Bass Lines That Everyone Recognises

[Dandelion]

Last splash - The Breeders..

[keving]

Disco Inferno

[paul_5]

[quote name='chaypup' post='1030901' date='Nov 20 2010, 10:00 PM']Groove is in the heart

Express yourself[/quote]

Wasn't the 'Groove is in the heart' line pinched from "Bring down the birds"? - I [i]think[/i] it's a Herbie Hancock tune...

[steve-soar]

[quote name='paul_5' post='1030931' date='Nov 20 2010, 10:32 PM']Wasn't the 'Groove is in the heart' line pinched from "Bring down the birds"? - I [i]think[/i] it's a Herbie Hancock tune...[/quote]It certainly was.

[SaxxyBass]

Miles Davis' "So What" (for the average jazz man on the street )

Enjoy [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4TbrgIdm0E"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4TbrgIdm0E[/url]

[SaxxyBass]

[quote name='steve-soar' post='1030935' date='Nov 20 2010, 10:35 PM']It certainly was.[/quote]

I love that track....now I know why

[paul_5]

[quote name='SaxxyBass' post='1030940' date='Nov 20 2010, 10:39 PM']I love that track....now I know why [/quote]

Plus Bootsy Collins in the mix. Win.

[Doddy]

There certainly are a lot being mentioned that the vast majority of people wouldn't have a clue about.

[Bass_Guardian]

[quote name='Doddy' post='1030954' date='Nov 20 2010, 10:47 PM']There certainly are a lot being mentioned that the vast majority of people wouldn't have a clue about.[/quote]
I dont know half the songs people are mentioning tbh...

[Musky]

[quote name='Bass_Guardian' post='1030962' date='Nov 20 2010, 10:52 PM']I dont know half the songs people are mentioning tbh...[/quote]
...and I'm pretty sure my mum wouldn't know any of them.

Is there really a song that everybody recognises, let alone a bassline?

[Bass_Guardian]

[quote name='Musky' post='1030980' date='Nov 20 2010, 11:09 PM']...and I'm pretty sure my mum wouldn't know any of them.

Is there really a song that everybody recognises, let alone a bassline? [/quote]
Everyone knows Barbie girl surely...

[EssentialTension]

There's loads being mentioned that I haven't got the slightest idea about the bass line, I don't even know the song, and sometimes don't even know the band.

[icastle]

[quote name='Doddy' post='1030954' date='Nov 20 2010, 10:47 PM']There certainly are a lot being mentioned that the vast majority of people wouldn't have a clue about.[/quote]

I can't even work out which is the band name and which is the song title on most of them!

[purpleblob]

Well being that Bernard Edwards bassline for Chic's "Good Times" also appears in Michelle Gayles "Happy Just to be with You", The Sugar Hill Gangs "Rapper's Delight", Will Smith's "It's all good", Beverley Knight's "Made it Back" and I think all were pretty big sellers - then this is THE bass line everyone probably recognises most (musicians and the general listener).

EDIT: Even has it's own wiki page [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Times_(Chic_song)"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Times_(Chic_song)[/url]

EDIT2: Oh and for people with no interest in music it's got to be that small fragmant of Fleetwood Mac's The Chain, solely because it's the F1 theme

Edited November 21, 2010 by purpleblob

[Bassman Sam]

For guys like me in their '50's, Badge by Cream is a nice one.

[purpleblob]

[quote name='Bassman Sam' post='1031042' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:13 AM']For guys like me in their '50's, Badge by Cream is a nice one.[/quote]

Not Sunshine of your love ?

EDIT: Then again it's played in unison with the guitar maybe peope wouldn't even notice the bass, so you may well be right

EDIT2: If you're a certain age - MC Hammer's Can't touch this is pretty recognisable

Edited November 21, 2010 by purpleblob

[Clarky]

Dock of the bay - Otis Redding

Jammin - Bob Marley

Blue Monday - New Order

For those of us from the 70s, Ain't no Stoppin Us now - McFadden and Whitehead (my favourite ever disco song) and Night to Remember - Shalamar

[Marvin]

[quote name='Bass_Guardian' post='1030962' date='Nov 20 2010, 10:52 PM']I dont know half the songs people are mentioning tbh...[/quote]

Glad it's not just me then

[leschirons]

I would guess the man in the street is only likely to put a name to the song where the bassline actually starts the song.

I don't think the punters would recognise anything I play, but then again nor do the band.

[steve-soar]

[quote name='purpleblob' post='1031032' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:01 AM']Well being that Bernard Edwards bassline for Chic's "Good Times" also appears in Michelle Gayles "Happy Just to be with You", The Sugar Hill Gangs "Rapper's Delight", Will Smith's "It's all good", Beverley Knight's "Made it Back" and I think all were pretty big sellers - then this is THE bass line everyone probably recognises most (musicians and the general listener).

EDIT: Even has it's own wiki page [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Times_(Chic_song)"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Times_(Chic_song)[/url]

EDIT2: Oh and for people with no interest in music it's got to be that small fragmant of Fleetwood Mac's The Chain, solely because it's the F1 theme[/quote]I think this is true.

[Lysdexia]

Dancing in the Moonlight - Thin Lizzy.

[Delberthot]

She Bangs the Drums by the Stone Roses, Disco Inferno by the Trammps

Edited November 21, 2010 by Delberthot

[Lysdexia]

[quote name='leschirons' post='1031057' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:25 AM']I would guess the man in the street is only likely to put a name to the song where the bassline actually starts the song.[/quote]

An all too common conversation.

Them: "Oh your a musican - what do you play?"
Me: "I'm a bass player."
Them: "That's a guitar, right?"

[icastle]

Kinda loathe to suggest it but...

"You're the one that I want" from Grease..?

[Stingray5]

"Nothing Like This" (Omar).