Top 100 Basslines

100 - Kick In The Eye - Bauhaus

no Bootsy?

ESG - UFO

"Chest Fever" was robbed

you're right--swap "chest fever" for "life is a carnival"

No Level 42? ;-)

Looks like it's time for the final wrap-up.

no "wrap it up"?

I feel you, dan. "I Thank You" was also criminally ignored. I just wasn't fast enough on the draw.

1. Cavern - Liquid Liquid / White Lines - Gransmaster Flash & Melle Mel
2. "Third Uncle" - Brian Eno
3. "I'm The Man" - Joe Jackson
4. (not sure who), the "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" theme.
5. "Black Satin" by Miles Davis
6. Captain beefheart - Zig Zag Wanderer
7. "Thank You Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin" - Sly & the Family Stone
8. "Barney Miller" theme written by Jack Elliott & Allyn Ferguson
9. "The Five Percent Nation of Casiotone" by Soul Coughing
10. pere ubu - heart of darkness
11. Charles Mingus, "Haitian Fight Song."
12. Roni Size "Brown Paper"
13. Curtis Mayfield, "I'm Your Pusher."
14. Scott Grooves - Mothership Connection (Daft Punk Remix)
15. Socialist- Pil
16. Leave Me Alone - Peter Hook (New Order)
17. Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew, "The Super Bowl Shuffle."
18. Kick in the eye-Bauhaus
19. Young M.C., "Bust a Move"
20. Spacehog - In The Meantime
21. "Roundabout" - Yes
22. mission of burma - dead pool
23. Shoot You Down - APB
24. minutemen - life as a rehearsal
25. "De Futura" - Magma!!!
26. Alanis Morisette "You Oughtta Know"
27. Good Times--Chic
28. "Shake Hands With Beef" Primus
29. Rapture--Blondie
30. "Transmission" - Joy Division
31. stevie wonder - signed sealed delivered
32. "Billie Jean" - Michael Jackson
33. Cannonball - The Breeders
34. Joy Division, "She's Lost Control."
35. A Forest- The Cure
36. "Silly Little Love Songs" - P-Mac
37. Beatles, "Good Day Sunshine"
38. "Under Pressure" David Bowie/Queen
39. prince - head
40. "Oh, Yeah" by Can
41. "The Old Man's Back Again" by Scott Walker
42. "Moon Revolutions" by The Young Gods
43. "Jennifer" by Faust
44. Girl I've Got a Date - Alton Ellis
45. Dear Prudence – The Beatles
46. "Expressway to Your Heart" by the Soul Survivors
47. "Lady Don't Tekno" by Latyrx
48. "Up the Beach" Jane's Addiction
49. "Daddy Cool" Boney M
50. "Asbestos Lead Asbestos" World Domination Enterprises
51. Little Johnny Jewel - Television
52. For the Singer of REM - fIREHOSE
53. clementine ~ head nodder
54. adorable ~ kangaroo court
55. RS 2000 - E-Z Rollers
56. Barbarism begins at home' The Smiths
57. Comsat Angels -- "Our Secret"
58. "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King
59. lemon d ~ city lights
60. David Clayton Thomas gets foiled again
61. Red Krayola, "Black Snakes."
62. "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" by The Temptations
63. The Four Tops "I'll Be There."
64. Booker T & the MGs, "Green Onions."
65. i second that emotion - smokey robinson and the miracles
66. Junior Walker and the All-Stars, "Shotgun."
67. James Brown, "Superbad."
68. Big Black, "The Big Payback."
69. i can't help myself - four tops
70. The Beatles - "Taxman" (see also: The Jam, "Start")
71. I Heard Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
72. "This Heart of Mine" by the Isley Brothers
73. I'm Bad - LL Cool J
74. Wire, "Too Late."
75. "My Generation" The Who
76. I can't go for that - Hall & Oates
77. "Walk on By" by Isaac Hayes
78. Vaughn Mason: "Bounce Rock Skake Roll"
79. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: "Change Your Mind"
80. 'The Helicopter Tune' - Deep Blue
81. magazine - my mind ain't so open
82. "Barbary Coast" - Weather Report
83. "Nick the Stripper" - Birthday Party
84. Magnificent Seven - Clash
85. Girls & Boys - Blur
86. What Get's Heard -fIREHOSE
87. "Children Of The Grave" Black Sabbath
88. "Moonshake" by Can
89. "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell and the Drells
90. "Head Over Heels" by the Go-Go's
91. The Real Me -- The Who
92. Diana Ross - "I'm Coming Up Out"
93. Black Unity - Pharoah Sanders (Cecil McBee's bass awh!)
94. "A Night in Tunisia" - Dizzy Gillespie
95. dub be good to me - beats international
96. "The Love Cats" by The Cure
97. I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses
98. Disorder - Joy Division
99. Wayne Smith - Under Me Sleng Teng
100. With or Without You" by U2

Thank you all very much!

no reggae, except for 'Under Mi Sleng Teng' - famous for not having a bassline????

