Bass Lines That Everyone Recognises

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Maverick' post='1031240' date='Nov 21 2010, 11:15 AM']Can't believe no one's said Muse yet (I think) - Hysteria & Time Is Running Out

Massive Attack - Angel is very well known. At the very least, people will recognise it from some advert or another.

A couple, perhaps not for the average man on the street, but your average metal punter at least:

Megadeth - Peace Sells
Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls (although I always wonder how many think that's a guitar part)
Iron Maiden - Wrathchild[/quote]

[quote name='Doddy' post='1031257' date='Nov 21 2010, 11:28 AM']I wouldn't know any of these if you played them in full,let alone just the baselines.[/quote]
Nor me - although I'm vaguely familiar with Massive Attack but not that song.

[SaxxyBass]

[quote name='barneyg42' post='1031142' date='Nov 21 2010, 08:23 AM']Living on a Prayer-Bon Jovi. Did this for the first time last night and instant dancing was produced!

The Chain is in our setlist and one of my favourites, not just because of the F1 bass solo at the end but I love the vocals. Did a gig a while back and a guy came up to me afterwards and said " I loved the way you put the F1 theme at the end of that song, did you just decide to do that tonight as a jam or have you done it before!"
I nearly choked on my beer! But he was -30 years old so probably had genuinly never heard the song before. Made I larrf though it did![/quote]

Brilliant!


[quote name='Shambo' post='1031171' date='Nov 21 2010, 09:49 AM']...Wha about Around The World by Daft Punk?[/quote]

Brilliant track!


Here's one that ppl may not know (certainly not the average man on the street - their loss IMO ) - but umistakeable opening bass line [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3zbnkaP3QE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3zbnkaP3QE[/url]

Edited November 21, 2010 by SaxxyBass

[Doddy]

Maybe this thread should be renamed-
Basslines that everyone recognises if.....

A.... They're a certain age
B.... Of a certain genre persuasion
C.... Not Doddy or EssentialTension.

Seriously though,I know alot of songs,but there are a bunch here that I don't,and I reckon that lots of other people wouldn't either-especially just from the Bassline.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Doddy' post='1031290' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:07 PM']Maybe this thread should be renamed-
Basslines that everyone recognises if.....

A.... They're a certain age
B.... Of a certain genre persuasion
C.... Not Doddy or EssentialTension.

Seriously though,I know alot of songs,but there are a bunch here that I don't,and I reckon that lots of other people wouldn't either-especially just from the Bassline.[/quote]
There is another possibility:

D.... They watch a lot of TV adverts

[Raslee]

Of course -

1) Stir it up - Bob Marley & The Wailers

2) Riders on the Storm - The Doors

3) Dance wiv me - Dizzy Rascal

4) I feel good - James Brown!!!

[chris_b]

[quote name='Doddy' post='1031290' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:07 PM']....Maybe this thread should be renamed-
Basslines that everyone recognises if.....

A.... They're a certain age
B.... Of a certain genre persuasion
C.... Not Doddy or EssentialTension.

Seriously though,I know alot of songs,but there are a bunch here that I don't,and I reckon that lots of other people wouldn't either-especially just from the Bassline....[/quote]
+1

What a strange thread. Most of these posts are just fantasy! Very few people who are not musicians would associate a line of music to a bass! To Joe Public it's just a song. They don't deconstruct a song they just listen to the whole.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Johnston' post='1031310' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:27 PM']Thats it everyone I know knows phantom ...[/quote]
Does 'everyone I know' include your granny, the bloke in the corner shop, your cousin's boyfriend, that weird guy at work, and the violinist from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra who you once bumped into down the pub? Or is it just your mates, who are also Iron Maiden fans?

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='chris_b' post='1031319' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:38 PM']+1

What a strange thread. Most of these posts are just fantasy! Very few people who are not musicians would associate a line of music to a bass! To Joe Public it's just a song. They don't deconstruct a song they just listen to the whole.[/quote]
Nicely put ... but I suspect, with many of the songs referred to here, Joe Public (whoever he is) hasn't even listened to the whole let alone memorised the bassline. Fantasy is correct.

Edited November 21, 2010 by EssentialTension

[indiegrungesound]

"Lust For Life" Iggy Pop.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Johnston' post='1031332' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:49 PM']Actually non of my mates are Maiden fans and bar a few albums I wouldn't class my self as one I like them and think Steve Harris is a mighty bassist but .

