[95Dyna]

Count Basie called him "the Dane with the endless name", Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen and wrote a song for him entitled "Opus 6".  You can find it on "Kansas City Count Basie 6" a 1980 recording on Pablo records.  Pedersen is featured throughout the album on several bass centric pieces.







As werd suggests the two Super Bass works of Ray Brown's are excceptional.  I have Super Bass 1 on an Acoustic Sounds 200 gram virgin vinyl Quality Record Pressing (Capri Records Ltd. #74018).  Tried to get the second one but no such luck.

[WireNut]

Anything by Marcus Miller. Really pisses my neighbors off.

[thunderbrick]

I'm a sucker for most pipe organ music.  My grandfather owned a theatre organ that was installed in his home.  I've never found a recording that is quite the same as having a 32' tibia playing 6" from you.

Wasn't Roy Wagner, was it?

[milford3]

Interesting topic.  I have been a bass head since I've started this hobby.  Believe it or not the best bass recording I've heard is Madonnas song "Strike a Pose."  My Aperion 8D just screams.

[95Dyna]

Interesting topic.  I have been a bass head since I've started this hobby.  Believe it or not the best bass recording I've heard is Madonnas song "Strike a Pose."  My Aperion 8D just screams.

+1!  A hopeless incurable bass head am I.  The hard part for me is not hogging up the whole thread with all my favorites.  Fortunately I'm fairly normal otherwise so I can control myself in this regard 

[medium jim]

+1!  A hopeless incurable bass head am I.  The hard part for me is not hogging up the whole thread with all my favorites.  Fortunately I'm fairly normal otherwise so I can control myself in this regard 

Ah come on, go for it!

Jim

[emac]

Most people aren't into electronic music, so if you are not, then you don't need to read any further.  Personally, I'm into drum n bass, so there are plenty of recordings that give my sub a good workout. 

Probably the best dnb album I can think of for bass is Pendulum's Hold Your Colour

Moving beyond dnb, much of what Crystal Method has put out is nice and bassy, in particular the track, Busy Child.

Finally, though I don't care much for dubstep, it is probably the most bass heavy type of music I've come across.  Very distorted, so not my cup of tea, but very bassy.

[jimdgoulding]

In the sublime, lovely, tender, sensitive category of bass recordings, my fav is by Charlie Haden here:



And in the inventive, superb, virtuoso, from another planet category of bass recordings, my fav is by Scott LaFaro here:

Good call Rockadanny.  LaFaro was a very inventive player and really advanced the art.  Haden could wrench more emotion out of a single note than anyone I know of.  Make that can.  Like to include Richard Davis into the mix.  And a personal under recorded favorite named Harvey Swartz.  Plus, Palle Danielson who can be heard on several 80's ECM recordings.

[lonewolfny42]

Adding another... Jazz ....nice track....

Avishai Cohen - "Smash"

From his album....."Continuo"

Avishai Cohen (bassist)...

[werd]

Adding another... Jazz ....nice track....

Avishai Cohen - "Smash"

From his album....."Continuo"

Avishai Cohen (bassist)...

A good exercise in arpeggio bass beats. Good call 

[Mag]

I'm going to go with Emerson, Lake & Palmer- Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends, re-mastered version.

[WireNut]

Anything by Marcus Miller. Really pisses my neighbors off.

 
 Still applies today. 
 Great Bass player. 

[jimdgoulding]

Cecil McBee, too.

[SteveFord]

PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?

[pentatonic]

Hi, newbie here but love the sections I see here, this seems like a very cool place.

Anyways, Bass  . Having had the chance of playing with really good bass players (I'm just an amateur guitarist) I really started to listen to the bass in songs.

Favorite all around:  Victor Wooten (you have to see him live, he's a beast on that thing, swirling it aound his neck and all).

favorite album Palmystery , favorite line  Scuttlebutt from UFO TOFU

Favorite innovator (possibly my choice for #1 at the same level as Hendrix will always be): Jaco Pastorius

Everything Pastorius is fine with me, but Birdland will always be #1, and The chicken obviously

Best Rock Bass: Geddy Lee this list has many contenders (JPJ, Flea, Entwistle etc.)

favorite bassline, yes, the obvious YYZ which for me redefined prog bass, and it's just such a kick*** song

and many many more

Very honorable mention to Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree) for Halo, it is hypnotic

Thanks for baring with a newbie

[medium jim]

Welcome aboard pentatonic!

Jim

[pentatonic]

Welcome aboard pentatonic!

Jim

Well thank you very much Jim, nice touch.

[decal]

I really like this guy a lot.

[decal]

My bad, you meant bass with a long a not a short one.

In that case, anything with Entwhistle thumpin' really floats my boat.

[neekomax]

Interesting topic.  I have been a bass head since I've started this hobby.  Believe it or not the best bass recording I've heard is Madonnas song "Strike a Pose."  My Aperion 8D just screams.

Just gave "Vogue" by Madonna (that's actually the name of the song) a listen on my system... holy shit, that's an awesome bass mix, never heard bass that's spaced out on the the soundstage like that, on my system it seems to come from both sides of the LP, not straight on and 'under' the mix, like most tracks. That's a cool trick, really trippy, and gives the song it's own signature sound, again, unlike anything I've ever heard.

Madonna has worked with some very innovative producers and engineers, so I'm not that surprised. (In this case, it was Shep Pettibone).