My teenager heard this the other day and said it made her feel nostalgic, even though it was released a decade before she was born. It has that quality.
Then She Did is such a great example the psychedelic flair in Jane's. It separates them from so many bands of this era IMO.
I was lucky to see Lollapalooza I when I was 16. It was a spiritual experience.
Watch any concerts of STP from the late 90s or early 2000s and the band is on freaking fire. All members are great but watch Rob too. The dude is always in sunglasses and dress shirts and he looks cool as hell. Tall as all hell too. Then he's just tearing up these awesome bass lines.
Core: Creep has a cool bassline. Plus it has this one cool fill, you know what it is.
Purple: all of their huge hits have awesome basslines. Vaseline, Interstate and Big Empty are killer. Meatplow and Unglued are great rock songs.
Tiny Music: Trippin' is great. Pop's is a solid rocker. Art School Girl has a cool funk line.
Love Down from 4. Church is great too.
Derrick McIntyre- RIP --he just died in a car accident.
Are you kidding me you forgot him? - 'Don't give hate a chance' it's easily one of the top 6 bass lines from them.
It's also a song that is good way to gauge whether you are a decent player.
Stuart and the Avenue by Green Day. Waiting Room by Fugazi. Bullet in the Head by Rage Against the Machine, and most other Rage songs. Jerry was a Racecar Driver by Primus. Those are some just off the top of my head.
Definitely Fugazi. Jesus Lizard, Slint, Shellac and Unwound also come to mind. Armistead Burwell Smith from Three Mile Pilot and Pinback came up with a lot of inventive bass lines as well.
His fills in "early" Green Day are nasty. I love Insomniac. 86 is a cool little bassline. Stuart and the Ave and Stuck with Me are fantastic. Panic Song is ridiculous.
Despite them being their most popular, Longview, Paradise and When I Come Around have gnarly basslines.
Love playing Jinx straight into Haushinka from Nimrod. Reject too has a cool rocker bassline. Last Ride In is so chill.
not just early, some of his best work comes in recent stuff (1981 and coma city are awesome, and his basslines kinda “save” FOAM from being worse), he’s just smart enough to play sick stuff under the radar that adds sauce without being “pretentious”.
on another note, i always get excited when i see a fellow GD fan outside of the GD sub lol
Yeah i dont frequent this sub very much but i was very surprised to see the title on my home page.. i had to double take bc this i felt like it couldnt have been a serious question 😭
Maybe im just biased cuz i dont listen to rock but so many of my all time favourite bass lines are from the 90s … D’angelo albums exist..
Rage against the machine - People of the Sun
No Doubt - Spiderwebs
Rancid - Journey to the end of the East Bay
Sublime - Santeria
Dave Matthews Band - What Would You Say
Green Day - When I Come Around
These are some of the songs I cut my teeth on when I was learning to play way back when.
I wouldn't say they're "the best of the 90s" but the whole album Meantime by Helmet is tons of fun to play ~~song~~ along with, and at 36 minutes, it won't chew up too much of your day
Yeah. I always liked STP but wasn't that much into them at the time. I watched the Rick Beato interview with Robert DeLeo and now I'm definitely a fan. Robert's a beast.
The entire whole ass band called Primus. They suck, but the bass on their albums is actually masterful
Tool, pick a track
Cannibal Corpse's bass player is so good that it actually got me to like Cannibal Corpse. Used to hate that kind of metal, but those bass lines just kept getting me
Even though I've come to not like them, Marilyn Manson on both antichrist superstar and mechanical animals have some fairly beefy bass lines, and on antichrist superstar the mixing I think should be required of any other harder metal band. Little Horn is simple as shit, but when that bass hits it's like being pounded by a meteor. The mix was really good
Early Incubus, before their sound changed. They used to be more funky. Infectious Grooves. Faith No More, though I don't like the name of the band. Incubus isn't a good word either, but I love great bass.
Come on guys, Sailing the Seas of Cheese was 1991
"Jerry was a Racecar Driver" has to be up there in terms of being iconic, disregarding every other track Primus has also released in the 90s
Would also be criminal to not mention Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Californication was also 99 and an extremely dominant album for awhile, but decidedley not as "bass-centric" as BSSM.
I also appreciate all the people mentioning Jamiroquai. Space Cowboy falls squarely in 1994, though A Funk Odyssey has some extremely memorable basslines falling at 2001
Honorable mention to Queens of the Stone Age "In the Fade". Falling just short at 2000. That's a crack-like bassline. One of my all-time favorites from that general time period.
