Hi All,

What songs do you remember because it was the bass line that 'carries' the song along ?

Thanks

Vance

Charlie Mingus -everything! But especially Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting. Man, could that band swing.

Pink Panther theme.

"Walking on the beaches lookin' at the peaches..." The Stranglers

"Nice 'n' Sleazy" was another Stranglers tune with an evil bassline that's hard to forget.

Add to that virtually anything by Primus and "In Trance as Mission" by Simple Minds.

Finally, "Cannonball" by the Breeders.

Shurely not!

That splatty Precision sound was the main reason I listened to them in the first place! There'll be a definite late 70s feel the music in the house tonight.

This thread is getting me thinking about what else I have that's heavy on the bass. My 14 yr old has started playing bass and will listen to anything suitably agressive/funky/driving as fits the mood. This has thrown up some forgotten treasures from the collection and at least is getting her away from her staple diet of grunge/metal.

On a more up-to-date theme the White Stripes 'Seven Nation Army' really has a bass as a lead instrument.

Made me buy the album, anyway!

Grace Jones - The Fashion Show & Don't Cry - It's only The Rhythm, from Slave to the Rhythm.

Linx - There's Love, from Intuition, has a bass that sounds like an electric piano.

Free - Mr. Big - the IOW Festival version from the '70s

Les

Buena by Morphine has a fantastically gnarly, growling bassline that seems to leap out of the speakers. Really primative and funky, and played on a two-string slide bass to boot!

It's from Cure for Pain (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS80305141727&sql=A3tvsa9tgy23h), a lush, earthy, atmospheric classic. Go buy!

The Bogus Man - Roxy Music

There's not that much else going on apart from Enos wierd noises and Mellotron. (Man)

Love it

Geat to see yous guys here again BTW

International Pony - A new Bassline for Jose
(House)
P.J. Harvey - Down by the water
(Alternative)

Both not subtle, but great fun :)

Another One Bites the Dust (Queen), obviously ...
Safe From Harm (Massive Attack)

Great Bass lines,

Bernadette, My Girl, Etc, Motown,

Anything James Jamerson played on, one of the best bass players in the world..

Must have some reggae in here. Armagiddeon Time will do nicely. You'll know the Clash cover and hopefully the Willie Williams original but Jamaican music recognises a good bass-line and there are probably hundreds of other versions of the Rockers Rock rhythm

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BoomtownRats Ratrap from Tonic for the Troops very short break but still evocative
Bob.

The Castle by LOVE from Da Capo

Walking on the Moon - The Police

Steve

Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love
Grand Funk Railroad - Gimme Shelter

Mick

Country Music (A Night in Hell)

by Stuart Hamm on his 1988 "Radio Free Albemuth" album

(Stuart Hamm used to be Joe Satriani's bass player)

Chris

The Light pours out of Me

from the album Real Life by Magazine

+ lots of stuff by the Police

Stir it up - from Babylon by Bus, Bob Marley & the Wailers

54-46 Toots and the Maytals.
Groove is in the Heart Dee-lite.
Killer Adamski & Seal.

The last two probably qualify as earworms.

'My Generation', The Who.

I bought 'Peaches'/'Go Buddy Go' when it came out, but it seems long lost along with 'Oh Bondage Up Yours', 'Gangsters' and all the other memories.

I saw the Stranglers twice, once in the 80s when they were doing deeply pretentious European architecture stuff and once in the 90s when they were just having tremendous fun with their back catalogue. The bass on 'Peaches' was one of those 'original sounds' that one's never really going to get close to.

Paul

Psycho Killer - Talking Heads

Mantronix - Bassline

Obviously.

AG

Seal-Killer

Sweet Exorcist - Clonks Coming and Joey Beltram - Energy Flash were two from back in the day.

3 from me...

Newcleus - Jam on it
Paul Hardcastle - 19
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Dr Who theme (class!)

Three songs spring readily to mind. 'Badge' by Cream, mysterious and wonderful, mainly due to George H's involvement.

'Dont give up' - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush's excellent critique of Thatcher's desert making neoliberalism.

Talking Heads' first class 'Once in a Lifetime'.

Ha, beat that selection all you plodders ;)

redcogs, greying junior member...

