SteveXFR

Land of sunshine - Faith No More

I guess Gojira and Mastadon are both kind of prog.

Land of rape and honey - Ministry

I know Mario Duplantier and Brann Dailor have both spent a lot of time learning to play jazz drums in order to become better metal drummers. Metal drummers have really been raising their standards in recent years. Danny Carey used to be in a whole different world to anyone else in metal but I think there's a few on his level now.

You think guitarists have money? What they did have they spent on an enormous pedal board and vintage Les Paul's.

Mother - Danzig

I sometimes visit their part of the stage to point and laugh at their girly little 100w amps and silly, weak, thin strings and steal their picks and beers

Anyone who doesn't use a pick is just too tight to buy one.

Here comes your man - Pixies

Green machine - Kyuss

I have no idea who any of them are. They all have names I can't pronounce so I assume they play the soccer ball

Woman - Wolfmother I'm guessing the next ten pages could be filled with songs with Woman in the title

Mario Duplantier has won every best metal drummer thing I've seen this year. Deservedly so, what he's doing is just incredible.

I'm definitely the second best bass player in our band.

Both of them would have to be above John Taylor using your logic because they've both sold more records. I think John Entwistle might have sold more as well, hes over 100 million.

By your logic, Paul McCartney, Nate Mendel and probably dozens of others are better because they've sold even more records.

16 Psyche - Chelsea Wolfe If you've never heard this, do yourself a favour and have a listen

There is no best bassist. Best bassist is just too vague and too subjective. To suggest anyone is the best and then think there can be no discussion or reasonable difference of opinion is just moronic.

So because he was there first he was the best bassist in 2021? What utter horse poop

I'm a fan of Mr Bungle and didn't know they did anything in 2021. I just googled incase I missed something and they didn't release anything in 2021

I was a teenage hand model - Queens Of The Stone Age

Going blind - Melvins

He has a point. At no point has it been specified that the best bassists can only be full time band members. A great bassist is a great bassist no matter what their chosen business model.

They did release a new album this year. It's very average. Not a single big song of the standard they used to make. For 2021 I'd have Troy Sanders, Ben Chisholm and Jean Michelle-Labadie in the top 10. All have new records released this year with excellent sounding bass. They aren't individually famous but that doesn't stop them being extremely good.

This isn't a list of the best bassists. It's a list of famous bassists in popular bands who play some interesting bass parts. They always ignore bassists who don't play anything fancy but hold together a band with absolutely solid timing, interesting rhythm and clever playing which is there to support the lead instruments and vocals.