As mentioned on the open thread, storm season has arrived. Not to be confused with President Trump’s #TheStorm or Stormy Daniels.
We’ve had a couple of loud nights this week, with more outside booming keeping me awake than when I lived in an apartment in an urban neighborhood. Let’s keep the noise going with some bass. Rattle my windows and scare my dog, I defy you. Who will be the Ace of Bass? Not to be confused with the Ass of Bass.
This can fall into two basic categories:
- Bom Ba Bom Bom Bom – Heavy bass, deep drums, and shaking trunk lids. Lots of good hip hop for this, but there’s lots of other varieties that meet the standard.
- D D D D D D D D D D – Songs with excellent basslines.
Bring tha noize.
Weekly dedications!
Santino: Sanctified by NIN
pfluffy: Psycho Killer by Talking Heads
WVR: Go It Alone by Beck
Zurvan: Doesn’t get any stormier than this. Mars: Bringer of War by Gustav Holst
Grendel: &Run by Sir Sly
That’ll get us started. Now just give me a moment to get back into my storm shelter and strap my pillows over my ears.
I always think of John Bonham for deep drums.
Misty Mountain Hop (not sure how well the links will work, I’m in Italy right now) – https://youtu.be/7joxOe76vCE
More drums – Fight for Your Right to Party – https://youtu.be/eBShN8qT4lk
Baselines – Suck My Kiss – https://youtu.be/C6jElKMMOWM
Jenny Was a Friend of Mine – https://youtu.be/om_18WhUddY
If you want bass lines, then you want Rush and Geddy Lee, the absolute demi-god of rock’n’roll bass playing.
Seven Cities of Gold
Their tribute to thunderstorms: Jacob’s Ladder
Love it.
Great drum intros? Can’t beat this!
Metallica – One
Skrillex – First of the Year
Daft Punk – Da Funk
Barracuda
Coming Home – P Diddy
U2 – Numb
In honor of seeing it for the third time yesterday, Infinity War Theme
Both great Drums and Bass – Rush’s Tom Sawyer
(BTW – gotcha)
Violent Femmes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUw4gPZiNGQ
Chili Peppers – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6oohx-QsWo
White Stripes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY
Some Muse for Santino – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm_5qWWDV8
roll’d
I never get tired of this one:
Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUa_G1h3pw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfjTZLxekig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeJkDewhTEw
As for hip hop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-geSC9KlTpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ-9LqZDSqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbWF5uVkPFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i29CuP9kjA
I’m just going to do a drive by comment here. I started a new job a couple of weeks back, and they force us to listen to country music for 50% of the day. It’s unnecessarily cruel but I can’t do anything about it.
Because of the noise of running machinery drowns out most of the higher pitches, about the only thing that comes through clearly is the bass and vocals. Earlier this week I noticed that the bass lines in most country songs could be replaced by a jug player without any discernible difference. For example listen to I Walk the Line and tell me it’s not so.
I opened “No Sleep to Brooklyn” and “Walk the Line” in separate tabs at the same time and they started playing at the same time.
Mind….blown. The margaritas made it an esoteric experience. Thanks, Mexico, for Cinco de Mayo. Thanks, Mrs Thrill, for doing it really early.
Also, thanks to Duran Duran’s John Taylor for being an awesome bassist.
Rio – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3W6yf6c-FA
Fun fact: John Taylor’s appearance is supposedly who Dante from the Devil May Cry games is based on.
Going 90’s….
Go by Pearl Jam – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URDNO-SovD4
Gladiator by Jesus Lizard – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdhRNEyQe3M
Lounge Act by Nirvana – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoudNeAMw2k
drums,.,,,,,,.,..
Conan the Barbarian Intro.,,,,,, that has Drums…
You want Drums, i got drums…
Clanadonia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvMSDFJO7SI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCMK7hJwtJg
The hell? I’m literally watching that movie right now. Do you work for Mueller or something?
THEMS FIGHTING WORDS!…LOL
Some Jane’s Addiction. IMHO, this is their best song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mySAZ3jqVcg
Killer bass AND guitar solo. Sadly, never got to see these guys live.
I had honestly forgotten how good Conan the Barbarian is. Don’t think I’ve seen it in almost 30 years.
Here’s one with a killer bass. Bada bing!
Woke Up This Morning by Alabama 3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W3A34TTxFU
One of my favourite drum intros of all time, and here’s a 7 year old kids playing it