Groove is in the Heart Dee-lite

Man, I forgot that one, I can remember fumbling on my bass guitar playing that one, simple and sounds good ;)

If I mention any of the other songs whose basslines are what comes to me first, I'll be crucified for admitting ownership of almost every Level 42 album :o

'Living it up' might be worth diggin' out for some retro action one evening.

Has anyone mentioned 'Sunshine of Your Love' - that's more like it.

Da-da-da-dah, dah, dah ,dah, da, dah dah....

:)

Yep - Badge.
Lots of Rush songs (Tom Sawyer, Cygnus X-1, Xanadu, Vital Signs, Red Barchetta, Free Will).
A few Yes songs (Close to the Edge, Long Distance Runaround).
Bach, by Jeff Berlin (nobody else can play that!).
Walking on the Moon, by the Police.
Not Fragile by BTO.
She's so Heavy, The Beatles.
When The Going Gets Tough, by Billy Ocean.
Get Into The Groove, by Madonna.
Come Back And Stay, by Paul Young.
Most of Level 42.
Some of The Jam.
Rat Trap, by who was the band Bob Geldorf was in?
The start of Highway Star, by Deep Purple.
The theme from Bullitt, by Lalo Schifrin.
And of course the Pink Panther theme, by Henry Mancini.

Paul,

That's a GREAT list, loads of Rush this end and it's hard to pick one from a list of greats.

Walking on the Moon though is just a great bass line, simple, but perfectly formed.

I'm in for a retro sesh tonight after that lot ;)

Andy

Climie Fisher; Rise to the Occasion

"I know yo' gonna dig dis.."

tell me you cant hear it again!

Regards

Mike

OK

Errr. Nope. Sorry I can't hear it. I've turned up the volume and everything - but nothing?

Pete

Originally posted by LesW
Free - Mr. Big - the IOW Festival version from the '70s

Les I heard this track again only a couple of days ago, on a DVD of the the film 'The Ice Storm', an Ang Lee film. Excellent.

SteveC

Jethro Tull - Bourée - was it on Living in the Past album?
PF Money, of course
Camel - track from Mirage album

That's it. Pathetic memory really.

SteveC

The Jam - Pretty Green from Sound Affects LP.

Cheers

Spike

Beverly Hill Cops theme

Cool - someone beat me to Dee-lite (the album, World Clique, is pretty cool)... And some other man of taste mentioned Massive Attack's Blue Lines, and yet another mentioned Love's Da Capo...

Right here goes...

Last splash - The Breeders (easy to play and sounds great)
Line up - Elastica
Lessons in love - Level 42 (HOW fast and intricate is that?)
Little green bag - George Baker Selection (I used to be able to play that one - and Line up - up to a point)
Glory Box/that track off of Tricky's Maxinquaye (who nicked who??) - great bassline
Thank you - Sly and the Family Stone
Angel of mercy - Dire Straits (just for the instrumental break)
Unusual ceremony - Dark Soho (so it's psy-trance and not electric bass, but who cares)
Paperback writer - The Beatles (partly as they were worried the deep bass cut would make record players jump - that always cracked me up!).
The track off of Rumours (what the hell's it called) that they used to use for the Grand Prix music...
That creepy instrumental music from that Silas kids TV programme from the late 80s

That would be Chain by Fleetwood Mac.

Thanks for the input so far guys, great help keep them coming. This is going to help me win a 'discussion' with my girlfriend :D

Thanks

'this is going to help me win a 'discussion' with my girlfriend'

Come on VanceB, let us have the details!?

redcogs.

I was having a discussion with my girlfriend Monday night, were she said, and I quote ' it must be boring playing Bass, surely lead guitar is better ?'

Now, being a wanna be Bass player, well actually I do play but not brilliantly, I took exception to this. To start with I mentioned the likes of Flea and Mark King and it went on from there....The bass and drums being the 'rock' that holds it all together etc, etc.

So I thought, what better way to highlight to her the importance of the bass than a number of songs, a fair few of which I have, that are basically remembered for the stand out bass line :D

... but just one more thing:

Northern Lights, by Renaissance.

(Featuring yet another Ricky player!)

Anything by Osibisa.

I saw them live at the Rainbow as a teenager. The bass player had a bloody great long lead on the guitar and spend the gig strolling around the entire stage banging out the notes. Fabulous.