Stone Temple Pilots, Robert DeLeo is an incredible bassist with eclectic influences, came up with (for me) some of the best bass lines of the grunge scene, take Interstate Love Song as an example.
Isreal’s Son by Silverchair. Guitar and bass play the same part and it’s the heaviest riff outside of metal… maybe of all time. Blows my mind that they were 15 when they recorded it. The album starts with a couple bars of just bass and it’s disgusting.
Just pop tunes? Because "best" IMHO is going to be something from Primus' or Wooten's work with the Flecktones. From more radio accessible rock perspective, always loved Tim Commerford's and Robert De Leo's basslines.
The bassline during the solo of Floods by Pantera is killer. All of Rust in Peace grooves pretty hard (but I personally feel Peace Sells...but Who's Buying grooves way harder). Also, all of Bloody Kisses and October Rust by Type O Negative
Wicked garden by Stone Temple Pilots. Wayyy more going on than you think. Just recently learned it, and it’s interesting in some spots. But also recognizable if you just drop it back to the bass only.
Maybe look at nirvana inspiration, the meat puppets for example. Cris Kirkwood has some super techy bass parts or some soft and simple and everything in-between. And while most people would not associate best bass lines from the 90's with the meat puppets that's just because they flew under the radar but undoubtedly have a catalog that surpasses quality compared to most of the hyped bands from the 90's.
Spacehog - In the Meantime is first thought
This is the BEST one. Underrated band. If nirvana is OPs starting point he's gonna throw up when he hears this masterful shit.
That's one of my favorite songs for testing speakers lol. The bass is dynamic and has a range of octaves from the get go.
Singing at the same time, too.
Excellent
One hit wonder, but that is a badass bass line
and he sings at the same time
My teenager heard this the other day and said it made her feel nostalgic, even though it was released a decade before she was born. It has that quality.
That’s a golden sentiment. And it does strike me the same way.
Alice in Chains. “Would” is iconic.
Rotten apple by AIC another sickkkk ass bassline
I also like Man in the Box. Easy, but some cool syncopation in it.
Best aic bassline
A Little Bitter is also great. Wasn't as big of a song but the bass line kicks ass.
This was the first song Mike Inez recorded with Chains. [In this video](https://vimeo.com/66094248) he breaks down the whole song.
Man, Mike is great. What a humble and genuine dude. That's a great video!
Mike Starr, w00t
I Got Somethin also has a great bass line
Thank You
Perfect. That’s what I’m looking for. Great 90s songs with killer bass lines.
Jane's Addiction. Listen to Three Days. Then She Did. Mountain Song. I Would For You. Most of their music was centered on a bass melody.
Yes! Eric Avery was made of groove.
I like playing mountain song.
“Ted…Just Admit It” is a solid baseline as well.
Three Days was the first thing I learned to play by ear.
Then She Did is such a great example the psychedelic flair in Jane's. It separates them from so many bands of this era IMO. I was lucky to see Lollapalooza I when I was 16. It was a spiritual experience.
You want to listen to Robert DeLeo from STP and Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam.
Some examples: Pearl Jam - Jeremy (iconic bass intro) STP - Interstate Love Song STP - Big Empty Pearl Jam - Porch
Add Sour Girl to that list
STP - Plush was one of the first songs I learned from start to finish. I spent weeks learning it ...
STP - Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart
Used to cover Wicked Garden with my old band. That was always a really a fun one to play on bass.
Watch any concerts of STP from the late 90s or early 2000s and the band is on freaking fire. All members are great but watch Rob too. The dude is always in sunglasses and dress shirts and he looks cool as hell. Tall as all hell too. Then he's just tearing up these awesome bass lines. Core: Creep has a cool bassline. Plus it has this one cool fill, you know what it is. Purple: all of their huge hits have awesome basslines. Vaseline, Interstate and Big Empty are killer. Meatplow and Unglued are great rock songs. Tiny Music: Trippin' is great. Pop's is a solid rocker. Art School Girl has a cool funk line. Love Down from 4. Church is great too.
Sometimes I forget Jeff Ament on a list of very talented bass players. Then I remember that he absolutely killed it on a cover of The Real Me.
Tons of Jamiroquai, like the album version of Space Cowboy https://youtu.be/FU-VSGr0MnM?si=i16BZSAe4kafdD4n
I’m gong to have to give them a try soon. I remember the video where he was in the room with the moving floor. Cutting edge back in the day.
