Why are we so obsessed with BASS?

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Bass bins, female bass players, big kick drums, subwoofers, bass response, bass lines, drum n bass, sub-bass, BASSment Jaxx. People love BIG BASS. People go to extraordinary lengths to get it, even distorting the music the damaging their hearing. Huge nightclub speaker rigs that need to be hung from chains attached to the ceiling because if laid on the ground they would shake the windows out. Massive subs in car boots designed to shake potholes clean out of the road as you drive over them.

But why? Why do we want bigger, louder, deeper bass? What is it that attracts us to it? What is good bass? How low can you go? Is their something sociologically or culturally significant about bass?

Discuss bass here, please.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.afcd.gov.hk/fisheries/PortSurvey01-02/FishPhoto/Sea%20bass.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Bass is physically pleasurable.

Cue essay from Geir as to why only ethnics and subnormals like it.

― The Man in the Iron-On Mask (noodle vague), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

yes i was gonna say...those that have heard know but then i thought heard and i thought o no felt and then i felt like a wanker.

still...ever , er, felt a sound system?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno why everyone else is though. are they?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe something to do with heartbeats in the womb

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

because it makes your whole body groove unlike trebly sounds? (like, would there be music called "booty treble", huh ?).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Sean Gramaphone's remark in the Sennheiser PX100's vs PX200's... thread interested me vaguely;

If you listen to bass-heavy music, the Koss PortaPros or KSC-35s are much preferably to the Senn PX100s. They're open, though, so different in a lot of ways to the PX200s. Sennheiser has a nice, glittering, laid-back sound, but the Koss are punchier, more fun to listen to (for me). And there's tons of bass - which would be irritating in a monitor headphone but is just right when out on the street.

I recently got a new computer and bought some JBL / Harmon Creature II speakers for it - these are tiny satellite jobs with a subwoofer - and I was alarmed at how fierce the bass was when turned up on them; it swamped the music entirely, and even at a mid-to-low setting it was still a more noticable and... seperate... presence in the music than it is on my hi-fi seperates set-up in the next room, which is where I do most of my listening. I use "source direct" controls in there, keeping bass and treble levels as they come from the CD player. If you turn the volume up or change the bass knob settings then sure, you get a very, very physical sound, but it's still more taught and controlled.

I've never understood the desire for really excessive, flabby bass that systems like this http://www.goelectronic.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/full/mx-gb6.jpg seem to produce, where it totally distorts the music and over-rides mid range and top end. Why is loud bass seen as a signifier for quality of sound? Even if distorted?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

trebbly Indie Schmindie (eg C86) would beg to differ.

Me? I love the bass.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

partly womb, yes, i think, bass is an enveloping sound, a warm sound. bass is also anchoring

and, bass doesnt compete with the human voice, which makes it a social sound.

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

bass is non directional

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

've never understood the desire for really excessive, flabby bass that systems like this seem to produce, where it totally distorts the music and over-rides mid range and top end. Why is loud bass seen as a signifier for quality of sound? Even if distorted?

I think the problem with the flabby bass on a system like that is that it is a very cheap system which is distoring and resonating horribly. To get proper deep, heavy bass, you need a very powerful amplifier which is capable of *CLEANLY* powering some VERY VERY BIG speaker cones. Big speaker cones are the only way to get that DEEP DEEP bass.

However, people LOVE that deep heavy bass they hear when the go to a club or concert, but don't have the money or space to recreate so buy a system which gives an approximation of that sound, however crude.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

What is anchoring and why do we like it, gareth?

I like the idea of bass not competing with the human voice and thus being a social sound.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 2 February 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

People like it because they can have it. Thirty years ago they couldn't in their Vauxhall Vivas and Mark Two Escorts so they wanted, I dunno, Page's solos rather than Bonham's beats. Even funk was scratchier, all bottom and top and not so much middle.

Of course I could be completely wrong.

xp- There's nothing social about some cunt driving down my street and waking my daughter at 1 am.

― snotty moore, Thursday, 2 February 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't The Beatles want thicker vinyl for "Rain" so they could get more bass? Is the CD age enabling ever deeper bass?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 2 February 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah (x-p to snotty) bass & sub bass is often pretty fucking antisocial.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 2 February 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

are "dance" bands mastered different?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 2 February 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

fretless

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

One of the joys of Slayer's Def Jam records is that thick vinyl bass woomph, too. I seem to remember reading an interview with Rubin round about the time of South of Heaven about how shorter album sides gave them more space for thick bass sounds, but I'm not a tech-head so I could be wrong. I can't stand trebly metal productions.