Also, anything in my 70's album collection. I played bass in my bedroom to all my records. Favourites were Osibisa, Led Zep, Deep Purple, Fairport Convention, Mountain, Mott the Hoople, Flying Burrito Brothers, Jethro Tull etc, etc, etc.

One of my neighbours has lent me a practice amp so the bass is coming out of the garage this weekend.

Mick

I used to be accused of playing lead-bass when I used to play in a band in school.

Mmmm.. The issue that has arisen between VanceB and his significant other is probably much more interesting than the bass lines which have inspired.

Not wanting to divert the thread or anything, but my memory of musical awakenings in the early 1960s is that the songs which attracted 'hung together' not as a consequence of either a powerfully significant bass line, or a distinct tune or riff, rather the skilfull blend of these two (and more) elements carried the day. Of course, lyrics quickly became hugely significant also, especially with the radicalisation usually associated with that particular period.

In the end it is probably not helpful to dichotomise between bass and lead etc. More important to enjoy the total experience and recognise the interdependent nature of all the components within any piece of music? ;)


redcogs boring old fart stuff

Hi Redcog,

I agree with you, a good analogy I think is listening to a studio album, then seeing the band live only to find they are useless !!

The bass player and drummer can't keep it together, and as for the rest of the band, well they just go off and do their own thang.

There have been a few bands I have seen that just don't cut it live, but I am not going to mention any names here. There are some though, that I feel are much better live than on a studio album. David Gray springs to mind here. A previous girlfriend of mine bought tickets to see him last year, and it was a superb concert. His drummer, can't remember his name, deserves a show all of his own.

just another old one:

does anyone remember The Motels `Total Control´?

Pretty cool, cheers
Gernot

I can't believe no-one has mentioned the bassline from 'Good Times' by Chic. Surely the grooviest ever and sampled in 'Rappers Delight' by the Sugarhill Gang and 'Another one bites the dust' by Queen, which has been mentioned.
'Blue Monday' also has thunderously memorable bass, as do a lot of New Order/Joy Division records, eg New Dawn Fades, Love will tear us apart, etc

My goodness, I forgot Geezer Butler's awesome rumblings on Black Sabbath's "Into the Void"!

That big, hollow, introspective sound defines how good bassline not only anchor but principally create the atmosphere of a song. For all the song's monolithic heaviness the bass gives it a sense of emptiness and depression, the instrument's gel but somehow sound really isolated from one another, which I guess was the Sabs fantastic drug addled anti-chemistry in action.

It sounds so amazingly barren you have to wonder if "No Black Sabbath = no Joy Division."

There was a track off the first Jefferson Airplane album (Takes Off) with a great Jack Cassady bass line.
I think the song was Let Me In

Some current favourites:

Justin Timberlake - Rock your Body
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Can - Yoo Doo Right
Revolting Cocks - Something Wonderful
Edwin Starr - Contact
Sono - Take Control
Severed Heads - Greater Reward
Hawkwind - Masters of the Universe
Hardfloor - Hardtrance Acperience
Sabres of Paradise - Smokebelch II

(I could go on...)

DS

OTD - Emmanual Top - Detune my Fortune

Originally posted by VanceB
Hi Redcog,

There have been a few bands I have seen that just don't cut it live, but I am not going to mention any names here. There are some though, that I feel are much better live than on a studio album. David Gray springs to mind here. A previous girlfriend of mine bought tickets to see him last year, and it was a superb concert. His drummer, can't remember his name, deserves a show all of his own.

Absolutely !

I don't know the name of the guy either but he was such a showman at the gig I went to. Superb !

The album "White Ladder" features a drum machine and was only recorded to home demo standards. Live, with a full engaging group DG was excellent and made me feel there is much more to come from this artist.

Hi

Here are a few for starters.

Trammps Disco Inferno
Taste of Honey Boogie Oogie Oogie
LFO LFO
Sweet Excorcist TESTONE
Unique 3 The Theme
James Brown Sex Machine
Supremes Can't hurry Love
Jean Knight MR Big Stuff
Nightmares on Wax Aftermath
Forgemasters Track with no name

Dean

Michael Manring carrying the melody on a fretless bass on "After the Goldrush" from Michael Hedges- Aerial Boundaries.