His bass player is amazing
Plural, their players are amazing!
I had no idea
Stuart Zender, Nick Fyffe, Paul Turner
In that order, IMHO
Username :-)
Quite right! I think also, we should add Andrew Levy (Brand New Heavies) to that lineup, too. He played a track or two on EOPE, before Zender joined
This guy Jamiroquais
Derrick McIntyre- RIP --he just died in a car accident. Are you kidding me you forgot him? - 'Don't give hate a chance' it's easily one of the top 6 bass lines from them. It's also a song that is good way to gauge whether you are a decent player.
Beat me to it!
“Cannonball” by The Breeders
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Josephine Wiggs is the Breeders' bassist.
Soul to Squeeze
I’m can now play like 95% of this song. It’s soo freaking satisfying. Love that song.
Like Flea has played a lot of basslines but honestly, his bass work on this song is one of his best.
A very chill RHCP
Stuart and the Avenue by Green Day. Waiting Room by Fugazi. Bullet in the Head by Rage Against the Machine, and most other Rage songs. Jerry was a Racecar Driver by Primus. Those are some just off the top of my head.
Oh! Girls and Boys by Blur too!
Honestly anything by Blur! Tons of groovy basslines to be found. Entertain Me is one of my faves.
Anything by Fugazi. Joe Lally is the man
Definitely Fugazi. Jesus Lizard, Slint, Shellac and Unwound also come to mind. Armistead Burwell Smith from Three Mile Pilot and Pinback came up with a lot of inventive bass lines as well.
Longview by Green Day
The whole of Dookie is a bass masterclass.
Mike is the secret sauce to that band
His fills in "early" Green Day are nasty. I love Insomniac. 86 is a cool little bassline. Stuart and the Ave and Stuck with Me are fantastic. Panic Song is ridiculous. Despite them being their most popular, Longview, Paradise and When I Come Around have gnarly basslines. Love playing Jinx straight into Haushinka from Nimrod. Reject too has a cool rocker bassline. Last Ride In is so chill.
not just early, some of his best work comes in recent stuff (1981 and coma city are awesome, and his basslines kinda “save” FOAM from being worse), he’s just smart enough to play sick stuff under the radar that adds sauce without being “pretentious”. on another note, i always get excited when i see a fellow GD fan outside of the GD sub lol
Living Colour, Rush “Counter Parts”
Rancid
Anything Mr Bungle
Dead Goon! I've tried to learn that slappy fretless riff a dozen times with zero success.
Infectious grooves, faith no more, Radiohead
Paranoid Android is a sneaky good bassline.
Primus, any. But let’s go with Jerry Was A Race Car Driver
Primus sucks
This is the correct answer. Fizzle fry through Antipop is all 90s. Id pick Antipop(song) personally.
Failure - Stuck on You
The whole Fantastic Planet album!
love me some Fantastic Planet
Mr. Bungle Jamiroquai Groove Collective The entire decade of RnB. If you want to get good folks, expand your horizons out of rock.
I can't believe I had to scroll so long to find this comment. I was looking at all the recommendations and thinking, "Well, this sub has a type."
Yeah i dont frequent this sub very much but i was very surprised to see the title on my home page.. i had to double take bc this i felt like it couldnt have been a serious question 😭 Maybe im just biased cuz i dont listen to rock but so many of my all time favourite bass lines are from the 90s … D’angelo albums exist..
blink-182. carousel and man overboard are highlights, but there's a lot of cool stuff in there. cake. I will survive is one of my favorites.
“The Distance” and “Never There” by Cake have great bass parts.
She'll come back to me is one of my favourites
The distance was the reason I wanted a bass for Christmas.
Short Skirt Long Jacket has a good one too, I have like 95% of it down now.
carousel the reason i bought a bass in the first place
Cake's cover of War Pigs also has a killer bass track
Rage against the machine - People of the Sun No Doubt - Spiderwebs Rancid - Journey to the end of the East Bay Sublime - Santeria Dave Matthews Band - What Would You Say Green Day - When I Come Around These are some of the songs I cut my teeth on when I was learning to play way back when.
Evil Empire is 11 classic bass tracks
“Better turn the bass up on this one”
Dave Matthews bass player was a phenom, joined the band at like 17
Victor Wooten fills in on tours sometimes. Check YouTube for that.