― The Man in the Iron-On Mask (noodle vague), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bassale.com/images/lda_bg_02.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

bass is social-friendly, because it doesnt compete with human voice. but it travels, so of course it is disruptive beyond immediate sphere. it is louder than it appears to be

mid range noise blares, and competes with voice. it also doesnt really travel, it isn't as loud as it appears

anchoring, well, thats difficult to put into words. certainly on drugs i'd say that bass can be sort of a tether, i suppose it comes back to warmth again in a way also. a building feels...occupied, when there is bass. a social setting where there is music without bass sort of seems weird, like the place is about to close. perhaps its also because, without bass, music often seems like it is being squeezed out of a transistor

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

i think its also because music feels fuller, if it is spread across the range. and the one thing we usually lose out on, in a home situation, is bass. so, pehaps there is a desire to overcompensate for that, when possible

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

And yea verily we sacrificed at the altar of the subwoofer...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF EVERLASTING... BASS!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I love basslines and bass players and bass drums and all that.

I hate woofy, flabby, artificial low-end frequencies. Since most home/car/club etc. systems boost the bass anyway, I like recordings that have loud, low pitches with a lot of the low-end eq'ed out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Because I'm totally addicted to bass Waow waow waow!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

are there natural sources of extremely low frequency noise? hard to believe we just started liking bass with the advent of the cd/club.

― irrigation can save your purple, Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

As mentioned on another thread, bassists tend to be the coolest members of bands.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

hard to believe we just started liking bass with the advent of the cd/club.

paul mccartney invented bass singlehandedly (left hand of course) !
well, seriously, when you listen to records before the mid 60s, there is no really "fat" bass, is there ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Why is this?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

and that's why it's such a challenge (and so rare) to have hits without bass (but that's another thread).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Why is loud bass seen as a signifier for quality of sound?

Because for decades it was really hard to reproduce.

As for why we love bass in the first place, yeah, I reckon it's because it hits you in the body rather than the ears. It's simply a bigger sound; bass sounds can include very high frequencies, but treble can't include low frequencies (without turning into a bass sound).

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

before electric bass guitars (and everything since), there was no sound compared to that, right ? in classical and jazz there's no such thing i believe, yes ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that whole 'basso profundo' thing was just a lark.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

but can you compare with booty bass for instance ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Big timpani rolls, massed cello sweeps, stand-up acoustic bass...

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

the sound of cavebears

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

hum. maybe, i must say i have no precise idea about that, just, thinking about it, i don't recall having heard anything close to the kind of "infra" bass in classical or jazz or else before the 60's recordings...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

No, because you couldn't really record it before then though, more than not being able to produce it. As soon as we had amplification, acoustic or electric, we had bass.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

haha - i totally didn't expect to be quoted in this thread.

i don't have anything significant to add, but the geek in me wants to clarify the comment Sick Nouthy quoted - the PortaPros aren't "flabby" or "distorted" bass, certainly not like the Sony Vx00 series; but they are boomier than the Senns, which have a sound that's not nearly so 'forward', that sort of glimmers in the back. the Koss are still really balanced, and for my money the best, most musical walking-around headphones for less than $75. (these are not the optimal headphones for bass headz - but most rock and pop music counts on a certain level of bass punch, and in that way the senns might let you down.) i am def. not confusing bass for quality of sound.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't intend to insinuate that you were, Sean - it was just your HUNGER for BASS that intrigued me...

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

hum... but didn't amplification on bass create a new instrument and new kind of sounds not existing/possible before ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/gallery/2001/02/07/horn.jpg

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

It furthered what bass can be, Alex, but it already existed, I think.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Low rhythmic frequencies appeal to a primal part of our brains - I think it has something to do with hearing your mother's hearbeat in the womb.

Besides, bass makes music move.

I began to appreciate rap music on a whole other level after I heard LL Cool J's "Bad" on a boomin' system - the brute physicality of it.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Although I can sympathize with snotty moore's predicament.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Because dub sounds kinda empty without it.

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Besides, bass makes music move.

yet, I beleive there have been many hiphop/rnb tracks lately without or with very little bass which i think is interesting (don't have many examples in mind... minimalist things with mainly drum loops and cheezy synths... like "drot it like it's hot" for instance).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Besides, bass makes music move

I think rhythmic structure is more important than bass. James Brown and Fela Kuti made music move without ass-shaking low-frequencies.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Prince famously took the bass track out of "When Dove's Cry."

