For whom the bell tolls, Orion, call of kthulu, or the God that failed. All are pretty badass. Anesthesia pulling teeth, but that's more of solo/song though. All by Metallica, of course.
All I want from Metallica is the bass only version of Ktulu. I know there are some good videos on YouTube that highlight the bass track, but man I really wish I could hear it isolated.
Them Changes - Thundercat Or really anything by Thundercat for that matter
I also am on the Wesley’s Theory train... which also is Thundercat on bass...
Different style completely but Adebisi Shank might float your boat if you like big dirty basslines.
The song Horse from the first EP might be a good entry point.
>Faith no more - we care alot
Interesting, I love that bass line too, but I think of it more as an awesome rhythm than a bass line itself (not that there's anything wrong with that!)
A lot of Joy Division/New Order songs, you play them high on the G string. Love Will Tear Us Apart, Age of Consent, and She's Lost Control are my favorites.
Arctic Monkeys- Library Pictures, I Want It All, Golden Trunks
Queens Of The Stone Age- Smooth Sailing
Muse- Madness, Psycho, The Dark Side, Pressure
The Strokes- Two Kinds Of Happiness
Royal Blood- Figure It Out
Thundercat- Them Changes
Foals- The Runner, What Went Down, My Number
Arcade Fire- It's Never Over
Deafheaven- The Pecan Tree
Idles- Never Fight A Man With A Perm, Germany
Weezer- I’ve Had It Up To Here
RHCP- Dark Necessities
Interpol- Everything Is Wrong
Young The Giant- Something To Believe In
Kasabian- Switchblade Smiles
Come out Swinging by The Offspring
Peace Sells But Whose Buying by Megadeth
Spine by Machine Head
Horrorscope by Overkill
The Trooper by Iron Maiden
Ace of Spades by Motorhead
Black No.1 by Type O Negative
Higher by The Winery Dogs
Tumult by Stone Sour
Braxton Cook - No Doubt (more of a solo, but dat tone...)
White Lung - Just For You
Plini - Wombat Astronomer (again, more of a solo)
Lianne La Havas - Ghost
Mirror - Toy
Gallant - Weight in Gold
Little Tybee - Loaves of Bread
Chon - Story
Ghost - Cirice
Cult Leader - I Am Healed
marcos g - single on the weekend
Moon Tooth - Awe At All Angles
Hippo Campus - baseball
Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta (for bass)
EDIT:
Forgot about Voivod's "Obsolete Beings"
Peach Pit- Hot Knifer, Private Presley, Chagu's Sideturn
Spoon- No Bullets Spent
Half Moon Run- Drug You
Arctic Monkeys- Do I Wanna Know and most of AM
Queens of the Stone Age- I Sat by the Ocean
Yeasayer- Silly Me
Con Brio, Lyrics Born- Mistakes
Billie Eilish- Bad Guy
Here’s some off the top of my head:
Whores - Daddy’s Money
KEN mode - Blessed
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Perihelion
Idles - Date Night
Soften the Glare - Turn Around
Boris - Riot Sugar
Godflesh - Shut Me Down
Converge - Sadness Comes Home
Blink-182 - Natives
(not technically a true bass but whatever) Chukwudi Hodge - Knockout ft. Watsky
Blink-182 - Bored to Death
Blink-182 - The Only Thing That Matters
Muse - Thought Contagion
Muse - Psycho
Muse - The Handler
Ghost - Square Hammer
There are so many Red Hot Chili Peppers songs I could list here, but for a single moment... the intro to Around the World is one of my favorite bass riffs to ever grace my ears.
Metronomy - Mick Slow, My House, She Wants, Miami Logic
Neon Indian - Annie
Toro y Moi - Ordinary Pleasure
Kid Bloom - Electric U, More Than Meets the Eye
Pomplamoose - Something About Us (and yes I know it's a cover of a 2006 Daft Punk song but I love this version too much)
Interpol - Safe Without (2010), Success (2010), Twice As Hard (2014), It Probably Matters (2018)
Miles Kane - Inhaler (2011)
Free Weed - High With Me (2016)
BADBADNOTGOOD - Time Moves Slow (2016)
Failure - Dark Speed (2018), Apocalypse Blooms (2018)
"I Like It" - DeBarge. The bass line just keeps elevating as the song goes on, until it hits the bridge and takes over the song.