But I'm mighty disappointed that Phantom is the one song being picked on in the thread

Is there any song everyone would know?? never mind the bassline? The Chain is probably the most recognised bass riff but play the rest of the song and no one knows it.[/quote]
There are perhaps a few songs that many many people at least in the UK and US would know - for example, [i]Happy Birthday to You[/i], which the [i]Guinness Book of Records[/i] cites as the most recognised song in the English language, then [i]For He's a Jolly Good Fellow[/i] and [i]Auld Lang Syne[/i].

In the section of [i]The Chain[/i] that is most commonly recognised, the bass line operates as a melody line and not as a bass line as such even though it's played in the bass register.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='indiegrungesound' post='1031336' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:52 PM']"Lust For Life" Iggy Pop.[/quote]
Well, I know that one, but I must know about a hundred people who don't.

[warwickhunt]

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1031341' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:57 PM']In the section of [i]The Chain[/i] that is most commonly recognised, the bass line operates as a melody line and not as a bass line as such even though it's played in the bass register.[/quote]

Now you're being silly!

It is a line/lick/riff played on the bass so by my definition it is a bassline; come on now, to say that it doesn't count because it is a 'melody line' is being a bit pedantic with the definition of bassline.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='1031365' date='Nov 21 2010, 01:30 PM']Now you're being silly!

It is a line/lick/riff played on the bass so by my definition it is a bassline; come on now, to say that it doesn't count because it is a 'melody line' is being a bit pedantic with the definition of bassline. [/quote]
I didn't say it didn't count. I meant that it stands out because it is the melody line, so making people more likely to remember it. That's all, no pedantry intended. I stand by what I said although perhaps I ought to have made my meaning more explicit.

Edited November 21, 2010 by EssentialTension

[risingson]

Billie Jean.

This thread is full of bass lines so many people aren't going to know but I can guarantee that's the one that's the best known.

[Doddy]

[quote name='Johnston' post='1031332' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:49 PM']But I'm mighty disappointed that Phantom is the one song being picked on in the thread [/quote]

I'm not picking on 'Phantom.....',it could just as easily have been the Daft Punk tune.

[Michaelg]

white rabbit, for sure:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw[/url]

this scott walker track had some groundbreaking bass when it came out:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zgdGQB4S4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zgdGQB4S4[/url]

[Mog]

Just to cover all angles i'm going with 'My Girl' and 'Ride of the Valkyries'

[arthurhenry]

As I said, The Joker, Daytripper and Pretty woman. I honestly think these would be recognised by many people in the street, even if they said "oh yeah, that's that Beatles song".
There's one way to find out - who's got a battery powered amp?

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Michaelg' post='1031435' date='Nov 21 2010, 02:44 PM']white rabbit, for sure:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw[/url]

this scott walker track had some groundbreaking bass when it came out:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zgdGQB4S4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zgdGQB4S4[/url][/quote]
I really like both of those but I'd say over 99% of people wouldn't recognise either of the basslines.

EDIT: I don't think they would recognise the songs let alone the basslines.

EDIT 2: Inability to write sensible English.

Edited November 21, 2010 by EssentialTension

[bartelby]

I guess there aren't any basslines that EVERYONE knows.

[Michaelg]

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1031468' date='Nov 21 2010, 03:13 PM']I really like both of those but I'd say over 99% of people wouldn't recognise either of the basslines.

EDIT: I don't think they wouldn't recognise the songs let alone the basslines.[/quote]

i think a lot of people would recognise the white rabbit bassline, its been used quite a lot (sopranos, alice in wonderland, fear and loathing in las vegas)

[Doddy]

[quote name='Michaelg' post='1031480' date='Nov 21 2010, 03:22 PM']i think a lot of people would recognise the white rabbit bassline, its been used quite a lot (sopranos, alice in wonderland, fear and loathing in las vegas)[/quote]

Hmmmmmmmm

[ZMech]

[quote name='Michaelg' post='1031480' date='Nov 21 2010, 03:22 PM']i think a lot of people would recognise the white rabbit bassline, its been used quite a lot (sopranos, alice in wonderland, fear and loathing in las vegas)[/quote]

I think there may be a generation gap involved here. I don't think most of my friends have listened to jefforson airplane, and I only have as my mum's a fan.

I think i'd agree with something more like Billy Jean/Brown Eyed Girl.

[iconic]

Power Of Love...by Huey Lewis

[Michaelg]

[quote name='Doddy' post='1031492' date='Nov 21 2010, 03:33 PM']Hmmmmmmmm [/quote]

i guess i'm not with the times