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1. Propaganda - "The Murder Of Love"

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

2. A Certain Ratio - "Lucinda"

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

come on! - there's at least 100 other eligible ACR tracks

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

3. all Seinfeld themes

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

4. 'Night Court' theme

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

5. spectrum - kinda new (tiefschwarz remix)

― in sharky water, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

6. Brothers Johnson - Get the Funk Out Ma Face (et al)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

7. sly and the family stone - thankyoufalletinmebemicelfagain (the first track to feature slap bass)

― ppp, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

3. all Seinfeld themes

I have to hurt you now. (Especially when compared to the sublime NON-slap bass that starts off the Barney Miller theme.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

(Did "Dance to the Music" come before or after that?)

xpost - oh, but of COURSE Dave Q gets a pass for his selection? SHENANIGANS! Also, please to read the title of the thread.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Themes
(Not a slap-bass, but still an electric bass is the excellent Mr. Spock motif from Star Trek, TOS.)

(xpost, but I see Ned is on the right track!)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Ned speaks true.

"Bonin' in the Boneyard" - Feeeeeeeeeeshbone

― Austin (Austin), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Power Station "Get it On"

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

8. Bleach - Width of a Field of View

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Mordred - Esse Quam Videri

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Heh heh...whenever I feel the need to lecture folks about how the sound of recorded bass guitar changed from the '70s to the '80s, I always invite them to compare the "Night Court" theme to the "Barney Miller" theme!

...anyway...

5.Sly & The Family Stone, "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"
Where it all began, supposedly.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit!! X-post on both the Sly track & the "Barney Miller" comments!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

but of COURSE Dave Q gets a pass for his selection? SHENANIGANS! Also, please to read the title of the thread.

I barely remember the Night Court theme! Therefore I do not mind it nor anything else mentioned on this thread so far. The fact however that I can't even think of Seinfeld without THAT FUCKING MISERABLE IDIOT WHOEVER THE FUCK HE WAS PLAYING THAT BULLSHIT THAT WAS THE MUSIC is a sign.

Anyway:

Nine Inch Nails, "Sanctified"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

13. RHCP - "Higher Ground"

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

ZZ Top "Thug"

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

15. Return to Forever "Earth Juice"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

16. Sly and the Family Stone "Livin' While I'm Livin'" (by far one of the funkiest grooves known to man)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

17. Faith No More "Be Aggressive"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

18. Kajagoogoo 'Too Shy'

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

19. the Cam'ron song that sampled 'Night Court'

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

20. fIREHOSE "Down with the Bass"

― earlnash, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

21. Jane's Addiction "No One's Leaving"

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

not 100 % sure about all of these, going by faint funk memories...

22. Freez, "Southern Freez"

23. 23 Skidoo--"Coup"

24. Oneness of Juju--"Every Which Way but Loose" [think that's the title anyway]

tina weymouth had some kind of self-developed technique involving her thumb so i'm going to nominate

25: Talking Heads -- "Found a Job"

here's where i admit my dream in life at one point was to play slap-bass

― blissblogga, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

26: No-Neck Blues Band -- "Joan the Baptist"

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

27. Howard Jones "Things can Only Get Better"

― Slappy, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

28.Almost any Graham Central Station up until the break of the 80s.. in particular, the Now Do U Wanna Dance album.

29.Anything Jamalaadeen Tacuma played on... Ornette Coleman & Prime Time Band's Of Human Feelings.. Golden Palomino's Oao, and even select tracks of his solo albums (and I'll even forgive his cover of Phil Collin's "One More Night")

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

30. Gwen Guthrie & friends - "Seventh Heaven"

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

30.Grace Cale's Dubset Hittites and Kassites. So proto-!!! is hurts.

31.Hula Cut From The Inside.. also so proto-!!! it hurts.

32.Doug Wimbish in EVERYTHING!!! particularly early Sugar Hill band stuff, Tackhead, and related. (haven't heard the Living Colour album he's on)

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

ur, offset my numbers by 1...

34 is next!

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

34.Oh duh! Simon Underwood's bass in the Pop Group's first album.

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

35.And moving later on, Pigbag.

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

and no mention yet? it's not looking good for that guy from Level 42!

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

36. Cheryl Lynn - Got to be Real

― D.J. Anderson, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

37. the dude from Faculty Party - pick any song "Learning To Tell Time In A Foreign Language" ?
fact: best slap bassist evah!

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

38. Red Snapper 'Some Kind Of Kink' (or just the Alvin Stardust track they sample)

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Faculty Party - Ithaca, NY c.1981 are all but unsearchable cos of that name!

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

if no one else will:

39. A Certain Ratio - "Touch"
40. A Certain Ratio - "Knife Slits Water"

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

41. Busta 'Cherry' Jones - "Regiment" (Byrne/Eno Bush Of Ghosts)

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

1. Victor Wooten, "Me and My Bass Guitar."

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

It's not slap bass on Seinfeld, though, it's a synth that sounds like a slap bass. Or a bit like one, anyway. Still really annoying, though.

― frankiemachine, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

43. Hardkiss w/ Kool Keith "Sharks and Mermaids"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

44. les rhythmes digitale - jaques your body (make me sweat)

― in sharky water, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

45. Alpha Team - "Speed"

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

46. Was (Not Was) - Wheel Me Out

― Palomino (Palomino), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

46. ('cause Seinfeld, as noted above, don't count): minutemen (Mike Watt), "The Glory of Man"
47. Jeffrey Osbourne (Alphonso Johnson), "Stay With Me Tonight"
48. Laurie Anderson (Bill Laswell), "Sharkey's Night"

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

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In fact, fuck yeah man! There's no way we should have gotten this far without "Jungle Boogie" and "Hollywood Swinging" at the very least.

