Which Recordings would be listed in a TalkBass Basic Library?

#61
Here are some more essentials that come to mind:

1. Something - The Beatles
2. The Lemon Song - Led Zeppelin
3. Roundabout - Yes
4. Slowride - Foghat (full version with bass solo)
5. Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley
6. Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
7. Penny Lane - The Beatles
8. Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
9. Bernadette - The Four Tops (James Jamerson)
10. Tom Sawyer - Rush
11. Money - Pink Floyd
 
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#62
Albums: Bassist then album title

Jaco Pastorious- Jaco

Ralph Armstrong- Enigmatic Ocean

Jeff Berlin- One Of a Kind, Gradually Going Tornado, Pump It, Champion

Geddy Lee- Well most of them

John Paul Jones- Well Led Zep II is a fave bass classic. Obviously the Lemon Song but also Ramble On and What should etc...

Roger Glover- In Rock Well Speed King alone gets him into the hall of fame. He wrote the riff. And yes Smoke On the Water has that riff but also the best Gminor pentatonic workout you will ever hear and a walking bass line in the solo.

Doug Keyser- Control and Resistance. the math metal guys from Texas really have still never been surpassed.
 
#63
The Mars Volta De-loused in the commatorium/frances the mute/ amputecture.

juan's solos on day of the baphomets is amazing, and flea's playing on de loused is amazing as well.

just be prepared for some long intervals of noise on frances and amputecture...thats all...lol
 
#64
Heres my list, please note that some genres are missing - prog rock, funk, soul, jazz, country etc because I don't have enough knowledge in that genre.

Beatles - The White Album
Velvet Underground - White Light, White Heat
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
The Stooges - Raw Power
Joy Division - Closer
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Dr Dre - The Chronic
Demilich - Nespithe
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
KMFDM - Nihil
 
#67
YES: "Relayer"
YES: "Close To The Edge"
YES: "Tales From Topographic Oceans"
YES: "Yessongs"
GENESIS: "Live"
GENESIS: "Seconds Out"
GENESIS: "Selling England By The Pound"
CHICAGO: "II"
CHICAGO: "V"
CHICAGO: "Live @ Carnegie Hall"
WEATHER REPORT: "Heavy Weather"
JONI MITCHELL: "Shadows And Light"
ELTON JOHN: "Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy"
ELTON JOHN: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
THE BEATLES: "Revolver"
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND: "Under The Table And Dreaming"
EARTH, WIND AND FIRE: "All 'N All"
EARTH, WIND AND FIRE: "Grattitude"
TIM FINN: "Tim Finn"
BARENAKED LADIES: "Gordon"
ELP: "Brain Salad Surgery"
STARCASTLE: "Starcastle"
RICH MILLETT: "This Guy's The Limit"
THE REASONS: "Music For After School"
BOBBY CALDWELL: "Cat In The Hat"
CHRIS SQUIRE: "Fish Out Of Water"
MIKE RUTHERFORD: "A Smallcreep's Day"
MARILLION: "Misplaced Childhood"
...etc.
 
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THE WHO: "Who's Next"
THE WHO: "Quadrophenia"
PETE TOWNSEND: "White City"
DMB: "Under The Table And Dreaming"
GRAND FUNK: "Phoenix"
THE POLICE: "Ghost In The Machine"
URIAH HEEP: "Demons And Wizards"
URIAH HEEP: "Sweet Freedom"
URIAH HEEP: "Salisbury"
STEELY DAN: "Aja"
GINO VANNELLI: "Brother To Brother"
GINO VANNELLI: "Nightwalker"
 
#69
Thank you DZIB. At last someone with enough taste to list a Genesis album. Seconds Out and Selling England too. Good to see PF Animals listed so often, that is what started me on bass, and Moving Pictures too. I'd like to add another Genesis record, Wind and Wuthering. I've just rediscovered it this weekend. that was Genesis at their best for me, certainly in the studio. Seconds Out live still is a great record of that period.:)
 
#70
BassBus said:
Thank you DZIB. At last someone with enough taste to list a Genesis album. Seconds Out and Selling England too. Good to see PF Animals listed so often, that is what started me on bass, and Moving Pictures too. I'd like to add another Genesis record, Wind and Wuthering. I've just rediscovered it this weekend. that was Genesis at their best for me, certainly in the studio. Seconds Out live still is a great record of that period.:)
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Hell yeah!! Wind & Wuthering is classic. "All In A Mouse's Night" is fun, "One For The Vine" is classic Genesis and "Afterglow" is one of the greatest ballads (is it a ballad) of all time (although the Seconds' Out version is the definitive (IMO))

Mike Rutherford is not under rated. He's UN-rated!!!
 
