Favourite bass intros

[mayonaise]

i dunno if this belongs here, but i know that favourite threads arent allowed in R&M, so i figured maybe i could get away with it here.

so anyway what are some of your favourite bass intros....i dunno to me, it just seems awesome when a song is started by a sweet bassline. especially if its the first track on an album for some reason. but anyway what are some of your favourites? mine:

Israel's Son-Silverchair
Blew-Nirvana
Naveed-Our Lady Peace
Matthew Good Band-Indestructible
Jeremy-Pearl Jam

[ZEROthirtythree]

blue - smashing pumpkins

That's all i can think of at the moment.

[OrbDragon]

Morphine - I Had My Chance

[Nra4ever_17]

Specialist-Interpol

[The_Passenger]

The intro to "Waiting Room" by Fugazi is pretty neat.

[Distorted Vision]

Manifest Destiny by Jamiroquai.

[ZEROthirtythree]

I got another one:

Cows - You are So Beautiful

[Sam]

Kracked - Dinosaur Jr

One note has never been so well executed.

[Indie'd!]

Weezer - Only in Dreams
Phantom Planet - Badd Business

[BaronMauney]

Muse - Hysteria

[King_Karl]

Blackwire - Hard to love!

[CommieCanada]

Muse - Hysteria
quoted for truth

++ Butterflies and Hurricanes by Muse

[fuzzymayo]

RAtM - Bombtrack

Primus - Sgt. Baker

[Interstate]

Muse - Hysteria

123

[Iron_Weed]

Black Sabbath - NIB is petty cool and Gomez - Get Myself Arrested.

[Broken Arrow]

The Yardbirds-Lost Woman

There's a groove.

[Bad Blood]

Sic transit gloria... glory fades - Brand New
Journey to the end of east bay - Rancid

[el doctor]

At the Drive-In - "Quarantined"

[Daniel!]

Fugazi - Waiting Room

[The NPC]

"Transmission" by Joy Divison, so simple but effective.

[Anxious]

Minutemen-Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
Joy Division-Insight

[Bad Blood]

At the Drive-In - "Quarantined"

I've just listened to that song.

The intro is awesome.

[Jacaranda]

Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song

[BetaBeta]

"Romeo's Distress" - Christian Death.

It still seduces me in my sleep.

[Krash100]

"This is Music" - The Verve
"National Anthem" - Radiohead

Those two stick out for me

[hallucinogenichero]

Minutemen-Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs



ahhhh, the MM make me sick, how can ppl listen to them

Maxwell Murder- Rancid

i know, but its a wicked bass line at the begining

[Anxious]

ahhhh, the MM make me sick, how can ppl listen to them

Maxwell Murder- Rancid

i know, but its a wicked bass line at the begining
Its obvious that your an idiot.

[3rdplanet]

Time is an Imploding Unit/Waiting for Green by Biffy Clyro has a bad *** bass intro.

[The OX 9.05]

"I Am One" - Smashing Pumpkins

[RIPJoeStrummer]

Green Day - No One Knows is nice.

[hallucinogenichero]

Its obvious that your an idiot.


:upset:

[Bandaid]

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me
The Beatles - Come Together

[RollerQueen]

Jeff Buckley - "Last Goobye"
MxPx - "Chick Magnet"
The Cure - "The Lovecats"

[YDload]

Minutemen- Theater is the Life of You, Maybe Partying Will Help, The Glory of Man, Toadies, The Politics of Time.

Obviously, these are just the songs where the bass is the first and only instrument to sound off. Mike Watt is awesome.

[hallucinogenichero]

Minutemen- Theater is the Life of You, Maybe Partying Will Help, The Glory of Man, Toadies, The Politics of Time.

Obviously, these are just the songs where the bass is the first and only instrument to sound off. Mike Watt is awesome.


wtf?? i bought DNOTD or whatever its called, i hated every song on it, i listened to it several times, i tried to like it but i couldnt...its so stupid

[ZEROthirtythree]

No one disses Minutemen.

[JonM]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Around The World"

I can't believe no one has said that yet.

[hallucinogenichero]

No one disses Minutemen.


the lyrics are stupid, the music is definitly stupid, its like funk or something...i regret buying that CD

[Happymeal]

Drive Like Jehu - Luau

[OrbDragon]

Angel by Massive Attack. A classic.

[OrbDragon]

Oh yeah...and I Bleed by The Pixies...

[Jacaranda]

the lyrics are stupid, the music is definitly stupid, its like funk or something...i regret buying that CD
You need to leave MX all you do is complain.

[fuzzymayo]

Gigantic by Pixies

[pikester]

Sigur Ros - Ny Batteri.

So simple... yet so tasty.

[mikethecoug]

franz ferdinand - jacqueline
muse - hysteria
muse - time is running out
muse - butterflies and hurricanes

[RollerQueen]

Gigantic by Pixies

Ha. I was playing that at work today to demo a bass amp for some kid.

[Anxious]

the lyrics are stupid, the music is definitly stupid, its like funk or something...i regret buying that CD
You have my seal of disapproval. If that means something.

[albert_bass]

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Around The World

[Oskanot]

Guitar Vader - Perfect Bird.

It's almost the best intro ever.
Fact.

hxxp://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19WE1H1C86FAC0MXA8XPJG7GEP

I'm right. See?

(Cannonball by the Breeders is also pretty good)

[super_rad]

debaser!

[snidget]

Moby Octopad - Yo La Tengo
Around The World, Knock me down - Chili Peppers
Where I end and You Begin, National Anthem - Radiohead
Another On Bites the Dust - Queen
Waiting Room - Fuagzi
One more Robot - Flaming Lips

and alot of Primus/DFA1979

[EightMilesHigh]

The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground

'nuff said.

[YDload]

the lyrics are stupid, the music is definitly stupid, its like funk or something...i regret buying that CD

yeah man let's sum up the band's songs with one vague definition, that's definitely possible with minutemen!

EDIT: Go back to R&M

http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=23

[MC187]

how is it possible that no one has said Pink Floyd - Money

[StrangelyBrewed13]

Last Goodbye-Jeff Buckley

[I Was A Kaleidoscope]

^^^ Most definently.

And Stars And Sons by Broken Social Scene.

Stars And Sons and Last Goodbye have really, REALLY catchy basslines. Really.

[el doctor]

Rush - Cygnus X-1

onoes

[mutant!]

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Around The World
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Nobody Weird Like Me
Rage Against The Machine - Take The Power Back (I know all the instruments are playing, but the bass is still the focus.)

Pink Floyd - Money
Respect.

[Sleeper]

Radiohead-National Anthem
Tool-46 & 2
AFI-The Lost Souls
Muse-Hysteria

[Gaping_Lotus]

"Schism" - Tool.
"Higher Ground" - Chili Peppers.
"Zombie Stomp" - Ozzy Osbourne (as old and kinda lame as it is ><, haha).
Uh, and the general amount of Tool songs? Yep.

[Iron_Weed]

An obvious one is Another One Bites The Dust

[tomtom]

The Truth - Limp Bizkit. off new album The Unquestionable Truth Pt 1
awesome bassline, new album was kept very quiet. very very quiet.

[afireinsidefme]

Common - Be

its standup but still bass

its gnar


edit:

Cauterize - Killing Me

also a good one

[Akatsuki]

hum Bitter with the Sweet from Carole king and... of course Anesthesia ~Pulling Teeth by Metallica

Guitar Vader - Perfect Bird.

It's almost the best intro ever.
Fact.

hxxp://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19WE1H1C86FAC0MXA8XPJG7GEP

I'm right. See?


It's good :P and It's japanese <3 lol

[Chris_1990]

"Lounge Act" - Nirvana
"Jerry Was a Racecar Driver" - Primus
"Dive" - Nirvana
"Gigantic" - the Pixies
"Sliver" - Nirvana
"Life is Cheap" - Flipper
"(I Saw You) Shine" - Flipper
"Shed No Tears" - Flipper
"Love Canal" - Flipper
"Ha Ha Ha" - Flipper
"Mongoloid" - Devo
"Would?" - Alice in Chains

[Glue_it_back]

Transmission - joy division
Gouge Away - pixies
There it Goes - the smashing pumpkin
Higher Ground - red hot chili peppers

[PeEpHoLe_10]

From Out of Nowhere- Faith No More.

[OrbDragon]

Don't you mean "The Morning After"?

[Iai]

DFA 1979 - Turn It Out, Romantic Rights

Go on, find a more badass bass intro than those two.

[Glue_it_back]

DFA 1979 - Turn It Out, Romantic Rights

Go on, find a more badass bass intro than those two.

these guys are awsome live! i am now a fan :)

[Iai]

Catch them at Reading? Hah, they were awesome.

[EonBlueApcolyps]

At the Drive-In - "Quarantined"

hands down the best one.

[Kyle]

Smashing Pumpkins - Bury Me
Black Sabbath - NIB
Pixies - Gigantic

[YDload]

DFA 1979 - Turn It Out, Romantic Rights

Go on, find a more badass bass intro than those two.

Nomeansno- Big Dick.

[Sep]

A Heart Filled Reaction To Dissatisfaction by City Of Caterpillar is by far the best bass intro I've ever heard.

[Sep]

Oh and AFI - Sacrifice Theory is cool too.

[Gnarmageddon]

NOFX - All Of Me
NOFX - Lower
NOFX - Release The Hostages
NOFX - The Decline
NOFX - The Idiots Are Taking Over
Black Sabbath - Hand Of Doom
Rage Against The Machine - New Millennium Homes
Rage Against The Machine - Calm Like A Bomb
Morphine - Scratch
Morphine - Thursday
Rancid - Dead Bodies
Rancid - Journey To The End Of The East Bay

Plenty more that I can't think of at the moment.

[Glue_it_back]

Catch them at Reading? Hah, they were awesome.

leeds. same thing. im going to reading next year though, unless i'm travelling around europe backpacking

[perfect_isolation]

pink floyd - careful with that axe, eugene
pink floyd - one of these days im going to cut you into little pieces
nirvana - blew

[bleep_bloop]

interpol - the new
joy division - 24 hours

[moosepirate]

the cure - accuracy

[Rayne264]

green day - welcome to paradise
blink182 - carousel

[YDload]

green day - welcome to paradise
blink182 - carousel

Welcome to Paradise is a guitar intro. You're gonna have to do better than that.

EDIT: Here are some more I thought of, just so I'm not simply flaming people.

Primus- DMV, Groundhog's Day
Iron Maiden- The Clairvoyant (Steve's lone bass-only intro)
Zombies- Time of the Season

[Iai]

Time Of The Season always reminds me of Stand By Me a little too much.

[Krash100]

Jeff Buckley - "Last Goobye"

doesn't that song start with strings? I don't think it had a bass intro

[YDload]

Time Of The Season always reminds me of Stand By Me a little too much.

Yeah, I used to not know what that song was called, so I would describe the bassline to people and they're like "Oh you mean 'Stand by Me?'" :mad: NO ITS VERY DIFFERENT YOU STUPID FAT JERK!

[Anxious]

Come to think of it, any intro Mike Watt does is gold.


Also, Joy Division-Insight

[RollerQueen]

doesn't that song start with strings? I don't think it had a bass intro

It starts with a slide guitar glisten, but I don't care. It's a great intro bassline. If you don't like it, I'll disagree with you 'til we're both so blue in the face that we're Smurfed.

[ZEROthirtythree]

Yeah, I used to not know what that song was called, so I would describe the bassline to people and they're like "Oh you mean 'Stand by Me?'" :mad: NO ITS VERY DIFFERENT YOU STUPID FAT JERK!

:lol:

[pixiesfanyo]

City of Caterpillar - A Heart Filled Reaction to Dissatisfaction

[TheAgeOfRe-hashing]

basically anything from NIRVANA and The Jesus Lizard.

[marmalade_skies]

Nirvana - Lounge Act
Pink Floyd - One of these Days

Those are the two best ones I can think of that I've heard.

[:amaze:]

Probably already mentioned, but Rancid's Journey to the end of East Bay.




:amaze:

[~grif~]

i quiet liked George Baker Selection "Little Green Bag"

and there is a Goo Goo Dolls or Dave Mathews band song that has a real good bass intro but i cant remember the song name or which of them played it.:upset:. its really crunchy bass. nice.

[Mr. Black]

Pink Floyd - Money
Queen - Under Pressure

[~grif~]

Pink Floyd - Money

that bass line gets rea annoying.
played over and over.
if you ever have.. :upset:

[simplephotographinthesun]

crush - dave matthews band

[KSas]

Donna Lee performed by Jaco Pastorious

[IndieSkateRock]

"between us and them" Moving Units

[MC187]

DFA 1979 - Turn It Out, Romantic Rights

Go on, find a more badass bass intro than those two.

they are pretty sweet, but when listening they reminded me of a groove I like even more. Yeah, its not solely the bass playing but Clutch - The Soapmakers (one of my favorite intros of all time)

[seth86]

Interpol - Evil
The bravery - Public Service Annoucement
The strokes - Is This It

[Toby C]

Carousel by Blink 182

Hysteria by Muse

Hairspray Queen by Nirvana

[Beach Express]

Bath of Least Resistance by NOFX

[RideTheSpiral]

Royal Crown Revue - Zip Gun Bop


!!!!!

[poiuy trewq]

at the drive-in - quarantined

[Oddsen]

RHCP- Throw Away Your Television

[chird]

afi death of seasons

[REAL_FOB/TBS/BN_FAN]

Brand New- Sic Transic Gloria (glory fades) cant bealive only one person put that on
Tool- Sober
Queen and David Bowie/The Used and My Chemical Romance-Under Pressure (the Used and MCR did a pretty good job doing that amazing song)
Fall Out Boy- Dance Dance
RHCP- Higher Ground
Muse- Hysteria (i cant spell)

[Anxious]

Jonathan Richman- Hey there Little insect


awesome besides the bassline.

[YDload]

Brand New- Sic Transic Gloria (glory fades) cant bealive only one person put that on
Tool- Sober
Queen and David Bowie/The Used and My Chemical Romance-Under Pressure (the Used and MCR did a pretty good job doing that amazing song)
Fall Out Boy- Dance Dance
RHCP- Higher Ground
Muse- Hysteria (i cant spell)

If I had a dollar for every time you are a faggot, I would have one dollar.

[Krash100]

"Spread Your Love" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
"Stop" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

and just about every other Black Rebel Motorcycle Club song

[chird]

idiots are taking over---nofx

[Eoghan]

"In The Backround" by The Others

[JxB]

Sic transit gloria... glory fades - Brand New
and
Muse- Hysteria

[Riziger]

"Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes ;P lolz
"Calm Like A Bomb" - RATM is kinda nice
"Hysteria" - Muse
"Would" - Alice in Chains

[iBENezrocker]

Hysteria.

Enough said

[darrell]

My Friend of Misery - Metallica

Not the best, but a noteworthy one, in my opinion. It's "unique."

[socca_streak]

Carousel - Blink 182

[real_low_mind]

personal jesus-depeche mode
happy-public image ltd

[incubliss]

The Blood Brothers - Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon.

Hope no-ones mentioned that, because it's f*cking cool.

[Jaymes]

Kent - 400 slag

[robot]

almost anything fugazi

[EightMilesHigh]

Minutemen - #1 Hit Song

almost anything fugazi

Quoted because Fugazi has some pretty wicked bass lines.

[Dave de Sylvia]

Manic Street Preachers - Archives Of Pain is all that comes to mind. I'm no good at threads like this. :(

[nobodys_scared]

The Libertines - Boys in the band

just when the bass kicks in at the beginning, its so simple


and also
Public Image - PiL

The Clash - Guns of Brixton

[Clunge]

Muse - Futurism
Black Sabbath - NIB

[EightMilesHigh]

Stevie Wonder - Superstition

[YDload]

Stevie Wonder - Superstition

Drum intro

Guitar lead-in

Guitar plays main riff while bass plays quarter notes with the occasional fill until it doubles the brass melody in the second part of the verse.

In other words, there is no bass intro.

[Sammy_L_D]

Many of you need to listen to better bass music...

[Anxious]

Bassicly any Mike Watt song.

[YDload]

Many of you need to listen to better bass music...

My thoughts exactly. I think people are just thinking of songs they like, and then narrowing it down to which ones merely have a bass intro, instead of a good one.

For me they are usually one in the same, but "Alice in Chains- Would?" Are you kidding me? It's two different notes, three tops!

[t-rex]

http://digitaldreamdoor.com/

theres a list. i haven't read all of them.

rancid- out of control
Nirvana- lounge act, sliver
weezer-only in dreams

[EightMilesHigh]

Drum intro

Guitar lead-in

Guitar plays main riff while bass plays quarter notes with the occasional fill until it doubles the brass melody in the second part of the verse.

In other words, there is no bass intro.

Oh ok. There we go.

Descendents - I'm Not A Punk. That has a cool bass intro.

[Coke Bottle]

Ace - How Long
Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
Pearl Jam - Why Go
PIL - Public Image
RCHP - Around The World
RCHP - Higher Ground
The ****ed - I Just Can't Be Happy Today
The ****ed - Neat Neat Neat

[Anxious]

Oh ok. There we go.

Descendents - I'm Not A Punk. That has a cool bass intro.
Most songs on Milo goes to college have awesome bass intros.

[the pope.]

girls and boys- blur
evil - interpol
fast cars - buzzcocks
nite klub - the specials

thats all for now

[bassisfun]

Proxima Centauri by At the Drive-In
Lounge Act by Nirvana
Live With Me by The Rolling Stones
Waiting Room by Fugazi

[heart_shaped_box]

Cannonball- The breeders
great song DOWNLOAD it

[theclash91]

the (international noise conspiracy)- up for sale
pixies- debaser

[Luxor]

Choking Victim has some good bass intros.

[I'll Take The Veil]

Six Bar Phrase Hey Hey- Bear Vs. Shark
Quarantined- At the Drive-In

[Salivation]

Tool-Disposition

[Kyle]

For me they are usually one in the same, but "Alice in Chains- Would?" Are you kidding me? It's two different notes, three tops!
I think that intro sounds cool.

The bass isn't the first instrument to be played, but the first bass part in Bury me by the smashing pumpkins is awesome.

[andy is dead]

I can't believe nobody said:

Mogwai - Ex-cowboy
The Smiths - Rusholme Ruffians
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
Hüsker Dü - Something I Learned Today (althought it starts with drums)

[theantiyou]

Death of Seasons - Afi

[Zmev]

Rites of Spring - Drink Deep

[rubyseyes]

"I Am One" - Smashing Pumpkins

yes. now im going to listen to that. great song :D

[Dissectional88]

90% of Joy Division Songs, I especially like Walked in Line

[guitarded_chuck]

DFA 1979 - Turn It Out, Romantic Rights

Go on, find a more badass bass intro than those two.
Agreed. Turn It Out is such a good song.

[mutant!]

Muse - Nishe

[Clunge]

^^ True.

Porcupine Tree - Strip The Soul

[andy is dead]

Mogwai - Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home

[rossini]

everything by primus

[EADG]

Some people have given some really dumb choices, I think.

Longview by Green Day
Jerry Was a Racecar Driver by Primus
Love Buzz by Nirvana
White Devil by Alexisonfire

[andy is dead]

Longwiew is a classic.