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Prince famously took the bass track out of "When Dove's Cry."

and what a genius idea it was !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Our love of bass has been exploited and turned into an unstoppable quasi-moderate 6-term Republican congressman who could sucker us all with his low, trembling, irresistable appeal.
http://www.nndb.com/people/358/000032262/bass1.jpg
Charles Bass, R-NH.

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

PiL's Flowers of Romance to thread.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

When you make sparse tracks, any bass that is left in (like kick drums and the like) sounds 100x more powerful.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 2 February 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mattscdsingles.com/acatalog/31344nsns.jpg

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 2 February 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Bass is overrated.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 2 February 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

oh please elaborate

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 2 February 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

The civilized ear cuts off at 300Hz, Susan.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 February 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm totally addicted to bass!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 2 February 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

gareth right about everything

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 February 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

they say girls can even come cuz of the bass!

never heard bout boys though

― nique (nique), Thursday, 2 February 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

The bit about expanding the range/space is the important part, I think. I mean, we're consistently expanding the high-frequency range of music (especially in terms of digital sampling), but that's just for fine detail: you put really loud or present sounds up there and all you're doing is hurting people's ears. But pretty much since the development of electronic amplification, you can dig down into the low end, where a loud/present sound has more of a warm physical effect (or even an unpleasant queasy one). Amplification's necessary because, well, any acoustic instrument that produces bass is probably going to produce mid-range stuff at the same time, and so if you somehow get it loud enough to feel the bass, the mid-range side-effects will be annoying or painful -- so since the start of amplification, we get bass guitar (where if it's gonna be really loud you can electronically cut out the mid-range stuff that would hurt), and then now that we can go all-electronic (synths, sampling, DSP), we can really dig into that low end of the range as a thing in itself, which wasn't even acoustically possible before.

Weirdly though the thing that bothers me about modern music production is its emphasis on the opposite end. Maybe it's that we can now isolate bass as a thing unto itself -- meaning we can set about removing the space and low-frequency "mud" around every sound, leaving behind something super-crisp. And that emphasis on crispness means so many productions now are ultra-compressed, ultra-separated, and have every sound excited and brightened and crisped-up to the point of near-painfulness -- some things seem almost too vivid, too brittle, and too interested in loudness and presence. A lot of productions now kind of hurt my ears, actually, and physically -- something that only really sank in the other day when I listened to a mid-90s record and was shocked by how soft and squishy and silky all the sounds were. (At the time it struck me as a fairly "realistic" recording, and maybe it still is, because the modern productions that bug me with this tend to be more crisp and dry and present than live music.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 2 February 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Considering all the love that bass is getting, I'm surprised to see more and more bands that neglect it, no bass players at all!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

Bass hurts my ears.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm surprised to see more and more bands that neglect it, no bass players at all!

Because nobody plays bass anymore :(

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but what most of those bassless artists seem to have discovered is that there's plenty of technology that can let them expand their own instruments straight into that bass range, making -- for instance -- a guitar sound way more spacious and larger-than-life than that of bass-having bands. (Hence bassless bands also being, as a rule, minimal.) The only ones I can think of who haven't always done this are Sleater-Kinney, who for a while there went right on recording their guitars in the traditional range (and sounding damned trebly for it).

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

I never thought the White Stripes really compensated for their lack of bass! You can all beg to differ, I just thought they sounded pretty empty, they can probably get away with it on record, but not live in my opinion, but hey, that's their thing. I'm glad that this thread exists though, I thought nobody gave a damn about bass, ya know? Everybody leans toward guitar.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.exclaim.ca/images/up-pov_booty_bass.jpg

― Sexy MFA (Hexy M.F.), Friday, 3 February 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

the non-bass bands are surely even more obsessed w/bass than the rest of us since they feel they must go to the extreme measure of BANISHING it from their repertory in toto! i think a lot of people go through a little bassless phase, not so much a fear of bass as like someone "detoxing" .. i.e. the picture above, and all the right things people have said about its warm envelopment. austerity measures. i.e. prince w/doves; tiny bell trio; and i remember bjork saying she was going to make an album with no basslines, because basslines were "too easy" or some nonsense like that.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 3 February 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

