The greatest basslines ever written.
10. Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Forget disco. This was the first ever techno record - sleek, stream-lined, pulsing, thumping and made by a machine. Loved by the Studio 54 set, even if it did put a few session bass players out of work.
9. Chic - Good Times
The legendary Bernard Edwards' walking bassline launched a thousand others, including Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” and Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight.”
8. Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
The fact that John Deacon's bass riff is undoubtedly the centre point of this collaboration between two of the 70s biggest acts says it all about how good it is. Understated, cool but eminently unforgeable, and later raped by Vanilla Ice.
7. Lou Reed - Take A Walk On The Wild Side
The lazy, loping double bass on this timeless gem is one of its renowned hallmarks. Sounds like a slow summer afternoon, albeit one spent in the company of transvestites.
6. Roxy music - Love is the Drug
Made for any aspiring air bass players out there. One of the grooviest beds every committed to tape, allowing Bryan Ferry to croon away to his droopy eyelid's content.
5. Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman
From the legendary Superfly soundtrack. Joseph "Lucky" Scott, who worked with Mayfield throughout the 1970s, provides a bass line conjures up street hustling in the blaxploitation era to incredible effect.
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away
You only have to watch Flea play to know that he's is a bass maniac and on this classic he drives everything. Commitment? He's got it by the truckload. Bet his fingers hurt after playing this one, mind...
3. Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
In for one of the most famous bass guitar solos ever. Bedroom fanatics have been trying to work it out for years to no avail. A word of advice if you're one of them. It's played backwards on the record so give up!
2. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Spread Your Love
The thunderous, distorted bass line which dominates this song must have melted many a set of speakers. Live, it's enough to make your lungs compress. The monster truck of bass playing.
1. Muse - Hysteria
Highly complex music often sounds whack but not in this case. An incredibly complicated bassline that centres the song's melody. Everything else on the track is mere window dressing.
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