Best 80's basslines?

[spectoremg]

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1448028233' post='2912470']
Can I add Madonna's Into The Groove to that? Synth bass, and awesome to boot.
[/quote]+1 more. I loved those '80's synth bass lines.

[squire5]

Do you Really Want To Hurt me by Culture Club.

[louisthebass]

Love the bass part in this - Ewan Vernal with the original Deacon Blue line up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIc_Bz-Seu0

[Japhet]

Fretless was in fashion. The Pino stuff for Paul Young, pretty much anything by Mick Karn. Who did the fretless stuff foe Nick Heywood/Haircut 100?

[Leonard Smalls]

[quote name='daz' timestamp='1331616125' post='1575838']

I remember dancing to this in Vogue night club[b]* [/b]in Chester, many a time.


[b]*[/b]Great club for a time, in the early 1980s They didnt let in people [i]improperly dressed[/i]. I remember seeing two incredulous guys in suits get turned away for being dressed wrong, as a guy in a donkey jacket dirty jeans and doc martens wandered past without a look from the bouncers. Ahh bliss and karmic re payment for all the times it was the other way round.
[/quote]

Vogue? Which one was that? (my memory's quite hazy from then!)
I used to go to Roxy Bowie night at Angels and Friday/Saturday at Olivers with my Dave Sylvian haircut and German Army black jodphurs.

[Leonard Smalls]

And while we're about it:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkMpQsVux3g[/media]

[kevin_lindsay]

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1448102802' post='2913022']
Fretless was in fashion. The Pino stuff for Paul Young, pretty much anything by Mick Karn. Who did the fretless stuff foe Nick Heywood/Haircut 100?
[/quote]

The fretless bass on Nick Haywards early stuff was Pino.

[Japhet]

Pretty obvious I guess. No wonder it sounded good!

Here's another one; Pigbag - Papas got brand new pigbag. Great groove.

[kusee pee]

[quote name='41.2Hz' timestamp='1448033038' post='2912542']
Sir Horace Gentleman - pretty much all of the first album by The Specials. This is why I play bass.

A special (no pun intended) mention for Nite Klub - part of my warm up to this day.
[/quote]

So many amazing 80s' bass lines but I'd forgotten Nite Klub. I remember learning it many years ago, an absolutely cracking line and great fun to play.

[DavidMcKay]

Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody.

Does it for me.

Edited November 21, 2015 by DavidMcKay

[gary mac]

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1448112929' post='2913122']


Here's another one; Pigbag - Papas got brand new pigbag. Great groove.
[/quote]

The groovy dude is amongst us

[Tradfusion]

Paul S Denman Sades bassist had some great lines... lovely pre-ernie Stingray too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W0ZWXq6kxE

[gt4ever]

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1448032633' post='2912534']
Nothing fancy, but very effective...
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIMlPygBV2o[/media]
[/quote]

If you like The Forest, the tree mix from Mixed Up Album is sublime.

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhpmhZxMp9k"]https://www.youtube....h?v=QhpmhZxMp9k[/url]

Edited November 21, 2015 by gt4ever

[spectoremg]

Alexander O'Neal, Criticize.

[kevin_lindsay]

Mantronix - "Got To Have Your Love". Great bassline

http://youtu.be/7z_dNHwlBzM

Edited November 21, 2015 by kevin_lindsay

[lowdown]

http://youtu.be/lfa7NjQx5fk

[Beedster]

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1448035366' post='2912582']
Although the album was released in 1979,
this track didn't hit the UK charts until 1980.
Does that count?
Narada Michael Walden (Killer Bass line and tricky to nail).
02:50, there is a breakdown of just Bass and Drums, and the Bass
really jumps out
http://youtu.be/dFSB_tbHb6Q
[/quote]

That is bass

[White Cloud]

"Head over heels" - Tears for Fears

[ambient]

Don't give up by Peter Gabriel. Probably featuring Tony Levin.

[Bilbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOm34SVz2K8

1986

[BrunoBass]

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1448141323' post='2913330']


That is bass
[/quote]

+1 for that. T.M. Stevens I think?

[kevin_lindsay]

Yup, "I shoulda Loved Ya" was T.M. Stevens on bass.

Another cracker - this time with Randy Jackson (of American Idol panel fame) on bass.

Narada Michael Walden "Divine Emotions"

http://youtu.be/1XCTNi_2AS4

[lowdown]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1448203473' post='2913617']
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOm34SVz2K8

1986
[/quote]

I was wondering when that was gonna turn up!...Lol...

Might as well throw this one in.
http://youtu.be/BUCKZFaAUFI

Edited November 22, 2015 by lowdown

[lonestar]

[quote name='risingson' timestamp='1331504340' post='1573984']
Don Henley - New York Minute. Cheesy, cheesy as anything, massive guilty pleasure but one of the best fretless bass parts on record. Pino Palladino at his finest. I don't tell anyone that I listen to it though
[/quote]

Here here

[spectoremg]

[quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1448142215' post='2913336']
"Head over heels" - Tears for Fears
[/quote]Nice one.