What's your favourite bass line from a song? Any genre welcome.

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

Porcupine Trre - Slave Called Shiver

 

[Cyanin]

Of the few i've seen said that i i'll cut this short:

Hysteria by Muse
Bulls On Parade by Rage Against The Machine
Paranoid Android by Radiohead

 

[Jackle_666]

I've always liked the bass line in the Pixies' Gigantic [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIu_b_fG_2g]. It's simple, but there's something really compelling about it.

The Pixies really are the masters of the simple bass-line. They can just play 5 or 6 notes over and over again in the same way and I'd never get bored. If anyone out there is thinking of learning bass or has just started, I definitely recommend Wave of Mutilation, The Pixies Best Of album. Use that as a jumping point and see where you go from there. Nirvana's Nevermind is a good choice too.

 

[vonabor]

Hysteria by Muse

Although there are so many good Iron Maiden, Tool, and RHCP basslines.

 

[Jackle_666]

She bangs the Drums by the stone roses

Damn Right!

 

[Daveman]

For the ultimate Bass experience nothing tops Steve Harris. Specifically Phantom of the Opera.

 

[LT_Razgriz]

Anything ska, or that has a real jam quality to it.
Flea is amazing
Matt Freeman of Rancid is just utterly legendary
Muse is fantastic
Money by pink Flloyd
Beatles
So many more...

 

[Look-a-Hill]

Metallica - Orion.
The solo is just beautiful.

 

[De Ronneman]

Probably Money by Pink floyd. Hell, basically anything Pink Floyd made had agreat bassline.

Also there's a real cool bass part in Dragonforce's Lost Souls in Endless Time. No joke, it's in some sort of solo, each taking turns, and then, after all the easy(but fast) single note bassline, there's this, slap-ish kind of speed run.

 

[bobknowsall]

I don't even like Three Days Grace, but the bass line in this song is just remarkable.

 

[stubbmann]

New Fang-Them Crooked Vultures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7_vH3H8LPI&feature=related

The One I Love-REM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R52RrbF3mM4

Some Things Man Was Not Meant To Know-The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afmc6G6CmSU

 

[Xeros]

I love you.
Edit: Counter-attack!

That... that was awesome.

 

[Lucifron]

Cool thread. Spread the low-frequent love!

Firstly, the reason I got into bassplaying bassfiddling at all:

Spoiler: Metallica - My Friend of Misery

Secondly, basically anything by:

Spoiler: Justin Chancellor of Tool

Thirdly, this awesome little Deutscher number:

Spoiler: Rammstein - Mann Gegen Mann

Edit: Fourthly:

Spoiler: Pink Floyd - One of These Days

 

[SithDaddy75]

If you exclude Ned's Atomic Dustbin (two bass players just rocks and still haven't ever heard a sound like theirs), then I would have to say 'Gimme some Lovin' by the Spencer Davis Group. That just jams!

 

[StriderShinryu]

Wow.. no one has mentioned Rush yet. *cries* Then again, what Geddy does is often far beyond what I would simply call a bass line.

 

[Proteus214]

Spoiler: spoiler'd for the sake of people's bandwidth

I can't get enough of the bass in this song.

Not even kidding, I have been playing this song on loop in my car on the way to work every day for the past three months. I freaking love this version.

 

[opportunemoment]

Not totally sure if this even counts, but it's what sprang to mind. Simple and classic...

Edit: damn you youtube. Embedding fail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h1oRP7FfBw&feature=related

 

[Trifixion]

My favorite "most-underrated" band...a little instrumental piece here with a pretty badass bass line...

 

[Xeros]

Spoiler: spoiler'd for the sake of people's bandwidth

I can't get enough of the bass in this song.

Not even kidding, I have been playing this song on loop in my car on the way to work every day for the past three months. I freaking love this version.

Same, this is the first thing I put on when I go out.

 

[Hemlet]

Oz Is Ever Floating, Mr. Oysterhead, and Army's On Ecstasy.

All by Oysterhead, all very, very groovy.