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DZIB said:
Hell yeah!! Wind & Wuthering is classic. "All In A Mouse's Night" is fun, "One For The Vine" is classic Genesis and "Afterglow" is one of the greatest ballads (is it a ballad) of all time (although the Seconds' Out version is the definitive (IMO))

Mike Rutherford is not under rated. He's UN-rated!!!
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IMO2. I thought all the playing on Wind and Wuthering was fantastic. Mike Rutherford's playing was always good but I could never get my fingers round it. Steve Hackett is also a highly underated played. Magic tone!!!
 
#73
Stax Gold Volume3-Various Stax artists
Double Nickels on the Dime-The Minutemen
Tapdancin' Bats- NRBQ
Mingus Ah Um- Charlie Mingus
Combustication- Medeski, Martin and Wood
Clear Spot- Capt Beefheart and his Magic Band
The Chess Box- Willie Dixon
Texas Flood- Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble
Five Live Yardbirds-The Yardbirds
With The Beatles- The Beatles
The Rolling Stones- The London Years
 
#74
FatCity said:
Govt Mule- Dose
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath
Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Nuthin' Fancy
Jefferson Airplane- Volunteers
Grateful Dead- Live Dead
Guns n Roses- Appetite for Destruction
Iron Maiden- Killers
Duran Duran- Rio
Spirit Caravan- Dreamwheel
Rainbow- Rising
Rolling Stones- Let it Bleed
The Beatles- Abbey Road
Icarus Witch- Roses on White Lace
Trapeze- Medusa
Deep Purple- Burn
Wings- Wings over America
Cream- Disraeli Gears
The Police- Zenyatta Mondatta
Whitesnake- Live...In the Heart of the City
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i'm amazed that there are other people on this forum who listen to icarus witch, although i wouldn't call it required listening. btw did you hear the roses on white lace cover with Michael Romeo on guitar?
 
#75
Strange Brew-The very Best of Cream
Jaco-Anything
Rush-All of em
Bloodthirst, Wretched Spawn and KILL-Cannibal Corpse
Epitaph-Necrophagist
Blotted Science
Dream Theater
Yin Yang-Victor Wooten.

Death metal is not for everyone... but for those of you getting into it or are just curious, check out some of those bands. I don't think I need to tell you witch one's I'm talking about.
Check out my band...
http://www.myspace.com/divinitymetal
 
#76
Miles Davis-Bitches Brew (fo' sho')
I.M. Live after Death
Deep Purple-Machine Head
Gypsy Kings-Self Titled
Marcus Miller-M2
Sade-Smooth Operator..(Is that the title?)
Helloween-Keeper of the Seven Keys I/II
Yngwie J. Malmsteen-Trilogy
Weather Report-Heavy Weather
Victor Wooten-A Show of Hands
Queen-Live at Wembley '85

...to name a few...:cool:
 
#77
These are some suggestions for great albums with great bass.



Any of the Jamiroquai albums with Mr. Stuart Zender are great. (hence, my name on TalkBass);)

I also want to throw in the Complete Stax Volt 1959-1968 into the mix. Classic, raw, gritty soul, with some great no-nonsense bass from Duck Dunn.

Also some Chic. Granted, it isn't for everybody, and lyrically, it's pretty cliched, but Bernard Edwards was such a killer bassist.


The Royal Scam by Steely Dan - the finest Steely Dan/Chuck Rainey collaboration.


Stevie is also great - both the Nate Watts and Stevie's Left Hand basslines.

What's Goin' On by Marvin Gaye. If you're a bassist and you don't like this album, you should just put down your instrument, and never touch it again. This is one of the few albums where I'm that dogmatic. You don't like it, I don't like you.
 
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#78
mr bungle - mr bungle (untitled first album)
led zeppelin - I-IV (and then the others :D)
big business - here come the waterworks, head for the shallow
MELVINS - houdini, stoner witch
james brown - greatest hits
rush - farewell to kings, moving pictures, permanent waves
genesis - selling england by the pound, foxtrot, lamb lies down on broadway

...and more. +1 to Gentle Giant - Free Hand suggested by Matt Till. AWESOME bass work, and not as well known as it should be.
 
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