Basslines can sometimes save a song!!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 3 February 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

i always thought it was kind of funny that puretone's song about bass came out when drum and bass was finally done and dusted. she was addicted to bass but to my mind at least the implication was that she was addicted to the specific sound of jungle bass, the impossibly thick chug of it, which at that exact moment had left. it sounded to me like the plea of the real addict when she knows her supply's just about finished.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 3 February 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes, there's a difference between basslines/bass-guitar and BASS as a frequency range! White Stripes totally use the latter -- maybe this is just geeky production stuff, but the absence of actual-bass tends to mean they can stretch the frequency responses of the guitar and drums straight through that range. A/B their records against something with bass, and you'll find that range is still present -- it's just that now we're listening to fewer sounds extend through it, the guitar taking a fuller, more present sound than usual, the kick drum and toms stretching down instead of being constricted ... they're divvying up the frequency range into a smaller number of really full, rich sounds, not abandoning the low end of it entirely.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 3 February 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kolumbus.fi/janne.toivoniemi/kuvat/funk.jpg

― Al B. Dere (blunt), Friday, 3 February 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of always thought of basslines as a moving frequency range(but don't all instruments have their own?). I still don't think that the guitar can totally compensate for a bass guitar. If you add more bottom end to a guitar it's most likely just going to sound muffled, sure you'll get some low end, but personaly I think that you also need the lower pitch for a good bass sound. Tuning the guitar lower is almost pointless if you want to achieve this, a bass guitar is still going to sound better to me.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 3 February 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

Believe me, I hear you on the whole Bass thing. I've more than often wondered about it too. Like, you go to a concert or a party or something, and you want to hear music that's of the highest quality, not BASS!BASS!BASS!BASS!BASS!BASS! I just don't get it. It's not very good for my ears either too.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Friday, 3 February 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

There's also the fact that bass--the musical register--roots you to the song, to where the chords are. White Stripes, Sleater-Kinney--I would so much more enjoy them if I had this easy indicator as to the musical location of the songs. I don't see anything gained by leaving it out, except looking cool or something.

Honestly, I like The Killers despite--or because--of their bullshit neowav-o pretensions, but also because they've an ace bass player who not only roots the songs, but comments on progressions in his playing. It really does make a huge difference.

Then there's the joy of percussive bass. I was listening to the break-down in NIN's "The Perfect Drug", where this analog-y synth hammers an eighth note line, and damn, it is VIOLENT and downright predatorial in intent. *And* it will shake the fuck out of any room.

― Ian in Brooklyn, Friday, 3 February 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

For a very long time bass, for me at least, was inconsequential. It merely served to round out the overall sound and supported the other musicians, but nothing spectacular. It wasn't until I heard Japan and '80s Crimson that I really heard what the instrument's true potential was. Karn and Levin totally reconfigured my worldview as it relates to lower freqency range - causing me to place it in a position of more prominence. Electronic bass is a bit different. The only electronic bass sounds that impressed me were on Anjali's "Rani of Jhansi" - a HEAVY, messy, unashamedly distorted sound that, contrasted with her light vocals, contributed greatly to the song's overall feeling of earnestness. On the acoustic end William Parker is also someone I admire greatly.

― Cliftonb, Friday, 3 February 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see anything gained by leaving it out, except looking cool or something
I think I'd have to totally agree with you on that. I always felt that the White Stripes tried to have this Shtick to try and make themselves seem unique or even NEW, which is ridiculous! Even their whole "look" seems horribly contrived, like they're trying to have a look but it's just not working. Jack White can't decide whether he wants to grow his hair or beard or not, and don't even get me started on the whole husband, wife, brother, sister thing. It's just my opinion that if a band has to rely on these little things, then the music isn't good enough to stand on its own.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 3 February 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

It's actually "BASEment Jaxx". Simon and Felix chose the name 'cause they started out making tracks in a basement, or so the story goes.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 3 February 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have been told that "women respond to" it, but my doctor says this is an urban legend.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 3 February 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

This woman, for example, is responding to bass.

http://www.fishsniffer.com/guest/images/043004ladypros.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 3 February 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
Why is this?

-- Sick Mouthy

Well...Coolest Member of Queen.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 3 February 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

t's actually "BASEment Jaxx". Simon and Felix chose the name 'cause they started out making tracks in a basement, or so the story goes.

-- J-rock (juice_rock...), Today 7:36 AM.

Um, yeah, I know. I put it in capitals to emphasise the fact that it was a bad and forced pun.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 3 February 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/alfiebass.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 3 February 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Um, yeah, I know. I put it in capitals to emphasise the fact that it was a bad and forced pun.

My bad. It's just that that is a fairly common mistake. Irony and puns don't always come across well on a message board.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 3 February 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Bass hump.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

We snore all night, planting subliminal low-frequency drones in our subconscious = we wake up and crave bass.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

Is it that bass reminds us of BOMBS and we all crave NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

Because it helps move dat ass. Try it.

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

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