Basslines

**Com King** · April 6th, 2006, 06:42 AM

They are what makes a good record huge, and not only in DISCO.

Please post yours :

Ingram - Mi Sabrina Tequana
Banbarra - Shack Up
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Man Friday - Winners
Man Friday - Love Honey, Love Heartache
Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face?
James Brown - Sex Machine
Fred Wesley & The JB's - Doin' it To Death
Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady
Rhythm Makers - Zone
Vaughan Mason & crew - Rock bounce Roll Skate
Nancy Martin - Can't believe
Plunky & the Oneness of Juju - Every way but loose (Larry Levan remix)
Gil Scott Heron - the Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Pointer Sisters - Happiness
Tenor Saw - Golden Hen (Reggae)
Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
Teddy Pendergrass - The More I Get The More I Want
Yasuko Agawa - LA Night
Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long
Ronnie Hudson & The Street People - West Coast Poplock
Roy Ayers - running Away
Roy Ayers - Funky Nassau
James White & The Blacks - Contort Yourself
Buari - Advice From Father
Bombers - Get Dancin'
Gary's Gang - Showtime
Captain Sky - Super Sporm
Tom Browne - Funkin For Jamaica
Pat Lundy - Work Song
B 52's - Planet Claire
ESG - Moody
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
Bohannon - Let's Start The Dance
Aurra - When I Come Home
Roundtree - Hit On You
Ripple - The Beat Goes on
Gwen McCrae - All This Love That I'm Giving
Fatback - king Tim III
Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People
Montana Sextet - I'm Still The Best
Munich Machine - Get On The Funk Train
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
Cody Chesnutt - The Seed

Marcio** · April 6th, 2006, 08:03 PM

My favorite basslines are "You've Turned Me On (But You Can't Turn Me Off)" by Silver Convention and "Float On" by the Floaters.

**eddie** · April 6th, 2006, 08:35 PM

My favorite bass line is a song that's beyond the disco era and a not really well known album cut.

It is "Love's been so nice" by After 7. Has anyone heard this?

**Disco Funk** · April 6th, 2006, 10:29 PM

Here's an older thread discussing the best basslines in disco:

Disco Basslines

Add to my list:

James Brown - Everybody Get Funky One More Time.
Eli's Second Coming - Love Chant

Disco Funk

**remicks** · April 6th, 2006, 11:12 PM

Originally Written by Disco Funk

Eli's Second Coming - Love Chant

Just now picked up this 45 ( 25 cents :P !!! ) and look forward to giving it a careful scrutinizing !! ...

Best bass of all time ??

Two :

I'LL TAKE YOU THERE --- The Staple Singers
FIRE --- Ohio Players

*****

**K-Bee** · April 7th, 2006, 12:09 AM

Originally Written by eddie

My favorite bass line is a song that's beyond the disco era and a not really well known album cut.

It is "Love's been so nice" by After 7. Has anyone heard this?

That one has a huge following by new jack swing fans (not many of us left though :lol: ). I believe a few remixes came out as well.

Masters of quality basslines were definetely the Gap Band! No wonder that "Outstanding" has been sampled to death. The same goes for Keni Burke's "Keep Rising To The Top"....so simple, yet so effective.

**RetroRuss** · April 7th, 2006, 01:49 AM

I have looked at both threads and increibly no-one's mentioned
Dance With You - Carrie Lucas.
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/562_0_2_0_C/
The best ever - has to be, as mentioned countless times before, - Good Times - Chic, with Disco Inferno - Tramps version a second by three lengths!

**discokicks** · April 7th, 2006, 07:37 AM

I totally agree...Dance With You was the first song that I thought of for the best bassline.

**needlefingers** · April 7th, 2006, 11:06 AM

A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie

**Disco Funk** · April 7th, 2006, 10:39 PM

I got a few more I just remembered:

Spring High - Ramsey Lewis
Disco Dancin - Stanley Turrentine
Fell In Love For The First Time Today - Carol Douglas
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn
I Don't Know If Its Right - Evelyn Champagne King
Off the Heb Alpert 'Rise' album - Street Life, Rise, and Love Is.
Taana Gardner - Heartbeat
El Coco - Cocomotion
Who Is She And What Is She To You - Creative Source
Soul Searchin Time - The Trammps
Get Tha Funk Out Ma Face - Brothers Johnson
I Feel Sanctified and Brick House - Commodores
7 Minutes of Funk - Tyrone Thomas & The Whole Darn Family
Off The Wall, Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Blame It On The Boogie - Jacksons
Heck, even Disco Duck by Rick Dees has a cool bass line.

And if we're going waaaay back, back into time:

Easin In - Edwin Starr (Hell Up In Harlem Sdtk)
Thank You For Talkin To Me Africa; Thank You Fallentinme Be Mice Elf - Sly & The Family Stone

Disco Funk

**efunk_adelic** · April 7th, 2006, 11:20 PM

Originally Written by K-Bee

Originally Written by eddie

My favorite bass line is a song that's beyond the disco era and a not really well known album cut.

It is "Love's been so nice" by After 7. Has anyone heard this?

That one has a huge following by new jack swing fans (not many of us left though :lol: ). I believe a few remixes came out as well.

Masters of quality basslines were definetely the Gap Band! No wonder that "Outstanding" has been sampled to death. The same goes for Keni Burke's "Keep Rising To The Top"....so simple, yet so effective.

K-Bee!!!