Van Morrison Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast.

A highly underrated album IMHO. The moment the bass line from Into the Mystic starts up you know you are in for a great set.

Vanlose Stairway and Rave on John Donne are the stand out tracks.

David Hayes is the bassist. Anyone know anything about him ?

Some more classic bass led tracks

Public Image Limited - Public Image Limted
Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing
Bad Company - The Nine
Bad Company - Pulse
A Certain Ratio - Waterline
Public Enemy - Rebel without a cause
Mantronix - Got to have your love
Janet Jackson - When I think of you
Renegade Soundwave - Cocaine Sex

DS

OTD - Out Hud / !!!

Gang of Four. Most of it, but especially At home He's a Tourist.

Simon

I have had an enforced absence from anything Forum based but am slowly finding a route back [but I have missed a lot]. For now:-

Brand X - first few bars of "Nuclear Burn" did it for me, the rest just winds up the wick. I know it's classed as "Fusion" but so what?

Paul Young - first few bars of "Wherever I lay my hat" then you just can't listen to anything else in the song. [where have you been?]

Alphonso Johnson - "Bahama Mama".

Anything Jaco [eg "Cayote" by Joni Mitchell].

Joan Armatrading - "The weakness in me".

Not fretless but..

XTC - "Mayor of Simpleton" top of the heap.

Caravan - "Jack and Jill"

This could run and run, it's hard to stop, thanks guys.

Cheers,

Current system tester for Bass handling is the opening track on

The Blind Boys of Alabama - Spirit of the Century

Nice

Pete

Liquid Liquid, "Cavern" (lifted by Grandmaster Flash for "White Lines")

Mingus, any of it

Coltrane, a version of "My Favourite Things" from the Live in Japan records. Lasts for an hour, begins with a 15 minute bass solo by Jimmy Garrison

-- Ian

by daniel lanois on the album "acadie" or "vodoo" by the neville brothers on the album "yellow moon" to name a few...

Clash - Bankrobber & Bankrobber Dub
UK Subs- Warhead
UB40- King

Originally posted by VanceB
Now, being a wanna be Bass player, well actually I do play but not brilliantly, I took exception to this. To start with I mentioned the likes of Flea and Mark King and it went on from there....The bass and drums being the 'rock' that holds it all together etc, etc.


Yep - I used to be a bassist (want to be again - anyone got a cheap Aria Pro 2 going - I miss mine) and I've always maintained bass and drums ARE the band - the lead guitarist is the ego and dick waver of the band and the bassist and drummer actually do the work - you can live without rhythm guitar but not bass/drums on a full rock band I reckon :)

I used to be in a band, and I wasn't particularly brilliant on bass, but used to give it all that on stage (once I'd got into it - after about 5 minutes) and I'd be the only one jigging about the stage etc... We were looking for this new singer once, and she said at the end: "you lot are crap, but you've got a mean bassist" - I nearly died of shock!

I like the fact that a bass can make a building rattle as well - can a guitar do that? Not without pitchshifting - plus bassists have to be hardcore to be able to handle the extra size of their instrument - guitar is harder to play IMHO but bass is cooler...

AND - the piece de resistance - guitarists are 3000000 a penny - bassists are rarer and even if you're shoddy, you're normally in demand :)

Oh yeah - more basslines:
Happy Man/I want your love/Le Freak - Chic (most of their basslines kick arse)
Do the du - A Certain Ratio
Fools gold - Stone Roses

Can we include classical here? There's almost nothing better than a 32" pipe with air blowing over it to make the blood curdle.

Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3 "Organ".

Mick

Actually, I meant 32' pipe.

I used to have one of those, a cool black 5 string. Was a nice bass though, slim(ish) neck and easy to play.

Got a Dean 5 string now, along with a Fender jazz, and an Ovation acoustic. Would love to have a Rickenbacker, just can't justify that kind of expense :mad: I play these through either a Laney or Trace Elliot combo.

As to guitarists, well you don't really need 2 in a band to sound good, any decent guitarist should be able to double up as lead and rythmn, but as you say, you can do without the rythmn guitar anyway. And if the Drummer and Bassist don't lay down the foundations you don't need either :D

Another ex-bass player signing in, couldn't play for toffee though!
Bassliners...
Pixies – Gigantic
Joy Division – Ceremony
Red Krayola – Transparent Radiation
Salvatore – Easy
Mekanik Kommando – Picnic in the Castle Garden
Field Mice – Sensitive
Psychic Warriors of Gaia – Obsidian

Used to have an Aria Pro II.
Still got two Ricky 4001's.
Would really like a nice 5 string, like a Warwick or a Status.

Oh.......... Nirvana!!!!!!!!!

This thread forced me into a marathon listening session..........

Faves already mentioned; (most of the above really......)

Seal - Killer
Deelite - Groove is in the heart

Not mentioned (unless I missed them...)

Herbie Hancock - Rockit and Future Shock - Album Future Shock

Stanley Clarke - Play the Bass!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Are you Ready?
- Speedball...............

Oh the whole bloody album!..... Time Exposure

Try it........... and believe......

pm

Yeah - my Aria Pro 2 was the normal 4 string with Maple (?) neck and black body - it was lush and only cost £230 so I was loving it! I only had some feeble 100w Carlsbro bass amp though. The dodgy practice rooms we used to use had Hi-watt and Laney bass amps but I'd love a Trace Elliot - my mate Vince has one (with a Yamaha bass) and the combo rocks...

Got another bass line - track 2 off of The Vapors' "New clear days" - quite funky. Not forgetting Aeroplane by Red Hot Chili Peppers :)

"Jealous Words" Danny Thompson on Richard Thompson's "The Old Kit Bag" - only problem I heard it live and had to upgrade system because it's inadequacies were so obvious.

"Timeslip" Jack Bruce from "Out of the Storm", Chris Spedding on guitar was none to shabby, but for me settles the "do you need a lead guitarist" debate.

Albatross -simple but perfect underpinning

"Solid Air" Danny Thompson (again) - best of all on the Norma Waterson's version on "The Very Though of You"

oh and pretty much anything by the Who, I never thought they would recover after losing Keith Moon, but now...

well that took a while to write, but I enjoyed every minute of it.

Cor - just remembered a beaut' - Lou Reed and Wild Side!

redcogs, greying junior mamba..:)

'Short Stories' off Perfect Crime - Ray Obiedo
'Crosstown Kids' from Larry & Lee - Larry Carlton & Lee Ritenour
'Chuck E's in Love' - Ricky Lee Jones - used to be one of my LP12 set up tracks
'On the Corner' - John Patitucci
'Refuge of the Roads' - Hejira, Joni Mitchell. One of several Jaco Pastorius tracks
'Parabola' off Lateralus, Tool
'Night in Tunisia' - What Cha Gonna Do for Me, Chaka Khan
'Just Right for Me' - Twennynine, Lenny White
'Summertime Blues' - Live at Leeds, The Who

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Packer
[B]The Light pours out of Me

from the album Real Life by Magazine

Aha! Another Magazine afficionado.

Also: Back to Nature from Secondhand Daylight: a frenetic virtuoso from Barry Adamson drives this powerful booding masterpiece.

Chilli's: Parallel Universe from Cal....;how does he play SO fast?

My Spine (Is The Bassline) by Shriekback
Tommy The Cat by Primus
Blood Money by Nitzer Ebb
Sensoria by Caberet Voltaire
Notice Me by New Model Army
She Brings The Rain by Can
Copped It by The Fall

.... oh I could go on for ages :D

Which NMA album features Notice Me?

Which NMA album features Notice Me?

Their first album, Vengeance. Released on Abstract records in 1984. Has been issued on CD as 'The Independent Story' with a few singles from that period. See this AMG review HERE (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=MISS70305172239&sql=Amyom96oo3ep8)

Here's three terrible songs with great bass workouts:
Duran Duran - Rio
Rod Stewart - If You Think I'm Sexy
Grease soundtrack - You're The One That I Want.

Terrible?

How about

Heatwave - Boogie Nights

Pete

I thought this was songs you remembered not songs you'd hope to forget!

Mick

<strikes a quasimodo pose and shrieks> "the Bells, the BellS!"

well for starters, anyway

The Police - hole in my life (particularly the live version from Police Live)

Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) from Remain in light

The Cure - Play for Today from Seventeen Seconds

Shriekback - well, basically all of it!

Jah Wobble's Invaders of the heart - pretty much all of that too!

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Suck my kiss from Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Prince - Kiss from Parade

Caberet Voltaire - Sensoria from Microphonies

The Cure - primary from Faith

need to wake up a bit more to unearth some more.

Just to try and claw back a bit of credibility after my last posting, there's also:
Dazed & Confused - Led Zep.

Cant believe I forgot

- Neat Neat Neat; The Damned
- I Love a Man in Uniform; Gang of Four
- Atmosphere; Joy Division
- Whie Lines; Grandmaster Flash and te Furious Five ( now reformed as the quite cross five )
- Anything by The Cramps ;)

Regards

Mike

For those of a certain age -

Rescue Me by Fontella Bass

LFO, by LFO :D

Brian Bromberg doing "Come Together" on the stand-up bass.

Jamalaadeen Tacuma playing "Jam Scam."

Spinal Tap "Big Bottom" :D

jonathan carr

Originally posted by prowla
Here's three terrible songs with great bass workouts:
Duran Duran - Rio
Rod Stewart - If You Think I'm Sexy
Grease soundtrack - You're The One That I Want.

He he he - that Grease track was sounding pretty good last night despite the previous owner of my copy using a rusty nail to play it :) I put it on for the Franki Valli track and, ahem, got sucked in - oooh noooooooo!!!

What about Le Freak by Chic - I can't remember if I mentioned that? Also, a LOT of the Durannie stuff has decent bass riffs - Planet Earth, The Reflex and Union of the snake aren't bad (what the HELL was that Union of the snake track about anyway? And why didn't New moon on Monday make it onto Decade???

I'm ducking now - can't believe I admitted to owning Decade (and MOST of their vinyl back catalogue up to Big Thing - and ALL of it bought in the early 90s - gulp!

Originally posted by jcarr
Spinal Tap "Big Bottom" :D

OOOOH YEAH!! QUALITY soundtrack - Cups and cakes and Stone Henge are other stand outs - though that cheesy Listen to the flower people gets my hippie instincts going! One cracking movie.

Have you seen the black version - Fear of a black hat? It takes the pee out of NWA (they're called "Niggaz With Hats", and have Tasty Taste, Tone Def and Ice Cold doing the duty - pure class! Some cracking songs in that too, and of course, Tasty "was a pharmaceutical distributor" before he hit the big time! Oh - and the pee take of New Jack City is HILARIOUS!

For some really sublime bass

John Martyn (DannyThompson), Solid Air

A bit more obvious (and a bit silly), but fun

Tom Waits, Step Right Up

"Jaco Pastorius Big Band - Word Of Mouth Revisited", released this year. Showcases current top bassists like Victor Wooten, Victor Bailey, Richard Bona, Marcus Miller and more performing together with the members from Word of Mouth. Excellent playing throughout, and well-worth listening to.

Rather than being a song you remember because of the bass line, this is an album that you buy because of the bass lines.

jonathan carr

I just remembered "Little By Little" on the Robert Plant album "Shaken 'n' Stirred". This has a great bass line by Paul Martinez.

Good call Simon on Gang of Four's "Entertainment!", which completely rests on its bass line.

I was going to mention some Black Sabbath, Cream, and Grand Funk RR titles, but they've been covered so I'll second them.

The James Gang has some memorable bass lines, especially on "Rides Again" (Funk #49, The Bomber: Closet Queen, etc.)

The Melvins were the rare band that mastered overproduced 90's bass lines and turned them to their advantage, in large part by gleefully running things to an absurd extreme. "Stoner Witch" is their best example, especially with songs like "Queen" and "Revolve".

Of course hip-hop stands or falls, and usually falls, with its bass lines. But when it's good it can be very good; arrythmic, disjointed, impossible-to-dance-to lines that leave you shaking your head ("how did they make music from that?") can nonetheless produce some really terrific songs. Examples:

Cannibal Ox's "The Cold Vein" (especially "A B-Boy's Alpha" and "Raspberry Fields"),

El-P's "Fantastic Damage" ("Accidents Don't Happen" has a near-impossible bass line, but it comes together in a great track nonetheless).

Company Flow's "Funcrusher Plus"

Anti-Pop Consortium's "Arrythmia".