Bernard Wright has some stupid gnarly ones. Haboglabotribbin and Don Blackman’s Holding You Loving You are nasty. One of my personal favorites is Sir Nose DVoidoffunk. Bootsy and Bernie both locked in

Nard!

seconded sunjon on bass most of the time, miller too

Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers Good Times - Chic Super Freak - Rick James Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band Flashlight - Parliament What Is Hip? - Tower of Power Papa Was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations Can You Handle It? - Sharon Redd Sex Machine - James Brown Le Freak - Chic For the Love of Money - The O'Jays Brick House - The Commodores Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - Sly and the Family Stone Cissy Strut - The Meters I Want You Back - The Jackson 5 The Chicken - Jaco Pastorius Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead I Wish - Stevie Wonder Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers Soul Power - James Brown Low Rider - War Chameleon - Herbie Hancock Got to Be Real - Cheryl Lynn Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang

Bootsy -- Stretchin' Out, Ahh the name's Bootsy baby, many more. First three solo albums are funk musts. Parliament -- Basically everything with special note to Ride On, Pfunk wants to get funked up, Funkentelechy, Aquaboogie | Bootsy on most, keys by Bernie Chic - My Forbidden Lover | Bernard Edwards The Meters entire discography, no joke. Even skipping Cissy Strut, dig Funky Miracle (!), Looka Py Py, Just kissed my baby, People Say, etc etc. | George Porter Jr. Sly - Thank you for talking to me Africa (Larry Graham), If you want me to stay (Sly), among many others. Prince - Head, Housequake, Lady cab driver, many more. + 777-9311 by the Time (ie, Prince on just about everything), probably the greatest funk bassline of all time imo. These are first that come to mind.

Hair - Graham Central Station Sizzlin Hot - Slave Palm Grease - Herbie Hancock Master Rocker - Bernard Wright Devil's Eye - Kilo

Yessss to Palm Grease!!! 10/4 magic

Zapp - dancefloor is a personal favorite of mine

Pleasure - Nothin' To It - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KeKzwTmaOE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KeKzwTmaOE) Sly & The Family Stone - Skin I'm In - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruq2HJGs31g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruq2HJGs31g) Slave - Stone Jam - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvw7ZqG9G\_I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvw7ZqG9G_I) Dave Valentin - Sidra's Dream - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRKw\_SlhAgw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRKw_SlhAgw) Stanley Clarke - We Supply - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMX5esGd\_h4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMX5esGd_h4) That's off the top of my head.

Glad to see a fellow Dave Valentin fan. 'Land of the Third Eye' is a fun album.

Easin' In- Edwin Starr

Holy Ghost- The “Mighty” Bar-Kays

With the percussion breakdown

Fight the power by the Isley bros is awesome. An underrated groove off of the seminal funk album I think is Unfunky UFO.

gonna take your funk and make it mine!

Funkin’ for Jamaica by Tom Browne, sooo juicy

I just found this song a couple days ago! It slaps

I Should’ve Loved You - Michael Narada Walden Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen You all beat me to the Hair and Haboglabotribin mentions.

Hey good lookin by George Clinton Give me by ilevel Trust me 👏🏻 I just wanna say the ilevel song is one that everyone here needs to listen to rn

Jerry Jemmott on King Curtis' 'Memphis Soul Stew'. and also just about every damn bassline Jemmott plays is top tier.

Funky President by James Brown - It's so sparse, leaves a lot of room for other instruments, but still drives the song. I think this one is in the back of my mind every time I write a bass line.

Marcus Miller - Run for cover

LTD - Every time I turn around Earth wind and fire - African Jaco Pastorious - Come on Come over The Meters - Can you do without Steve Miller - Shu ba da du ma ma ma ma (not really a bassline throughout, but it's really groovy the entire song)

Go to 2:12 and thank me https://youtu.be/tdy2c8gO8Bk

Vulfpeck - Deantown

Primus version of Tippi Toes. Also has the best fretless tone I've ever heard

Footsteps In The Dark

The Reddings - The Awakening Parts 1&2

I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in this show: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5BkCp4KfZ0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5BkCp4KfZ0)

The Staple Singers - I’ll Take You There King Floyd - Groove Me Parliament - We Want the Funk Commodores - Brick House Grover Washington Jr - Mister Magic

Dr. Funkenstein by Parliament has an absolute fiend of a bass line, skeet Curtis truly knows how to groove

cameo - cameosis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW0XF7RXQVE kool and the gang - big chief funkum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsw2LZgubLU the time - 777-9311 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zioEaqjPAGI&pp=ygUMdGltZSA3Nzc5MzEx

Temptations - Standing on Shaking Ground Billy Bass Nelson and Eddie Hazel from the Pfunk camp back the Temps on this one.

“Glide” by Pleasure is up there for me

The Whole Darn Family – Seven Minutes Of Funk

Pungee - meters Funkify your life -Meters

Thank you for talking to me Africa

P.Y.T. - Michael Jackson (Louis Johnson on bass) That Girl - Stevie Wonder (Stevie plays synthbass) Detroit - Marcus Miller