It's a tragedy that the Beatles' "Rain" wasn't mentioned. Paul McCartney's best work.

Alton Ellis is reggae...

[Rocksteady actually ;)]

didn't spot him there. still should be more than one though! (i guess you could include Beats International, since it's a common reggae bassline the Clash were using)

Even more interesting, no one mentioned Pink Floyd's "Money". I'd add that, The Charlatans' "I Don't Want To See The Sights", and The Jam's "In The City"

no reggae, except for 'Under Mi Sleng Teng' - famous for not having a bassline???? - how low do you have to go to call it a bassline?

THEME FROM SEINFELD

More importantly, no jungle or garage? Specifically, where is Back 2 Basic's "Horns For '94"???

there's Lemon D on the list... but that's it

um, i put lemon d in there tim (i know its not mucb but...)

Hmm actually there's Roni Size and Deep Blue on there as well.... That's what I get for skimming!

[i think it's cos they're not ordered consistently - some are artist first, some the other way round. very hard to read!]

for a bassline thread, this is extremely dance music unfriendly (and no afghan acid !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

wot no rothko?

I'm sorry but...

101: crash course in brain surgery - budgie / metallica.
102: last night a dj saved my life - in deep

Song From Under the Floorboards!

103. Gary Numan, "Metal"
104. Flying Burrito Brothers, "Wheels"
105. Herbie Hancock, "Hidden Shadows"
106. Miles Davis, "Bitches Brew"
107. Led Zeppelin, "Ramble On"

108. Afghan Whigs "White Trash Party"
109. Television "Elevation"
110. Kashmere Stage Band "Kashmere"
111. Duran Duran "Rio"

112. Paul van Dyk - Vega

113.Azzido Da Bass - Doom's Night (Timo Maas Mix)
114.Sasha - Cloud Cuckoo
115.Motorhead - Iron Fist
116.I-F - Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass

has nobody here heard "superstitious"?

*sob* fuck, can't believe I missed this one. Heart-rending. Where were The Verve? No 'Apache Rose Peacock'? No 'If You Have To Ask?'

weird. 100 top basslines and hardly any dance or reggae. Shoud be called 'top 100 basslines in genres for which the bass is little more than a backing instrument'.

I'm sorry, but any top 100 without

I should've Known Better - Mica Paris
Black Disciples - Burning Spear
Lucky - Lewis Taylor
No doubt about it - Hot Chocolate
Lost in music - Chic or
Po;ice and Thieves - the Clash

Is a top 94.

Jon, I was about to mention Lucky.

So if Superstitious is no.116 (obv sh/be much higher) then...

122. Primal Scream - Kill all hippies (or just about anything from xtrmntr)

Roger, which Verve were you thinking?

122-200. Behind the Counter - The Fall

Virtually anything off A Northern Soul; from the loping opening intro on 'New Decade' and on through to the swinging 'Life's An Ocean' and the lilting 'Stormy Coulds' outro Simon Jones is like a fucking hypnotist on that album and the consistent motifs and patterns that crop up throught the piece are a lesson in how to tie up an album.

Aaaaah. This is such a travesty it's untrue. 90% rock bands in a best bassline list? And no disco whatsoever?!? My shameful omissions:

Evelyn King - "Shame"
Aaliyah - "Try again"
Jermaine Jackson - "Erucu"
Whatnauts - "Help is on the way"
Remarc - "RIP"
Lone Ranger - "Barnabas Collins"
First Choice - "Dr Love"

Bad Luck - Harlold Melvin and The Blue Notes

First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder same bassline as Steve Silk Hurley - 'Jack Your Body

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Jan

Daft Punk - Around the World

I think that most people on this thread, myself included, interpreted "bassline" as something that a human being played on an actual bass guitar.

a what?

james brown - cold sweat

Breakbeat Era - Breakbeat Era
Squarepusher - Come On My Selector

I've been on ILM a long time and this is my first ever Trife / Jess *sigh* moment. Congrats.

Foxy Brown - Oh yeah

"mr pink" level 42 no 1 bassline go check it out.and what about "lessons in love" which is your fav l-42 bassline

Call and Response - "Blowin' Bubbles"

Duck Dunn, "Time is Tight"
Leroy Hodges, "Love Ritual"

i would like to nom Killer Joe when played by James Jamerson and Bernard Edwards Savior Faire.