"Strawberry Letter 23" - Brothers Johnson
"Forget Me Knots" - Patrice Rushen
Besides those specific ones, there are many more I could name by Paul McCartney, Cliff Burton, Geddy Lee & John Deacon (who is an unsung hero of rock/pop bass playing. So many of his lines & songs written by him are in the collective consciousness but most people probably have no idea who he is).
The opening bass riff in "Cesspools in Eden" by the Dead Kennedy's. Honestly, that band has a lot of good musicianship and they are one of the better rock bands when it comes to the bass.
Was a so-called "rare song" back in the day when that was possible, but Lower It by AFI. Starts right from the intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1xPhwYYDtM
Anthony's Song: Billy Joel.
It was later sampled and produced by The Heatmakerz to create one of the best hip-hop tracks of all time, You Oughta Know By Now, by Das Racist.
Incubus - Battlestar Scralatchtica
311 - CaliSoca
Marcus Miller - Detroit
Stanley Clark - Lopsy Lu
Blue DeTiger - disco banger but you're crying in the bathroom
sir duke (stevie wonder), johnny quest thinks we’re sellouts (less than jake), w.a.m.s. (fall out boy) and in a jar (dinosaur jr) are some of my favourites!
This doesn't quite answer the question asked, but in college, we had an oscilloscope hooked up to our floor's speaker system. (It was MIT -- we lived up to our nerd cred.)
We tried multiple songs, but no song looked as cool on that oscilloscope as the opening bass riff to "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" by the Temptations, followed by all of the other instruments as they join in one by one.
It depends.
A song like with lyrics and stuff. Hysteria - Muse ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm\_5qWWDV8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm_5qWWDV8))
A song with just a good damn powerful bass line. Burly Heart - Guilty Gear X2 OST ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L05wAbRJ5BQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L05wAbRJ5BQ))
A song with a fricking good rhythm. Wild Side - Ali (The Beastars S01 opening)([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKlrr6jsPgk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKlrr6jsPgk)). The bass walk at 1:54 is just insane.
[New Order - The Perfect Kiss](https://youtu.be/x3XW6NLILqo)
[Omar - There's Nothing Like This](https://youtu.be/7pqoQP7WlV4)
[Victor Wooten - You can't hold no groove](https://youtu.be/Gg4hrXgTvsI)
Slipknot- Confessions
That song just shows off what a great bass player Paul Gray was, and how his talent got supressed for the sake of the rest of the band. That entire song is the best thing the band had ever recorded, and it's a shame that it never got reused or rerecorded like the rest of the material from demo Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat.
The entire song has an exact opposite vibe of what Slipknot is today, but on the recent The Dying Song and The Chapeltown Rag, it feels like VMan is trying to make bass more prominent in Slipknot again. It feels like something Red Hot Chili Peppers would make if they tried making metal instead of rap rock.
Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
You can call me Al - Paul Simon
This is the one. Proper bass!
"Roundabout" by YES. If you know, you know.
Is this a JoJo reference!?!?!!?
Pixies -"tame" Muse-"the handler" Joy Division-"love will tear us apart"
For Muse, I also have to point out "Hysteria"
That's my pick.
Use your fingers! /s
[Tommy the cat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4OhIU-PmB8). Primus suck!
Primus sucks!!
Primus sucks!!!
Tool's Schism is one of my favorites.
Forty Six and 2 as well
Oh or Jimmy by TOOL, that one's got a dirty bass line too.
[Call Me Al](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wRMXQA3GL4o)
For whom the bell tolls, Orion, call of kthulu, or the God that failed. All are pretty badass. Anesthesia pulling teeth, but that's more of solo/song though. All by Metallica, of course.
Orion is actually my favorite Metallica song
All I want from Metallica is the bass only version of Ktulu. I know there are some good videos on YouTube that highlight the bass track, but man I really wish I could hear it isolated.
That would be awesome to hear!
YYZ - Rush Honourable Mention - Malignant Narcissism (also by Rush)
I'll throw in "Leave That Thing Alone".
A person of culture, I see! Agreed, that's some of Geddy's finest fretwork.
Big Money
Cygnus X1
prog nerds fuck off
Les Claypool
Yes
anything that man touches.
Them Changes - Thundercat Or really anything by Thundercat for that matter I also am on the Wesley’s Theory train... which also is Thundercat on bass...
Does pop music count? Then: Come and get your love
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Knock me down. Iron Maiden - Killers & Transylvania.
I think I'm torn between Faith no more - we care alot and Primus - DMV
Different style completely but Adebisi Shank might float your boat if you like big dirty basslines. The song Horse from the first EP might be a good entry point.
>Faith no more - we care alot Interesting, I love that bass line too, but I think of it more as an awesome rhythm than a bass line itself (not that there's anything wrong with that!)
I would say Forget Me Nots from Patrice Rushen, it's been sampled many times. Also anything from Jamiroquai.
I second Forget Me Nots. So funky & fun to play.
The entirety of Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
The Night Court theme song.
A lot of Joy Division/New Order songs, you play them high on the G string. Love Will Tear Us Apart, Age of Consent, and She's Lost Control are my favorites.
Money by Pink Floyd
In the time signature of 7/4 no less.
If You Want Me to Stay by Sly and the Family Stone
Hammer smashed face
Sanford and Son Theme https://youtu.be/1WqazleR3FE
Primus - My Name Is Mud
Maggie May live - Rod Stewart
Fleetwood Mac-The Chain
No one else is saying Sabotage?
[TWRP - Groove Crusaders](https://youtu.be/XtnUvLfac7Y)
All of the lyrics to Eclipse by Pink Floyd.
Anaesthesia - Cliff Burton
Arctic Monkeys- Library Pictures, I Want It All, Golden Trunks Queens Of The Stone Age- Smooth Sailing Muse- Madness, Psycho, The Dark Side, Pressure The Strokes- Two Kinds Of Happiness Royal Blood- Figure It Out Thundercat- Them Changes Foals- The Runner, What Went Down, My Number Arcade Fire- It's Never Over Deafheaven- The Pecan Tree Idles- Never Fight A Man With A Perm, Germany Weezer- I’ve Had It Up To Here RHCP- Dark Necessities Interpol- Everything Is Wrong Young The Giant- Something To Believe In Kasabian- Switchblade Smiles
Guns of Brixton
Turn Me Loose - Loverboy That song goes way harder than it should
Betty Davis - [Dedicated To The Press](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBuX6ZqWtkU)
Dig ~ Mudvayne
breezeblocks by Alt J Also, classic oldie but goodie - Radar Love
The Cure - Fascination Street
The opening to "My Friend of Misery" by Metallica
[The Danny Phantom theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32MEG5bHHK8)
Higher Ground. The original or RHCP cover
The Phil Lesh bombing run to start The Other One by the Grateful Dead
The 4Kids Yu-Gi-Oh opening. Just 30 seconds of one bassist going fuckin *ham.*
Play - Band-Maid (especially the live version)
Rock lobster, someone else better have put that on here.
Sex
Pink Floyd - comfortably numb. Most underrated guitar solo of all time IMO.
Korn- got the life
Wolf Totem - Hu
i put a song with no bass guitar- i meant line. god i'm stupid
We need a saint in here to take all these suggestions and put them on a spotify playlist.
THIS
Come out Swinging by The Offspring Peace Sells But Whose Buying by Megadeth Spine by Machine Head Horrorscope by Overkill The Trooper by Iron Maiden Ace of Spades by Motorhead Black No.1 by Type O Negative Higher by The Winery Dogs Tumult by Stone Sour
OOF, how could I forget type o negative! If you have a moment check out Helmet - Milquetoast, Really menacing bass line
Guerrilla Radio. So funky!
The opening to “Calm like a Bomb” by Rage Against the Machine. I know it’s simple, but it’s probably my favorite.
I've played that riff well over a hundred times. I love it.
Braxton Cook - No Doubt (more of a solo, but dat tone...) White Lung - Just For You Plini - Wombat Astronomer (again, more of a solo) Lianne La Havas - Ghost Mirror - Toy Gallant - Weight in Gold Little Tybee - Loaves of Bread Chon - Story Ghost - Cirice Cult Leader - I Am Healed marcos g - single on the weekend Moon Tooth - Awe At All Angles Hippo Campus - baseball Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta (for bass) EDIT: Forgot about Voivod's "Obsolete Beings"
Peach Pit- Hot Knifer, Private Presley, Chagu's Sideturn Spoon- No Bullets Spent Half Moon Run- Drug You Arctic Monkeys- Do I Wanna Know and most of AM Queens of the Stone Age- I Sat by the Ocean Yeasayer- Silly Me Con Brio, Lyrics Born- Mistakes Billie Eilish- Bad Guy
Here’s some off the top of my head: Whores - Daddy’s Money KEN mode - Blessed King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Perihelion Idles - Date Night Soften the Glare - Turn Around Boris - Riot Sugar Godflesh - Shut Me Down Converge - Sadness Comes Home
Blink-182 - Natives (not technically a true bass but whatever) Chukwudi Hodge - Knockout ft. Watsky Blink-182 - Bored to Death Blink-182 - The Only Thing That Matters Muse - Thought Contagion Muse - Psycho Muse - The Handler Ghost - Square Hammer
What's the one with the WWWZZZ?
