all down to opinion, and my opinion is that list is S**T...

no entwistle? or jack bruce? the author of that article needs to re educate himself musically
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They are both fine bass players but memorable bass lines from them - not really...

There's the solo in "My Generation" but that's just a solo the rest of the song is all about the vocals

As for Jack Bruce, while there's plenty of notable guitar parts in Cream I doubt I'd be able to recognise any of his work from the bass line alone. In the end that's what it's all about.

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