What is the funkiest bassline that you can think of?

[flvegan]

Mine is from Jimmy Smith's "Root Down"



Also the basis/sample bassline for the song by the same name done by the Beastie Boys in 94 (and to be honest, the only reason I ever heard it).

[GOPisEvil]

1. Right offhand, Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground".

[mtowngman]

19. Jaco Pastorius-Birdland, Weather Report-Heavy Weather

sorry, replied wrong place:dunce:

[MrScorpio]

2. Ohio Players

Skin Tight

[flvegan]

58. Once again, MrS...

you teach me something new.

Just got the dl...sweeeeeeeeet....

[fudge stripe cookays]

60. Crap-- you beat me!

My favorite Players tune!

:D

[Tikki]

3. Johnny "Guitar" Watson's........

"A Real Mother For Ya"....




Tikki

[chaska]

4. Fellow worshiper of the one true SJBech....

check out 'My Imagination' by Gladys Knight. Of course Chuck Rainey's bass line on the Sanford and Son theme is pretty damn funky too.

And may the one true Steph (SJBech) bless and keep you (but not too close) on this special day.

Happy birthday, man.

[Telly Savalas]

5. The "Barney Miller" theme.

But Root Down is up there.

[Floogeldy]

11. Ha ha! The theme to "Seinfeld"

;)

[Telly Savalas]

28. I'll see your "Seinfeld" and raise you a "Sanford and Son"

[DanCa]

33. That was a cool theme sanford and son.

[Telly Savalas]

40. Written by Qunicy Jones, yes?

[cedahlia]

50. Hell yeah!

I used to rock out to that as a little kid when it would come on t.v.

Thanks for the memory...:-)

[XemaSab]

6. Tool's "Prison Sex"

might not be the funkiest, but it's pretty funky.

[darkstar]

7. the line on Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues"

OK, maybe not the funkiest in the P-funk sense, but certainly one of the baddest of all time, IMO.

[ornotna]

8. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe

I like it.

[swag]

9. "For the Love of Money" by the O'Jays

The bassline later reappeared in "Step Off" by Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five.

[darkstar]

13. Good one indeed. Can hear it now....

:hi:

[Ptah]

10. No contest - John Philip Sousa

Stars and Stripes Forever!




:toast:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. Hell yeah!

We may not agree on eating meat, but we sure as hell agree on music. :toast: ;)

[ChoralScholar]

14. Any country music...

that 1 5 1 5 1 5 123 4 1 4 1 4 1 4321 5 1 5 1 5 1 5

gets me everytime... :)

[Robb]

15. The one -- oh, you know...

...it goes all boo-boo, boo-boom b-b-b-boo-boo, boom boom BOOOOOOM boo-boo-boo, booo....






...boom. :D
















:D

[Wapsie B]

16. This.

Oh I thought you said bass line.

:hide:

[Ptah]

17. Like this?

:shrug:

[Wapsie B]

18. Cool.

Nice catch!

[Ptah]

20. You just have to know where to look.

I prefere Rainbow my self.
:silly:

[Wapsie B]

22. Rainbow Trout?

It seems like some people have a good sense of where to find fish. They were probably taught well.

[Ptah]

23. I was fortunate to be raised by a village

that liked fish.

[mtowngman]

21. I Want You Back-Jackson Five n/t

[no name no slogan]

24. "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye

Go see "Standing In The Shadows of Mowtown" to see how "the Hook" laid it down-- using only one finger, no less.

[Midnight Rambler]

25. Sly and the Family Stone, "Thank You For Talkin' to Me, Africa"

For a lesser known one, Black Lamb - "Highland."

[no name no slogan]

26. "Good Times" by Chic

there's a very good reason it was the backing track for "Rapper's Delight"

[Aristus]

27. Johnette Napolitano's bass track from

"Days and Days" by Concrete Blonde.

[lady raven]

38. YAY! Another Concrete Blonde fan!!!!!!!!!!

I totally agree- I love that bass intro!

[leftofthedial]

29. Sanford and Son

[datasuspect]

41. quincy jones track

yep . . . that one is good

[HughBeaumont]

30. "Stomp" by the Brothers Johnson, which I'm listening to now.

Talk about beating that ass. Louis Johnson was the first bass instructional tape I bought and he includes two of the licks in the video. I just flat out love that song.

Others -

"I was Made to Love Her" - Stevie Wonder (James Jamerson)
"I Am Love" - Jackson 5 (one of the most underrated Jackson 5 songs ever)
"I just Want to Celebrate" - Rare Earth
"It's Just Begun" - Jimmy Castor Bunch

[Whoa_Nelly]

31. Night Court

[ariesgem]

32. Larry Graham

The Jam

[Hell Hath No Fury]

49. Larry Graham...

is GOD! I saw him open for TOP back in the 70s (around his "Release Yourself" time) at Winterland, and he had that crowd just about out of their MINDS with his funkiness!