I remember being in a chatroom and introducing K-Bee to the jam
UNLIMITED TOUCH - I HEAR MUSIC IN THE STREETS

8) :D

**efunk_adelic** · April 7th, 2006, 11:38 PM

i'll mention a few:

OHIO PLAYERS - Skin Tight
OHIO PLAYERS - Far East Mississippi
FAZE-O - Ridin' High
JAMES BROWN - Give It Up, Turnnit A Loose
JAMES BROWN - Mother Popcorn

**ol'skinflint** · April 8th, 2006, 02:02 AM

and it's the only song I can think of in which the bass line NEVER changes, it's the exact same through out the whole song. That normally would be boring but it's quite hypnotic. Stevie Wonder's "Do I Do?" has amazing bass playing, as does Roberta Flack's "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long" (which i think Stevie also wrote).

**K-Bee** · April 8th, 2006, 02:23 AM

K-Bee!!!

I remember being in a chatroom and introducing K-Bee to the jam
UNLIMITED TOUCH - I HEAR MUSIC IN THE STREETS

Oh yeah...those were the days. I still love that song to death btw :D

**neonlights** · April 8th, 2006, 02:50 AM

Don't think there's anything quite like a good bassline. One of my favourite things about disco and funk records..

Not my definitive list, but some good ones I've listened to recently..

Gwen McCrae - Keep The Fire Burning
Bonnie Pointer - Free Me From My Freedom (12" Version) love that bass solo they added on the 12"..
Chic - Everybody Dance

In any case, I think Chic (or more specifically, Bernard Edwards) have always delivered with the bass. It was really only after I started listening to them that I started paying attention and listening for it.. So big ups to Bernard for the bass! 8)

**marmite7** · April 8th, 2006, 03:26 AM

Rose Royce - RR Express
Richard T Bear - Sunshine Hotel
First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder
Jimmy Bo Horne - Spank
Rose Royce (again) - If It's Love You're After

**Com King** · April 8th, 2006, 04:47 AM

Other Great Basslines :

First Choice - Let no man Put asunder
David Bendeth - Feel The Real
Bombers - Shake
Queen Samantha - Take a Chance
LA Boppers - Give me Some
Joe Bataan & Jocelyn Brown - Sadie (She smokes)
Gwen McCrae - All This Love I'm Giving
Candi Staton - Nights on Broadway
People's Choice - Do It Anyway You Wanna
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
The Dells - All About The paper
Was Not Was - Wheel Me Out

**neonlights** · April 8th, 2006, 10:56 AM

some more:

Paradise Express - Dance
The Undisputed Truth - Showtime
The Supremes - Come Into My Life
Labelle - Get You Somebody New
Stargard - What You Waitin' For
Instant Funk - I've Got My Mind Made Up
Mary Wilson - Red Hot
Melba Moore - Burn
The Temptations - Power

**eddie** · April 8th, 2006, 06:47 PM

Outside of the aforementioned After 7 cut, I also really dig:

1)Cheryl Lynn-Shake it up tonight
2) Brick-Dazz (where that Instant Funk bassline originated-just listen to it)
3)Unlimited Touch-I hear music in the street
4) Anything Slave or Steve Arrington but my choice bassline would be that from Snapshot

**eddie** · April 8th, 2006, 07:09 PM

k-Bee: I could not find any alternate mixes released on Virgin nor any 12 inch singles of that cut-"Love's been so nice".
The 2 remixes that I need from that After 7 debut Lp was My only woman available on 12inch only and One night live available on cassette single only.
And also wasn't there a third remix of Can't Stop where the song started out all accapella and follows much of the same pattern as the remix includes on the Very Best of After 7 CD?

**Videoskooter** · April 9th, 2006, 02:42 PM

Great BASE-ball:

-T-Connection: "Saturday Night"
-Melle Mel: "White Lines"
-Slick: "Space Bass"
-Jimmy Bo Horne: "Is It In"

And this beauty fom Madame Labelle:

**QUINNY** · April 9th, 2006, 05:32 PM

Add Renzo Fraiese - 12 Engle Street.

I only recently re-discovered this track and implore you all to take a listen to it. A great bassline (and record) somewhat in the Mi Sabrina Tequana mold, but with heart wrenching soulful/gospel sounding vocals.

**WolverSyr** · April 10th, 2006, 05:58 PM

My favorites have to be:
Shoot Me - Tasha Thomas
Super Sweet - Wardell Piper
Most anything from Stargard

**K-Bee** · April 13th, 2006, 12:52 AM

Originally Written by eddie

k-Bee: I could not find any alternate mixes released on Virgin nor any 12 inch singles of that cut-"Love's been so nice".
The 2 remixes that I need from that After 7 debut Lp was My only woman available on 12inch only and One night live available on cassette single only.
And also wasn't there a third remix of Can't Stop where the song started out all accapella and follows much of the same pattern as the remix includes on the Very Best of After 7 CD?

Honestly, I really thought some would have been available :cry: Actually since these are new jack swing related questions I suggest you try out the forum at www.njs4ever.com for more info

**Nano** · May 10th, 2006, 02:55 PM

First and foremost: "Zulu" by THE QUICK, I never get tired ot this one.

Honorable mentions:

CHIC - My forbidden lover
EMPRESS - Dyin' to be dancin'
KURTIS BLOW - The breaks
UNLIMITED TOUCH - I hear music in the street
ONE WAY - Pop it
RAY PARKER JR. & RAYDIO - Still in the groove
FIREFLY - Love is gonna be on your side
INSTANT FUNK - I've got my mind made up
BLONDIE - Heart of glass
EVASIONS - Wikka wrap