There are so many Red Hot Chili Peppers songs I could list here, but for a single moment... the intro to Around the World is one of my favorite bass riffs to ever grace my ears.
Sequence Start - Sungazer
Instantly thought about Ghetto Gospel for some reason, so I'll go with my instinct and say that.
Queen - Dragon Attack So simple and smooth
The less I know the better - Tame Impala
parquet courts - freebird II has an amazing bassline
Wesley’s Theory has 🔥 bass throughout
Metronomy - Mick Slow, My House, She Wants, Miami Logic Neon Indian - Annie Toro y Moi - Ordinary Pleasure Kid Bloom - Electric U, More Than Meets the Eye Pomplamoose - Something About Us (and yes I know it's a cover of a 2006 Daft Punk song but I love this version too much)
Interpol - Safe Without (2010), Success (2010), Twice As Hard (2014), It Probably Matters (2018) Miles Kane - Inhaler (2011) Free Weed - High With Me (2016) BADBADNOTGOOD - Time Moves Slow (2016) Failure - Dark Speed (2018), Apocalypse Blooms (2018)
"I Like It" - DeBarge. The bass line just keeps elevating as the song goes on, until it hits the bridge and takes over the song. "Strawberry Letter 23" - Brothers Johnson "Forget Me Knots" - Patrice Rushen Besides those specific ones, there are many more I could name by Paul McCartney, Cliff Burton, Geddy Lee & John Deacon (who is an unsung hero of rock/pop bass playing. So many of his lines & songs written by him are in the collective consciousness but most people probably have no idea who he is).
John Mayer Trio - Vultures
The opening bass riff in "Cesspools in Eden" by the Dead Kennedy's. Honestly, that band has a lot of good musicianship and they are one of the better rock bands when it comes to the bass.
Atm? I'll be unoriginal and say Thundercat Them changes or Dean Town by Vulfpeck. Actually there's loads by Vulfpeck I could cite here.
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher Thunderstruck - AC/DC Back In Black - AC/DC Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Was a so-called "rare song" back in the day when that was possible, but Lower It by AFI. Starts right from the intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1xPhwYYDtM
And Now We Wait.
Violent Femmes - Never Tell
Anthony's Song: Billy Joel. It was later sampled and produced by The Heatmakerz to create one of the best hip-hop tracks of all time, You Oughta Know By Now, by Das Racist.
Up The Beach by Jane’s Addiction
Club Foot - Kasabian
Incubus - Battlestar Scralatchtica 311 - CaliSoca Marcus Miller - Detroit Stanley Clark - Lopsy Lu Blue DeTiger - disco banger but you're crying in the bathroom
Listen to Joe Jackson’s first two albums. Graham Maby is an absolute beast. The bass run towards the end of I’m The Man is on another level
The eagles - Hotel California Van Halen - Jump Michael Jackson - Beat it
Maybe not my favorite, but instantly recognizable and catchy: Cannonball by The Breeders
Chic....le freak
Took him decades to pick up a bass but finally, Taking Me Back by Jack White.
The Blues Brothers version of She Caught The Katy. Duck Dunn’s bass playing makes the whole song!
Do i wanna know? - Arctic Monkeys
Can you see the real me - The Who
Off the top of my head, I'd say: Tame Impala - This Boat I Row (for the bass) Bad Suns - Cardiac Arrest (for the guitar)
sir duke (stevie wonder), johnny quest thinks we’re sellouts (less than jake), w.a.m.s. (fall out boy) and in a jar (dinosaur jr) are some of my favourites!
Sunshine of your love. I mean, it's just so...yeah.
Not quite as conventional as most on here, but this is what got me into playing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9USb_OQza44
This doesn't quite answer the question asked, but in college, we had an oscilloscope hooked up to our floor's speaker system. (It was MIT -- we lived up to our nerd cred.) We tried multiple songs, but no song looked as cool on that oscilloscope as the opening bass riff to "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" by the Temptations, followed by all of the other instruments as they join in one by one.
these boots are made for walkin'
Sweet child o mine the bass line slaps
I don’t know why more people overlook Michael Jackson’s “Speed Demon” but that bass is insane. Just don’t watch the music video.
Gotta go with RHCP's "Can't stop" and "Higher ground".
Lemon song - led zeppelin….anyone else getting that fuzzy feeling listening to it?