― Austin (Austin), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

57. We don't need that fascist groove thang - BEF

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

58. holy ghost - bar-kays

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

seinfeld, i suspect, is a chapman stick

bad slap
-- stanley clarke, shriekback, flea

― blissblogger, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

fuck has anything worthwhile ever been done with a chapman stick?

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

59. Konk "Baby Dee"

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

60.Ministry "Cold Life"

("Cooooold *sax* LOIF! *sax* Coooold *sax* LOIF!")

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm going with some FRETLESS SLAP

61. Gary Numan - "White Boys and Heroes"

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Bowie - Ashes To Ashes!

Minutemen - pretty much all of Double Nickels...

Also see the Graceland thread.

― stew, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Faith No More - "Woodpecker From Mars"

Infectious Grooves (!) - that whole ridiculous album w/ the lizards on the cover

(just realizing i'm there's another dave q... gotta change my username i guess)

― DaveQ (daveq), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Primus - "Tommy The Cat"

(Claypool gets slappin in most Primus songs I 'spose - in the category of 6-STRING FRETLESS SLAP no less...)

― DaveQ (daveq), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Dave you broke the rule

― mullygrubbah (bulbs), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Let's all pull together and make it to 100 without mentioning ANY Primus songs!
-- nickalicious (nickaliciou...), February 8th, 2005.

― mullygrubbah (bulbs), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Japan - Visions of CHina (it sort of has some slappy fretless bits)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha I just saw that :(

I willing accept my flogging...

― DaveQ (daveq), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

fuck has anything worthwhile ever been done with a chapman stick?

BRIAN FUCKING KINNEY... FRESNO

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Seinfeld is synth bass. Admitted, documented, intuitively obvious to even the most casual listener with a working set of ears. Let's move on.

66. Stanley Clarke, "School Days".

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

67.Victims Family...(Petaluma reprazent)

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

68. RHCP "Skinny Sweaty Man in a Green Suit" (or is it "Backwoods"?)

― Beta (abeta), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

69. Duran Duran, "Hungry Like The Wolf"

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

70. Grover Washington and Bill Withers - Just the two of us.

I don't know if it counts, but there is definitely bass-slapping in it, just not a gimmicky amount.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

71. Basement Jaxx "Red Alert"

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm going with some FRETLESS SLAP
61. Gary Numan - "White Boys and Heroes"

-- Patrick South

GOOD CALL

― thee music mole, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

72.Simple Minds - Big Sleep
73. Temptations - Shakey Ground
74. 52nd Street - Look Into My Eyes

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

A couple of comments:

1. Most of "Double Nickels" is not slapped. Don't be lazy -- pick a song!
2. Chuck Rainey was specifically asked NOT to slap on "Peg", but he really, really wanted to -- so he just played with his back to the booth.

back to the listing:
75. Golden Paliminos (Jamaladeen Tacuma): "Clean Plate"
76. False Face Society (Steve Berson): "Two Tone"
77. Three Shades of Dirty (me): "Frank & Doris"

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

78. Capricorn 'I Need Love'

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

71. Basement Jaxx "Red Alert"

credit goes to Locksmith's 'Far Beyond' really tho right?

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

How about slap standup bass? 79. "Baby Let's Play House," Elvis Presley

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

the ratio of rock songs to funk songs in a post about SLAP BASS in this thread is pathetic.

― um, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

80. "Survival" - Read Beat
81. "Heathrow" - Level 42
82. "Clocks Go Forward" - Mark King

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

83. Sugababes - 'Real Thing'
84. Cornelius - 'Drop'

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

82. 'Sex Bomb' Filpper

― Lairy Hair (hullcity), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

FLIPPER!!! even

― Lairy Hair (hullcity), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

85. Primus - "Jerry was a Race Car Driver"

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

the ratio of rock songs to funk songs in a post about SLAP BASS in this thread is pathetic.

-- um (u...),

you should go to a less RACIALIST msg board dude

86. The O Jays 'For The Love Of Money' (presumably?)
87. Groove Armada 'Pressure Breakdown'

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

88. Cameo - "Word Up"

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

89. Parliament - "Give up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)"

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

(Was that really the first P-Funk post on this thread? Somewhere Bootsy Collins is weeping.)

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

"you should go to a less RACIALIST msg board dude"

is that sarcasm?

either way, the answers in this thread are like a 'best loud guitars top 100' thread which only features funkadelic, ike turner, muddy waters and prince.

― un, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

90. parliament - ride on
91. graham central station - the jam
92. prince - if i was your girlfriend
93. commodores - brick house
94. ohio players - skin tight
95. black moon - how many emcees

― um, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

I guess the secret is out - ILM doesn't listen to teh funk.

xpost

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

96. sly stone - in time
97. outkast - ms jackson
98. cameo - candy
99. prince - head
100. prince - let's work

― um, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

101. red hot chilli peppers - give it away
102. rick james - give it to me
103. mary jane girls - all night long
104. bootsys rubber band - stretchin out

― um, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

pretend electronic slap bass top 100-
1.kraftwerk- tour de france
2.kraftwerk- sex object

er...

― Owen Hatherley (owen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

forgive us um oh great one

i'm not sure how many of these really do use slap bass tho - can't be all of them

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

i forgive you stevem, you faux-ironic racialist peasant.

― um, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

uptight funk

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Best simulated "slap bass" line on a synth Stevie Wonder - Do Like You.

― frankiemachine, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

106. James Blood Ulmer, "Jazz is the Teacher (Funk is the Preacher)"

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

107. REM - Low Desert

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

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