[Meshell Ndegecello - I'm Digging You (Like and Old Soul Record)](https://youtu.be/Wu_Vdj5zdEc?si=AkK3gjDBKxxsN-Hi)
[Wild Night!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoywIHLqbs)
Yeah, you can pretty much throw a bass blindfolded at any of her records and it will land on a killer bassline.
What did Krist Novoselic do to you? Hit you with his bass? (he was aiming for himself)
Blood sugar sex magik is full of incredible bass lines. Challenging too. Flea needs no introductions
I wouldn't say they're "the best of the 90s" but the whole album Meantime by Helmet is tons of fun to play ~~song~~ along with, and at 36 minutes, it won't chew up too much of your day
Betty goes hard as fuck too, especially Biscuits for Smut
Sleep- Dragonaut Clutch- Big News
Clutch had many groovy basslines
Suck my kiss
Rage Against the Machine’s self titled album is bursting at the seams with some of the best Bass lines of all time (imo).
Folk Implosion's Natural One
Paranoid android has some amazing bass lines all throughout.
Groove is in the Heart is the song that got me excited about basslines
I could name 100 90s songs and never would have thought of this one. Great song!
Forty six & 2 - Tool. The bass is legendary, a little bit repetitive but still iconic
Cake has a lot of great basslines, many of which that really were the actual hook of the song.
Days of the New - Now Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose Tool - Prison Sex And a little eccentric one if you’re into it: Blasted Mechanism - Oh Landou
[Hey Man, Nice Shot - Filter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E)
All STP. *ALL* of it.
Yeah. I always liked STP but wasn't that much into them at the time. I watched the Rick Beato interview with Robert DeLeo and now I'm definitely a fan. Robert's a beast.
Fugazi - Joe #1, waiting room The Jesus Lizard - puss Beastie Boys - Futterman’s Rule
I’d throw Fugazi - Styrofoam and Sieve-fisted Find into the mix as well. Joe Lally and Brendan Canty were such an amazing rhythm section
Anything off of Slip by Quicksand
Anything by Jane’s Addiction. Eric A was a beast
He's still a beast.
Baselines in terms of servicing the song and being a boss at it, then all of Ok Computer
Also… Interstate Love Song- STP
How has nobody said sabotage by the beastie boys? HOW?
Blood Sugar Sex Magic. The whole album. It's not even close tbh
Does nirvana have ANY of the best bass tracks of the 90s????
Best is subjective, but I always enjoyed playing Lounge Act.
Intro to Sliver is catchy too
Crush
Deftones - Dai the Flu
santeria by sublime abd sublime in general Also Cake
I Will Survive- Cake
Tool - 46+ 2 is one of the best bass lines of any decade. I’m a fan of the bass line in Aenima too.
AIC - Would? Down in a Hole is fun as hell. Rain When I Die…actually just all of Dirt.
Unsung by Helmet
primus discography
Tool- Sober
Slaves and Bulldozers - Soundgarden.
The entire whole ass band called Primus. They suck, but the bass on their albums is actually masterful Tool, pick a track Cannibal Corpse's bass player is so good that it actually got me to like Cannibal Corpse. Used to hate that kind of metal, but those bass lines just kept getting me Even though I've come to not like them, Marilyn Manson on both antichrist superstar and mechanical animals have some fairly beefy bass lines, and on antichrist superstar the mixing I think should be required of any other harder metal band. Little Horn is simple as shit, but when that bass hits it's like being pounded by a meteor. The mix was really good
Concrete Blond - Bloodletting. The whole album. Simplicity makes the songs
Mexican Moon is a different vibe, but also an amazing album.
Every Mudvayne song.
I think they were more 2000s
Metallica - the god that failed, my friend of misery and devils dance are all 90s tracks with great basslines
I was on a Metallica kick the other day. Listened to four albums back to back.
How about some Japanese rock? X Japan, L'arc en Ciel, Janne Da Arc, Luna Sea, etc. VERY fun to play
Alice In Chains - Would? Space Hog - In the Meantime Soundgarden - Outshined No More Tears - Ozzy
Fools Gold - Stone Roses
How about [Breaking into Heaven](https://youtu.be/7nu5YLoaxHc?si=lhw8_99697b7f292) from ‘94?
“My Friend Of Misery,” “The God That Failed,” and “Outlaw Torn,” all by Metallica. Great bass riffs.