I don't know it happened, but this geeky white chick has a very serious funk jones! :D

[ariesgem]

55. Oh Yeah! In my neighborhood back in those days,

every kid with a bass tried to nail Larry Graham basslines. Every once in a while I'll crank up a Graham Central Station album. "Release Yourself" was one of my favorites.

[DanCa]

34. I want to say meat loaf for some reason bat out of hell.

[Robeson]

35. Many, many, many, from this guy....

...Stanley Clark...

[Thom Little]

36. The Meters - "Looka Py Py"

[SmileyBoy]

37. The intro to Spacehog's "In The Meantime"

n/t

[WCGreen]

39. Evergreen by Barbara Streisand....

Very very funky song....

[kwassa]

42. "Atomic Dog" or "Flashlight" P-Funk/George Clinton

I can think of many

[fight4my3sons]

44. right on!

even my kids' heads start noddin' when I put P-Funk/George Clinton on - and they are just toddlers :)

[Blue_Tires]

43. 'another one bites the dust'--queen

'get down baby'-Joe Quarterman and Free Soul

just about any song Barry White recorded

[Horus45]

45. Violent Fems - Blister in the Sun

Violent Fems - "Blister in the Sun", also "Gone Daddy Gone" is pretty good too.

Anything from George Clinton too!

[dean_dem]

46. "Flashlight" by George Clinton

And "Barbarism Begins at Home" by the Smiths is up there.

[Tikki]

47. The two by War......."Slippin' Into Darkness" & "Low Rider".......n/t

[Burma Jones]

52. Seconded - with a non-funky mention to Tears of a Clown

Tears of a Clown - not funky, but sooo outstanding.

[maveric]

48. Money Money Money Moneeeeey....Moneeyy!!

[cedahlia]

51. "These Freaks are Here to Party"

by Infectious Grooves. That's the first one that popped into my head anyway!

[Throd]

53. "Jungle Boogie"

...best bass line ever...

[AntiCoup2K4]

54. Over 50 replies and nobody fucking mentioned "White Lines" yet?

That's the first thing I think of when I hear the words "funkiest bassline"

Second thing I think of is NWA, where Eazy E was always saying "Dre, gimme a funky ass bassline"

[JohnnyCougar]

56. Yes - Close to the Edge.

It's funky in a progressive way. It's way out there, one of the most unique basslines I have ever heard.

[gardenista]

59. Yes has a few funky bass lines- "Yours is no Disgrace"

is another.

My husband cracks up because I always have to play "air organ" and "air bass" when he listens to it.

[JohnnyCougar]

72. Heart of the Sunrise is similarly funky.

I get up, I get down over Yes!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

57. Dance to the Music by Sly and the Family Stone

or Cameleon by Herbie Hancock

grannie

[Kathryn STone]

61. what ? no Prince????? is du a place where any brothers are?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

76. Brothers?

umm... I'm a fat old white lady.

But I do like Prince. Play him all the time.

[Jamastiene]

62. My name is Mudd, by I can't remember who.

Anything Flea ever played too. Damn, he's funky.

[AntiCoup2K4]

69. "My name is Mudd" was Primus

Les Claypool is a great bass player, though I don't normally think of him as "funky".

Flea, definitely though. He might be the funkiest white bass player alive.

[Neil Lisst]

63. ZZ Top ... LaGrange

Rumors gathered round
that Texas town
of a shack outside Lagrange

they got a lot of nice girls there!

Just let me know
if you wanna go
to that home out on the range.

[Wilber_Stool]

64. Jack Bruce

"Politician"

[Kathryn STone]

65. My Generation by Entwhistle (The Who

[Kathryn STone]

66. Prince: Erotic City, Hot Thang, Head, Sign o' the Times

[coolhandlulu]

67. two hearts beat as one

eom

[shockra]

68. Big Bang Baby

The Stone Temple Pilots.

What? Not funky? It's still great.

[aquaman]

70. Any song by the Minutemen.

Mike watt is the God of bass.

[6000eliot]

71. The Beatles "The Word"

Don't know if it's the funkiest, but it's remarkably funky.

[AngryAmish]

73. 99 Luftballoons

[Karmageddon]

74. "Cold Cuts" by Albert Collins

[chemteacher]

75. Superfreak...Rick James!

Yeah, yeah...I know. But it's Rick James!

[Laelth]

77. Believe It Or Not

I was listening to some music this afternoon and playing my bass guitar (or it was playing me--hard to tell when it's all body knowledge). Anyway, I had been through the usual, and I asked the wife what she wanted to listen to. She suggested an old favorite by The Little River Band, a tune called "Happy Anniversary." You may know it. In any event, I can follow along on bass to most LRB without any problem, but I had never tried "Happy Anniversary," and I didn't remember what the bass line even sounded like, so I turned it on to give it a try. I didn't get past the third note. Wow! Talk about a funky bass line. If you haven't listened to this song lately (or ever), try it again. Amazing work.

Thought I'd share. :)

-Laelth

[New Earth]

78. the bass solo on "Wake Your Mind Up" by 311

it's fucking nuts man :smoke: