GisserD Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 As a bit of light relief from all things covid, I thaught we could all get to know each other a little... (musically speaking) This is a chance to create a playlist/album of songs that best represent you as a musician. This might be where you are right now, or where you have come from. A window into your musical soul 10 tracks or 45 mins MAX. (preferably Spotify/youtube playlist so we can all get to know eachother without to many clicks) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4000 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 45 mins for 10 tracks cuts out many of my favourite and most influential tracks, which are up to a side long! Ok, quick stab using 10 shorter tracks: Dancing Queen - ABBA Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel California Dreaming - Mamas & The Papas Future Love Paradise - Seal Wish You Were - Pink Floyd Parallels - Yes Pyramid Song - Radiohead Vitamin - The Sugarcubes Karate - Babymetal Banks of the Nile - Fotheringay 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itu Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I would put it this way: these songs have widened my understanding a lot, although I am not able to ever reach their level. My point of view to bass is probably a bit too technical (in terms of technology), although I love my instrument and her sound. 9 bass players anything from Domenico Dragonetti anything from Niels-Henning Ørstedt-Pedersen anything from CAB4 Victor Bailey - Round midnight Fernando Saunders - Sussan Pekka Pohjola - How about today Edgar Meyer - Webbed feet Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Kimono queen Wendy & Lisa - Waterfall 11 something else Jeff Beck - Come dancing Suzanne Vega - The queen and the soldier Pan sonic - About insects Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass culture Kraftwerk - Computer world (the original German version) Florence Foster-Jenkins - Die Zauberflöte Basia - cruising for bruising Jackson Browne - Nothing but time King Sunny Ade and his African Beats - Ma jaiye oni Paco de Lucia - Alta mar (Live... One summer night.) Gene Krupa big band - Slow down (vocals Anita O'Day) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bo0tsy Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) My list would change daily as I always have music on in the background whilst I'm working. I've been doing a lot of digging in the crates of old some pretty obscure old funk and jazz and break beats recently as well as some newer stuff... Lonnie Smith - Spinning Wheel Labi Siffre - I Got The... Kleeer - Intimate Connection Bernard Wright - Haboglabotripin' A Tribe Called Quest - Jazz (We've Got) Medline - Tiens le an mouvement Thundercat - Show You The Way Apache - Incredible Bongo Band George and Gwen McCrae - The Rub Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves the Sunshine Edit: And here's a playlist... Edited April 23, 2020 by Bo0tsy Added playlist 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4000 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I’ll add that my tracks were off the top of my head and influential in my development as a musician, not necessarily as a bass player. I’m really a writer who happens to play bass as his first instrument. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamg67 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) Only 10 is hard. I could change this for 10 completely different ones, but I've had a go. All probably songs that moved me on a bit musically when I heard them, all songs that I still think are great: Nina Simone - Feeling Good John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze The White Stripes - Little Cream Soda Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away Muse - Plug In Baby Primal Scream - Get Duffy Leftfield - Inspection (Check One) Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still I'll try and do a playlist if I get chance Edited April 23, 2020 by adamg67 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthedog Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 No need to put a list together, I am represented by "The Big Blue Book of Bass for Beginners - 10 songs you can play with one note". Less Teen Town, more Dakota. Oddly @adamg67's list above is not too far away from what I would have truly gone for. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthedoghouse Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 3 hours ago, itu said: Florence Foster-Jenkins - Die Zauberflöte Ha ha, brilliant - I never thought I'd see her mentioned on here 🙂 And let's not forget her pianist, Cosme McMoon 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassfinger Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Played these today, about 45 minutes worth as it happens... Doctor doctor - UFO Sunshine of your love - Cream Roll over lay down - Status Quo Hold the line - Toto Just what I needed - the cars Burn the witch - QOTSA Love is the drug- Roxy Music Come on home - Franz Ferdinand Damage Case - Motorhead My Sharona - The Knack While my guitar gently weeps - George Harrison, Clapton, and a couple of random losers. That's where I'm at. No interest in trying to be the next Jaco, just want to be a competent and accomplished bassist playing rock choons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthedoghouse Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) I'm staying away from album tracks or I'll be trying to decide 10 all night, and then change my mind over and over. So here are 10 singles that made the most impact on me when I was just 'discovering' music. It was hearing Voodoo Child on the radio in 1970 that made me want to pick up a guitar in the first place. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix Experience Black Night - Deep Purple Paranoid - Black Sabbath Back Street Luv - Curved Air 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago Devil's Answer - Atomic Rooster Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who In My Own Time - Family Lady Eleanor - Lindisfarne My Sweet Lord - George Harrison Edited April 23, 2020 by inthedoghouse 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinnDave Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 45 minutes? Well, this is close at just over 46 https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1974/05/21/playin-in-the-band?source=90397 (and yes, we do play this but not quite as long as this version!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 (edited) Very hard to compile a definitive list, but here’s a potted history. Very rarely listen to much music these days, so my list ends somewhere in the 80’s. But by then I’d settled on my sound/style I suppose. But here’s a playlist. Notable bassists here include: Andy Fraser, Dee Murray, Kenny Passrrelli, Percy Jones, Pierre Brock, Bernard Edwards. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47wCgfOyZlno96WKqEFF7u?si=UGooDgV8RgS2OjI5nIZ8Ig So it doesn’t look like I can embed the link....oh well. I’ll hum them for you if you call me. Oh, it has embedded. I won’t hum then, we’ll not like that anyway. Edited April 24, 2020 by oldslapper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 With a couple of substitute tracks, a version of my Facebook 10 albums that influenced you: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5FgVMSZGKFL7oHSrlQXSjV 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 (edited) I wouldn't dare insult musicians by including myself as one and I don't have accounts with Spotty or YT. But in the spirit of this thread, bits of tunage that still get me going after many years and that I wish I'd written.. Wide open space - Mansun Bohemian like you -Dandy Warhols Space shanty - Leftfield Raise (63 steps to heaven mix) - Bocca Juniors East River - Brecker Brothers ..a monster of a heavy funk tune with Neil Jason on bass and vocals Holidays in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys We don't need this fascist groove thing - Heaven 17 Empire state human -Human League Rez/cowgirl -Underworld Templehead (Isis mix)- Transglobal Underground Edited April 24, 2020 by Barking Spiders 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamg67 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Some great tracks there @Barking Spiders 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Well the playlist that best represents me as a musician would be tracks that I wrote and/or played on: 1. The Midnight Circus: Pre-Natal Counselling From the cassette album "Pre-Natal Counselling" (Bland Craze Recordings/Deleted Records 1980) re-released on the CD "Richard, Roger, Rodney, Rastus, Raoul, Roderick, Randy, Rupert" (Hyped To Death 2003) 2. The Perfect Party: Sex In A Glass From the Radio Nottingham cassette compilation album "The Bomb Party" (Radio Nottingham 1982) 3. SSURAEA: Melodramatics From the cassette EP "Plug Into Electric Living" (Beat Trouser 1984) 4. Senior Love Daddy: Assassin Limited edition 10" white label (White Label 1990) 5. Optimum: Love Junkie From the CD EP "Love Junkies" (Aster 1997) re-released as SugarBox on the "Skin-Tight" digital album (Aster 2011) 6. SugarBox: Skin-Tight Recorded 2000, released on the "Skin-Tight" digital album (Aster 2011) 7. Mabel's Husbands: Pest From the CD "...I Direct" (Mabel's Husbands 2009) 8. Dìck Venom & The Terrortones: Invasion Of The Spider Queen From the EP "Invasion Of The Spider Queen" (Jailhouse Morgue 2013) 9. The Death Notes: Syncretize From the EP "The Black" (Sonic Disruptor 2018) 10. Hurtsfall: Calling Out Digital single (Sonic Disprutor 2109) Apologies for all the tracks I couldn't links for, even in this digital age where almost everything is on-line somewhere if you look hard enough! I'll try and get them up on a Soundcloud playlist at the weekend. But if you want me to do this like everyone else has done here's my list of influences in chronological order: 1. The Pretty Things: Cries From The Midnight Circus 2. The Sweet: Hell Raiser 3. Cabaret Voltaire: Nag Nag Nag 4. Comsat Angels: Total War 5. The Human League: Being Boiled 6. Freur: Doot-Doot 7. Underworld: ME 8. The Postal Service: The District Sleeps Tonight 9. The Birthday Massacre: Goodnight 10. IAMX: Stardust All together on this Spotify Playlist 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Wow! You lot are far more interesting than my boring list. I’m going to have a fest of listening tonight. Looking forward to hearing your originals @BigRedX😎 Good thread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GisserD Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 Ok, heres my contrubution https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5OsluIwyJYZKLYpS8Hf9U6?si=ZPimVMKNRJiztGnVmRXADg Enjoy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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