The Song Fight Bulletin Board

for those who didn't catch the show, here's the stuff that made it on-air:

Friends of Distinction - Grazing in the Grass
The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing
Boz Scaggs - Lowdown
Gladys Knight and the Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia
Earth, Wind and Fire - September
Redbone - Come and Get Your Love
Parliament - Wizard of Finance
S.O.U.L. - Burning Spear
Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage
Banbarra - Shack Up
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
ABC - Poison Arrow
Joy Division - Disorder
The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
The Cure - The Love Cats
Rick James - Give It to Me
Pixies - Hey
Ben Folds Five - Underground
Built to Spill - Now and Then
Octothorpe - Bullseye Girl
Cake - She'll Come Back to Me
The Decemberists - Billy Liar
Electric Six - Improper Dancing
Modest Mouse - Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
Spoon - I Turn My Camera On
The Beta Band - Squares
Rilo Kiley - I Never
Queen/David Bowie - Under Pressure

That's a fun line up. Are there archives of the shows that we can listen to, Marcus?

The lack of any Talking Heads is inexcusable.

hmm. I might've played Psycho Killer. They didn't occur to me, but I'll listen to some Talking Heads and pay special attention to the bass. I do love the band. But... y'know... time considerations. Some songs that I wanted to play but didn't have time for:
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love (and the bass isn't super noteworthy, mostly just doubling the guitar)
The Who - Boris the Spider
Animals - We Gotta Get Out of This Place
The Zombies - Brief Candles
The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb
Broken Social Scene - Pacific Theme

I know it's too late to be included, but one of my fave bass tracks ever is David Crosby's "Cowboy Movie," featuring Jack Cassidy (Jefferson Airplane) on bass. It's on Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name" solo album from way back when... great playing, great tone, and it's just a standout piece.

Charles (KA)

Pick a Fugazi song.

fodroy wrote:Fugazi

gesundheit

for your next bassline-fest:

Teddy Pendergrass - Love TKO

-craig

Late to the party.

Here are some for part two though.

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Funkadelic / De Le Soul (Not Just) Knee Deep / Me Myself and I
Hall and Oates - Say No Go
The Style Council - Long Hot Summer

I think the best Cake bass line is the one in "Never There".

Great Idea for a show.

Oh crap one more. One of the best bass line evah.

Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long

EDIT

Oh and

Fools Gold - Stone Roses

Ok stopping now.

Damn how could I have missed this while it was still a relevant question? Any Public Image Ltd song from their first two albums (I would have suggested either Careering or Public Image), also one of the Stranglers' early bass-lead classics, like 'Peaches'. The bassline to 'Heard It Through The Grapevine'. ESG's 'You're No Good'. There are so many, I think i could easily compile an alternate playlist if you ever do Bass II ...

I'm upset nobody said Mary Jane from Rick James... the beginning of that song is siiiiiick.

White Rabbit- Jeff Airplane
Jique-Brazilian Girls
Love Song- The Cure
Here's to the Man -Sausage
The National Anthem- Radiohead
Black Milk- Massive Attack
Hilikus- Incubus
Return Trip- Electric Wizard
Hama- Boris

I like the hypnotic.

Different People - No Doubt
The Vice - Sonata Arctica
Love - Sixpence None The Richer (kind of boring but extremely catchy)
Throw Away Your Television - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Take The Power Back - Rage Against The Machine
Panic Attack - Dream Theater
Carousel - Blink 182 (the intro)
Sinister Minister - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Pretty much anything by Flea, Les Claypool, or Victor Wooten rocks my world.