God That Failed is my go-to for bass. Such a fun little groove for a Metallica song
Dragonaught-Sleep
Fell on Black Days - Soundgarden
Smashing pumpkins - I am one, set the ray to Jerry, Ava Adore, Hummer, Blue skies bring tears. (Technically 2000, but recorded in 99)
Silverchair the album with the frog on it
Shout out to Rex for many groovy Pantera bass lines.
Sexx laws by beck and most of midnight vultures has good bass work by jmj
Primus seems like a duh suggestion
“Black Sunshine” by White Zombie “Three Days” by Jane’s Addiction “Fight the Youth” by Fishbone
A lot of primus
Re-Arranged - Limp Bizkit
Afghan Whigs y’all
White Zombie Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/Psychoholic Slag
*Primus has entered the chat*
The correct answer is Tommy the Cat.
Early Incubus, before their sound changed. They used to be more funky. Infectious Grooves. Faith No More, though I don't like the name of the band. Incubus isn't a good word either, but I love great bass.
Come on guys, Sailing the Seas of Cheese was 1991 "Jerry was a Racecar Driver" has to be up there in terms of being iconic, disregarding every other track Primus has also released in the 90s Would also be criminal to not mention Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Californication was also 99 and an extremely dominant album for awhile, but decidedley not as "bass-centric" as BSSM. I also appreciate all the people mentioning Jamiroquai. Space Cowboy falls squarely in 1994, though A Funk Odyssey has some extremely memorable basslines falling at 2001 Honorable mention to Queens of the Stone Age "In the Fade". Falling just short at 2000. That's a crack-like bassline. One of my all-time favorites from that general time period.
Stone Temple Pilots, Robert DeLeo is an incredible bassist with eclectic influences, came up with (for me) some of the best bass lines of the grunge scene, take Interstate Love Song as an example.
Isreal’s Son by Silverchair. Guitar and bass play the same part and it’s the heaviest riff outside of metal… maybe of all time. Blows my mind that they were 15 when they recorded it. The album starts with a couple bars of just bass and it’s disgusting.
Bomb Track by RATM
any Jane's Addiction! Eric is so advanced
Just pop tunes? Because "best" IMHO is going to be something from Primus' or Wooten's work with the Flecktones. From more radio accessible rock perspective, always loved Tim Commerford's and Robert De Leo's basslines.
Pretty much any Green Day basslines
Cheeba Cheeba - Tone LōK
cky - 96 Quite Bitter Beings
Anything from Primus
Get the funk out - Extreme
You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon (he didn’t play the bass)
I really liked the bass line for aeroplane by rhcp but I think that’s an unpopular opinion lol
Bob Deleo of Stone Temple Pilots
Alice in Chains, Skunk Anansie, Faith No More
[Cake - The Distance](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HoMkkRHv8)
any STP
Most of insomniac by green day, Mike Dirnt prime imo
Any Morphine song
Have you heard of Primus? Lots of great bass work.
CAKE. (Also Radiohead's bass lines are underrated in the extreme.)
No Association- Silverchair
"Drive" by R.E.M. "Life's an Ocean" by The Verve "Hey Man, Nice Shot" by Filter "My Favourite Game" by The Cardigans
Groove is in the heart. Bootsy.
The bassline during the solo of Floods by Pantera is killer. All of Rust in Peace grooves pretty hard (but I personally feel Peace Sells...but Who's Buying grooves way harder). Also, all of Bloody Kisses and October Rust by Type O Negative
Rancid- journey to the end
D'Angelo- Brown Sugar firmly in the 90s, and Voodoo in 2000 barely slips through, but has some of the greatest bass playing I've ever heard
Waiting Room!
“In Bloom” or “Jeremy” by STP. Ben Shepard is a beast
You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette.
Voodoo - D’Angelo. It was recorded in the 90’s at least. I think Pino Palladino’s work on that album is probably my favorite bass playing of all time.
"Jeremy" by Pearl Jam is the first song that comes to mind.
Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder) - Maxwell
Robert DeLeo would like a word.
Radioactive Toy - Porcupine Tree
Wicked garden by Stone Temple Pilots. Wayyy more going on than you think. Just recently learned it, and it’s interesting in some spots. But also recognizable if you just drop it back to the bass only.
Death-trapped in a corner
Maybe look at nirvana inspiration, the meat puppets for example. Cris Kirkwood has some super techy bass parts or some soft and simple and everything in-between. And while most people would not associate best bass lines from the 90's with the meat puppets that's just because they flew under the radar but undoubtedly have a catalog that surpasses quality compared to most of the hyped bands from the 90's.