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Bass Lines!
Thrillho:
Anything by Joy Division or New Order will typically have an awesome bassline. 'Crystal' comes to mind for some reason.
Roger Waters is a highly underrated bass player, I love the bassline on 'The Happiest Day Of Our Lives,' and also the subtlety of the low D note on 'Another Brick In The Wall (Part II).' Also, David Gilmour, because he played the fretless bass solos on 'Hey You.'
Whoever plays bass in Glassjaw does pretty well. I appreciate anyone who incorporates bass chords - so the guy from Cave In gets a nod as well.
Matt Sharpe, the founding bassist for Weezer has some awesome basslines as well as fantastic tone. And speaking of fantastic tones, the bass tone on 'Eternal Life' by Jeff Buckley blows my fucking MIND.
Be My Head:
How Could I
Koremora:
In Fiction by ISIS has a great bass line.
Hell, anything by ISIS has great bass. Jeff Caxide has this watery bass tone that just makes me need to change my pants.
spoon_of_grimbo:
Hot Water Music's "I Was On a Mountain" has some cool bass runs. In fact, on pretty much every album they've done, Jason Black has thrown down some awesome lines, without ever quite being showy about it.
also, i can't remember many track names as i haven't listened in AGES, but Opeth's "Morningrise" album is chock-full of awesome basslines. apparently they kicked out that bassist because he wouldn't relegate his playing to simple background stuff. huge mistake i reckon.
and "Alex Chilton" by The Replacements has a nice bassline.
Nappuccino:
The bassist from Dream theater is really good... when you can hear him. I swear, there are only 3-4 songs per album when the rest of the band is like "I guess we can let him out of the cellar..."
I know I'll probably get some grief for this, but I really like the bassist from King's of leon. A lot of their songs are saved by his melodic bass lines.
Anything Iron Maiden has awesome bass.
Menomena has some really great bass (though live they some times use keyboard instead of an actual bass depending on the song...and it usually isn't too technical, but it always feels right)
There's a live version of John Butler Trio's "Better Man" that has a pretty grooving double bass solo- definately worth checking out
Mars Volta- Their bass really holds their jam sections together. Again, nothing too technical, but it does so much for the song.
There's a series of jazz albums from miles davis in the med!a fire thread (cookin' steamin' workin' etc) that has some pretty killer bass stuff at times. its hard to pick a song out really... its all pretty damn neat.
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