FabSwingers.com forum: Best 80's bassline?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

So many to choose from. At the time I hated the song but now I really appreciate that driving bass.

TOO SHY - KAJAGOOGOO

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By *anielpiercedMan
over a year ago

by the seaside

Under pressure has got to be up there with the best.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Or GARY NUMAN – Music For Chameleons. Used in an episode of Alan Partridge for his Air Bass

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Has to be Level 42 - Lessons in Love.

Mark King is the God of Bass

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By *0ng0 furyMan
over a year ago

Birkenhead

m.a.r.r.s - pump up the volume

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Bass line ? ..You can call me Al has one of the best bass lines ever

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By *gent CoulsonMan
over a year ago

Secret hideaway in the pennines

"Has to be Level 42 - Lessons in Love.

Mark King is the God of Bass "
very true, but I would have gone with love games, theat slap base intro drives the song all the way to the end

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By *alleyDaveMan
over a year ago

Sheffield

Don henley - Boys of summer

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Police - Walking on the Moon

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

Paul Simon - You can call me Al

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Thought of two more essentials...

Paul Young - Wherever I lay my hat

Japan - Quiet Life

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

The bassline on Rio by Duran Duran is totally epic. I never noticed it when it was in the charts, but it's really makes the song special.

Cal

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

Rappers Delight

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Frankie Goes To Hollywood- Welcome to the Pleasuredome

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"Rappers Delight

Wasn't the bass-line from Chic's Good Times?

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

Anything with Peter Hook on it!

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By *idewillyMan
36 weeks ago

portsmouth

He clash guns of brixton human league being boiled the lebanon or white lines are but a few 80s killing joke

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By *idewillyMan
36 weeks ago

portsmouth

Hooky likes elite strings and active yam bb electronics in his basses i know thoses basses well you could say

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By *ensuallover1000Man
36 weeks ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

As previously mentioned, Mark King of Level 42 fame is an absolutely astounding bassist.

He can play every trick in the book and then some and always supplied incredibly memorable bass lines

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
36 weeks ago

Sussex

The opening riff of Debaser by Pixies

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By *idewillyMan
36 weeks ago

portsmouth

Mark king and peter hook are mates after mark went went into hooks dressing room as hook used to take the micky out of marks playing they hit it off and became mates

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By *odgerMooreMan
36 weeks ago

Carlisle

For pure simplicity and impact Waterfront by Simple Minds or complexity would be Something by Billy Sheehan/Mr Big

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