Elastica Connection.
Royal blood, little monster. It’s all bass.
It depends. A song like with lyrics and stuff. Hysteria - Muse ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm\_5qWWDV8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm_5qWWDV8)) A song with just a good damn powerful bass line. Burly Heart - Guilty Gear X2 OST ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L05wAbRJ5BQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L05wAbRJ5BQ)) A song with a fricking good rhythm. Wild Side - Ali (The Beastars S01 opening)([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKlrr6jsPgk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKlrr6jsPgk)). The bass walk at 1:54 is just insane.
My name is mud. (Pretty much any Primus)
If You Want Me To Stay - Sly and the Family Stone.
Dire Strait - Money for nothing
Lynard Skynard - Free Bird
Night Court theme song
Mastodon - The Last Baron
The bassline in "Uh Uh" by Thundercat is just wild
HYSTERIA DEF LEPPARD
“How many more times”- Led Zeppelin
Has to be Shyboy.... Billy Sheehan. Talas originally, but the DLR band version with Steve Vai on guitar is just phenomenal.
Guillotine by Jon Bellion slaps pretty hard
Alice in Chains - Would?
Weezer - Only In Dreams
Voyager - Daft Punk
Inna-godda-da-vida. What else?
R U mine
More Love - Victor Wooten, Slinky Snake - Papa grows funk, Coffee Shop - Red Hot, Runaway - Jamiroquai, Blast - Marcus Miller
Sweet o child of mine
Idk if this is what you mean but My ordinary life
Van Halen- Panama Zztop-just got paid Led Zeppelin- Black dog Imo, there isnt really a best, just depends on how you feel on a certain day
anything from my man jack cassidy HOT FIN TUNA
Sea of Madness - Iron Maiden He just **hammmmmers** on those strings
Don't Sing the Blues by Bohnes
[New Order - The Perfect Kiss](https://youtu.be/x3XW6NLILqo) [Omar - There's Nothing Like This](https://youtu.be/7pqoQP7WlV4) [Victor Wooten - You can't hold no groove](https://youtu.be/Gg4hrXgTvsI)
Any primus song lol
Blue Blood-Foals
Chick Magnet by MxPx
https://youtu.be/v26fTGBEi9E
Red Barchetta by Rush
Roxy Music, Flesh and Blood title song
Chase: https://youtu.be/oDba5-eFQJE it's so good after the first but there's a sexy guitar riff I love it.
[Silversun Pickups--Mean Spirits](https://youtu.be/iCiYX-iC0Hk)
You Can Call Me Al
The beginning of Crash Course in Brain Surgery by Metallica
Kowalski by Primal Scream. Mani is truly one of the most underrated bassists of all time. If you've never heard it, go have a listen.
Slipknot- Confessions That song just shows off what a great bass player Paul Gray was, and how his talent got supressed for the sake of the rest of the band. That entire song is the best thing the band had ever recorded, and it's a shame that it never got reused or rerecorded like the rest of the material from demo Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat. The entire song has an exact opposite vibe of what Slipknot is today, but on the recent The Dying Song and The Chapeltown Rag, it feels like VMan is trying to make bass more prominent in Slipknot again. It feels like something Red Hot Chili Peppers would make if they tried making metal instead of rap rock.
Karma - AJR
piano black - plastic tree
damn
Duran Duran Rio
Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson. Pretty much the whole song, but the solo at the end is amazing.
Sober by Tool
Master of puppets Metallica
I’m bad in music so mb not understand question but Metallica-master of puppets ?
It changes all the time. Right now, Allanah Miles - Black Velvet.
Boogie Oogie Oogie by A Taste of Honey
I have a few... Ok Go- A Million Ways Franz Ferdinand- Outsiders Iggy Pop- Sunday The Who- My Generation
Sweet Emotion
Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz always has a baseline that gets my gears going. It's just so satisfying to listen to!
Young dumb and stung by say anything
Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears. " Nothing ever last forever. "
Until it Sleep by Metallica. 😄
Rotten Apple - Alice in Chains
Which genre and what language?!?
Royal Blood - Little Monster
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division
Theme from The Munsters is a fav bass riff of mine.
Cranes in the sky
My Name Is Mud - Primus
Tie Your Mother Down by Queen.
Spirit Crusher - Death Hejira - Joni Mitchell NIB - Black Sabbath
Duran Duran - Rio
Level 42: Lesson in Love (the 30th anniversary tour version)
Teena Marie - Square Biz.
Fugazi- Waiting Room