The NME "Best Bass Player" vote

[toneknob]

[url="http://www.nme.com/rate/bassplayer/start"]http://www.nme.com/rate/bassplayer/start[/url]

Last time I looked, Jaco was on 4.63 out of 10, and the chap from Arctic Monkeys was doing better than James Jamerson.

[pantherairsoft]

Hmmm some odd results in there to say the least... more a vote of which bands NME readers like, rather than the skill of the bands bassists it seems...

[BottomEndian]

[quote name='toneknob' post='557668' date='Aug 1 2009, 11:28 AM'][url="http://www.nme.com/rate/bassplayer/start"]http://www.nme.com/rate/bassplayer/start[/url]

Last time I looked, Jaco was on 4.63 out of 10, and the chap from Arctic Monkeys was doing better than James Jamerson.[/quote]
Apparently some guy called Roger Walters plays bass for Pink Floyd.

[Tusknia]

Also apparently Krist Novoselic thinks he's the new messiah.

[BigRedX]

Steve Harris is so good he's in twice...

[pantherairsoft]

[quote name='BigRedX' post='557683' date='Aug 1 2009, 11:43 AM']Steve Harris is so good he's in twice...[/quote]

hahaha... awesome... but he isn't!

[BottomEndian]

I haven't even been near any incarnation of the NME for years, and this page sums up why: [url="http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&title=greatest_bass_players_have_your_say&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1"]Greatest Bass Players - Have Your Say[/url]

Here's my favourite bit of bulls**t:
[quote]You look at Johnny Marr, or John Squire, or Eddie Van Halen, and you think, yes, I'd kill to be able to play like that. Conversely, you observe the masters of the bassist's art – people like Jaco Pastorius and Pino Palladino, with their liquid, fretless, floppy-fingered ways – and you think, hmm, perhaps I'll leave it.[/quote]
No, I don't think that at all. I think the opposite of that.

[bubinga5]

and the chap from Arctic Monkeys was doing better than James JamersonQUOTE>>>>

Ha Ha..hillarious....Just goes to show how pointless it is

Edited August 1, 2009 by bubinga5

[RhysP]

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='557678' date='Aug 1 2009, 11:36 AM']Apparently some guy called Roger Walters plays bass for Pink Floyd. [/quote]
Not to mention Thin Lizzy's legendary Phil Lycott.......

Considering the NME is basically a kiddies comic & fashion magazine I'm really surprised at some of the names on that list.

[Rich]

Bloke from Nirvana - 4th
Jamerson - 15th
Jaco - nowhere

Ridiculous 'poll'.

[toneknob]

This made me laugh, on the "Have Your Say" page

"Don't be ridiculous. Next week we're doing 50 most punctual roadies"

[chris_b]

[quote name='RhysP' post='557689' date='Aug 1 2009, 11:54 AM']....Considering the NME is basically a kiddies comic & fashion magazine I'm really surprised at some of the names on that list....[/quote]
The NME's been fancy bog roll since the 60's.

[leftybassman392]

Last time I even looked at one of those 'polls' it was for, I think, 'World's best Guitarist' or something. As I recall Noel Gallacher was about 9th, and Alan Holdsworth didn't make it onto the list. Told me everything I needed to know and I haven't gone near them since.

[Protium]

[quote name='Rich' post='557699' date='Aug 1 2009, 12:14 PM']Bloke from Nirvana - 4th
Jamerson - 15th
Jaco - nowhere

Ridiculous 'poll'.[/quote]

Thats because no one listens to jazz

[toneknob]

[quote name='chris_b' post='557705' date='Aug 1 2009, 12:21 PM']The NME's been fancy bog roll since the 60's.[/quote]

I wouldn't - the ink rubs off.

(well it did in the late 80s)

[Doddy]

*Points at 'poll' and laughs at how pointless NME really is*

[Moos3h]

Alex James (Blur) - Best Bass Line = Beetlebum.

What the hell?

[harvey1-8]

It's a popularity contest. Wait till the Muse fans get a whiff of this. They're always rigging NME polls.

[BottomEndian]

[quote name='Moos3h' post='557717' date='Aug 1 2009, 12:30 PM']Alex James (Blur) - Best Bass Line = Beetlebum.

What the hell?[/quote]
Yeah, there're a few weird choices for "Best Bass Line". I mean, what about "There's No Other Way" or "Girls & Boys"?

And "This Charming Man" for Andy Rourke? Probably one of his most staid, root-heavy lines. Hmmm.

[yituool]

Hardly anyone has been rated above 5. People are probs giving them 1 if they've never heard of them.

Also, Rob Trujilo didn't play bass on St. Anger, Bob Rock did. So it seems a bit ignorant of them to put his greatest bassline as Some Kind Of Monster (it should clearly be a Suicidal Tendencies/Infectious Grooves song anyway)

[YouMa]

Id rather read take a break,than NME, bring back melody maker.

[skankdelvar]

I'd rather read "Squirrel Monthly" - amazed NME still going.

Bring back Sounds (w/o Bushell, the beady-eyed, no-neck arm-twitcher)

Edited August 1, 2009 by skankdelvar

[SteveO]

I honestly thought that NME had folded (no pun intended) years and years ago. My only real memory of it was that it was terrible as emergency loo paper. Probably because it was so full of sh!t that the paper couldn't hold any more.

[steve-soar]

Check out its 20 loudest bands bit. Gotta love a bit of Butthole's and Sunn (((O))).

[thebeat]

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='557674' date='Aug 1 2009, 11:33 AM']Hmmm some odd results in there to say the least... more a vote of which bands NME [b]readers[/b] like, rather than the skill of the bands bassists it seems...[/quote]



...i thought this said: 'more a vote of which bands NME [b]retards[/b] like...' and on reflection it probably should.